Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-26339491-20181129221531/@comment-168424-20181218180425

Tupka217 wrote:

I know plenty of people that like Discussions over Forums, because they work better on mobile. It's brought in a lot of good new users for us. Discussions and forums are just as easy; in many ways easier because new users don't have to understand wikitext to participate, and the wiki doesn't have to delete the images people add.

While most of this is true for the wikis I work on, you don't need to know wikitext to use the thread-based Forum. Having images not show up in the wiki store is also a drawback because you can't look for bad images in a central place.

I don't think Discussions will ever support wikitext and any hints by FANDOM that this will happen are probably just PR. So, I'll probably reduce the amount of help I give when Forum goes away as I also think there won't be a suitable replacement for Forum maybe ever.