User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-28398720-20160913143838/@comment-26402117-20160914192431

I would be hesitant to call the current desktop version of Discussions an update too. That's why this feature is not to rollout immediately but months down the line at staff's discretion, based on real constructive user feedback and feature requests. Its the users who do so that are more likely to make or break this product. BertH describes the impossibility of bringing Forums to mobile, so we simply have to hope Discussions is upgraded and improved to achieve superiority over Forums - or staff delay/cancel the rollout which would leave me Googling forum threads again -_-.

I believe Fandom and blogs were intended to remain separate - with blogs being for local encyclopedic info that doesn't belong in articles and relates to the community. This is in contrast to Fandom, which is a centralised project that publishes proofread articles that are less likely to belong on a wiki at all because it's more aggregated, loose and cult-centric. Though I appreciate that Fandom isn't everyone's cup of tea because of its fast introduction, Fandom is also partially an effort to introduce organic, more relevant content into Wikia's ad program.