I agree that some notice/explanation would have been the reasonable thing to do. Using shift-return shouldn't be necessary to get normal line spacing IMO.

The default font is too small for a site with a fair number of, ah 'vintage' members - again IMO. At least make it a persistent preference.

Spell checking still works for me in Opera. right-click cut & paste, which used to throw a browser security exception, now work... but I've become accustomed to using ctrl-x/ctrl-v so it's a wash.

Even though the link dialog always took a while to come up for me, I'm not sure that highlight and click "insert" link is a great improvement.

I'm sure it will be a boon to many but I'm left disappointed by the unannounced roll-out and underwhelmed by the overall result, but life goes on :-) 

 

  

 

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