Yeah they've made it so that there's so much time to complete the Spire now that it won't change my life to be told when the next section is available. I would prefer to see something telling me a tournament round has become available, but even then I'm OK managing it myself.
I do like the idea of being told if something has finished crafting, so I agree that is a good plus.
@Silmaril I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but has there been any news regarding either one of:
a) making the Ancient Wonder menu available by clicking someone's name in a message thread? (not chat), or;
b) any improvement to the mobile messaging system. I know that it is still quite new, but I don't remember any response to how difficult it is for people to type paragraphs more than one line long or to be able to scroll in a message before sending. I would be happy with the response that it's really difficult, but they hope to fix it soon... there hasn't been any word.