@danielmarseille - Thank you for posting that. There are many people here who understand that this is a serious issue of basic functionality and for many of us it has essentially made D7 useless. The blog post I made that Boonex censored was about this exact issue. It contained absolutely no obscenities or personal attacks, it simply was titled "Why D7 is really still a beta". I still believe that - in fact, now more than ever - the first thing that should have happened was to have see more a join form that worked perfectly - as it more or less did in D6, and to have working search functions. The fact that you can make them work under narrow circumstances is ridiculous - they don't work, plain and simple.

@Alex - calling this "fixed" is dishonest - and saying it "will be considered in future versions" is completely "disheartening" as dm put it. Are you speaking for the company when you say that? Part of this is not your fault - a developer should not be the one deciding whether something is a bug or not - you have a built in conflict of interest - there should be some QA person there making those decisions. Since I don't believe you are trying to use this software in the real world I'm not sure you have a real good sense of what is "non-critical" and what isn't.

Going back to calling D7.01 a beta is just admitting what most of us knew all along - that D7 really is still a beta and still doesn't have things working that were fine in D6. Please get back to making the basic functionality work on D7 so we can get our sites working properly.