User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Updates to Discussions and the plan for Forums/@comment-5907266-20200807132253

Will Discussions be better integrated into the wiki experience as a whole? Because right now they effectively function as separate entities. One of the bigger issues we have is when someone only uses Discussions, they don't have a profile created by auto-mods, they don't get our welcome messages that direct them to the rules for our wiki, and, most annoyingly, they don't leave an IP address that Fandom staff can access and block from what I understand. There's also the matter of the "Messages" alerts are hidden in Discussions, meaning that any warnings posts to walls or messages trying to contact a user specifically are not seen unless they go to the wiki itself. This leaves us having to tell off someone in a thread that's bound to get buried anyway.