User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first specifics on the Unified Community Platform/@comment-5179743-20191016182634/@comment-24006128-20191016184012

Our article pages are absolutely running on outdated code. Most of the platform is running on outdated code. This is one of the biggest complaints we get from users. It's why we're updating to a modern version of MediaWiki, as announced earlier this year and reiterated a few times since then.

Special:Forum will not benefit from that move, as a custom feature. We have decided to replace it with updated features, rather than try to reengineer it.