I'm against the scaled back proposal as well, for the reasons given in this & the other thread. I'm starting to think this is a solution in search of a problem.

I'm also a bit perplexed why TB (although it sounds more like nsx than TB in general) are pushing for something when approximately 50% of the FTers posting are against the idea in both threads.

Implementing this would require a major change to the site according to IB. I'm not sure they'd be interested in a making a major change to the site for a trial run. TB doesn't normally create forums on a trial run capacity; I'm not sure why they would start trial runs with something like this.

Cheers.