Topic "+/-"
I've been a Gold member for a hot minute, and would regularly use the "+/-" buttons. I haven't seen a usage number based on the amount of active gold accounts, but if a feature isn't being used it falls on the duty of the dev to make its useability known. Removing a premium feature that is actively available on it's contemporaries, for free I might add, is a bad sign of things to come. If it was causing a problem it should have been fixed behind the scenes and not made know until it was resolved.
I understand the difficulty and cost of running a site like this without a subscription, and I commend you for it. But the removal of standard features is how products die in the current age. Some will make up for the slack, and in this case, it's a common feature freely available elsewhere. I would rollback the removal and focus on it's rework.
I'm usually a lurker, but I couldn't just let this blow over without input. Thanks for reading.