Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-26339491-20181129221531/@comment-1824272-20181129223308

I'm really glad that highlights are being specifically retired. Announcements is a much better feature since it works cross-wiki, and now we won't be getting spammy notifications from wikis that highlight ten threads at once.

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? Discussions is nowhere near developed enough to warrant Forum's retirement. On the other hand, Announcements is working to the point where they can forego Forum highlights to stop wikis from abusing them. I'm really thankful they're doing it this way instead of retiring Forum wholesale right now since there's no good replacement yet.