User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-14066237-20160916180751/@comment-2200849-20160918141805

That, and Discussions has the huge advantage of being a purpose built feature. It's not a horrible hack on MediaWiki like Blogs, ArticleComments, Wall or Forums which all suffer from severe deficiencies because they try to make MediaWiki do something it was never designed to do. While Discussions does have shortcomings, it's still in beta so they should be addressed by the time it's officially released.