User blog comment:BertH/New Forums now available in Labs/@comment-188432-20121203221259/@comment-5275700-20121204000647

We do consider all of this discussion to be a very important part of the early evolution of the feature, which is exactly why we would like to give everyone the chance to see it in action as intended. Please know that everything you're saying is being heard. There are different points of view, of course. CzechOut, can you tell us more about how you see the Forum functioning on TARDIS? If I may take one example, this recently started thread. Arguably the user could have added the Pest Control article as a topic on the thread, and then the thread would have been linked at the bottom of the article. This could easily have been started from the button on the Discussion module, and put in the Reference Desk board where it is now (which seems to be the general purpose board you set up for such questions). And if the exterminator robot from that story has its own page (now or in the future) that could also be added as a topic on the thread as well. So Forum discussions can be connected to the subject of more than one article, transcending the function of talk pages and article comments in that way. The Kermit & Miss Piggy example in the original post was meant to illustrate this, of course. Would you have preferred that the question been posted on the Pest Control talk page, from the start?