You carry on CD, I wish you good luck.  This isn't some aspect of the site vital to the buying or selling process, these are meant to be Community Boards.  They worked very well.   A community discusses matters that affect it before it embarks on changes.  Top-down management goes ahead and makes changes, then sets about reversing some of what its done only if the rest of the community shouts loud enough.

    Katie has said they are still trying to implement more changes.  If they ever manage to get things back to nearly as good as they were, THAT is the time for her to start a dialogue about what the community wants or thinks needs changing.  Takes whatever is called for back to the tech. support to find out what is practical.  Community building needs respect and involvement from all sides.

     What happened here shows how little obay has of the first, for its user community and no understanding of the second.

    I have to deal with top-down management in other aspects of the site, only because to keep selling I have to "take it" as opposed to "leave it".  I don't have to do that here so I'll let you and those who wield the wrecking-ball try to put the pieces back together (if they can even do that).  If they can't  --  so what?  The boards have now become one more part of the site that is practically useless to me and I'll make as little use of it as I do the others.