User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Social Activity, the 2010 Editor, and Unpausing Migrations/@comment-45740662-20200924172101/@comment-24258073-20200925031233

Well there's nothing we can do to make it exactly like Forums because Discussions isn't part of the MediaWiki software. So the most we can do is request equivalents of the things that we've come to love about threaded forums.

Already there's been a lot of improvements to Discussions since it was first introduced. We can now post links in discussions posts in such a way that they look like they would have done on forum threads. And we can now use polls in Discussions, although it is different from the AjaxPolls extension that is built on MediaWiki.