Having read this now, I don't know how this ramped up so quickly. I do feel as if TrueLight was slightly victimised considering how quickly a few questions resulted in sarcastic and denigrating remarks back at him, but I do agree with the admins that such complaints were a bit minor. Still, I think people need to consider that change is something people generally don't like regardless of its justification. People will inevitably complain, so it's up to the mods and admins to deal with these, sort out the ones which are actually constructive from the ones which are reactive and then go from there. However, regardless of whether such complaints are useful or not, denigrating our own users isn't going to achieve anything - particularly when the whole point of this was to create a more welcoming community from those interstate to begin with.
I know that enwiabe is obviously very excited about the new site, but I feel as if the general consensus is a bit 'meh' because we haven't really gained anything from it as of yet, yet we have to change the way we use it. For example, now I have to bookmark each individual recent unread topics page and go through each - quite tedious from my point of view. While it's only a few clicks, efficiency is something that should be built in by design. You don't see something successful such as Facebook fragmenting its features into multiple websites and expect people to visit each separately. So basically, I agree with the fact that the sites should all be integrated, but I guess the reason behind why it initially wasn't, together with the reason why it hasn't been implemented as of yet has already been dealt with so it's besides the point. Anyway, I think as someone who doesn't have a direct interest in AN, this had to be said. I kind of got the feeling that others were very quickly intimidated to post in this thread and possibly even ever give any further criticism given that within just an hour of TrueLight posting, he was already being hammered at by two admins.
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