A few opinions I've formed from this thread:
* I have no idea who the guys are who were subscribing to general, but they're flat out insane. I mean, really, Instant notifiation on General?
* I have lost a bunch of old subscriptions, which is a shame: but nothing I couldn't dig out with the search function if pushed. Like others, I didn't tend to trim it.
* The boards are apparently working better. This is news to me, cause I hadn't noticed them working worse: but to be fiar, I certainly haven't noticed any catastrophic failures today, and as a Brit I'm usually on at the quieter times anyway. GMT and all that.
* It sucks that there was so little time for people to salvage their nuked subscriptions: I'm glad that Twin Rose prevented forum death, but I wish he could have done so with a bit more notice. The subbed threads feature was clearly used by a lot of peopel as an ENWOrld specific bookmarks list: whilst I tended to save, print or bookmark individual threads of major use, I can appreciate why people did what they did. But this is perhaps a bigger vBulletin issue and Twin Rose just took the only option he could.
* No , really, Instant Notification on General is the stupidest thing I've heard all year.