Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment--20171018222709/@comment-11733175-20171115190357

Ater giving this new format a chance for a couple of weeks, I'm not convinced it's an improvement. Where previously you could: You no longer can.
 * 1) Find a chronological listing of technical updates.
 * 2) Search for terms within an update.
 * 3) Have a single discussion about an update.

Forum boards are ordered by the last post rather than the date they were posted, making it hard to see an overview of recent updates. The thread namespace is pretty much unsearchable due to one of the many questionable side-effects of its implementation. I searched for DPL in Board, Board Thread and Wall thread and got nothing back (despite it literally being in the title of a recent post) but found relevant results of the same search of User blog and User blog comment. And due to the frequency of updates now, having a conversation about an update or bug is fragmented across twice as many threads. While it was always recommended to send an email in about an issue, it was nice to ask if someone else had a similar issue or have a discussion about a change. With the fragmentation, that appears to have vanished.

The only redeeming feature is that you get notifications about new updates (which was a bug in blogs that was never fixed) and replies to comments.

Exactly how was a move to a feature being phased out in the near future due to the many, many issues it always had from its conception deemed to be an improvement?