Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-26339491-20161115005058/@comment-26339491-20161117225214

We're well aware that many users are not happy about Discussions, and that's understandable. You can't see how it will look like when it's done, only in its current minimal state, so it's not surprising that it doesn't seem like a capable replacement for the forums yet. Plus, we're all creatures of habit, and so anything new is off-putting at first.

We do listen to user feedback, though, and have first presented Discussions to the Community Council members (a group of admins and very active users from many different wikis) more than a year ago, so we can incorporate their feedback at every step. For every planned new addition to Discussions, we show it to them first and get their opinion. We've invited users to our offices in the early stages to get their thoughts on the feature, too, and we have plenty of data on how users interact with Discussions.

That feedback and the data does show that Discussions has a lot of potential to be successful. For example, those wikis that have an app with Discussions have seen new account signups increase by 500% if not more. There are already more posts in just Discussions, which is still new and only enabled on a small number of wikis, than there are in the forums across the entire Fandom network combined.

Before you form your final opinion on Discussions, give it a try. We can't implement your feedback if all you tell us is "I hate it because I didn't ask for it". If you give us specific feature requests and example use cases, though, we can work that into our development of Discussions. If you're still wondering why we need to replace the forums in the first place, please see my replies above!