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Hello.
My sincere apologies about not informing our community about this earlier. I thought that we had considerably more time, and that I might be able to convince the Fandom staff to change their minds.
Anyway, I have been told that the highlights function for our discussion threads will be retired, and have tried over and over and over to plead with and convince Fandom that this is an extremely bad idea that will cause lots of unnecessary problems across many popular wikis, our own in particular, given how dependent we are on our forums, but all to no avail.
This conversation has also been made much more difficult due to that I have had to wait for so long between responses from Bert Hall. The last delay was the worst of all, as his last previous response was on October 24, and then I suddenly received a new one a few hours ago while I was asleep, which stated that the highlights would be retired in early December, meaning just in a few days.
Very regrettably, the only way that the staff will have left to highlight threads is the announcements function, and that can only highlight one discussion thread, blog, or page at a time, which means that we will have to use it to link to lists of the currently most important threads that need community input, that we regularly update it with new threads, along with descriptions of their topics, and that our members, particularly the staff, regularly visit the list in question in order to find new important threads that need their attention.
Bert has created instructions for how to create a template in the link below:
https://announcements-Demon.fandom.com/wiki/Announcements_Demo_Wiki
Unfortunately, I am not familiar with templates, so I would appreciate help from other staff members in this regard.
If this is not possible, we will have to use blog posts or regular threads for the discussion list function instead.
It is also important to note that we will have to create a new highlighted list every 30 days, as that is for how long the announcements last.
Again, I am very sorry about this, but I am afraid that we have to try to make the best out of a bad situation.
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Special:AdminDashboard
My sincere apologies about not informing our community about this earlier. I thought that we had considerably more time, and that I might be able to convince the Fandom staff to change their minds.
Anyway, I have been told that the highlights function for our discussion threads will be retired, and have tried over and over and over to plead with and convince Fandom that this is an extremely bad idea that will cause lots of unnecessary problems across many popular wikis, our own in particular, given how dependent we are on our forums, but all to no avail.
This conversation has also been made much more difficult due to that I have had to wait for so long between responses from Bert Hall. The last delay was the worst of all, as his last previous response was on October 24, and then I suddenly received a new one a few hours ago while I was asleep, which stated that the highlights would be retired in early December, meaning just in a few days.
Very regrettably, the only way that the staff will have left to highlight threads is the announcements function, and that can only highlight one discussion thread, blog, or page at a time, which means that we will have to use it to link to lists of the currently most important threads that need community input, that we regularly update it with new threads, along with descriptions of their topics, and that our members, particularly the staff, regularly visit the list in question in order to find new important threads that need their attention.
Bert has created instructions for how to create a template in the link below:
https://announcements-Demon.fandom.com/wiki/Announcements_Demo_Wiki
Unfortunately, I am not familiar with templates, so I would appreciate help from other staff members in this regard.
If this is not possible, we will have to use blog posts or regular threads for the discussion list function instead.
It is also important to note that we will have to create a new highlighted list every 30 days, as that is for how long the announcements last.
Again, I am very sorry about this, but I am afraid that we have to try to make the best out of a bad situation.
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Special:AdminDashboard
