Hmm, speaking of whining and crying...
Completely disagree. The whole replying is a separate thread thing was just plain goofy. There are still threads for general discussion on the apartments and hopefully the comments in the picture threads will be related to a posted picture, not general discussion.
The chat feature only benefits the handful of people in the room at the time, then is lost forever. In order to keep the community and interest going, there needs to be open, civil discussion in the threads.