People are justifiably annoyed sometimes when we make technical changes that affect them, without sufficient notice. Our defense is valid in the current case, i.e. there was a crisis going on, and we had to do *something*. But still, people are right to ask to be notified.
It would be helpful if the Recent Changes text were editable. In the old software, the text at the top of the Recent Changes page was just another wiki text. We could (and did) edit it from time to time to keep people updated on technical issues. This is a great place for it, because that text is viewed by all serious contributors many times a day.
--Jimbo
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