I agree - the current format is just a flat message board that leave a lot of the “community” feeling we had on the old format out. I too, feel like I’ve lost the closeness I had with many people in the TU “family” - despite being active on the site daily. Chat improvements came, but took long enough that activity levels are not what they were. And we lost several - perhaps many - people in the process.
That said, I do find message threads at times hard to follow because of the flat format (rather than more of a “tree” structure). I didn’t previously frequent blogs, but on this format, I’m even less inclined to look toward them. As the “Home page” is less than useless (to me), I never look at it - which eliminates the opportunity to see “announcements” (ARE there such, anymore? I can’t tell!).
Sorry if this sounds more like complaints than suggestions…