Timeline for Do we need less ambiguous question fonts?
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| Mar 4, 2014 at 13:19 | comment | added | user229044 | To clarify then: This is a solved problem, and I don't believe there is any value in reviewing our font selection. | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 9:15 | comment | added | PlasmaHH | @meagar: I am not sure what point you are trying to make. The last part sounds like "we have other problems that should be solved first" but the "through font-selection alone" makes me think that it could be a part of it. | |
| Mar 3, 2014 at 23:12 | comment | added | user229044 | I would say that, unless we want to go with a monospace font specifically meant for viewing code, we're not going to solve this through font-selection alone. Most questions by new users are in a less-than-optimal state, ambiguous letters are a very, very small problem compared to things like large blocks of code lacking all formatting and indentation. | |
| Mar 3, 2014 at 22:49 | comment | added | PlasmaHH | I am not saying that either pov is the right one, I am just trying to view it from different points and collect -- more or less -- opinions and maybe some intresting statistics/studies? It might also turn out that this is just a similar case to xkcd.com/1015 and most people don't care at all. | |
| Mar 3, 2014 at 22:48 | comment | added | PlasmaHH | Sure, and key combos even have these nice key like icons. But should we maybe think about if this is really necessary? It seems to me that a lot of questions that might have these problems (key combos as well as non-code text) are asked by rather inexperienced users, and then later edited by more experienced users. For one, during that time, the question is in a less-than-optimal state, and it is also using tiny amounts of resources that might be spent better elsewhere (review queue?). | |
| Mar 3, 2014 at 22:44 | history | edited | user229044 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 3, 2014 at 22:42 | comment | added | Frédéric Hamidi | This, exponentially. Don't forget you can edit posts. | |
| Mar 3, 2014 at 22:37 | history | answered | user229044 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |