This thread to say what you like and dislike about Discussions. What features you most like and you most hate. What they got right and what they got wrong. And input on how they can improve.
This thread wants to be what this thread is to the new page header a place to provide feedback and help decide what features to work on first. If I get good feedback and haven't seen the staff comment I will provide them a link via Special:Contact/feedback.
I'm sure there are more cons. I'm not an admin or user on any wikis where Discussions is active and popular, so I'll need to experience that to give more accurate feedback and more pros.
Through the desktop, no. But you do get them through the app.
Pros:
Cons:
^For that last con, check out DiscussionsFeed.
Annabeth and Percy wrote: ^For that last con, check out DiscussionsFeed.
Ooh, thanks! That will be useful!
If you reply to a thread, you automatically follow it. You can toggle to follow, on or off, any thread by clicking the little blue flag at the bottom right corner of the OP (original post) of every thread. In the app, you get a notification anytime someone replies to the thread. In the 'following' collumn (make sure you also toggle Trending/Latest to 'latest'), everytime someone upvotes and/or replies to a thread that you are following, it gets 'bumped' to the very top of the list/collumn.
Good:
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Bad:
- You can't make map games on it, which make up most of my forum's threads
- needs to be more connected to the wiki
- it should cooexist with the forums
- it should have simple formatting, like bold, italic, etc.
