Board Thread:Staff/@comment-8846246-20191102162200/@comment-8846246-20191112185305

There's not much discussion to have on alternatives. The options are Discussions, DPLforums, or we have no forums on the wiki and instead find some other host.

The biggest problem with Discussions is there's no customization (it doesn't even run on MediaWiki). That means a council meeting is just as important as a post asking where Osana is. There's no way to separate them.

Discussions does have 'filters' but that's no substitute for boards. Might as well sort by hashtag. They're irrelevant.

Another problem with Discussions is there's no wikitext. So we can't do things like demonstrate templates during meetings, or even use templates to save time. We can't link to articles without giving the full URL.

As for an offsite forum; I'm strongly opposed to that.

This just leaves DPLforums; since we have better control over it. It does have a higher 'entry level' than the old forums but we do still have a Discord. So users that find it too complex can probably just use our server.

I would like to say; DPLforums were the norm before current Forums and more wikis are going to be using them again, maybe not a lot of wikis but a good number of them. So it's not like people can't ever adapt.