Thread:Mira Laime/@comment-35295812-20181217185329/@comment-5952365-20181219060928

@Davidbw58 Agreed!

I suppose, but I'm still pro Hightlights ^^

@Mira Laime If you're referring to me then I can absolutely give an example! My biggest concern is for the Role Play Wiki I'm an Administrator on, we would usually have a few Highlighted Threads going at once. For example, we would have a Thread for a vote, a Thread for a game, and a Thread for a role play that everyone is involved in. As such, it was easy for people to quickly choose what they wished to participate in and go directly to it. With the new Announcements we would have to put all these links into a blog post, which would be not only more tedious for us but also for the members of our community to go through and pick from, since it wouldn't take them directly there, but rather to the list. Yes, I enjoy the ability to link to an article, or blog post, or the Community Page, but I would very much prefer to keep Highlights alongside Announcements. If this isn't a possibility, however, then I would ask for what @Vocaloid Rin did, for the number of Announcements to be raised. This way everyone could go directly to the role play, directly to the vote, and directly to whatever other Thread or page is needed. If you need an estimate, I would say to allow 4 or 5 to be going at once, for ample choices.

In addition, I have another suggestion as well. When I announced this change to our community a while ago, I also informed them that with Highlights only the Users active on the Wiki at that time see the highlighted Threads, and Users who are not don't. I explained that with Announcements anyone who has been active within the last two (or so) months will get the notification too, not just the active members at that time. Now, I have seen arguments over the fact that a certain User did not want to receive notifications for a big Wiki when they had only left one comment ever. It became frustrating for them to receive Announcement notifications once or twice a week (the previous one expired to allow this, of course) every week for two months when they were not involved in any nor wished to be. The thing is that there doesn't seem to be any default button or link for easily disabling them from one particular Wiki, so I would suggest adding this, please. I provided the code from Dev Wiki to disable it, but new Users and the ones who are not familiar with code may become confused and frustrated.

I do have an additional question as well, will a User who is blocked also receive our Announcements? Or is that disabled for them?