User blog comment:Mira Laime/Moderators Without Borders — a New User Group is Coming/@comment-24014422-20170817053232/@comment-5811199-20170817131355

Yeah, I agree that there's a lot to expect from Discussions, and that it's weak on the features side (things like highlighted posts, formatting/markup and other fundamental forum features).

Though, I think that this group is something like a side product that's more on the community end rather than the technical - just different teams working on different ends of Discussions. I think that this group will, however, help find out and prioritise those missing features. Staff will be able to have a group to talk to, and the group can be something like an admin-mentor-esque step between users and Staff.