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Ditto that. The ability to see a list of my comments, and to jump immediately to that portion of the thread rooted at one of them, was very useful. I recall small but very educational discussions held over several days, which are probably not possible if I must remember where/when such a discussion is happening. Hopefully this is a capability that can be recovered under the new system.
Using the find function of the browser is easy in a given drumbeat, but if you're a prolific poster and have ten posts you're expecting to sprout comments, in five different threads, the utility of reloading five different pages and then reading downward from each rapidly diminishes. It's about seeing whether people have replied at a glance, rather than finding your own posts.
As I've noted before, the population and the volume of news items in Drumbeat (topical articles aren't so bad) are larger than can be accommodated comfortably in a restricted-blog setting. Checking the page that was removed is the only way we've been able to cope with long discussions.
I'd like to see a Drumbeat in a different form: a lone forum where Leanan posts news items individually that are stickied for 1 day, and are visible with a short description. Other people can make non-stickied posts. The rest of the forum self-orders based on date of last post, and below the top level, the posts are nested like they are now. So long major discussions can be had without fragmenting into two weeks of Drumbeats, people can post original content as they wish, people can reply to individual news items in an organized fashion, and readability is highly improved for those without much time on their hands.