User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/An update on the Forum retirement plan/@comment-30230931-20191217204133/@comment-24006128-20191217204629

In an ideal world, Forums would endure and you could have your choice. This is not an ideal world and we have to face hard realities about the engineering challenges presented by a feature used by a very small, albeit extremely passionate, number of wikis.

It is that passion which has caused us to revise the plan and work on these specific enhancements based on actionable feedback from Forums users.