Still thinking about this one. The main reason for the change was to try and encourage more user interaction and to bring ff inline with other sites. Many other sites now link to a users activity first, and their details second, Facebook being an example. I'll check the stats in a few weeks to see if the interaction has increased. I agree though sometimes you just want to view the users details, however there are other ways to do this which I'm considering. One way is to display a popup when you hover over a users name, although this doesn't work on mobile devices where hover isn't a thing.
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