Thread:Nbajammer/@comment-27514991-20181212193331/@comment-691135-20181213084753

With all due respect, it matters little who it is for. We, as admins, decided we did not like the feature and could not disable or reject it on the basis of it stretching us extremely thin. Consider that most - but not all - wikis listed on the main page are ours. Now imagine if each one has a Discussions section. That'd double our efforts, at a minimum. With the reaching number of administrators across our wikis, we do not have the manpower or desire to moderate twice as much as we do now. Please understand that, while not everyone will share my opinion about its usefulness, not everyone is going to see that and assume they are missing out or really should take advantage of it being there. Discord does have a lot more than what that does, it centralizes all discussion in one place, making it considerably easier for us to administrate, allows for opening up new possibilities for us in discussions, and is expandable in that regard. While you may see the Discussion section as a really good feature, we do not. We lack both the manpower and desire to put any sort of effort into something we've already decided we don't want to use and do not care for. If Fandom wants to assist with administrating it, I don't see us rejecting that - however, as I previously stated, the feature is not one that we use or are ever likely to use. To us, there is no such thing as "respect and caring that it needs and deserves". If we could have disabled it altogether, we would have absolutely done so at the time. For us, Discord fits any of those would-be needs and is something we can actually make use of across all of our wikis, thus allowing us many administrators from our various wikis to share the responsibilities as well as also allowing for moderators.