Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-26339491-20181129221531/@comment-26339491-20181129232132

KockaAdmiralac wrote: Not that I mind it, but why is specifically the highlight feature being retired if the whole Forum feature is planned for retiring anyways? I'm sure it's less work for the engineers to sunset Forum all at once instead of sunsetting it feature-by-feature. Did forum highlights cause performance issues, are they being phased out so people use Announcements more or is there some other reason?

Forum highlights are in the way of us revamping notifications as a whole. Right now, we have two systems: The old one that shows message wall updates and forum highlights, and the new one, that shows news from Discussions and Announcements. That's less than ideal, and even though we won't be able to fully revamp this area just yet, removing forum highlights is one step towards that. Plus, it is surprisingly little work to remove just forum highlights, compared to removing the forums completely. And we're not ready to remove forums completely.