Board Thread:Wiki/@comment-1845428-20160909000350

Wikia has released a new feature, "Discussions," for wikis that wish to enable it. These discussions would replace our forums and become the new main method of communicating with other members of our Wiki.

You can read about it here.

It's an optional change, for now, so at least for a little while we'll still use these forums. Personally, I do not want to switch to "Discussions." I have been to the wikis where "Discussions" were enabled as a beta feature, and overall, it just seemed to divide the community into those that edit and those that create drama. The volume of posts that say "I'm sick of this wiki; goodbye," is enormous. This is likely due to the "general discussions" threads.

We have an off-topic forum here, but it is not for random conversation, rather it is used to discuss topics related to Sly Cooper, like other games in the same genre. I'm not saying that if we switched to "Discussions" we would have general discussion, we likely wouldn't; rather, I'm saying that "Discussions" in their current state do not mesh well with the rest of Wikia and so would be much more difficult to patrol as a forum moderator (which I act as). There are other reasons why I am against "Discussions," such as the oversimplification of moderation tools and focus on mobile users rather than desktop users, but I won't get into them now.

Anyway, if that was too long and you didn't read it; I am against the switch to "Discussions," and would rather keep these forums. 