Board Thread:New Features/@comment-25404524-20171130232015/@comment-24258073-20171208085657

ZeroTigress wrote: If Discussions is so great, Community Central should've been one of the first if not the first to replace their Forums with it so they can see first hand how significantly different it is from using Forums. Heck, it would expedite the necessary changes to make Discussions comparable to Forums if they did. But the fact remains that CC still retains their Forums while other wikis are forced to use Discussions when the feature is not good enough yet and I don't find that fair at all. It may not seem fair to you, but you seem to be missing the point. Wikia is preventing newer wikis from choosing between threaded forums or discussions because it would mean more work for them when they migrate threaded forums into discussion posts.

The reason a lot of the larger wikis that use threaded forums on a regular basis still have them is mainly because it would be more work for Staff if they were to migrate the forum threads on larger wikis, since they are usually ones that have the most forum threads to migrate. It's sorta like starting at Year 13 at school, when students are supposed to start at Year 1. Because they just aren't ready for school work at that level.

All wikis that use threaded forums will have to switch to discussions sooner or later, unless they want to switch to wiki-style forums. And to be honest, I don't see the point of making the switch later when you can make the switch sooner to get it over and done with.