Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25150955-20160909010405/@comment-5429623-20160914200452

Staff gave me this Hi Sandgar,

A feature that will let you notify users about an important thread (like a vote) is coming to Discussions. There may also soon be a way to monitor Discussions activity in a Recent Changes style of feed, for those who don't want to monitor Discussions simply by looking at the live feed there.

As for reported posts: When someone flags a post as inappropriate, that is visible to anyone with admin, moderator (or staff) rights when they look at the Discussions feed. On the web version, you can also filter by reported posts, so you'll see a feed of only those. No one is receiving a notification about reported posts, though. You have to look at Discussions to see what's been reported.

Some form of text formatting and image uploading is planned to appear in Discussions as well - we're still working on a number of features to be added that will make Discussions more useful, and it simply takes time to finish and release them all.

We're confident that the final version of Discussions - from which we are still pretty far away - will be a satisfying feature, although, of course, no feature can ever satisfy every single user or community. We're not planning on making forums an optional feature to keep, because the forums have a lot of problems and frequent bugs, and so they're hard for our engineers to maintain. For example, you can't search in forum threads, and it's not comfortable to use for mobile users. That's why we'd rather have all communities move to Discussions, where both those things and more will be possible.