# Purpose of the Announcements category

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/purpose-of-the-announcements-category/338>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Created:** [November 15, 2016, 4:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/purpose-of-the-announcements-category/338 "2016-11-15T16:18:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![akis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/akis/32/156_2.png) [@akis](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/akis)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 4:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/purpose-of-the-announcements-category/338/1 "2016-11-15T16:18:23Z")

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The Announcements category should be moved under the Community category, at least per its present [description](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-the-community-category/290).

EDIT: Updated the description of the Announcements category to state its special role.

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**Author:** ![vchuravy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/vchuravy/32/8_2.png) [@vchuravy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vchuravy)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 1:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/purpose-of-the-announcements-category/338/2 "2016-11-16T01:01:15Z")

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The announcement category is a replacement for `julia-news` and will be very low frequency (e.g. mostly about releases, JuliaCon). For announcement out of the community (new packages, major package milestones) the Community category is the right place.

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**Author:** ![ihnorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ihnorton/32/26_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ihnorton)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/purpose-of-the-announcements-category/338/3 "2016-11-16T14:29:37Z")

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I think we should continue to use these distribution lists in noreply mode for important announcements (both), and periodic discourse activity summaries (-users) for some considerable time going forward. The over 5000-person subscriber lists (-users + -news) is not something to throw away lightly.

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**Author:** ![tkelman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tkelman/32/692_2.png) [@tkelman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tkelman)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 4:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/purpose-of-the-announcements-category/338/4 "2017-03-06T04:05:06Z")

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-news only has 447 subscribers at the moment. If I get permissions to post to the Discourse Announcements category I think I’d rather do release announcements here and only here going forward.