User blog comment:SQhi/New Forum Feature in Wikia Labs: Do Not Enable/@comment-3060206-20121205010418

Well, I wouldn't say it was the worst. At least each wiki can make its own decisions to enable or disable the feature. Some major changes, *coughcoughnewWikialook* had to be enabled on all wikis.

Is the change bad? I wouldn't say it's bad. I think these features were designed for particular wikis in mind, and admins should be able to decide whether each feature should be enabled or not. Article comments encourage users to talk about the particular subject of the article. On a fanfiction wiki, users create their own personal pages and want you to comment on their work. Informational wikis, well, that's unnecessary clutter best left on a socializing site.

In my opinion, I agree with not enabling the new forums because they make discussions harder to organize. I also understand that Wikia does want to design features with the wiki community in mind rather than the wiki itself. Some would agree that a wiki needs to be about hardcore editing but if anyone wants to stay in this domain, we'll have to be flexible.