Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-27059263-20170531183154

So, as some of you may already know, Forums is going to be replaced by Discussions soon.

In case you don't know, Discussions is an upcoming feature that (almost) functions like Forums. The thing is, two important things aren't usable in the upcoming feature. And those two things are images and templates.

This is going to cause some problems in proposal threads, as we use templates to vote on the proposed change, and we use images in the Theme Design board to show off our work.

I left a message on the Help talk:Discussions page on the Community wiki, saying this:

"Will users be able to attach photos/videos to their posts before the final version of this feature is released? If not, then the wiki that I'm admin on is gonna have problems with this feature, unfortunately. We need images in case a user comes up with the theme design, propose new ideas for the wiki, showing content that is off-topic, etc."

Mira Laime, a Fandom staff member, replied to my message yesterday. This is what they said:

"Image upload will likely come to Discussions. Even now, you can already include links to files you've uploaded to the wiki the regular way or that are hosted elsewhere in your Discussions posts. That way, you can embed images in your posts directly. That should be quite useful even before image upload is released!"

...Welp.

So when Fandom (forces) migrates our Forums into the new Discussions, we're gonna have to share links of images, as Mira has stated in her reply. The image attached to the top of the thread is what the proposal threads will look like in the future.

I know this sucks, but there's nothing we can do about this, unfortunately. We'll get used to Discussions eventually.

I just wanted to let you guys know about this feature before you freak out when Forums is suddenly replaced by Discussions.

That's all for now. Happy editing!  