Board Thread:Mortal Kombat Wiki/@comment-5275700-20151215172739

Hello Mortal Kombat community!

After talking with some of the admins, we've enabled a new feature for this community -- Discussions.

What is Discussions? Discussions is a way to attract new users to your community and capture the energy and passion of fans who already love the content you’ve created. Right now, Discussions are primarily showcased in your Community App, available for both Android and iOS users.

In the Fallout app, one of the places where Discussions was first enabled, we’ve seen over thousands of users create accounts since October. The vast majority of those users created their accounts to participate in Discussions in some way. Mortal Kombat Wiki’s app is also one of our more active apps, with lots of readers every month, and we’re confident that Discussions is a great way to bring some of those readers into your community.

You can also access Discussions via the web (desktop or mobile) at http://mortalkombat.wikia.com/d/f/949

Moderation options (delete and undelete) are available for the admin and moderator user groups, in both the app and web versions. More robust moderation options are coming in the new year, along with plenty of other additions.

A few other notes about Discussions, to answer some of your likely questions:
 * Discussions has no effect on your current forum. However, we will have the option to migrate this forum content to the new Discussions feature in 2016, before we phase out the current forum feature. So you won't have to have two discussion areas for very long.
 * Nothing from Discussions will appear in RecentChanges, WikiActivity or any of your logs. It’s totally separate from the wiki right now. We’ll be working with you and other communities to determine the best ways to monitor activity.
 * Discussions users in the Community app can also upload avatars and add text to a profile page. The avatar will be seen for that user across Wikia, but at this time the profile text is only visible in the app.
 * We'll be adding lots more to Discussions in the beginning of 2016, including image upload, more organizational options, tagging/topic options, and more. We're very interested to hear more about what you'll need for this feature to be successful here.

There are no links to Discussions on the main site right now, so at the moment only app users are likely to discover Discussions on their own. But feel free to place links in your navigation, the main page or anywhere else.

Also feel free to start a feedback thread or send feedback in via Special:Contact, though it would be great to hear your whole community's opinions on all feedback. Be sure to post a link to any feedback on my Wall so I can be sure to find it!

We are looking forward to working with the Mortal Kombat community on Discussions in 2016. 