Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-38340188-20190220005700/@comment-24258073-20190313102513

DrEggman1026 wrote: Unless we do something about it, Forums will become extinct. This is precisely why I feel like they should just get the migration over with. That way users won't keep getting their hopes up thinking that they can do something about preventing the extinction, because they can't. In regards to the "Unless we do something about it" part of your statement, there is nothing you can do about it.

Take the global navigation petition for example. Most of the users including myself supported the petition. Yet it made no difference, because we still can't customise the global navigation bar legally. But then I can technically customise the global navigation bar anyway ― albeit on a personal level ― since that's exactly what I've been doing for the past 2 years.

Another situation is when we lost the ability to edit all MediaWiki messages. I was probably one of the users that was most publicly ticked off about it. And although some of those messages have been white-listed since that time, it's never been quite the same.

But the bottom line is that if users tried and failed to overturn the site-wide changes and feature updates and the removal of retired features in the past, what makes them think that they will be able to stop forums from being retired?