The dreaded "upgrades"

When I was a working stiff, I dreaded our MIS folks coming around and telling me they were going to UPGRADE my computer or the programs I used. Gonna hep ya. Sure.
But more seriously, I have yet to find a discussion group program more user friendly than this one. Check the Goat, rypn, the Ashpit, the Yahoo stuff and I find them all less user friendly, in various ways. Most of the problems are minor, but they ARE problems. The only one that comes close is trainorders.com., but even its threading makes responses harder to follow than here.
From some things that were said by the folks running the discussion groups to justify the changes, apparently this program can be harder to maintain. But from a users standpoint it sure has stood up to the test of time and progress.
JBW