I'm honestly confused here. The forum posts have always been cross posted. Not a single thing changed in this regard between the last JU and this one.
The ONLY thing that changed regarding this is the Recent Articles list on the JU front page and on subsequent blog pages (but not on the forums). This list currently mixes forum posts with blog posts. We've said this will change and that the Recent Articles list is going to be returned to the way it was. I just can't give a date on that since we're a bit swamped with other work at the moment.
Is this what people are having the big issue with? That specific list? Because if it's the entirety of the cross-posting issue, then I'm confused what brought it up. Since, like I said, it hasn't changed in behavior in the entire 5 years the site existed.
When I say certain things are not up for debate/can not be changed based on petitions, complaints etc, it's usually on issues that are fundamental to why the site exists and how we designed it to work. Cross-posting forum content is a core component to virtually all of our sites. When we launch or run a site, it is one piece of a larger picture that spans our entire network. If you only use JoeUser, or only use WinCustomize, you can't see that picture. You're seeing the trees, but are blind to the forrest.
I know, the response is likely to be "We don't care about the other sites, this is the one we use" but it doesn't exist in isolation, no matter how loudly you want to say it does.
Fact is, we do listen to a lot of feedback, we do take user issues into account. But not every single aspect of the site is open for argument and debate. We have a list of fixes, changes and additions for later phases of the site project (yes, it's an ongoing thing) based in part on what we've heard back from users. The changes aren't immediate, but that's because we have a lot of work to do beyond JoeUser, but they're coming.
