User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-26823411-20160921211438

I'm sure this has been discussed before (but without a topic layout it's impossible to find here - is there an organised Feature Request discussion going on somewhere?), but without wikitext (or some quick of linking to articles/files/templates) the Discussions module cannot replace Forum, or even integrate with the main name space to any real degree. Forum is where multiple articles are linked in order to discuss discrepancies, various Files are posted side-by-side to decide on the best version, and templates employed to create quick links to sources for questions. If you actually want to Discussions to integrate well and be more than a separate social-media chat, please look at the real-world uses of Forum that editors use to help maintain a site and be sure to replicate this functionality before attempting to migrate.