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

Not a discussion post, but just an announcement. Users are free to discuss this upcoming change below if they so wish, but complaining and trying to "avoid" the change is pointless.

Basically, the forums that we're all used to here are soon (as in, several months away) going to be getting merged with something called "Discussions", which is just a mobile app version of forums. You can see some examples of this at TES Wiki and the Nukapedia.

The feature has been in some beta testing for a while now and Staff are pressing on to replace Special:Forum with the /d feature.

As this wiki makes heavy use of the forums, I thought I'd let you all know about this so you can start preparing for the eventual merge, which is quite likely to result in needing many more moderators (in the two beta test cases I linked, the respective wiki's needed to appoint many discussions moderators due to the huge amount of postings happening through it). As I understand it, nothing will be lost, but Wikia will post up more information in time over on Community Central, so keep an eye there for when more information comes out about the move from forums to discussions.

EDIT: Because of this change, it is quite likely that many of our various scripts for the forums will not work any more and it may be quite possible that they will never work again, due to /d being focused primarily for mobile users where JS doesn't really work very well. Whether replacements will be made is debatable, since they're unlikely to be functional.  