Thread:IDontCareAboutHistory/@comment-499247-20190616235920/@comment-499247-20190617132525

7 GRAND UMP wrote: Discussions ... get checked once a week and someone purges all the topics. I believe we have ended up having a discussion in our Staff Discord Server about what to do with the discussions, but I don't remember much from it.

Discussions appear to have been enabled on this wiki a few years ago by a former admin, and supported by at least one other admin at the time. However, it looks like since that time, there now seems to be a new initiative to prohibit users from posting in discussions. Based on what you said above, it sounds like you're saying there was an internal discussion among a few admins about this directive, in a private channel outside the Fandom network, which did not factor in input from the overall community of this wiki, is that correct? (if there is actually a post buried somewhere on the forums, by all means point it out to me)

Since the decision was originally made by local admins to enable discussions on this wiki, they cannot be removed now. Some of this wiki's users want to use Discussions and they have been legitimately trying to discuss game-related topics in this Fandom-integrated feature for some time, but these on-topic posts are being deleted. These users have been following links that are integrated into this wiki which lead them to the discussions area. The real issue here is that legitimate user activity that does not break Fandom's rules is actively being discouraged, and worthwhile posts are being deleted without any explanation to those who were taking part in those discussions. It is a disservice to the mobile users of this wiki whom, possibly due to technical reasons not under their control, are unable to take part in the forums area. I should point out that as per Fandom policy, deleting legitimate posts/comments could be grounds for blocking the user who is deleting said posts (even if the user deleting said posts is a local administrator).

I can understand if some users have a desire to stick with the old forums approach, but that old format is not optimized for mobile devices, and about 70% of this wiki's traffic accesses the wiki via mobile device. This means that 70% of of users are not viewing or discussing topics in an environment calibrated for their device, which can often cause display issues, or in some cases, bar users from accessing the forums area entirely. This isn't to say that forums and discussions cannot co-exist (the two features can run in parallel), but it is bad practice to alienate users who want to use a popular part of Fandom's platform, whether it is because they want to, or because technology dictates they need to.

I would really like to gain some more clarity on what has being going on with the discussions area. The current strategy of deleting ALL discussion posts indiscriminately, without engaging with users, should not continue in this manner. - Sitb ( Message wall / Talk page )  13:25, June 17, 2019 (UTC)