User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Updates to Discussions and the plan for Forums/@comment-36153576-20200806194033/@comment-25356303-20200806194538

The Forums are pieces of spaghetti code that make editors' lives difficult and aren't compatible with the MediaWiki upgrade. With the changes to categories made with this update, Discussions are virtually identical to the Forums.

/d is not going to get wikitext because it isn't built in MediaWiki. There's already text formatting. I'd like to see a couple more options added, but all things considered you don't need too much more than what's already offered.