Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-26339491-20181129221531/@comment-26339491-20181213170429

SDMarukokun wrote: Why instead of doing the "you get one and if you want more, contact fandom staff" thing not make it a setting for the bureaucrat(s) of a wiki and default the setting to 1? To clarify: Even Fandom staff can't raise the limit to more than 1 Announcement at a time. This limitation is built into the feature.

Our theory is that the vast majority of communities (if not all) can get by with only 1 Announcement, and that having only one will make sure admins consider carefully what is news-worthy and what is not. We think it will reduce notification overload for active users and put a stronger spotlight on those announcements that are noteworthy.

If there is evidence that our theory is wrong and this limit genuinly hurts communities, then we'd like to know. That's why we ask users to contact us if they have tried Announcements and still found it lacking. And just to be clear: Evidence in this case doesn't mean "my community always had multiple forum highlights, so having just one could never work". It means "We switched to Announcements, used it exclusively for a while to keep our community updated, and here is how we know that this isn't working ..."