Board Thread:New Features/@comment-28340828-20170105212004/@comment-168424-20170322002358

TK-999 wrote:

Maintaining two solutions for the same purpose is not sustainable in the long run. Discussions is not just a reskinned Forum, it's completely different under the hood from it. Forum (and Wall) has severe architectural defects which impede performance and maintainability, causing long-term issues which could only be fixed by rewriting the entire component from scratch - and at that point it is better to rewrite it outside MediaWiki which was never designed to host threaded forum content.

It still doesn't justify forcing admins to use a subpar replacement on new wikis. Also, MediaWiki was never designed for many things it now does. Part of the problem is that Wikia forked, but can't keep up-to-date with the trunk and support features specific to its needs.