It looks like that last bout of features was popular because all of them got voted to be re-included.

There was a bug with the resort after vote feature that @Neol caught. That is now working correctly.

I didn't make them all permanent. Some of them seem to be perhaps temporary fixes to help us promote the parts of the site that are still slow. So I 5x'd their time. I'll keep developing features. Each new feature will live for a week and a half. Then we will vote on any that expire. And the features turned back on will get a lease of 5x what they did before. So everything I turned back on is running for 7.5 weeks, and we can always vote them back on.

That way, when a feature has outlived its utility, it goes away. But with an aggressive exponentially expanding license, ideas that should be permanent will become practically permanent pretty quickly.

The features that just turned back on are:

• Link to your comments in the sidebar (on the front page)
• Comments start with a score of 1
• First comment in a thread gets bonus points
• Show only chat users in chat
• Resort after voting (now fixed)

This is the poll that drove these decisions.

Let me know if you spot bugs with these feautres turned on.