Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-2240864-20180318185120/@comment-10502460-20180319012410

I'm not strongly opposed and my vote is more or less a negatively-leaning neutral I guess, but the thing is websites sometimes say they are going to implement something and then don't do it or put off doing it for like three years. Personally, I would just wait for the Discussions feature to leave the Beta phase first, but it won't be the end of the world on this wiki if we try them out now.

Looking at the article Cleric linked, this new feature just seems like blogs but with the ability to upvote and add sorting tags. Really I think Fandom should just merge the Forums and User Blog features into something that looks like the current proposed Discussions feature.

So I can see the pros and cons of early implementation. The pros include that it would allow us to get used to them before they forced on us, like Cleric said. The cons include the fact that until Forums are merged with Discussions, we would now have three potentially competing and confusing options for users to say things: Forums, Discussions, and Blogs, and like I said it could be a while before Discussions become standard across Fandom.

I also have a sneaking suspicion that the Fandom Staff are calling on us and other large wikis to be early adopters not because they actually know for sure that they are going to implement Discussions across Fandom, but because they basically want us to beta test the feature for them before they themselves decide if they really want to use it to replace Forums. Which means that our decision to implement or not implement the feature now could basically be interpreted as a kind of vote for whether we actually want them to be implemented generally and for Forums to be abolished across Fandom. I think we should all consider that before deciding.

Oh, and Banned, the Blogs feed appears on the lower right side of the Wiki main page.

As a final thought, if we do decide to be early adopters of this feature, I suggest that the Community tab on the main page be altered to have links under it to the Blog Feed, Discussions, and Forums, in that order, so as to avoid the aforementioned possible confusion and so that new users can easily see and compare those three features.