An Important Note to Our Valued Commenters from Bob

[TwinSwords]

Originally Posted by Ocean

Yes, total, and irreversible.

But I just posted a comment in that open thread. It's the beginning of a mutiny of sorts. Although civilized enough to give notice and leave it as an invitation to rescue our community.

It will be interesting to see what happens.

I actually felt quite encouraged by this note that Bob left:

PS [added noon Friday EST] I should add that it's not even possible to switch back to the old comment system in the short run. The redesigned site is on a different content management system than the old one, so to make vBulletin comments appear on the video pages we'd have to pay for some customized software development that would take awhile.

The text in bold (my emphasis) sounds to me like he's leaving the door open for the possibility of a reintroduction of vBulletin.