User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-3279487-20160909213341

I just want to point it out that if you read carefully the blog and the faqs Discussions has a lot of features planned which are exactly what people are complaining that it lacks compared to Forums. I mean, I remember similar complaints about Message Walls and the very forums people seem to be now fond of.

For those concerned about "community discussions" and "wiki decisions" just make a Wiki-style forums... it's way better then the "new forum" or "Discussions" for wiki-based discussions (do not tell that to staff! :P). I personally prefer clearly separate the "fan things" from the "wiki things" by using two different tools rather then using one that does a "meh" job for both.