Thread:Gsimenas/@comment-24851773-20171212213019/@comment-28251580-20171213112116

Hi,

we adopted the Discussions on the German SAO Wiki, thus I can give a little more information than Gsimenas. While I appreciate the mobile aspect, I have to agree to his statement. We were never notified we had an app, let alone how to customize it. And I don't know of anyone who downloaded, let alone used it, and we never got forum posts regarding questions users had when using the app. And honestly, it's not a real priority for us. E.g., I only want to use an app if it's sth that is not on the web. Why bloat my devices with apps, if a browser is sufficient? Not to mention that most apps don't offer all the features of the web presence, most prominent example would probably be the Youtube app. Forcing the oasis skin is sufficient for the RecentActivity feed, but on mobile the first thing people do is consume information, not create information. If people edit articles, they are on a pc with a keyboard usually.

Back to topic, the most important feature that is still missing is the highlighting of posts. We moved most of our discussions to Discord, but have votes still happen here for anyone not on Discord, or on chat at the time we discussed this. So they would be totally glossed over without highlighting them, which is not the intention of this wiki.

Thus, we would like to postpone the migration until this feature is implemented, and definitely won't abandon forum posts on the spot. I know Discussions will come, and I see the potential they have, but in its current form they break an existential part of our community.

They also don't appear in the RecentActivity Feed, so it is always a nuisance for an admin to check that extra site whether a discussion was added/edited. It's nice to have everything in one place, and checking two sites for each wiki we contribute to... Or maybe add any other visual indicator like an exclamation mark over the Discussions entry in the Top Navigation.

Next in line are the categories. From what I understand, they don't have anything to do with the existing Wiki categories, and can be defined by the admins how they see fit. But it is only possible to add one category to a post, even if it qualifies for more than one.

Last thing I can remember from the top of my head is that we can't use inline HTML anymore, as the editor strips that content. Do templates still work? We used to use inline HTML for e.g. quoting:

Additionally, one of the admins on the wiki has tried the Discussions feature on another wiki he manages and he's told me that your new feature still lacks some important functionalities, but I'll let him share his thoughts on that himself.

Migrating the forum posts will work according to that blog, but we aren't allowed to edit them or they will break. We have a lot of random anons editing old forum posts for no particular reason than changing the topic / adding a space somewhere etc. I fear they will break such discussion posts as well. But this wiki heavily relies on anonymous contributions, we do not intend to disable this feature.

All in all, we know Discussions will be coming. I'm not particularly against them, even if my post may look like this. I just miss certain features that Discussion need before they can abandon our Forums. Thus, I currently see two directions this can go on this wiki: 1. The migration of this wiki is postponed until features like the highlighting and RecentActivity inclusion happened 2. Enable the discussions, but do not move /disable the Forums yet.

Thank you for hearing us out.