User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1398253-20130510193541/@comment-188432-20130511013035

64.134.71.199 wrote: Please bring "Forum" listing back. The only way I could get back to a discussion going on there was to look through recent Forum activity. I did searches for "Reference Desk" and other forums and nothing appears in the search results. Not all forums appear when you click on Community. We have no control over when the Forum button returns after de-activating and re-activating the Wall Forums. It does what it wants to do.

But I don't know what you mean by your last sentence. The "Community" button is linked to Special:Forum — exactly the same place as the "Forum" button goes.

(For those wondering why we had to de-activate the forums at all, it's because of a bit of a design flaw on Wikia's part. When Wall Forums are active, the old Forum namespace isn't.  So if you need to move a page into the old Forum namespace, you can't, because it "doesn't exist".  So you have to turn off Wall Forum, make your move, and then turn Wall Forum back on.  You may have noticed another horrible effect of Wall Forums elsewhere.  Special:Search doesn't allow you to specifically search in the Forum namespace — quite a disadvantage on this wiki, which has hundreds of pages in that namespace.)