User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-4193424-20170102212627/@comment-4193424-20170115222620

Thank you again for your response. I feel very optimistic for discussions future.

While I really do believe in Discussions becoming an amazing part of wikia, I do not feel that the are far enough along in development to be treated as a complete replacement for forums yet. The missing features are creating a gap that does not meet users needs yet, as seen from the many petitions against them and vast displeasure for the feature so far. I believe forums should be reinsated as an option until Discussions are further along in development, once better moderation tools, stickied threads, and personally most important, sorting by newest reply is available.