Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-168424-20200112175637

Just adding a few comments along with abbreviated answers...

MML!opinions!Fun!Chocolate! wrote:

Ok, so, for all I know all my questions could have answers in this if I read through but I’m working on something on the side and haven’t been getting much time for things outside of weekends and breaks (even then we usually have some kind of project during those to,es. Curse you school), so I’d rather not read through everything and I’ll just ask here (multiple questions):

1: Will there be some form of “replacements” to message walls? If so, how will they work? There may be a replacement, but FANDOM has not given any clue as to what it will be.

From Adrewds1021's summer #150: Each feature will be removed once Wikia has developed what it feels is a viable alternative.

The key point to this is the replacement is what FANDOM/Wikia believes is a viable alternative, not what us users think is a viable alternative. FANDOM believes that Discussions is a viable alternative to Forum, but most of us who have used both for a long time now disagree and have made many posts with detail about it. FANDOM hasn't really addressed many of these concerns, but they are slowly adding features to Discussions.

MML!opinions!Fun!Chocolate! wrote:

2: Is there some way to make it so you’ll still be able to edit discussions no matter how much time passes? It’s really annoying that it won’t let people edit after a while.

Short answer is no, unless you are an admin or a Discussions moderator. It might be good to at least extend indefinite editing to Content Moderators, if they don't already get that ability.

MML!opinions!Fun!Chocolate! wrote:

3: How will this affect blog posts?

Blog posts should be unaffected except the comments which will likely be treated like article comments and be archived.

MML!opinions!Fun!Chocolate! wrote:

4: What will the updates/improvements that the removal of forums allow be? Will they actually be worth losing forums?

What you see in Discussions are the only significant updates/improvements you will see and most of the benefit is on the mobile side.

So far these improvements aren't worth losing forums to those who use them, but it isn't up to us.

As always, your best way to get feedback to FANDOM staff is "Contact us".