Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-168424-20200215003810/@comment-43596541-20200221190014

Fandyllic wrote: /.../ Here are the questions I asked with the answers (by Mira Laime):

/... Thanks for sharing anbd THANKS A WHOLE LOT for the quoted  one ... Their general "Forums are implying threaded features like Comments and Messages..." usual answers were kind of scary in view of  some the Forums "uncertainty"... I'll sleep better now that I have confirmation that  Comments & Messages are simply replace with a newer equivalent  (^) ... Hopefully it will allow EMojis on all platform to avoid some cross-cultural / cross-languge communication issues I've experienced (:^D   !
 * Q: Will UCP include replacements for page end Comments and Message Walls?
 * A: Yes, it will! Not all feature replacements may be in place in the first iteration of the UCP, mind you, but any wiki that uses them now won't be moved there until the replacements are ready.

Hopefully they find a way for CATEGORIES  or a "special CATEGORIES" sub-class to used dynacmically in Duiscussions and  serve as a "topic management hook" that  Users can lvie with maybe with a "special" checkmark to include  those "TOPICAL-CATEGOFRIES" in Searches and other Admin operations ... One could then make a "discussion" summary page that mimics a "topical forum" board Display ... Heck why they don't simply implement a "FORUM"  Special Category  that could used  to implement certain Template/CSS/JSON  Fetaures that "forum intensive" Admins can share to "ease" the Tradnsition  form the old-Forum to the UCP Discussions model ? ... Making it a "reserved/special" Category or Category-Tpe (  it could be  LEGACY-FORUM or FANDOM-FORUM rather than just FORUM)  and then use  something that copies appebd the "subject" as a "special CATEGORY" that is only included if specifically asked for making the "exception" easily portable to ffuture WikiMedia versions since it is data-driven rather than code-driven ... Again this is just off-of-cuff and may make no sense to "forum intensive"  Wiki Admins  (^) ... If so sorry for the minute I stole spitballing (^) ......