Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25150955-20160909010405/@comment-24820571-20160909045714

Yapboonyew wrote:

Linathan wrote: I understand Wikia Discussions are to stay and I only have no qualms with that if the community builds up to become a better place. Unfortunately, with the recent happening, it is very sad to see the communities take a complete turn-around as a result of Discussions and it doesn't look good on those who are moderating it.

What frustrates me the most is that Discussions is replacing Forums. My wiki utilizes Forums on a daily basis and people have been getting their questions answered in an efficient manner. With the removal of Forums, there will be a large userbase of the wiki that won't be able obtain news in an easy manner. Forums is fine as it is. There really isn't a reason to take it out.

I also understand that nothing is lost once Forums migrates to Discussions, but how will that be done? Navigating through specific posts and comments users have made in Discussions is already a terrible chore. There's no Wiki Activity that links to Discussions since it's completely separate, which makes matters even worse with Discussions' poor navigation anyway. Yes, improvements are being made to Discussions, but the recent updates that have been pulled out haven't had much of a huge success. Local IP blocks don't do an absolute thing and even if the IP is globally blocked, the block can still be blocked by even a creation of a new account due to them not working at all in Discussions.

I've had it with the impending amount of drama that has led through my wiki's Discussions feed. I love the community for what it gives, but it would upset me to see it fall and crumble due to a certain feature that has been slowly updating. I understand that all of this takes time to develop, but if Discussions is here to stay, I would love to see significant changes that will better assist those (including myself) moderating it. I can say that removing Forums completely is NOT how I would like to see changes to Discussions.

I hereby sign this petition.

Linathan (talk) 01:46, September 9, 2016 (UTC) i second this. this user and i are the admins for the same (Brave Frontier) Wiki. Yapboonyew 04:41, September 9, 2016 (UTC) Longtime moderator of the Brave Frontier wiki signing.

The Brave Frontier wiki has had some very bad experiences, such as a civil war (many of them!) breaking out between the newer users who only use Discussions and the longtime users of our wiki who frequent the live chat and the Forums. As the mediator between those two platforms, it was, indeed, a terrible chore sorting out all the angry people and weeding out the toxic ones.

The logistics of migrating the Forum content to Discussions is also very questionable: as what my fellow admin Linathan has stated, it is a chore in and of itself. The Brave Frontier wiki is very reliant on its forums, as what Yapboonyew said, so removing Forums will put the Brave Frontier wiki in a considerable slump for the months to come; and there may be more wikis that will face the same problem as us, their reliance on the Forums eventually crumbling down if it is removed.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."