Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3218221-20171109163455

So it's occured to me that you folks may not know about FANDOM's plan to migrate the modern forum layout to the Discussions module on all wikis still using the modern forum layout, and since you're one of the...oh, 20% of wikis still possessing a non-migrated forum I thought that I ought to warn you of this in case you hadn't heard.

The migration plan is something that FANDOM has been planning and writing blog updates about for months.

First, here's Community Central's help page on what Discussions is. And this is the latest Staff blog update on Discussions migrations, dated August 11, 2017. The blog article says that Discussions is available on about 80% of wiki communities, and talks about how some communities may prefer to wait on migration until there is "future feature development..."

...Which may give you the idea that you have some say in whether or not you can keep Forums. Don't let that fool you; the FAQ for Discussions makes it clear that FANDOM plans for Forum on all wikis to migrate to Discussions eventually.

The alternative to Discussions is using the old wiki-style forum, which is what the Baccano! Wiki uses (it just never updated to Forum, as you can see). For examples of what active Discussions look like, this is Discussions for the One Piece wiki, and this is Discussions for Wookieepedia.

I believe it's still possible to ask Staff in a request form if they can disable Forum/Discussions on a wiki (automatically enabled wiki-style forums), so if you discuss this and find you're not in favor of Discussions you can try that route. Disabling Forum and returning to wiki-style forums was possible to do via Features during the early stages of Discussions, but they've since removed that as an option there. If the community decides that Discussions will be fine, then it's still a good idea to read up on the links above in terms of what content is migratable.  