Can you explain how you used bumping and in which cases it was helpful for you?
I still can’t decide whether I prefer the new or the old behavior.
For example, I liked the fact that changes to the title, category, and tags bumped the topic back to the top if it hadn’t received any replies yet. This allowed users who were mainly looking at these categories or tags to notice them and reply. It also helped me a lot here in the forum to learn how the moderators use categories and tags. Topics were often moved before they were answered.
I also like the approach that Discourse’s settings force you to add information instead of writing another post. However, this only works if it moves the topic back to the top. So it’s currently in a weird stage where users are blocked from writing more than 3 posts in a row, but editing won’t bump their topic so it’s likely no one will notice.
I also thought having a wiki topic without replies so that changes there bump the topic, and when you click on the topic, you immediately land on the edited post was a good way to handle this.
Even though wikis now bump again, they don’t do so only when they are the last post. I find this confusing because I open a topic that has been moved to the top, but where I land (at the last post), it is not clear why.
However, I like that small changes do not cause a bump. I have noticed that I have been editing more to add small details that I would not have added before because I considered them too unimportant for a bump.