>>I guarantee you they did.
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>And they ignored them completely.
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Similar thing happened (although on much lower scale) with the MSDN/TechNet forums. They were re-designed on June 19. Prior to re-design I was very active in several SQL Server forums. Now I simply can not drive back myself to the forums because I don't like them and they are inconvenient to use.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
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