Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-26339491-20181129221531/@comment-3474542-20181204214819

Mira Laime wrote: We're open to possibly raising the "one announcement at a time" limit, if it's really necessary - but so far, we've not actually seen any communities having an issue with that limit. A number of admins have expressed their worries that one at a time isn't enough, but those are actually usually communities that haven't even started using Announcements yet.

Very few communities have so much going on at once that they'd need more than one new announcement every couple of days. On the contrary - too many have several highlights going on at all times, causing community members to start ignoring them. If you can have only one news item at a time in your community members' notifications, they'll know that one is important, and be much more likely to pay attention to it. Exactly how many wikis are exclusively using the new Announcement system, and what are they using it for? Because I know that it's not good enough for Community Central, and I haven't seen it in wide use elsewhere. BTW- The new announcements can also be just as abused as the old forum highlights (more so in fact).