Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-32174446-20191016223120

Hello! I'm the bureaucrat of Animal Jam Clans Wiki, and I just have a couple concerns that I'd like to bring up. Our wiki heavily prioritizes message wall threads, forum boards, and article comments and frankly, we're not too informed of/familiar with the Discussions feature or the "wiki-style DPLforums" as we haven't interacted with them before. Message walls and forums are extremely useful and are a key part of how our moderation and staff functions. I don't mean to be rude, but I find it hard to see how maintaining the forum code serves no use to the platform when the implementation of forums hasn't been accessible for a long while now.

1. Our wiki heavily relies on the community and the creation of threads as we are an interactive wiki with original concepts and ideas. Will this more personal/creative style of forums and message wall threads be integrated into the Discussions feature? The Discussions seem to just be a downgraded version of forums and it's clear why the communities that use forums aren't switching over to them; they're inconvenient to the interactivity of the wiki and are disorganized in the sense that there will just be thousands of discussions that are incredibly hard to maintain. I wouldn't wish this on discussions moderators or staff of other wikis that may not be able to keep up with this.

2. How will this move take place and how will it affect our threads/forums/comments? Will any threads be deleted/lost in the process? If we do wish for a more traditional forum style of discussions, would we have to manually input these "wiki-style DPLforums"?

Overall, I am concerned that the interactivity of the wiki and that the strong community relationship will be lost upon this change. I'd like to be informed of how this could affect our wiki and what changes we would have to make upon the removal of forums/message walls/etc. to have a smooth transition over.