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by zepolen 6355 days ago
Number 1 rule for a website:

Never change the default UI drastically without either:

  a) Offering a method to go use the old way.
  b) Doing the change slowly so that users won't notice.
Everyone hates being confused, if tommorow they click something and get a different behaviour - that confuses and annoys.

For this change you are suggesting, method b) cannot be used, so it must be a), which adds complexity to an otherwise very simple site for no reason as the functionality to do this already exists.