Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-26339491-20161115005058/@comment-24760547-20161116010638

Mira Laime wrote: I'll quote myself from above to answer these two questions, Gargantuar333 and Razpup09:

Mira Laime wrote: All forum posts will be moved to Discussions when the merge finally comes. No content will be lost. Mira Laime wrote: There are several reasons why we won't keep both forums and Discussions around indefinitely. Those are the same reasons why we chose to build a new conversation feature from scratch instead of adding new features to the forums. So in short: Okay thanks!
 * The forums have a couple of very severe shortcomings. They're not searchable at all. And they don't work on mobile, and since half of all Fandom users visit from mobile devices, we want to have a talking space that works for them, too.
 * You can't see this as a user, but from an engineer's perspective, the forums are a nightmare to maintain. When they were built, the engineers at the time didn't really plan ahead for future demands. It's really hard to fix bugs in the forums (they have quite a few), and even harder to try and make changes and improvements to the forums. So once Discussions is built and has become the only conversation feature, we hope our engineers will have to spend less time fixing bugs, so they can spend more time on developing new features and implementing user requests.
 * No, forum threads won't be deleted, they'll all be copied over.
 * Discussions and the forums will co-exist for a while longer, while we're still building Discussions, but then Discussions will replace the forums completely. They won't both be around indefinitely.