Johny.: From what I know it was intentional, but temporary - our top men will bring it back. :)
Cavalary: I'm sure the explanation about why that was seen as necessary would be... interesting.
But more importantly, any ETA on the bringing back?
And what about the removal of the number of comments to news articles on the front page?
I have no ETA for this, there's a bug to be fixed there. :) And it's the same deal with the number of comments for news articles.
We rarely give an ETA I think. I did this a few times for things that I were to fix, or were already fixed and waiting for deployment. :) Even then I sometimes missed a day!