Can someone please explain to me the rational behind the changes at FA?

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In general, changes should not be made to a service without urgent need. What visitors/customers/whatever want is regularity; to know how to handle a service - even if the design may not be ideal - and have what they want at the push of a button, rather than have to rediscover every feature over again every few months. Personally, I find them annoying and I cannot see the point, so, if anyone can explain them, I will be grateful.

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I think it was supposed to make it easier for visitors and readers to navigate from the author fic pages. Personally I'm sort of ambivalent about it.

It's useful for the readers, but not that good for the authors, so yeah, it's okay. I'll get used to it.