User blog comment:TheOneFootTallBrickWall/Why are Discussions good?/@comment-26053883-20170729185010

My only problem with Discussions is that I think it was released prematurely. It was replacing forums on new wikis before it even had a notifications system. If they had released it in the state it is now, it would probably have gotten a lot less hate. What people hated about it, for the most part, was that it was missing a lot of functionalities, such as notifications, and seemed completely separate from the wiki. It's much better now than it was when it was released, though it still lacks a few features that forums still has, namely wikitext, highlighting, and less limited customization, though if those concerns are addressed it'll probably be an improvement over forums. If it had been released in Labs beforehand it might have been better received.