Board Thread:Forum Migration/@comment-38914874-20200120021608/@comment-31797469-20200120061935


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Here is my interpretation:

FANDOM want to have a feature that "looks cool", so they based it on how a lot of social media posts work (a stream of messages with little or no structure).

It is also pretty much entirely disconnected from the rest of a wiki, which makes it easier to maintain technically.

Discussion does not have the users in mind, or is in any way intended to fill any constructive function to a community. If there ever was any intended design then it has long since been abandoned.

Importantly, it was never intended to replace the Forums, but when they needed to remove the Forums (because of how hard they had become to maintain), Discussion was a convenient excuse for FANDOM to not to need to create a replacement.

Discussion could be improved and fill a useful function. But seeing the lack of progress on it for the past 4 years leads me to conclude that is unlikely in the extreme.