User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Why Fandom Evolves: A Look Ahead in 2017/@comment-3013425-20170111205741/@comment-1595427-20170111211153

The problem is every other forum on the internet was build to be a  forum the current forums feature was built on top of mediawiki. So do things like auto splitting are not possible because each thread is actually a mediawiki page that's what makes  difficult to  maintain. Also  mediawiki wasn't built with mobile in mind. I agree  discussions  need a lot of work but I understand why Fandom is going this way.