When I work with on-premises SharePoint servers, and when I create a new site collection or sub-site, I always add a discussion board list inside it. As discussion board list provide the most powerful list to manage discussions and replies and share feedbacks
from users within each site.
But when I migrate some on-premises SharePoint servers to SharePoint online, and I start using the modern site pages inside SharePoint online, I find that the discussion board lists do not fit well with the modern interface, for these main reasons:-
- Inside the modern web parts available inside the modern site page, there is NOT any modern web part tailored for discussion board lists. As the ones we have for calendars, document libraries and custom lists, where these modern web parts allow us to show calendar items, documents in a modern interface layout, but there is not any modern web part for discussion board lists.
- Inside the modern web parts, we have the News web part, which seems will create site pages as News. So not sure if this News modern web part is actually a replacement for the classic Discussion Board lists.
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So I am not sure what is the road map for the current discussion board lists inside sharepoint online and specifically inside modern interfaces? Could Microsoft provide a modern web part which work with the discussion board lists?
