Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20160904135950/@comment-4271790-20160906054145

Rachin123 wrote: So now they are going to do it there now. The Pokémon Wiki started uo with that about a month ago. If it's any thing like the Discussions for the Pokémon Wiki, there will be tons of random crap posted regularly. It looks like what the mobile version of something would look like, which takes away a lot of the designs. This was already addressed: WindStar7125 wrote: I see... very interesting. I definitely will test it out. So there's this plan to replace the new forums altogether with this discussions feature? Hmm. Curious, how long would it take for this to take place?

'''Also, just as a suggestion, but I think the desktop version of "Discussions" looks well... too "mobile" in terms of layout. A bit plain in my opinion.'''

It also appears that this is completely separate from the wiki itself, given how my test post doesn't show up in my contributions list nor the recent changes feed... is this intended, or just effects of this feature being in its beta stage? Staff Member wrote: The Discussions feature is not built on MediaWiki at all, and so we don't have any plans to integrate the activity into the RecentChanges feed. We know that there is a desire for a full chronological feed of posts and replies from some admins. This is visible per-user in Discussions, but not as a view of all activity. Remember that regular users in Discussions can "report" content for review by mods and admins, so problematic content should ideally be surfaced that way. Since these are not articles, consider that it may not be necessary to review every single post and reply the way that you might review every article edit.

'''The desktop layout will continue to evolve and use the space effectively. The feature was developed with mobile in mind, since the majority of readers are now using mobile. And it's easier to start small and then get bigger with the layout, rather than start big and then have to decide what to take away for smaller screens.'''

We'll be doing a staff blog about Discussions in a few weeks and will publish an FAQ around that time as well. We'll be migrating the Forum content to Discussions in batches, starting with inactive communities. Larger and more active Forum communities will probably come a big later once Discussions has had a bit more development. The timeline for completing all migration is still open, but we would like to have made significant progress by the end of the year.

Let us know if you have any other questions. The feature is still in its beta stage in development. They'll expand on the desktop format of it over time, as the staff member told me in the above quotes from our conversation, for it is indeed more efficient to start small and progressively get larger.