Thread:Hackey5/@comment-25407271-20160909024306/@comment-5645428-20160909064724

Before saying anything, I can guarantee this will replace the current forums at one point or another. The shift with intention to provide complete support of mobile necessitates this. It's a matter of when, not if, meaning we ought to seriously consider generating the community's support earlier rather than later.

At first glance, I like the concept. Obviously there are issues I have, mainly to do with the organisation, keeping in mind I have viewed Discussions from mobile only and briefly at that. Firstly, categories for threads is fine (as long as they are separate from the main wiki). I have actually hidden a feature quite similar to it on the forum since it's easy enough to just select a board. However, I didn't figure out how to do that with Discussions. I'm hoping it is/will be simple to navigate through a sizeable list of threads sortable by category. The next thing is that the whole appearance looks terribly informal. Fair enough, that should suit the majority who use the forum that way, but I'm hoping there is a way that important information can be conveyed by staff that sticks out from the rest (certainly, highlights must be retained). Unlike Twitter, there better not be a character limit, moderation tools should be fluent, blocks should function as expected, and the desktop version should not be codswallop because of the emphasis on mobile.

Clearly I know little, so I guess some of us have to work this all out before we try leverage support of it.