Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34053555-20180922025739/@comment-1038387-20180922214717

Forums were incredibly buggy on the back end, and was unsustainable because it used MediaWiki in ways it wasn't meant for. It also wasn't very portable, and with mobile providing more than half the traffic, they needed something better to serve that part of the audience.

Activity or lack thereof was never a factor; it's completely irrelevant. But ever since we've had it activated, we've noticed a lot more activity - our chat and forums are dead, but our Discussions are lively. It's brought in flesh blood.