yeah, it's so hard to find out about new HTML changes, at least for everyday internet users. we didn't even realise at first that it wasn't a dreamwidth-specific thing, haha.

thankyou so much for sharing it around, we really appreciate it. we've made a post ourselves about it, in case any of our readers don't know yet, too. it's such a useful feature! we only wish it showed up as a visibly clickable element, but that might just be our accessibility settings, they make things display much more simply than usual.

we also wanted to say thankyou for what you said further down about the comment hierarchy indicators being so important for screenreader users! most of our best friends on here use screenreaders, and we care a lot about understanding what's helpful vs what's not.

if you have the spoons to answer a question about making sure it shows up for our readers, we'd super appreciate it, but we realise you're not a help desk and it's not your job, so this part is entirely optional.

we're guessing that since it's an account settings option rather than a journal style one, it should be site-wide and show up on our journal for our readers if they have it turned on in their own settings, and we don't need to enable it in ours? we usually have it off because it's very visually overwhelming to us (our brain can't process numbers very well), but if we need to turn it on for it to display to our readers we'll happily deal with a little bit of visual confusion to do so!

either way, thanks again, and we hope your day/night treats you well!