I donāt remember seeing it here before Create a banner to display at the top of your site - Site Management - Discourse Meta
Pinning only shows up at the top in each category I believe Openstreetmap.org DDoS attack 11 July 2024
And it will be automatically unpinned after reading, by default Where is pinned message accessed?
You can more easily make visible updates in the banner. This guarantees everyone is always informed.
Either Ops can consider it, or the forum admins can help @Firefishy
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I have often thought about it, but wanted to be as careful as possible with this function. If there is a general agreement here that āimportantā messages should be pinned globally as a banner, Iāll do it according to my feelings.
Of course, this is always subjective and I would be happy to receive feedback from you as to whether this makes sense or not. How does that sound to you?
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I donāt think Iāve ever seen the banner as I mainly use the on the mobile app.
Please keep mobile users in mind.
I personally have never activated the banner and I donāt know of any other moderator ever using this feature, so I would agree that probably no one has ever seen the banner.
This is what the whole thing would look like, and it can be removed with a simple click on the X.
Desktop:
Mobile:
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I had already considered the banner during the big vandalism attacks, but hadnāt implemented it yet for the same reasons as @mcliquid.
@forumsgovernance: should we consider such global banners in the future?
For:
- Server maintenance announcements
- Information about current unplanned outages (for whatever reason)
- Information about large waves of vandalism
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The banner does work on mobile devices, including in the Discourse Hub application. On the OpenHistoricalMap Forum, I recently installed a banner to announce a scheduled server outage. I think itās reasonably unobtrusive, especially since users can dismiss it. It would also be appropriate for situations like the recent global vandalism incident. New users wouldāve been less inclined to create noisy duplicate topics complaining about the vandalism if they could see a prominent acknowledgment upfront about that issue.
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One thing to note is that the banner contains the full contents of the post verbatim, without information such as the author and date. So typically youād write a post just for the purpose of serving as a banner. Otherwise, singular first-person pronouns and relative dates will confuse users.
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The amount of it that youāll see depends on screen real-estate. On my phone I have to scroll to see anything after āWeād like to letā in the current banner, but you can scroll and see the rest.
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Oh, there was a banner about board elections right now, no? It appears I instinctively click away any banner with an X button almost subconsciously (without reading, ofc)
I guess, thats due to the years, no, decades of training on the interwebs.
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Indeed, and the very first banner shown on the site suffers from this problem 
. Itās unclear who āweā and āmeā is referring to in the board elections banner (cc @mcliquid - perhaps a new post should be created thatās more suited for use as a banner?).
Right, Iāve removed the current banner.
As far as I can see, it is not possible to generate a headline for the banner. And I think there should be a separate forum category for it, if itās just duplicated content with different spellings optimized for the banner.
Seems to be more organisational effort than initially thought. I would like to know what the forum governance team has to say about this.
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The text linked earlier suggests that you can make a private message a banner, so maybe edit a private message (or a message to other mods) to have the right text in for a banner, and post that?
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It requires a private ātopicā. Does that apply to messages too?
Alternatively, use the undismissable plain text global_notice Create a banner to display at the top of your site - Site Management - Discourse Meta
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