User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-26213507-20160908213401

I'm still confused on why there can't be both.

On my The Elder Scrolls Wikia, the fanbase for discussions and forums are much different. Every time we try to make them similar, a flame war begins on the discussions. The users there think that they are fine with posting off topic posts such as with a social media site, which is incorrect.

All of us on the wiki are fearing the merge, and frankly, agreeing to use the discussions. We've been trying to get users there to help out the wiki, but since most of them are on phones, they never do. The people on the forums tend to stray to the mainspace and help out, but discussions users stay to themselves and complain about the rules.

So, here we are. On the verge of possibly losing a large portion of the forum users because of the merge.