Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-39705254-20190605071813/@comment-9605025-20190606010127

To expand on what Fandyllic said, turning Discussions on is a one-way process. It cannot (or rather, Wikia won't let it) be turned off. Wikis that are created after the release of Discussions have it enabled by default; which is to say you don't get a choice in the matter. The only way to have a wiki without Discussions is to have a wiki that both was created before Discussions was released and has not had Discussions enabled. Wikia is still planning for force all wikis to change over from Forum to Discussions at some point; it is just a matter of time.

I am not sure I would call the self-link a bug so much as a flaw in design. I generally think of bugs as things that aren't supposed to happen and/or cause problems. This self-linking doesn't really cause any problems and there is no indication that Wikia did not intend for it to happen. Though I agree it is pretty stupid.