Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-43596541-20200205202403/@comment-9605025-20200206051543

BluesDriver, that idea sounds nice on the surface and I once even started working on a solution to display page contents in such a manner (although didn't get too far as there was/is little demand). It was started as an idea for displaying article comments while the feature itself was disabled. However, to use categories would require a unique category for each conversation. One could use a similar page naming system to what is currently used for threaded discussions (and what the initial idea was meant to work with). However, I imagine such a system would be confusing to new users. On top of that, such a system would not be able to provide the per-comment protections that currently apply in threaded discussions.

Fandyllic, that might be the general opinion here on Community Central and a few other wikis but I have no issue believing that most wikis find Discussions a suitable replacement. It is almost never possible to please everyone and FANDOM has found a solution which it thinks will satisfy most communities. They consider Discussions the replacement for Forums and have officially presented it as such. Therefore, when discussing the removal of Forums with a user whose position on the matter is undetermined, I believe it makes most sense to consider Discussions the replacement for Forums; whether or not I think it is a good replacement.