New profile pages are out - bugs and feedback master list

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Update:

Thanks for all the feedback and bug reports! I am locking this thread so people don't keep answering it when we no longer monitor it.

If you see a bug or want to raise a feature request, please do so in the usual manner, as a new question.

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Some of you may have noticed that we just launched the new profile and activity pages that we have been talking about for a while now on most Stack Exchange sites.

Most? Well, yes, the new design is dependent on a SE network-wide update (a new base css framework) that the design team have been working on. This is an ongoing effort and we will be launching the new pages as sites are moved to the new design.

You've all been hugely helpful already - much of what we love most in here came from feedback and suggestions you gave us on Meta.

But it's possible that it's not quite perfect yet. If you find any bugs and have any feedback to give, please post these as answers to this post.

Just post one issue per answer - that would help us focus on specific items one at a time.

Answer 1

status-declined - as noted in comments, beta versions of browsers are not supported.

The tilde (~) in front of the numbers is a bit off in my font, and it looks like -44!

Answer 2

status-completed

Can we capitalize the r in reputation (the first one) as seen below please:

All the other tooltips that start with a word have the first word capitalized.

Answer 3

status-bydesign - we removed some of the information on the mobile view as otherwise this section would be overly cluttered and unreadable.

On mobile (for iphone at least), "last seen" no longer shows - regular mobile, not the app.

This is quite helpful information (did user have an opportunity to see my comment/answer?, etc), so please make it available again.

Answer 4

status-declined - we may revisit this at a later date.

Feedback: Profile configuration would be nice

Specifically, I would like to be able to configure which badges are shown:

I consider it a mild insult that the site is suggesting that I'm somehow associated with Strunk & White (relevant discussion), and would prefer to hide that badge.

Answer 5

status-declined - it is the average between the max and min values represented in the graph.

My rep graph shows numbers like 998 and 451. This annoys me so much - 998 is 2 off of 1000 / 1k and it isn't even clear what line the 998 refers to (the top of the grey segment or the bottom?).

My suggestion: Round to 1/100th of the rounded up number to 1sf:

Mine is 1,546. That rounds up to 2,000, and 1/100th is 20. Closest 20 is a reasonable number to round to.

Someone with 113,689 reputation would round to 100,000, and 1/100th is 1,000. So it would use steps of 1000.

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Note that this is only the new graph in the new profile. The rep-tab graph is fine:

Answer 6

Everything lines up nicely with the margin on the sides except for the votes/points.

Answer 7

status-norepro - we have not been able to reproduce this bug.

Not sure if I should just edit my previous bug report or write a new one but I found another.

When I click on the days visited, the calendar pushes all of the content slightly downward. I'm using Chrome 41.

Answer 8

status-bydesign - we may revisit the design here at a later date.

What are "X/Y score" and "X/Y answers"?

In the top left widget, it's completely unclear what the two "X/Y score" and "X/Y answers" are about or supposed to represent.

(OS X / Safari in case there should be a tool tip that isn't present.)

Suggestion (now that I grok it courtesy of the comments): make the tool tip appear when the two lines are clicked, much like the when you click the tag. Other possibility: relabel "Next tag badge" to "Next tag badge progress" or something to that order.

Answer 9

status-bydesign - see the meta thread discussing it.

Helpful flags are publicly visible. I'm not sure if this is an intentional change.

They weren't in the past. Flag weight was visible in the distant past. I think the decision to hide helpful flags when replacing flag weight was because too many people had been farming flags too aggressively.

Answer 10

"Last seen" to be orange again (as in previous version) when a user visited not long ago

It was a bug that was later fixed in the previous version too, see here

Answer 11

status-completed - in the next build.

All of a sudden the period you've been around for has gone all weird. This applies whether or not you're logged in or if you're looking at someone else's profile.

Answer 12

status-declined – we currently support Firefox 36 and above.

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status-completed - looks like enough people are having this issue that I re-added the vendor specific CSS rule.

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I hacked together a user script with a workaround:

// ==UserScript==
// @name        SE profile box-sizing fix
// @namespace   http://stackexchange.com/users/2330629/palec
// @description Adds a -moz-box-sizing declaration that fixes the broken layout in FF version older than 29.0.
// @include     *://*.stackexchange.com/users/*
// @include     *://*.stackoverflow.com/users/*
// @include     *://*.serverfault.com/users/*
// @include     *://*.superuser.com/users/*
// @include     *://*.askubuntu.com/users/*
// @include     *://*.mathoverflow.net/users/*
// @include     *://*.stackapps.com/users/*
// @include     *://stackexchange.com/users/*
// @include     *://stackoverflow.com/users/*
// @include     *://serverfault.com/users/*
// @include     *://superuser.com/users/*
// @include     *://askubuntu.com/users/*
// @include     *://mathoverflow.net/users/*
// @include     *://stackapps.com/users/*
// @run-at      document-start
// @grant       none
// @version     1
// ==/UserScript==

// https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/253734/238706
// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/box-sizing#Browser_compatibility
// https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/253359/list-of-communities-with-base-css-updates-completed
window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(e) {
    var head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
    var style = document.createElement('style');
    style.setAttribute('type', 'text/css');
    var styleText = document.createTextNode('body.user-page #content *{-moz-box-sizing:border-box}');
    style.appendChild(styleText);
    head.appendChild(style);
});

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A day after the new activity and profile pages went network-wide, the whole layout broke down for me. I use a no longer supported browser (older Firefox), but this is so far the only thing that went really wrong.

Looking into the console, the problem is with the CSS property box-sizing that’s supported in Firefox only as of version 29.0. Till then, only the vendor-prefixed version had been available (since virtually forever).

If you want to make me happy, change

body.user-page #content *{box-sizing:border-box}

to

body.user-page #content *{-moz-box-sizing:border-box;box-sizing:border-box}

in profile.css. This fixes the problem for me. I guess 27 added bytes are not a problem and they will make the difference between

and

for me.

Answer 13

The next recommended badge seemed to be always Critic after I got the downvoting privilege.

I got that in Computer Science and Puzzling, and I didn't even upvote once there yet.

If it is ordered by the progress, it should be a bug. If instead it just suggest me downvoting someone immediately after getting the privilege, isn't Supporter (for the first upvote) more preferable?

Answer 14

status-declined - there is standard browser support to open links in other tabs. These are clearly links to external sites and we'd rather give users the choice (rather than take it away by forcing a new tab always).

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Open new windows/tabs

Please set the Website, Twitter and GitHub links in the Profile tab as target="_blank" so it opens a new browser tab on click.

Answer 15

status-declined

The grammar is incorrect for object pronouns:

The correct singular object pronoun should be him/her/them (if shared accounts are to be recognized). I'm one person, so 'them' is incorrect in this context (even if it does appear 'awkward' to some).

The convention to use 'them' as a singular gender pronoun is convention, not proper grammar. I know it sounds like nitpicking, but this is StackExchange where the correct form matters.

"There isn’t any way of using a singular pronoun to refer to someone without identifying that person as male or female. When it comes to the third person plural, English only has gender-neutral forms such as they, them, their, etc."