Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-26339491-20181129221531/@comment-26339491-20181130172412

Message Wall notifications are not going away, those stay as long as we have Message Walls. We're just retiring forum highlights, nothing else. We're not merging Message Wall notifications into the new notifications system right now either. Having everything in one place is the ultimate goal, but we're not there yet.

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.

If your community is the exception and really needs more than one announcement at a time, and you have already tried Announcements for a while and found the limit to be a genuine problem - do please send us your example via Special:Contact!