Thread:Speedit/@comment-5558012-20160911160610

Good on you for your great comment. Commenting on a "petition" I've found is rather useless because it's like commenting to a brick wall.

I know Wikia likes to push out at most a functional shell of a feature to get constructive feedback, but mentioning plans for a mandatory replacement for the Forum while being no where near the functionality of the Forum was bound to cause a riot. They did mention they plan to include more features and improve the desktop view though not everyone looks to the future like that. Many are emotional over losing a feature that works for them, despite problems that may not be seen to them, even if that loss may be six months from now.

As for most feature releases, constructive feedback tends to get lost under the "no one wanted this" type comments. People begin thinking Wikia doesn't listen to users when they don't start implementing constructive feedback (the Community page still has a lot of issues for me so I flat out tell new users in the welcome/intro not to use the page because Wikia won't fix issues or let us edit the page freely). I saw your pastebin and I agree with it and have considered Special:Contact/feedbacking Staff with it (even if they may have seen it already).

I won't lie and say I like Discussions or am very optimistic for the future of the feature (I do see some of the benefits though I'm not a mobile user nor do I want to have to clean up after them). Maybe they add/fix most of the features/issues with Discussions, however, I do believe it's going to attract a different audience than the current forum has and perhaps never function the same, basically polarizing the wiki-style forum and Discussions. Some state that people shouldn't use it if they don't like it though ignorance of the existence of the feature doesn't solve the problems with it or for the other users that use it.

I'd love to hear more of your experience with the feature. How's moderating it? Do you get a lot of nonsense being posted? Is the atmosphere of Discussions and the wiki different compared with the Forum, if the wiki has it? Does the wiki have any wiki-focused discussions on the feature?  