Thread:Shadowbolt500/@comment-8138569-20191014011106/@comment-27480112-20191019003859

BF10 wrote: In case you aren't aware, unfortunately FANDOM is going to hit the wiki real hard. More info here.

TL;DR, Message Walls, page comments, and Forums will be retired. We really need to find somewhere to migrate otherwise FANDOM will remove these features and Hyness knows what will happen to the wiki. We'll all have to use Discussions. And honestly, I'm okay with this.

It's got everything we need for a roleplay: a notifications system, basic formatting, images, polls, and bullet/numbered lists! There's also likely going to be new features added to it as time goes by.

Now, I know some of you may be terrified and opposed to this new and upcoming change, and I can see why. Discussion isn't as powerful as Forums was, and not being integrated with MediaWiki helps to reinforce its supposed inferiority. Then again, everything changes. When the big update comes, all we can (and likely should) do is just...embrace it, rather than be stuck in a years-old bubble of Forums nostalgia.

As for migrating, I don't think we can. I don't think other wiki-hosting sites offer the same kind of flexibility as Wikia does, and running our own version of MediaWiki is gonna be a big challenge, as none of us are skilled enough (not to mention we'll have to maintain servers 24/7).