Board Thread:Special Admin Messages/@comment-26318250-20180818073524

Hello everyone,

you might have heard, but FANDOM will eventually remove the forums, replacing them with the new Discussions feature completely. Their reasons vary, but the point is that the forums are a major part of this wiki, and their removal could be bad.

So, it's time for a poll!

Forums 2.0 or Discussions? Forums 2.0 Discussions

Forums 2.0
But what are the "Forums 2.0"?

It's this idea that I thought of, that could possibly replace the forums. I don't know how effective will it be, but that all depends on the opinion you guys will have. I have already prepared a small prototype of this idea on my testing wiki, which I will link soon.

How it works: There is one "Anchor page", which acts like the Special:Forum page does now. From there, all the forum sections will be listed as links. Here is the prototype of this page on my test wiki.

Each forum "section" will be a separate user, whose username would be something along the lines of "SectionNameMCCW". For examples, I created 2 sections on my test wiki, a "General Discussion" section and a "Fun and Games" section. See here and here.

These accounts will never be used: they can have a gibberish password that is forgotten immediately. All that is needed is for them to be set up on the wiki, where other users can edit it as they wish.

The main forum page will link to each of the user's message walls as the "section". And then, the message wall is just used as the main forum. Message wall threads act like forum threads, and replies are the forum replies. It's just like the forums, but not the forums!

Here is a forum game in the correct section.

Here is a random thread in the General Discussion section

If you want, you can add your thoughts about this idea in the replies below. Remember to use the new Support, Neutral and Oppose threads.

I'm going to conclude this thread here. Thanks for reading, and make sure to leave your opinions down below!

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