# How to handle announcements

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-handle-announcements/49390>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [29 Agosto 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-handle-announcements/49390 "2016-08-29T15:44:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [29 Agosto 2016, 4:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-handle-announcements/49390/2 "2016-08-29T16:01:18Z")

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Pinned topics seem like the feature to handle this; they use it here on meta for things like ‘Hey we’re going to switch to Dark Mode 🌓 for a bit’, or ‘Hey we’re merging in an experimental branch and thing might get weird 😈’

Other than that, maybe there’s a space for an Intercom-style announcement thing that pops up, but doesn’t show up in the topic list?

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/b/0bf716f2bf0947a2a728354db81033611b7a101c.png)

But this seems like more work than it’s worth to me (you could probably also finagle Intercom onto your Discourse instance 🙂 )

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