good question :D but I kinda like that's it's gone :) who cares about ranks :D I also liked that you didn't get notified about likes anymore :) it takes away the pavlovian conditioning and only more important things are poping up :)
ofc it is cool when you're number one for a while ;D .... even though it says nothing about the absolute quality of your posts or answers :D .... I mean mev was place 1 in C without saying anything specific about C just because he posted a good answer to a generic question that just had a C tag :D ....