User blog comment:DeadRaiser/Announcements and Featured Article Changes/@comment-24628700-20130512095912/@comment-4233120-20130512132312

For the last point, yes. We've had something like that in the past and I really liked the idea of it, so I thought it'd be nice to bring it back. However, I'm having difficulties making it look good with the new front page.

So we might just keep the current Featured Article format.