Board Thread:Forum Migration/@comment-31797469-20191119112641/@comment-27661991-20191119124705

I agree that we all need to start moving over now and not be caught out when the change finally happens. If most people agree with this, I suggest editing the Forum/categories' descriptions to include a message that Forums will be shutting down and pointing to the alternatives.

Unfortunately, I do think it's a case of just doing this and waiting to see where the pieces may fall. The Old Forums are pretty user-unfriendly, but they are vastly more organized. Discussions on the other hand is, perhaps, too user-friendly. My thoughts on this along with ways Fandm could mitigate it are in the [Fandom feedback Thread], but suffice it to say that right now Discussions is like an unfiltered stream of thoughts more in line with Tumblr. It's obviously seeing use from people who enjoy that - and that's a good thing - but may not be the most inviting to most Forum users.

At one point I thought about making a 'Discussions Index' type page to [link to specific Categories], but unfortunately just filtering for a single specific Category doesn't make new posts default to being posted in that Category. That would leave making an index that [points to specific Posts]. It would still be an unfiltered stream of comments on each Post, but would allow for some minor organization without forcing everyone to know how to edit a wiki at a basic level just to leave a comment as with the Old Forums.

Again, regardless of what we end up going with, I do think that phasing things out asap is best. Encourage users to move now, and - when viable - force some parts to move over entirely. E.g. a test run locking down the DoF category (latest post is a month old, so seems to see infrequent use) and pointing to either Discussions, a specific post in Discussions, Old Forum, or a third party for future discussions on that topic.