Forum:Wikia Discussions

Anyone have thoughts on the new Wikia Discussions? It seems like they have set up a social-media module alongside the main content, but without support for wikitext I'm not sure what, if any role, it could play for article content discussions or editing (have to paste a whole URL just to link to an article, I think none of the current users there have made an article edit yet, etc). Maybe they grew tired of the arguments over Forum vs Threads vs Talk changes and just made something that wouldn't disrupt any of the current practices but allows for some social-media-like discussion, but I'm confused as to what Wikia's vision is for how this and the main site actually work together. --Ironyak1 (talk) 18:56, September 21, 2016 (UTC)