User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-27172764-20160909151807

It seems to me that this highly resembles Twitter. Even if this would (which I highly doubt) be beneficial for communities, I do not think the Forum should be scrapped.

Discussions sounds highly different from the Forum, and it seems that each Wikia has a "profile". This causes me to believe that only the top 2500 (or whatever it is) communities will have access to these new features.