Board Thread:Administrator's Noticeboard/@comment-5275700-20160210211220/@comment-5275700-20160210224352

Squazzil wrote: So this "alternate forum" is meant to attract more mobile users? It looks a little hard to navigate, and doesn't have a feel of a forum as much as it does a bunch of threads where people post to chat, but not in live time like an actual chat. Is it a place I can go if I have questions about the game and want to see if someone has posted a similar question, and gotten answers? Is it a place to just talk about the game with other mobile users? I guess I'm thinking too much in a desktop computer mindset, but if it attracts more mobile users to come here to this wikia and not just to use the app, then sure it would be nice for the community here to grow and use the features already here in this wiki.

It's not so much an alternate forum as it is the next version of "forum" on Wikia. And it's not so much about attracting mobile users as it is better serving the ones you already have. As you probably know, the current forum feature is pretty much unusable on smartphones. Discussions is fully optimized for use on smartphone web browsers (shrink down the window on your desktop and check it out!). And of course it exists in the app as well -- where you already have another part of your fan community, but so far they have only been able to read articles.

Right now it feels like a single area for conversation because we don't yet have categories (the equivalent of boards), but that is something we are working on now. Even so, those don't become necessary until the activity reaches a certain level.


 * Is it a place I can go if I have questions about the game and want to see if someone has posted a similar question, and gotten answers? Is it a place to just talk about the game with other mobile users?

Yes to both questions, potentially. It can be whatever the community wants it to be!