Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-1824272-20200813174338/@comment-4795804-20200814135952

SlyCooperFan1 wrote: Discussions is not built on MediaWiki, so it has no namespace and AbuseFilter does not (yet?) work on it. That said, we've received, and I myself have sent, plenty of feedback asking for more moderation tools.

It looks odd that a project based on mediawiki replaces forums based on mediawiki with these discussions. The absence of working abusefilter is an even worse problem, as it opens the wiki to vandals.

On the other hand, I see no benefits. What are the actual benefits of the discussions? I saw some info on Community Central but it looked like an advertisement where sellers praise their goods that nobody needs, so a lot of shiny words but no actual technical specifications. I expect somebody had to pay a team of developers to create the discussions, and these developers had to have instructions what they should create.