Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-17897872-20170302045154

Heyy everyone! Primetime here.

Before I open up the next part of the forum/discussions game, I've heard and agreed with a few concerns that the community had about permanently locking the off-topic board. As you know, what is done can be undone with a few clicks.

Based on what I've seen from multiple different threads, here and here to name the main ones, there has been a lot of anger with the community at this closure. I'm writing this highlight because I believe that there should be a more direct "communication between the small circle of staff" (which sometimes doesn't even happen) to the rest of the community. This was mainly due to the lack of communication between "staff" actions and we the others. I saw that some of the forum boards were locked, but especially I was taken by surprised when I saw my thread close before March 1st without much notice.

I haven't seen any consensus from the community to make the immediate change, including the two recent highlights about this topic. Currently, I see that the Wikia staff "highly encourage[s us] to make as much use of Discussions as possible so we can become familiar with its workings as well as identify any issues." However, this does not mean to simply lock the forums to force every user. My view is to keep both open for users to try out discussions while keeping the forums open. Again, since we know the problems that Dicussions currently faces and its horrific downsides (which will hopefully be fixed in the future), there is absolutely no reason to force users who would rather post on forums at this point.

Would you guys agree to this idea? I need an official vote before reopening. 