I see that the recently used tags in the sidebar was replaced with 'hot network questions'.

Is there anyway we can get that change reversed? I feel there was a lot of value in the old section and only limited usefulness in the new content. The limited usefulness mostly stems from the fact that the same links are already available in the 'stack exchange' drop down at the top of the page.

Is there another way to get at the removed content? Even if others disagree with its usefulness, I loved it and would like to continue using it.