Ahhh - then it is clear. The Issue Trackers pages are growing fast too. Yesterday it were only 145 pages or so. But to be fair, not all entries there are really bugs, and there are a lot of duplicates. If somebody from the staff would work on this, marking duplicates and rejecting things that are not bugs I think there would be only half as much entries.
Annoyingly, while it was possible for admins to merge bug report threads on the old forum system, there doesn't appear to be a similar facility on the Issue Tracker. Or if there is, nobody is using it. It seems to rely on people finding reports and adding User Contributions rather than creating new entries. But as per discussions elsewhere, the search facility really isn't up to the job.
In combination with a lack of feedback from FD as to what their immediate patching plans are, the result is a host of duplicated reports. I'd be curious to know how many of the things that were already fixed in Patch 1 were being reported multiple times on the Tracker right up until the moment where the Patch Notes were released.
Ideally there should be a "fixed in next patch" category on the Tracker in addition to "acknowledged", but historically this is not the sort of information FD have been keen on providing very often, preferring to surprise us. And to be fair, when they do pre-announce that something's been fixed but the fix turns out not to be 100%, they often receive a drubbing that's stronger than if they'd dropped it in unannounced. "You promised!" etc. Damned if they do...
They do need to sort that Tracker out though. Many posters predicted there would be problems with duplication, but if anything I think they're worse than the predictions. The search facility does not make it easy to find anything but the most generic matches, and returning the user to Page 1 of hundreds when exiting a report discourages manual deep dives into the data.
If the search facility can't be upgraded, maybe something that automatically mirrors the reports, read-only, onto a subforum might be the answer? At least they would be indexed and searchable.