I can sympathize with the pain of updates messing up the UI one is already used to, but in this case the changes are so minor that I find it hard to understand this level of anger.
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@jlt has partially answered already, but not totally, so Iāll post this, which I had written a few hours ago already but didnāt publish b/c I was distracted by hunger and other things 
It isnāt:
Old editor: 
New āRich Text editorā: 
And BTW, this is a toggle button that you can use with the keyboard combo of ^M (ctrl+M), and I think Discourse remembers your preference, so after choosing your preference, you can simply forget this.
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The button is too contrasting and is an eyesore. It is hard to forget this. I prefer to hide it.
I am not against such feature if someone need it. I am against such button.
What about a long and ugly notification list running across the entire height? The previous one was nearly perfect!
I think this also struck me as different and I didnāt really see it as a positive change.
Quoting an old forum post
you can see how compact it used to be, font and users and the thread in question all quite clear.
The newer version is much less compact, and instead of some sort of colour itās using bold instead.
It feels harder to look at, but maybe itāll be fine after getting used to it.
I also think this probably is a confusing presentation if a) you donāt know the āoldā way was called markdown b) you knew about markdown but didnt know that was a symbol being used for it (the M 
) and c) what the opposite of markdown should be and why it has the letter A.
Iām not sure how I feel about the wysiwyg editor, but I suppose I can give it a go here and there and see if it grows on me.
I think what can annoy me with wysiwyg editors is that sometimes they can end up doing non trivial things with html and break formatting. In other contexts Iāve seen them cause issues and youād have to swap to html or markdown mode to manually fix those problems.
Itās strangely annoying to delete a āhide detailsā object in wysiwig mode, where you have to select more than the drop-down itself and then maybe it deletes and not just the text inside it.
Those sorts of things I can imagine being somewhat annoying.
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I really wonder about the psychology of these kind of threads.
The venom is astonishing.
I find it hard to picture the same in real life, though perhaps it happens.
Like - the maintenance volunteers painted the front fence of the golf club pink.
How often does a golfer walk into the clubhouse, where the those same folk are chatting about their approach shots, and vent their spleen about the terrible colour of the fence? 
How does anyone think this motivates anyone to fix it?
Actually, this isnāt even the right example. The Local Council painted the fence pink.
Itās not like the volunteer maintenance people even did it.
Personally, I glanced at the strangely different appearance, shrugged my shoulders, and moved on.
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Exactly, so stop whining and do something about it:
- Get some browser extension that allows you to inject custom css
- Copy-paste the following code to be injected into the OGS forums:
.menu-panel.drop-down {
max-height: calc(400px - var(--header-offset) - 1em);
}
.composer-toggle-switch {
display:none;
}
- Reload the page and youāre done
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Awwww, spoiling a nice flame war, how dare you?
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Okay, still trying to figure out the new forums style (donāt hate, but still finding out).
Every day I post a puzzle in that once describe as legendary thread about daily puzzles.
Somewhere during the day I select a puzzle and put it into a post (to be posted much later).
And this is where I wind up. I do not want to reply directly and a certainly do not want to discard this concept post.
Via the tiny x in the top right I get to the save options. Reply and discard are clear, but to find the save and continue later option is harder. Please make it a bit more user friendly.
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I just want to re-iterate that Feature Requests/ideas for improvement should go to the Discourse maintainers, unless itās very specific to OGS/Go. OGS devs should not be spending significant energy to customize the Discourse instance. The Discourse folks can be reached at meta.discourse.org.
Edit: I realize that post reads as grumpy, and thatās not the intent. I do believe your feedback about the x button is a legit usability concern. But since itās not really Go-specifc, why not share that feedback where it will have the most impact?
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One of my favorite features of Discourse is the ability to stop tracking threads that are pointlessly negative and erode the otherwise good community spirit of a great forum.
Done. 
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I do agree. If itās something that could benefit all discourse users it makes sense to put it to discourseās own forum.
If itās something most people are unlikely to care about, but a small community like ours might, it makes sense to talk about it here, especially if itās something that doesnāt require changes to discourse as a whole to achieve.
A previous example would be like when people would ask for an embeddable sgf viewer on the forum. Thatās not something you would send someone to the main discourse forum about, but I agree, youāre also probably not expecting ogs developers to spend a long time making something like that work.
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Before asking anything on a discourse forum, I still have to be sure that a request canāt be already answered by some global config managed by OGS.
On this matter, itās so easy to post link to demos and games, or to post pics that I donāt think itās so necessary to develop that kind of tools.
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