Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-24006128-20201027161854/@comment-24155515-20201027163931

Ternash wrote: Just curious but what's the reasoning for this migration?

Forums isn't compatible with UCP, so all wikis, even Community Central which will go to UCP last, will need to have an alternative in place before they migrate if the content is to be kept. UCP is happening because the version of MediaWiki legacy wikis are on (1.19) was coded in the early 2010s and has been out of mainstream support for 5 years. It had been so heavily customized at the time UCP started happening that it was basically probably paperclips and hope compared to mainstream MediaWiki by that point, hence why many custom extensions are being phased out alongside it, because it'd be too much work to get them compatible with MW 1.33 and keep them that way.

I imagine the revival of DPLforum is because technical issues may necessitate the sharing or demonstration of wikitext markup, which Feeds-based platforms like Discussions don't actually support.