New Forum features releasing today

One of our major goals with Forums is to help communities organize and channel conversations that happen on their wikis. We've been hard at work for the past few weeks developing some features that allow communities to host active, interesting forum conversations. Today, two major features are releasing: Admin Board Management and archiving of the old forum system.

On Special:Forum, admins will now be able to create, rename, reorder, and delete boards on their forums via the "Manage Boards" button. We've also built in forum descriptions so you can label exactly what type of conversations you expect to have on each board.

All conversations in the old Forum: namespace are now archived. Only admins can edit them to remove old photos and redlinks if needed. This is an important step to take because it allows your community (and new users!) to have a centralized location for conversations rather than two system both called "Forum" that function differently.

Additionally, we're releasing some minor design changes and bug fixes. As always -- keep giving us feedback!

Thanks!