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the bookmark feature) that you simply hadn't paid any attention to until after the switch, when the reorganization of the smaller forums in different categories made it necessary to read down those full lists. And maybe someone mentioned bookmarking in one of the many threads about adapting to DU4, and you started using it then.

I can understand how rearranging stuff (even furniture) can make you notice and appreciate things more.

And yes, subscribing to a forum can make it accessible via one click from any page on DU4.

Personally, I preferred the DU3 left sidebar with its dropdown menus providing a list of all the forums.

For me, the main improvement with DU4 is the ability to preview mail, and I don't really need that. It is a plus for me only because it lets me check links I'm sending before I hit send, which I couldn't do with DU3, though there I always checked them right after sending the mail.

Almost all the other changes with DU4 have made DU work worse for me. From radically worse, as with the loss of the ability to use my tablet, held vertically, set on DU3's Standard rather than Mobile mode - so I could see 30+ threads on the screen at one time and skim down them rapidly, and catch up with DU very quickly (I've compared this before to going from skimming a newspaper page while seeing the full page, to trying to skim it using a magnifying glass surrounded by an enormous opaque shield so I can see only a small portion of the page at one time). To much more time-consuming and frustrating, as when I'm trying to find where a smaller forum has been moved to and what new category it's in, in a patchwork arrangement so I have to look at each category separately and then read down a list where the forums might be in any order depending on latest post. To only slightly more time-consuming but still annoying, when it takes multiple clicks to do what used to take one. It all adds up to much more time and effort to read DU and post here. It's frustrating, especially since I don't see why there was a need for those changes.

I know some people here are very happy with being able to rec replies. I usually don't because I don't notice any recs with replies unless I specifically look for them with each reply, and I honestly think it does more to highlight how good a reply is if there are actual positive responses to it, rather than recs that can be easily overlooked. Even a "+1" response to a reply draws attention more than a rec, IMO.

I haven't used My Notes and have no idea what I'd use it for.

I don't look at the Feed, have no interest in it. My Posts lets me see replies to posts (though I wish it were visible via the old tab on every board page and not available only by clicking My Stuff first). I don't care about Milestones, don't keep track of # of replies, and find a mix of notifications about subscriptions, milestones and mail kind of a mess to look at.

But I just ignore those, so they don't take up more of my time, though My Notes takes up a lot of space on the page that I wish could be restored (I have noticed that space is now used for ads people see if they aren't logged in and Star members).

I'm staying anyway, despite all the problems I run into constantly with DU4. But for me - to go back to my rearranging-furniture analogy - it's been the equivalent of trying to get around in my own home if lots was rearranged and things you can trip over were nailed to the floor and had to be avoided every couple of steps. Getting around is still doable, but it's a long way from nearly effortless, and that really distracts from focusing on the CONTENT of DU, for me.

Again, this is just MY experience. MY opinion. And it doesn't matter any more than anyone else's. But this is what the DU4 experience is like for me, at least so far.