User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first specifics on the Unified Community Platform/@comment-31862619-20191016200732

As a moderator for a wiki that continues to use forums, and will do so until likely being forced otherwise, please don’t remove forums and message walls. There is so much history that we keep track of through them and they are constantly used on a daily basis. Discussions attracts not only children, but moderating it is much more tiring, especially since thread mods (such as myself) can no longer announce things to the larger audience.

We implore you to think of alternatives, whether it’s updating the fourums code and making both discussions and fourums available for choice, or doing something else.

(Also, your statistic about discussions being the majority used, I believe that’s because it was automatically enabled at some point and now you need a certain set of code to bring forums back)