Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-5716479-20130622124910/@comment-5431054-20130624092405

With highlighting, I don't believe there is a time limit setter, but you can un-highlight it whenever you want. For benefits of the new forum - its easier to edit as you don't have to wait for a new page to load, you don't have to sign your signature - which is good for people who forget and it is a lot easier to organize the threads into cateories. Someone could create a page in the old forum namespace and forget to place the forumheader template up the top. If that happens and if its urgent, you won't see it. With the new forums, all posts must be in a specific board, and you can create as many boards as you want to cater for all the needs of your wiki (one for help, one for news etc...) To be honest, I think some wikis use the old forum system because they are used to it or they just prefer leaving messages in a talk-page style environment.