I just noticed that as well. I don't know anything about the situation, but there could only be 3 solutions. 1) That feature is messing up somethng else on the site. 2) It's faulty and needs repairs. 3) Alot of people complained, but I find that very unlikely because I haven't seen any complaints, nor do I see a reason why we should remove it.
Your right, but I hope the administrators put it back up. To solve these problems, there should be a thread where the administrators personally tell the users what´s going on.
It could have been taken down to fix the "Last Active: 38 Years Ago" glitch that some people were dealing with.That's my best assumption of why they took it down,and if not that,then I am not quite sure of any other reason for it being removed.
Whatever the real reason is doesn't really matter.The point is that it is most likely a temporary thing and the feature will hopefully be put back up soon for us to enjoy again.....hopefully.
Time to make an experiment I guess. I saw that a couple people said that the new feature was the problem making the lag. If so, and it gets put on, and it happens again, I say we should just trash the idea completely.