User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/An update on the Forum retirement plan/@comment-39820823-20191217235215/@comment-168424-20191218003937

Part of the reason is that FANDOM dev is severely lacking in MediaWiki engine expertise. If they had more expertise, Forum wouldn't have had as many problems as it has. However, one can never discount just REALLY BAD planning. Form what I can tell, Discussions suffers from almost as bad planning, but it does at least serve the mobile-friendly goal decently. Other than that it kinda sucks.