Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-26635429-20170518144749/@comment-4271790-20170519195422

Rachin123 wrote: I much prefer Forums, since unlike Discussions, you can like the topic at hand, as well as comments people say on it. So if you ask me, quality goes to Forums. You can technically do the same on Discussions (you can "upvote" comments, which is essentially the same thing).

To my understanding, Forums were going to be migrated to Discussions anyway. So giving us the option to choose now does take me aback a bit. Over the years, we've made a good amount of edits and alterations to the Forums via JavaScript and CSS. That would all go when migrating to Discussions. My question is, would we be able to do the same edits and alterations with Discussions through JavaScript, CSS or something else? UltimateSupreme wrote: Debatable. There are some editors who've made all of their edits in the forum board namespace and not a single edit (or, not much) in the wiki mainspace. So "leaving the wiki" (given you can't see what goes on in Discussions in Special:Recentchanges) to discuss may not affect them adversely (I mean they would need time to adjust to moving elsewhere to discuss), nor would it affect those who don't use the forums much anyway, but it would affect the users who have a substantial amount of edits in both namespaces. And there is a greater amount of those editors than those who pick only one namespace to contribute on. UltimateSupreme wrote: Also, this^ wasn't answered.
 * Do the forum users (especially of those two boards) really contribute much to the other parts of the wiki?
 * What extra benefits would discussions provide (vs forums)?

To my understanding as well, Discussions aren't even a finished product as opposed to the Forums, and are still undergoing the process of having new features being added to it. Not really a huge fan of the mobile-like format when I'm on a desktop, admittedly. Since the concept of the Discussions feature was introduced to me around a year ago, I would have assumed it would have a more desktop-looking version of it by now.