Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-24006128-20200813184033/@comment-24006128-20200819011509

Gurte wrote: MisterWoodhouse wrote: Gurte wrote: Excuse me, but I still cannot understand the reason why Discussions were not developed initially on MediaWiki platform.

We did that. It's called Forums. The modifications to MediaWiki code necessary to build the feature made updating the core software extremely difficult. Building Discussions as a separate product removes that barrier, allowing us to update at a far more rapid cadence. Hm. In my humble opinion, you needn't have developed Forums at all in this case. You should have built Discussions initially. You know, no one knew even about the possibility of retiring Forums and, as a consequence, many communities used much so wikitext in them that this migration really hurts them.

Can you explain me the reason why Forums cannot be transformed into DPL forums despite the fact they are both built on MediaWiki?

Simply put, we don't have a conversion script to take Forums and reorganize it into DPLForums, like we do for Forums into Discussions, as built when Discussions launched.

We're happy to have wikis use DPLForums, if they so choose, but we don't have the capacity to migrate their Forum content to it.