Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-3308937-20140206012530/@comment-3308937-20140206030124

It was a reason that was being discussed but it ultimately came down to forums needing message walls enabled to work.

Honestly I wouldn't mind having 2 different places to discuss. The one thing that this kind of forum is really good for is attracting attention. As Aj said, we can move the old discussion style threads to the Project namespace and, as I said, we can use these forums as a place to promote those threads via the highlighting feature. Even if the discussion is split a little we'll still be getting more feedback on things than if we just had the old style by itself.

The old style basically had the same small group of editors coming in and getting in-depth conversations going on and I don't really expect that to change if we use the Project idea in addition to this. Users who didn't join in on discussions before probably won't now and will just leave their opinion in the advertisement thread.