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    Too bad your spoilers are actual images, fooled me, especially since I'm on a mobile divice. Where is the hover on that?
    – Luuklag
    Commented Feb 19, 2020 at 20:36
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    It's like Stack Fighter II
    – Machavity
    Commented Feb 19, 2020 at 20:54
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    I upvoted the "question" despite disagreeing with the proposed change, to make sure more people see the post and are able to provide feedback. Also, thanks for bringing this proposal here to discuss it first! :)
    – V2Blast
    Commented Feb 19, 2020 at 23:50
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    @tchrist I'm afraid I don't think it looks fine. I'm not sure why; text size perhaps? Amount of indent? However, since there are already custom styles for designed sites, I don't see why this element can't be in the customisation. Yellow isn't good for ELU, but no colour difference is worse by quite a long way. Commented Feb 26, 2020 at 21:46
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    Errrm, the quote styling has suddenly changed to a single gray line on the left edge and indented - I can hardly tell this apart from normal text when skimming a long question/answer - please change it back!
    – MrWhite
    Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 17:19
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    For a site like rpg.stackexchange.com having quotes be differentiated strongly from regular text is particularly important, as it clearly delineates what is quoted from a sourcebook and what is the answerer's or querant's content. This change removes that difference and makes it much harder for people reading the questions and answers to differentiate the two
    – illustro
    Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 17:30
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    Yellow was GOOD. Color was needed to actually differentiate quotes. Quotes are now very hard to identify.
    – pkamb
    Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 20:45
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    I don't think that this post shows any improvement on how the community gets involved into decisions. Now we are asked our opinion, and it is then simply ignored by the SE team developer. Being asked is a step forward, then doing nothing with the top upvoted answer is not. Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 21:05
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    Can a particular community have different design for blockquotes?
    – Pandya
    Commented Mar 10, 2020 at 8:22
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    So now it's an indent bar, reminiscent of reddit-(at)me-lengthy-whitespace-screen-stealing-garbage-comment-threads ; there's no 'block'. Give us inline block quotes that aren't in code snippet font, and stop changing things we didn't ask to be changed. "this will be frustrating to Machavity" and a thousand other people, assuming there's an active user for every ten lurkers (it's at +100 atm).
    – Mazura
    Commented Mar 12, 2020 at 1:05
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    The most upvoted answers below are all against the change, but SE changed it anyway. It gives the impression that this question was posted just to pretend the company is listening to the community, because they'd do this change regardless of the community's feedback.
    – hkotsubo
    Commented Mar 12, 2020 at 16:19
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    Oh surprise, SE not listening to its users. Eight upvoted answers, with only two in favor and five against, with the top answers against. This constant simulation of listening to the community but really doing whatever they want is really tiring by now. Commented Mar 14, 2020 at 12:02
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    The new blockquotes look bloody awful. You can barely see them
    – Richard
    Commented Mar 14, 2020 at 23:55
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    If this 'question' is indeed intended for discussion, why have these changes already been made, while the top answers here disagree, and for good reasons?
    – Joachim
    Commented Mar 16, 2020 at 12:37
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    Who is this guy, and why does he have the ability to change site-wide style without consulting with each community? This is presented as if it's been done with due consideration, but from my perspective, this is a baffling unannounced change. Reading the post above, it sounds like 1) this fixes perceived style issues with two communities, at the expense of disruption for everybody else, and 2) it's justified as if the yellow is problematic for "site theming" or something -- and yet, every site has a big yellow block at the top right on the main landing page. This doesn't smell right. Commented Mar 17, 2020 at 17:43