Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-168424-20200102204741

Tupka217 wrote:

And those time and people made Discussions. You can't make a long term viable MediaWiki solution. That's the conclusion that led to Discussions.

This really isn't true, Wikia chose not to work on "a long term viable MediaWiki solution", but there is no evidence that it isn't possible. The main reason for Discussions was for it to be mobile-friendly and it is. However, it is still Desktop unfriendly, just less so than initial release.