- Announcements can be created by Discussions moderators as well as admins.
- An announcement notification can link not just to a Discussions thread, but to any type of content on the wiki - article pages, blog posts, message walls, etc.
- Announcements generate notifications that all recently active community members will see regardless of where they are on FANDOM.
- Announcement expire after 30 days unless they are manually expired sooner.
- Only one announcement can be active per community at any one time.
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ALL POSTSWe will retire forum highlights soon
<p>This year, we released Announcements, a new tool for admins and moderators to notify their community members about important news.
</p><p>Since they are now no longer needed for this purpose, we will be retiring Forum highlights. Our target date for this is mid-December.
</p><p>That means, admins will no longer have the ability to highlight a forum thread to generate notifications to everyone who is visiting their community. Highlights that are already active will continue to be displayed until their default display time of one week is over.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="What.E2.80.99s_different_about_Announcements">What’s different about Announcements</span></h3>
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If discussions are so good, yet the majority of users don’t want them, why aren’t users able to choose between discussions and forums for their wikis? I have tried discussions, and the only advantage of it is that you can lock posts. In my opinion, users should be able to choose between forums and discussions. If the wiki does not enable forums, then it would disable highlights.
<i>So why can’t we choose?</i>
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<p>I really agree with you, this is what I really wanted to say. You know, forcing any new wiki to have an (from my point of view) unfinished feature and not let them choose to have it or not, is like forcing someone to move to a house that isn't yet finished building. Maybe my example is wrong, but I hope you get my point. </p>
<p>I really agree with you, this is what I really wanted to say. You know, forcing any new wiki to have an (from my point of view) unfinished feature and not let them choose to have it or not, is like forcing someone to move to a house that isn't yet finished building. Maybe my example is wrong, but I hope you get my point. </p>
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<p>Just because you don’t like it, doesn’t make it a bad decision.
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<p>Tupka217 wrote:
Just because you don’t like it, doesn’t make it a bad decision.
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<p>Just because you like it, doesn’t make it a good decision. xDDDD </p>
<p>Just because you like it, doesn’t make it a good decision. xDDDD </p>
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<p>Gilben wrote:
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<p>Tupka217 wrote:
Just because you don’t like it, doesn’t make it a bad decision.
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<p>Just because you like it, doesn’t make it a good decision. xDDDD </p> </div> <p>Based on any user opinions doesn't make it a good <i>or</i> bad decision because it will happen anyway. </p>
<p>Just because you like it, doesn’t make it a good decision. xDDDD </p> </div> <p>Based on any user opinions doesn't make it a good <i>or</i> bad decision because it will happen anyway. </p>
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<p>But you can't deny that making such changes without even consulting communities and then making them leave are bad decisions. They're literally pushing their users away. Hopefully, I will stay here.
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<p>Golfpecks256 wrote:
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<p>Gilben wrote:
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<p>Tupka217 wrote:
Just because you don’t like it, doesn’t make it a bad decision.
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<p>Just because you like it, doesn’t make it a good decision. xDDDD </p> </div> <p>Based on any user opinions doesn't make it a good <i>or</i> bad decision because it will happen anyway. </p> </div> <p>I never said I liked it. I like Discussions for the extra user interaction we're getting by opening mobile, but I don't like the lack of wikitext. We rarely highlighted, so Announcements suffice. The Fandom thing I don't like, but it's been explained and well, bills need to be paid. </p><p>For interaction and consultation with users, there's the Community Council. </p>
<p>Just because you like it, doesn’t make it a good decision. xDDDD </p> </div> <p>Based on any user opinions doesn't make it a good <i>or</i> bad decision because it will happen anyway. </p> </div> <p>I never said I liked it. I like Discussions for the extra user interaction we're getting by opening mobile, but I don't like the lack of wikitext. We rarely highlighted, so Announcements suffice. The Fandom thing I don't like, but it's been explained and well, bills need to be paid. </p><p>For interaction and consultation with users, there's the Community Council. </p>
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<p>Tupka217 wrote:
</p><p>For interaction and consultation with users, there's the Community Council.
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<p>The Community Council would be better if users could vote someone in... right now it has the danger of being a yes-man group, since FANDOM staff appoints them. </p>
<p>The Community Council would be better if users could vote someone in... right now it has the danger of being a yes-man group, since FANDOM staff appoints them. </p>
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<div class="quote"><i>Andrewds1021 wrote:
My wiki won't get much use out of it since I am about the only one still active. Nonetheless, I finally decided to test it out. In addition to the other suggestions already mentioned in this thread, here are some more.
<p>That sounds like a bug - IE 11 is a browser that we support. Could you send a bug report via Special:Contact? </p><p>The old notification system isn't present on the Announcements management page on purpose, though. The old (forum and message wall) notifications are something that we eventually hope to integrate into the new system, so it didnt' seem worth the extra effort to build the old system into this page. Once we can add message wall notifications to the new (bell) notification dropdown, it will be the only one needed. If the new notifications show but don't work, that is likely part of the bug. </p>
My wiki won't get much use out of it since I am about the only one still active. Nonetheless, I finally decided to test it out. In addition to the other suggestions already mentioned in this thread, here are some more.
- Fix for IE11. The page will display but nothing works.
- Fix for message systems. Neither the new notification system, the message wall/forum notification system, nor the message bubbles (not sure what these are actually called) work while on the announcements page. The new notification system dropdown shows but is non-functional. The other two systems don't even display.
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<p>That sounds like a bug - IE 11 is a browser that we support. Could you send a bug report via Special:Contact? </p><p>The old notification system isn't present on the Announcements management page on purpose, though. The old (forum and message wall) notifications are something that we eventually hope to integrate into the new system, so it didnt' seem worth the extra effort to build the old system into this page. Once we can add message wall notifications to the new (bell) notification dropdown, it will be the only one needed. If the new notifications show but don't work, that is likely part of the bug. </p>
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<p>Can I find out where they decided why they want to make such a big, random change? I am curious to hear their reasoning. And why not just keep both of them?
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<p>Done.
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