Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27661991-20191016163816/@comment-27661991-20191019165831

After looking at some DPL forum implementations, I don't think that's the way to go. Editing and maintaining DPL forums looks like a royal pain in the butt for people not already familiar with wiki editing and for those who will have to clean up after others.

I left a comment in the Fandom thread suggesting that if Discussions could optionally be presented similar to the Forums, it would be a more appropriate replacement.

Perhaps we should identify what is missing in Discussions that we actively use in the Forums and that we feel very strongly about, and work with Fandom (to the extent that we can) on possibly getting that added to Discussions instead.

It might have to be DPL if in the end there's no better alternative, but I'd almost sooner suggest we have a Forum set up on a different site entirely (no shortage of free forum providers), with all the mess that goes with it, just to keep some of the things that make a Forum a Forum, and not just a bunch of wiki pages being presented as a Forum with DPL code.

( It's entirely possibly I just haven't noticed a good DPL forum, leaving my experience biased without justification. )