I don't like fresh ann's.
Then the topic has only 2 sites or so and that looks really whack

Nope.
When new ANN topic of Snowgem project published, it should be published concurrently with locking the current ANN topic.
It means, Snowgem will have only one active ANN topic with the potential refresh.
Yeah ofc that should be done. But I have seen so many new anns of the same old coin .. and those new topics look like nobody is interested. And thus I am also not interested and close the topic aggain before looking deeper into the coin. There are so many projects. Why support one that nobody else shows interest in. Just my opinion. I would vote aggainst a new thread. You can also include the news into the first starting post. You are free to use as many space in this post as you want to. I don't think there are any forum limitations ...