AFAIK, as we can still use the "/" character
in page titles, there never was
a plan to reintroduce subpage *functionality*. But it is easy enough to to
by hand: Create the subpage by clicking on a link you create on your
homepage ("[[user:Magnus Manske/foobar]]"); on the "subpage", write
"Back to
~~~", which will become the backlink to your homepage.
Automatic functionality that can be done by hand is no longer automatic
functionality. And the creation of the back-link is only part of the
functionality; the other part is being able to write [[/foobar]] instead
of [[user:Magnus Manske/foobar]] on any user:Magnus Manske subpage.
It seems we're back at my "trusted"
status idea, which was meant to *reduce*
the "cabal" by making certain fucntions accessible to many people instead of
two. Well, I guess I was ahead of my time again ;)
Increasing the number of people in a cabal doesn't make it less of
a cabal unless the vast majority of people are in a cabal. Then you've
instead got a situation of unfortunate hierarchies. I'd rather have
one or two absolute dictators (so to speak) than an oligarchy.
--tc