Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25034020-20160921064538/@comment-1824272-20160924115521

Jmcdavid wrote:

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No. The wiki-style forums are not part of any migration or retirement plan. They will not be affected if Discussions is enabled for a community. The confusion here is that the wiki-style forums are the old forums. Not the ones that this thread is. This thread is on the new forum system.

I apologize for entering this conversation out of nowhere, I was actually linked here by looking for Hoshizora Miyuki xD But I've been trying to correct people's misconceptions about the Discussions feature since there's so much confusion about it going on.

Discussions is in beta. There's a lot of feedback about its design and its functionality - personally I hate that you can't highlight things and that it doesn't show in the top-right notification area - but this is still a beta and they're still gathering feedback. The problem is that these forums that we're on right now are not mobile friendly, and they tried to make them mobile friendly but it was nearly impossible. Discussions was born to fix all of that.

These forums will be merged into Discussions sometime in the distant future. It's not soon, and by the time it happens, Discussions will probably be developed much further than it is right now. There's no cause for alarm - it'll end up being beneficial for all communities once all of the kinks are sorted.