What is so hard about keeping your users informed?

This is the second "ready, shoot, aim" re-design of this forum, and in both cases there was no heads up at all to the users. Don't you think the folks that actually post here and keep this thing on life support matter? The last time they at least pretended to want our input. Tail wagging the dog already lost 99% of users. Who is running this ship? Having a forum for the sake of just having a forum doesn't have value. But at a minimum, you have to at least let folks know wth s going on.