Issue: Option to use Forum threads for discussion

Interesting idea, maybe something to consider for XF 2.0?

I must admit that I have wiki discussions disabled via permissions to avoid an awkward divide of conversation in forum threads and wiki pages. I wouldn't mind a way to 'assign' an existing forum thread as the discussion spot for a specific wiki page too.

Originally vaultwiki was based on forum threads.
XenForo Resource manager has linked threads to discuss the resource. Like Vaultwiki it shows a discussion tab. With the difference that the discussion shows up in forum. Addons like Showcase, Article Management System use the same approach and this works.

We can try to find a way to merge the results of wiki comments to the New Posts tab. Duplicate here: https://www.vaultwiki.org/issues/3355/
There is also a request already to add forum threads as related discussions (which would include the ability to spin-off a new related forum thread): https://www.vaultwiki.org/issues/4696/

Both would be easier to implement and don't result in mixing different content-types at the data level.

Since migrating to xenforo a lot of our forum content has been moved to other content types. Its very obvious that discussions in non-forum go dead unless rigorous solutions are applied. vbulletin social groups and blog in vb3 and vb4 have the same issue. It its not in new posts and /recent-activity/ then it may as well be turned off. No one will use it.

Duplicating content doesn't sound like a pretty solution and may lead to SEO problems.

There is another problem as well that is not visible with vbulletin, but becomes apparent with mobile friendly platforms like xenforo. Mobile users post anything anywhere if there is any room for confusion. This is not a small factor but an hourly occurrence. They will certainly use wiki discussions to post forum content. Which then has to be moved to forum threads. I am not sure this is even possible.