Yes - the progress update was long overdue, so we're trying to ensure that everyone interested have chance to know about activity here, before thread gets flushed out from active topic list. I found it as more elegant way than old-fashioned "bump". It's rather standard (albeit I agree, that sad) procedure on bigger messaging boards, and this way, at least, it doesn't add trash bump posts to database.

But, I see that it is irritating for some here, so I'll refrain from doing that. Sorry for the inconvenience
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Arien Stokowiec