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Brad,

I don't think many people hate (as in loathe) it. I personally dislike it the same as everyone else but it's not completely unbearable.

The thing that bugs me about it is: When this whole thing blew up before and around the time Erwin quit, the staff were saying a lot of "We've got plans" and "We're figuring out what system to use". It's been weeks since then and nothing's happened about the hack db except this 'merge' thing. Of course I appreciate everyone's busy, there's a lot of recovery and reorganisation to do and that's fine.
The thing I don't understand is why the decision was made to merge everything. Since 3.5 and the plugin system came out, I've seen lots of posts in the code modification area "I'll wait until it's a plugin" "Can you make this into a plugin". People don't want to modify the source php files anymore, they want plugins. So it's a little daft merging both together with no clue as to which is which without going into each thread.
I realise that for people who don't care about altering their source code it's probably a little better, but the "group the lot" was always available using the search - well, it was if you had an idea what you were looking for.

Aside from the actual practical differences in old vs new layout, it is likely to read to some people that yet again, the staff do what the hell they like and stuff the members - we can cope because that's our role {trots something out about privaledge not right}. I don't know if that was intentional, but that's how it comes across to me and I should imagine many others.