Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24851773-20171116020508/@comment-1251315-20171116094201

Remember when Seelentau said that the forums needed to keep control of shitposting and low effort discussions? The "Discussions" feature will undo all of that and make it very difficult to control shitposting, and most wiki's using discussions have problems with shitposting behaviour in them.

There are also many missing features from Discussions, we would also lose all of our custom JS tweaks that allow the wiki to manage forums effectively, making it a very poor replacement for forums. Also, blocking a user who is active in "Discussions" ends up blocking them in the main wiki, and in some cases, this can be undesirable if a user is bad in discussions but a good wiki editor.

I will always be opposed to migrating forums to discussions, the new "feature" is not as versatile as the current forums and I don't see any good coming out of migrating now. Saying that, the new "feature" could be enabled and be separate from Forums (if anything to let people give feedback on it), but most of our feedback is likely to be ignored.