Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25150955-20160909010405/@comment-26538658-20160917183849

I'd like to remind you all that the Chat was also considered the worst thing Wikia ever did. So was the New Forums. So was the Monobook-to-Wikia transition. Yet we all survived and many of us eventually enjoyed them.

True, Forums, Chat, and Wikia entirely are impossible to use on a phone, and Ipad isn't much better. But not many of us have tried altering the Forums to ensure more functionality, have we? We don't know how difficult that would be. Perhaps Discussions was an alternative to working on something for months and having nothing happen because full mobile functionality may be impossible.

If you'd allow the comparison, the Neanderthal co-existed with humans for a long time, and they even mingled with one another. However, humans were more advanced, and eventually adapted to their environments better than the Neanderthal ever could. While homo sapiens developed dialect, religion, and technology, the Neanderthal sadly could only wish that the change never happened.

We can't sit around and wish that a change never happened. We can either adapt, or find an alternative.

Unlike the Neanderthal, we can to some degree control the changes in our communities. We can make it known what we like and dislike, and actually have a chance of making our dreams happen. But they won't happen if you don't play nice. You have to politely list off complaints that many users and communities have about Discussions, and then maybe they'll happen. Saying that the Discussions are like the lovechild of Miiverse and Twitter isn't much better than shaking your fist at the sky and waiting for the cold to end.