The site change has just become unavigatable (word?) My Discussions has gone to hell in a handbasket.
I have read about suspicions of them purposely making it hard to get into off-topic posts, but I find it a bit hard to believe, for several reasons.
1)It also makes it just as hard to follow relevant technical discussions.
2)Contact posts can be used to track off topic banter anyway. So if you just wanted to haggle on with one peer, you just follow that peer’s posts.
3)They know very well that it is that large group of peers that offer the site so many page views and banner impressions, they aren’t stupid and they know how to make money (you may have to click the little X to close the ad covering the rest of this post).
4)TRI, they have always responded to many of our comments with positive action. I think they may still rework some bugs such as the discussions issues, that just buries them by listing a heading for every post made to a thread; as opposed to just having the most recently updated thread and total number of posts beside it (I think it was Max who noted that in another thread), it’s just the worst glitch yet.
Funny enough though, their interest in the feedback seems to have hushed a little.
