I'm sure someone else has mentioned this already but I want to also, so I can give my specific reason why I hope you restore the feature --
I'm referring to the fact that when someone pings me, my pinged name does not appear on the thread now -- the way I find my pings is to hit Ctrl + F and type in "gretc" and that brings up, in sequence, all the posts addressed to me. Can it be restored, so I don't have to keep toggling to the post numbers I was pinged to, on the "Self Search" page results?