>>>>Now in order to see the member ID you have to click on his/her name.
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>>>Just hover over the name and you can see the URL (at least in FF) in the status bar, ending in ...&ID=nnnnn, which is the ID, of course.
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>>Yes, hovering does show you ID but not in an intuitive or easily seen way. I don't see any harm in having the ID right next to the member, just like it used to be.
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>It's a piece of somewhat irrelevant information. Us old UTers pretty much already know who is a newbie and who is not, and we're mostly geeks here by definition, so "easily seen" is not much of a requirement. I did miss it when I noticed it missing... for about ten minutes.
It is not irrelevant at all - to me - because when you are searching messages by key word and the member who posted the message, having ID is very useful.
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