Forum:Discussions: full web version and moderation tools!

Who here has had a chance to check out Discussions in the Hunger Games community app? If you don't know what I'm talking about, here is my previous post on what Discussions is. If you have given it a try, but don't like typing on your phone, you might be happy to hear there's now a full web version for Discussions. That means you can not only read, but also post from desktop now. As a reminder, here's where you can find Discussions for web: Hunger Games Discussions.

Moderation features: As promised, we've now added features to Discussions that allow your mods and admins to delete/restore posts, in the app as well as on the desktop version. Very soon, we'll also add the option to view all posts by a user. In addition, admins and mods will be able to delete all posts by a user (very useful, of course, if you're dealing with a spammer). This will at first only be possible on the desktop version - but that's where most moderation happens, anyway. We're also planning to add a "close discussion" option for mods, and an option for regular users to flag a post as inappropriate. That last one will be exciting, because it's something we currently don't even have on Wikia's regular forums!

Who is going to moderate? Maybe you current admins and mods would like to moderate conversations on Discussions, just as you're already moderating conversations on the wikia itself, and use the opportunity to attract new editors for the wikia. If you're not using Discussions yourselves, and won't be there to moderate, you can pick promising discussion participants who might want to to take on that role. It's also a chance for current regular community members to become more active in helping the wikia! Admins can assign those users to the discussion moderator group.

Right now, it's a bit challenging to message app moderation candidates directly. The app users don’t always confirm their email addresses, and so won’t get notified about Message Wall posts. But if you've spotted someone you'd like to contact about the moderator role, let Wikia staff know, and we'll help you contact them.

Let us know what you think! We're still working on adding more features to make discussions more fun and convenient to use (such as topic categorization, search, link previews, etc.) For that, we can really use your opinion. How do you like Discussions? What are you missing? What should be different? Why would or wouldn't you use it?

Please share your thoughts here, and if you have questions, I'm happy to answer them! Mira Laime (talk) 22:47, January 26, 2016 (UTC)