It's a bad move. The search function will be borked for a while if you decide to search non-ladder only tagged threads until pre-change threads either close after 10 pages or ppl decide to make new ones.

If legacy ladder still exists it needs it's own forum. Busy bodies overstepped on this one.

This website is not degraded if legacy ladder is a ghost town and those forums are dead.

Awful, but jsp notorious for sticking to their guns and sadly don't see the change happening.

It was a nessary move due to the lack of activity.

You did have a point with the searches not working but that has been now fixed. It was an oversight when making the changes but all existing topics have been indexed for searching. Please make sure you select ladder or non before doing your search.