Thread:Genesjs/@comment-4220590-20170411175223/@comment-1669199-20170412235127

Ultrasonic9000 wrote: I have also thought about asking about an outcast for the spiff Orko2814 has in mind for SNN. The way I see it, some fresh ideas might be just what we need. And if we do not like them, we can always revert them.

As in regards to the Discussion, I have been thinking about what Journalistic said about it inevitably replacing forums. Personally, I would just get this over and done if is going to happen, regardless. In such a case, I assume the community will make a transition like when we switched from talk pages to message boards. It was sudden, but we managed to make it work, and now we're better off for it. Indeed.

I wish we had more time to think this whole thing over, but we seem pressed for time. And I'd also normally be insisting that we get as much input on this as quickly as possible, but again, we seem limited on time, so if we're going to make a decision on what we're gonna do with everything then I suggest we get a consensus between the core Admins ASAP if you feel we haven't finished doing so already. To be honest, after seeing some people point out some of the issues that the Discussions feature has, I think I was right to feel hesitant in readily adopting the feature, even despite my support over having it eventually implemented. One example that comes to the top of my mind is an apparent lack of organization for threads of various topics. I don't like seeing such stuff being mixed together and becoming a God-awful, jumbled mess over time, and until (if) they address this issue and give Wikis a way to categorize and filter out the forums when searching for specific threads we're gonna have to get a little creative and use the titles of the threads themselves or something if we want to be able to find anything as quickly as possible.

This isn't an ideal situation to me, but for now I recommend that you go ahead and just use whatever consensus that you, me and the rest of the core Admins make on everything and report our decision(s) back to Orko2814. We can deal with whatever comes after later. So, to reiterate my thoughts again, and with a few additions to some of them:

1) I vote we go ahead and see about having our Wiki getting a potential "spiffing". As you've just said, if the majority of us don't end up liking what is changed for whatever reason, we can always revert everything back without any trouble. Whatever we decide to do with appearances in the end, I think that, if nothing else, we should take up Orko2814/the Fandom's Community Development Team's offer to see about promoting our Wiki since there will be two major Sonic games coming out in the near future.

2) I think that the idea behind the Discussions feature is neat and that, despite my hesitation to implement it in it's current state, we should go ahead and have this feature enabled, since it's going to eventually replace our Forums anyway and it'll probably be better to get everyone on board with the new feature ASAP instead of having it suddenly forced on us at a later date. Besides, I'm sure Fandom is listening to feedback that people are giving about the Discussions feature, so if we have some problems with it we can always consider trying to give feedback of our own to their development team so they can use it to try and resolve any problems the feature has sooner rather than later. In the meantime, we can try to deal with the feature's shortcomings the best we can and hope we can manage everything in a way that won't make things too frustrating for everyone.

3) Since we already have a Mobile App, I don't think anything else really needs to be said about it.