I don’t know all the changes that have been made today, but here are the two I have run into so far:
LOVE “see uses” on artists credit, especially in an open edit. In fact, it has been applied retroactively (at least to recent edits), because it wasn’t available for a recent edit I made but is there in the history. Great idea. Something I thought would be nice to have but never mentioned.
Not a fan of being forced to enter a sort name for aliases. I mean, it is one more click, so it isn’t that big of a deal. But since I often enter foreign language aliases that I don’t know how to sort, I often just click the enter button and the sort name is auto filled. Enter button no longer works until I fill the sort.
Correct, search hints don’t require a sort. In fact, it is grayed out and you can’t enter one.
But all other options require one.
Even though I said I am not a fan, it is, IMO, not a big deal. It’s two more clicks (I initially said one, but it is two). I am not going to pull out their hair over it.
well, if I am doing a “sort field is same as alias field” -
old method - type the name and click ‘enter’ on my keyboard. very expedient.
new method - type the name. click copy name.
From there, I can’t click the enter key because it will activate the copy name feature again. So I have to either click the ‘enter edit’ button on the screen (which involves a screen scroll), or I can put the focus back on one of the name fields to click enter on my keyboard.
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