Board Thread:General/@comment-26339491-20160128230630

Who here has had a chance to check out Discussions in the Brave Frontier community app? If you don't know what I'm talking about: You can find this Wikia app in your (Android or Apple) app store. Before, it was only a more convenient way to view and read your articles on mobile. But we've recently added a discussions feature. This is for all those app users who don't only want to read the articles you've written, but also discuss the game with other fans.

Quite a few of them have signed up for an account just so they can participate in Discussions, and some of those new members may also find their way to the desktop community and stick around as valuable editors. To improve Discussions further (and make it more accessible for everyone), we've added more features:

If you don't like typing on your phone, or don't want to use the app in general, 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.

Here's where: Brave Frontier Discussions web version.

Please note: This web version isn’t "discoverable" right now, except via URLs shared from the app. You won't find it linked anywhere else yet.

Moderation features: We've also 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 here on Wikia's regular forums!

Who is going to moderate? Your community admins and mods already know how to moderate conversations on Discussions. But this is also a chance for those among you who'd like to get more involved, and use the opportunity to help attract new editors for the wikia by becoming mods in Discussions. Admins can assign you to the discussion moderator group, if they agree you're a good fit. You might even spot promising candidates among the app users who aren't part of the desktop community, but who might like to help out in the app.

If you'd like to contact an app user 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! 