Complaint: Removing features from vB once already implemented in a gold release
 

Sorry if this is in the wrong place, but I couldn't see a better place for it - I'm also not quite sure how to word this, but I'll give it a go.

When Social Groups were first released, a brilliant feature was added - namely "the wall" - a simple feature which allowed users to post messages up without the hassle of new threads etc etc.

This was embraced by the users of my forum who use it to great advantage and it is extremely useful at keeping random spam chat off the main forum.

Roll ahead a bit and 3.8 is released, but shock horror, the wall feature has been removed and now we are only left with mini forums within groups, a feature I most definitely do not want - we wish to keep threads on the main forum, not hidden away in a group - not to mention the extra moderating this would require.

This hardly seems right to me - a feature should not be removed from a gold release piece of software, surely just adding the mini-thread feature could have been done, rather than replacing a perfectly usable feature that was already there.

As it stands - I now cannot upgrade to 3.8x as I (and my users) do not wish to lose the Social Groups feature (it would be pointless without the inter-group chat) - which means I am now falling behind on updates and new features and this hardly seems fair.

I'm sure I can't be the only one in this situation....