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January 14, 2025

Am I the only one who noticed something different about the look of boj yesterday?

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I thought maybe someone had spiked my tea with LSD last evening while I was busy as a one-armed paperhanger getting today's posts ready.

I kept looking at my computer and I knew something was different but I couldn't put my finger on it.

I kept working and then the penny dropped: instead of links being in boldface and underlined as has been the case since Day 1 in 2004 (below)

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they were in boldface only (top).

This does make the sidebar look less cluttered and more streamlined and modern but it eliminates the conventional sign of a clickable link: since everything's in boldface, nothing's in boldface as there's no contrasting font.

Links in the body of the blog's text — also without the underline — are less discoverable as well.

Note that I had nothing to do with this change: it came from the Typepad skunkworks.

Nor did I get a heads-up or alert from Typepad about this update, which is pretty much par for the course.

I'm OK with that.

No news is good news. 

What do you think about the link format change?

January 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM | Permalink


Comments

The links are bold and underlined for me as well. Looking at your css, that's the way it is written:

https://www.bookofjoe.com/styles.css

a {
text-decoration: underline;
font-weight: bold;
}

Posted by: Eric | Jan 15, 2025 4:58:32 PM

What's this? At 1:17 pm ET today — Wednesday, January 15, 2025 — links are NOT underlined, as any fool can plainly see in the accompanying screen shot.

Screenshot 2025-01-15 at 12.08.40 PM

Posted by: bookofjoe | Jan 15, 2025 1:17:07 PM

I see (1/15/25) underlines, using chrome on windows.
Did they change it back?
Yeah, it's prettier without,
but the link indication is useful.

Posted by: Luke | Jan 15, 2025 11:16:52 AM

The links are still underlined for me. Firefox on Ubuntu.

Posted by: Mike | Jan 14, 2025 1:00:25 PM

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