Thread:Manuel de la Fuente/@comment-26635429-20170324191714/@comment-5275700-20170427230047

Hi Manuel,

With the new season and the new Community App that has been released -- available for Android now and iOS very soon -- we do expect that Discussions will attract a good number of new users who are fans of the franchise.

Remember that app users who post in Discussions have already created Fandom accounts (unlike people on Facebook), and have self-selected as people interested in Attack on Titan, by virtue of having the app in the first place. Those people are a great pool from which you can recruit new editors. Are they going to jump in and start editing on their own, right away? Probably not, but making them aware of the nature of the wiki and the community of editors there, some will become interested. Discussions is a way to grow the community and get the next generation of editors on board.

With that said, we know that the admins' and mods' time is limited. So Fandom staff and volunteers will be keeping and eye on Discussions, and will handle moderation as the user base there grows. We'll also make efforts to promote on-topic conversation and showcase the wiki and the community of editors.

So Discussions is active now and the editing community can participate as much or as little as they wish. I encourage you to check it out and see how things are coming along, whenever you have a moment.

As you may know, ultimately the content from Special:Forum will be migrated to Discussions, and then it will become in the primary discussion area for the whole community. But there are more changes coming before that will happen.

Regarding "Discussions mixes all posts in a single timeline" -- that is true that the default view combines all categories, but users can use the options on the left side to filter that view to only show the categories that they are interested in. This is different from the "drill down" method of traditional forums, but it allows for a combined feed that users can tailor for themselves.

Please let me or Witnessme know if you think some additional or different categories are needed. It might be good to wait until the post volume picks up so that we can see the types of posts people are creating, and what's ending up in "General".

So don't worry about any added burden right now. We've got you covered! Please let me know if you have any questions at all. Thanks!