In reply to Gary.

Thanks for digging that out Gary. Matt's exact words (to save people creating Slack logins if they don't have them):

FWIW, I feel like my feedback was ignored as well. I hope we can do another major iteration on the directory, because I’m not really a fan of the new one.

Perhaps the WP backend will make it easier to make incremental improvements in the future, as being on bbPress before was often cited as the reason things were slow to iterate previously.

It's a pity no one called off the dogs as the new no tabs design is a real step backwards in terms of usability. If the goal was to upgrade the infrastructure, that's what should have been done, not pushing half thought out simplification design principles on what is a complex tool which was doing a very good job.

Also missing in action now are older versions of plugins. You have to install SVN if you want to be able to access past versions!

Normally enhancements are to improve software and not to cripple it. Apple appears to be leading the way with worse and worse versions of iMovie (which was great software at one point) and killing Aperture in favour of Photos. While this may work for a mobile phone company (Apple), it's probably not the right solution for the main software repository of a large open source developer driven project.