Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-26339491-20181129221531/@comment-27730508-20181215180231

Mira Laime wrote: This year, we released Announcements, a new tool for admins and moderators to notify their community members about important news.

Since they are now no longer needed for this purpose, we will be retiring Forum highlights. Our target date for this is mid-December.

That means, admins will no longer have the ability to highlight a forum thread to generate notifications to everyone who is visiting their community. Highlights that are already active will continue to be displayed until their default display time of one week is over.

What’s different about Announcements

 * Announcements can be created by Discussions moderators as well as admins.
 * An announcement notification can link not just to a Discussions thread, but to any type of content on the wiki - article pages, blog posts, message walls, etc.
 * Announcements generate notifications that all recently active community members will see regardless of where they are on FANDOM.
 * Announcement expire after 30 days unless they are manually expired sooner.
 * Only one announcement can be active per community at any one time.

You can find more details about Announcements on the Announcements help page.

What if I have more than one thing about which I want to notify my community?
If you have multiple things you’d like your community to notice, we recommend creating a blog or article page where you list what is currently noteworthy on the wiki. You can create a new announcement whenever a new item is added.

That way, your users will get notified without being flooded with multiple announcement notifications from all their communities. Also also, please make this an option. We don't need to have your terrible features on our site because they're automatically "better".