Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-1038387-20191018155309

Mira Laime wrote: Discussions is built entirely outside of MediaWiki, on different technology. So adding wikitext support would be really time-consuming. And we'd risk echoing the issues the current Forums have by once again forcing code into an existing infrastructure that wasn't set up to work with that code.

Unlike the Forums, Discussions can be updated, so it's likely we'll keep making more improvements to it, even though we can't do it immediately, given all the other work that is underway for the UCP. As I recently had to pour through long, old message wall threads to find a bad category accidentally added to a Forum thread, I shudder to think how it would look/work if someone were to do that on Discussions. Also, WLH would miss these and there is no good search, so any kind of stray link cleanup would be impossible.