Board Thread:New Features/@comment-10637-20180925143524/@comment-126761-20180925145421

While it was a cool feature, the data showed that it never got a great deal of traction, and it was only ever designed and coded as an experiment.

This meant rolling it out more widely would have required significant work to rearchitect the code, along with working out some pretty significant user experience problems (particularly around the notification system).

In other words: we know it was appreciated (feel free to groan at me), but it didn't appear to justify the extra work it would have required to formalize it at that time. However, it is entirely possible we will revisit the idea in the future, as there were clearly some benefits to it.