User blog comment:Cook Me Plox/What do you want to see from Wikia?/@comment-1427921-20111023113339/@comment-1724320-20111023183900

Monch, I completely disagree. If we want to get a community going (which I think is a good thing, even if you think that means we're becoming Facebook), using DPL forums or anything that uses regular MediaWiki is just a step backward. I only use DPL forums for discussions about the wiki; as much as I don't like saying that things are too hard to use, this is too hard to use for regular discussions, especially given edit conflicts and limited space. "Excessive memespam" is an exaggeration. Not all forum communities end up like that.

And yeah, we do have some (really old) phpBB forums here that are no longer actively supported, and had some problems. The good thing about them was that they were separate from the rest of the wiki, and they didn't disintegrate into 4chan.