Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-39705254-20190605071813/@comment-168424-20190610205300

Andrewds1021 wrote:

I am not sure I would call the self-link a bug so much as a flaw in design. I generally think of bugs as things that aren't supposed to happen and/or cause problems. This self-linking doesn't really cause any problems and there is no indication that Wikia did not intend for it to happen. Though I agree it is pretty stupid.

Flaws in design are still bugs. Self linking (at least if the link is created programmatically) is not supposed to happen, unless designing stupid things is supposed to happen.

I think Mira Laime explained that it wasn't supposed to happen and thought it was because the developers didn't account for the scenario where a wiki had both Forum and Discussions enabled. However, since the problem happens in the simple scenario of just Discussions enabled, it was probably just a bug and wasn't really tested well.