User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-5275700-20160923233750

A quick update after another week of feedback. Thanks again to everyone who's been vocal with your questions. We understand that these upcoming changes — the retirement of Forum and the integration of Discussions as a standard part of the Wikia platform — are big shifts, and generate concern as well as excitement.

Next week we'll be updating the FAQ to include some of the questions from these blog comments that have not yet been answered, and to get all of the newer questions and answers in one place. We hope the FAQ approach is helpful for many of you. It's one we'll be using in the future and it's a better experience than sifting through pages of blog comments to get information.

We will also be working to give a deeper understanding of the reasons that Forum is being retired. Please know that your comments, concerns and questions really do matter, and they do affect how we decide to move forward and prioritize development. That's one of the reasons why the blog post doesn't have lots of specific detail about timing of changes and release of additional features. Hearing from the community is a big part of our process, and you — the content creators and curators — are the core of what Wikia and Fandom represent. Have a lovely weekend and we'll be talking more soon.