Ah, I was going to address that, but thought I would see if anyone else thought about that.
What I'm thinking of is a narrower, more targeted popup. One of the reasons that we can't blame people for clicking through popups is that they contain too much, hard to understand information, at the wrong time.
Change logs are great and they should exist.
But what I'm talking about is a message that pops up in the moment the user has to deal with the issue. For example:
You are going to see a change in the editor!
There is now a margin added on the left and right side of the editor. You can turn this off, or set it to whatever you like, by going to
Tools>Options>Appearance>Editor maximum width.For no margins, set it to zero
For more information about this change, visit the forum.
That's it.
If we wanted to be really fancy, there could be a gif demonstrating the change and how to fix it. For sure that would get people's attention.
Of course I know this is extra work for the developers, but perhaps they could make a post on the forum requesting help for things like this that those of us without coding ability could offer help with.
One thing I'm not sure of is how this will affect people who are upgrading several steps at a time. Would there be a pile up of notices? Would that break the effectiveness?