Board Thread:Improvements and Issues/@comment-1429792-20171130113615/@comment-1429792-20171208172422

I think all the points I would have made about the Discussions have been made except that it is a feature that is still under development and I think they should really finish it off before rolling it out. But even if that was done, I don't like it at all. This isn't a matter of just getting used to a new style etc, it just feels flat out inferior, not intuitive and needless. I personally don't want anything to do with it.

To be fair to Fandom though, the load times and look of Discussions has improved a lot since it was introduced and you can now categorise posts similar to the way we have different boards (see sonic wiki etc) but it isn't as good as the current forum feature in that respect. So my opinion is to decline early adoption of it. I don't want it at all for this wiki but that won't be an option, though I think we should still make that clear anyway.

The new videos were mentioned too and I really think since we are unlikely to be rid of them (I think GoT wiki asked for them to be removed and they weren't, or at least they talked about doing that), we need someone who actually knows about the series and cares, to volunteer to rewrite those scripts and voice them if Fandom will let us, or at least give them guides on how to say the character's names! Some of those videos make me cringe, so blatantly obviously not made by a fan or someone who has even seen it and they reflect poorly on the wiki in their current form.

I'm not sure if everyone is aware, but the reason the videos exist at all is because it cuts down on ads on the wikis, which is a great thing to aim for. Sponsors pay more to have their ads in vids than the normal box ads. Not sure if everyone feels its a worthwhile tradeoff. They're a bit too intrusive for me, to say nothing of the scripts, but I've largely managed to ignore their existence anywhere I visit.