User blog comment:Mira Laime/Moderators Without Borders — a New User Group is Coming/@comment-25240518-20170818183207/@comment-26339491-20170818203319

The global Discussions moderator group will be specifically for active communities, which tend to be the larger ones. For small wikis that don't even have a use for local moderators, they're not relevant. But that doesn't matter - not every wiki has to utilize every available group, and this is a volunteer group that wouldn't have the capacity to come to every wiki anyway.

Our data shows that there are actually a lot of users that use Discussions, but don't edit the wiki - particularly those on mobile devices. Discussions has surpassed the forums by far in the number of users that are active there and the number of posts that have been created, even though Discussions has been around for a much shorter time and many of our most active communities don't even use it yet.

All that shows pretty clearly that Discussions has become a very popular feature with a whole new generation of users. It's not complete yet, and it's not going to be perfect (nothing is ever the perfect solution for everyone), but for a lot of users, it's already way more useful than the forums. We're creating this group for those communities that are currently overwhelmed by the influx of all these new users.