User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-5275700-20160909212124

As always, it's good for Wikia to see and understand how different users and communities react to announcements and planned changes. So thanks to all who have offered both supportive and critical feedback in various ways -- here in the comments, via email, and also via the requests we've already received to enable Discussions.

It's clear that a primary point of anxiety is the retirement of the current Forum feature. Many have said that it's working "just fine" but the fact of the matter is -- ﻿⁠⁠it's not﻿⁠⁠. There are some architectural decisions that were part of Forum that prohibit us from easily addressing the biggest issues: inaccessibility from Search and mobile compatibility. To truly address these we would need to rebuild it from the ground up. And so, we are -- as Discussions.

We always understood that additional feature development would be needed before some communities could be migrated to Discussions. Migration will be a slow and deliberate process. Our blog announcement yesterday was meant to introduce Discussions and present the long term plan. We're simply entering the next phase of feature development for Discussions, which includes hearing about what you like and what you still need from it. So thanks again and keep your suggestions coming!