Thread:がか/@comment-24851773-20171129200219/@comment-26154973-20171213114904

Hello. Crazy teitoku already voiced some concerns, I can add more (rhetoric, at this point) questions, but basically, those concerns are in three groups: I'm not concerned with the first group. For the other two In general, if we look at Special:Forum, some boards are used formally for game updates, even regular posts can use advanced formatting (tables, HTML, asset templates). Currently, all that is impossible with Discussions, as it's about Forums being MediaWiki based thing: wikitext, templates, parser function and tags, Lua, other enabled MediaWiki extensions, including AbuseFilter, corresponding CSS and JS, all those things were made available and so are used extensively. There are presentation issues, for example, when I open a Forums board and scroll to the first thread, I can see around 10 threads on the screen, with Discussions it's just 3 posts (this and this). Not sure, but maybe there are order, "pin", notification issues as well. 
 * 1) How easy it will be to migrate.
 * 2) Content-wise, what Forums features that are widely used in this community Discussions can provide.
 * 3) How posts are presented and organized in Discussions, compared to Forums.

One thing I'd like to ask is how customizable Discussions are? Can we use site CSS and JS for them and if yes what is allowed? From font changes to resizing, reordering, hiding elements, to client-side rendering for wikitext (using MediaWiki API, if it's always one request per page view, for everything or just for the root post).