User blog comment:DanzxvFan8275/Replace Discussions with Forum/@comment-33046846-20170316154833/@comment-33046846-20170316215935

Okay, I have bad news. I'll just copy and paste the response:

Hi Phillydan25

Since Discussions will fully replace forums eventually, I'm afraid we can't enable them anymore. Only wikis that have already been using forums before can have them now, and even those will eventually be migrated to Discussions. This isn't something that communities can vote on.

It might help you to know that we're currently working on a feature that will let admins make announcements again, as it was possible with the forums. There will also be notifications at the top of the page as there were for forums, to make it easier for users to stay up to date on what's happening in Discussions.

Discussions do have boards - they're just called categories there. Admins can set up a number of categories, just as they can set up forum boards, and users can choose to see content from just one category, from several, or from all at once, which gives them more freedom on what content they want to see than they had in the forums.

I hope the features we'll be releasing next will help your community to get more out of Discussions!

Eva Niroomand Community Support Manager