CLARIFYING UPDATE
Thanks everyone for the thoughtful feedback. I’ve read through much of it and there are a few things that stand out to me.
First, I want to clarify since this didn't quite come across, none of this, except for what we felt were least risky which is outlined as phase 1, has be...
This is what I now see when I vote for closing:
i.e. the "off-topic" reason has been replaced with "A community-specific reason".
Is this permanent (and somehow I missed the announcement), or is it an experiment (for which I also missed the announcement)? Doesn't seem to relate to the New Que...
The comments are... mostly correct. This was a change I pushed for so let me take you through my thinking.
Years ago, I answered this question on MSE: Categories other than "off-topic" should allow custom close reasons - It was a problem I ran into on several of the sites I participated on and i...
Recently, the button for "off-topic" in the closing dialog was changed to "A community-specific reason". To be clear, I don't disagree with the gist of the change, since "off-topic" was rather confusing and on many sites, the definition used by SE isn't really the same as the literal definition o...
I noticed today that the pop-up screens for voting to close a question have acquired a new layer. Clicking "close" used to produce a pop-up with checkboxes indicating various reasons for closing. Now it produces a pop-up with only some of those reasons plus a new "community-specific" option. Clic...
Maybe we are talking at crossed purposes what I meant to say is that "the pop-up screens for voting to close a question have acquired a new layer" is not true for our site. Maybe it is true for MO though.
As "Now it produces a pop-up with only some of those reasons plus [..]" was true since a long time.
Looking at a screenshot on an older post on meta.MO, I would say that changes over there were the same as here. From December 2019: List of close reasons has changed?
If we ignore changing "off-topic" to "community-specific", it seems to be the same as the screenshot in the recent post.
Thanks. That what I assumed. I assume one could argue that "off-topic" was the reason, and one could specify it more later, and this changed. But in practice the number of clicks needed to the end seems more crucial to me.
@XanderHenderson perhaps you overthink a little.. who even cares about appearing as the most recent editor? Also it's easier to read having a new paragraph for the other idea of "what others noted" there so it's not really an insignificant edit.
@Zacky I never said that the edit was inappropriate. It just seemed so very minor, and it occurred so directly after I commented, that it seemed weird. That's all. Honestly, I probably shouldn't even have brought it up---it is just a silly observation I made.
@XanderHenderson and I never claimed that you said it was inappropriate, I just tried to understand why you thought it's odd and gave a possible reason. I also agree that the edit was something minor, but let's just hope it was done by OP in well faith, aka for legibility.