Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25101690-20160427224919/@comment-25101690-20160428080458

AlteOgre wrote: I have very mixed feelings about this. It will sure look better, but the general readability may not be improved at all in many cases as one will have to click each quote to check it.

Also, we still don't want users to not quote preceding posts and I've corrected quite a lot of 'misbehaviour' in last few months by actively deleting unneeded quotes and leaving a note ... with the aim to educate. This change undermines that effort by making it a tad harder to check use of quotes of preceding posts and by reducing the visual effect.

As an alternative it would help if only quotes within quotes would be collapsed by default. You don't have to click the quotes and it's often either clear or irrelevant what the post is referring to. One line in a post for each quote doesn't really matter, so I don't think we have to restrict quotes anymore with this feature. Some signatures are bigger than that!

I will think about your last proposal. It would be possible with jQuery. I tried to exclude the name of the poster (the "USERNAME wrote:" part) from the collapsible, but that wasn't easily possible because Wikia didn't make a clean separation of this line from the rest of the post in the HTML DOM.