Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35970131-20200614180838/@comment-1038387-20200614194852

Did you think that would change anything?

This has been explained a ton of times but fer the heck of it: Forums had a lot of issues under the bonnet that hampered progress and did not function optimally on mobile. Hence the replacement. Of course functionality is different; it's not built on MediaWiki like its predecessor because the really shouldn't have built it on MediaWiki in the first place. I miss some aspects of Forums in Discussions, and have made my recommendations, but that's as far as it goes. Stamping your feet won't magically bring back an inferior product.