Ok,. I told myself that this time I was going to wait till the second maintenance release - 7.1.1. or 7.1.2 to do the upgrade, but geek that I am I'm not sure that I can resist the temptation. I have looked at the post here, and there seem to be lots of problems, but maybe not as many as I expected. Plus, there is a natural tenancy to post only when you have problems - not too many people post to say "things are working great".
I still think it is a bad idea to upgrade an active site with lots of members just yet, but what about a site that has some members, but not too many, but not a great deal of traction yet? Is it worth the risk? I have only seen a few posts where the site has been trashed - certainly not a good thing but I suppose you could recover if you have all the backups. Thoughts on this?