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| Dec 12, 2017 at 15:22 | history | edited | Joe FriendStaff | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 6, 2017 at 9:07 | comment | added | hobbs | The new site switcher location is so bad that I simply thought it was removed for weeks before finding out here that there's a button for it in the upper right. And the "clickable logo" takes a bit of prime real-estate that used to do something useful, and replaces it with a link to stackexchange.com, which is nothing more than HNQ writ large, making it not just useless, but worse than useless. | |
| S Nov 7, 2017 at 18:40 | history | suggested | Joe FriendStaff | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 14, 2017 at 14:54 | comment | added | Papa Poule | @Mari-LouA As is so often the case, I find your analysis here spot-on (i.e., It is indeed "a cunning trap/bait"). This related {possible duplicate?} question {post} and OP's mention of "branding decision[s]" says it all. | |
| Oct 14, 2017 at 12:04 | comment | added | user310756 | Totally agree, I keep accidentally clicking on the blinking thing | |
| Oct 14, 2017 at 11:11 | comment | added | Tom Carpenter | @canon except that the search bar right next to that logo contains the current site name (e.g. "Search on Electronic Engineering") which makes the top bar and hence logo part of the current stack navigation. | |
| Oct 14, 2017 at 11:09 | comment | added | Tom Carpenter | Is it wrong of me that my use case in changing stack is now to click the "Stack Exchange" logo to get to the main site, then click it again to get the site switcher because the main site doesn't have the new toolbar... | |
| Oct 12, 2017 at 14:55 | comment | added | Draco18s no longer trusts SE | @EmilJeřábek I don't use it, but I've seen some comments to that regard. | |
| Oct 12, 2017 at 11:16 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek | @Draco18s What's even more confusing is that (a simplified version of) the same logo in the same place is the site switcher on the mobile sites. | |
| Oct 12, 2017 at 8:43 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A Слава Україні | @AndrewLeach the "useful" purpose is there. It's encouraging users to visit other sites, becoming emotionally invested in questions and answers and therefore joining the site because it's absurdly easy to have forty accounts. The higher the number of members per site, the greater the "stats" appeal for advertisers. Everyone has, and will, click on that awful SE logo thinking they will go back to the site's main page. It's a cunning trap/bait. | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 20:35 | comment | added | Ajean | @KodosJohnson I can agree with that! The content of stackexchange.com does leave something do be desired... | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 18:12 | comment | added | Cave Johnson | @Ajean That is a fair point. But in that case I think they should change stackexchange.com to something else entirely. It doesn't make sense to me that the logo links to a page of the top posts across the network. They should move the top posts to a different page like stackexchange.com/hot-network-questions | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 17:27 | comment | added | Andrew Leach | Currently, the link serves no useful purpose whatsoever. There is nothing useful in the destination page. At all. (It may be interesting to see questions being added in real time, or questions the system deems "hot" using its faulty algorithm, but you don't need a link for it. Especially when that link used to do something completely different.) | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 13:12 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | This proposal solves the problems raised in this answer while preserving SE's intent to do something (other than the site switcher) with that space. | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 8:00 | comment | added | Sklivvz | To be clear, for @JoeFriend: this is not merely a matter of change avoidance, getting confused or muscle memory. It's a matter of having a big important element do nothing or something frankly irrelevant, and having a new element, confusingly similar to the big element, do something I use all the time. Why give so much priority going to a frankly irrelevant site where the site switcher is way more important to navigate the network? The UX seems wrong (and since it's UX, it is therefore wrong). | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 3:29 | comment | added | Draco18s no longer trusts SE | You know what's extra confusing? That same logo in the same place at the stackexchange.com homepage is the site switcher. | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 19:04 | comment | added | Ajean | I actually strongly disagree - that Stack Exchange says "Stack Exchange". I would expect it to go to stackexchange.com. I do not believe clicking on it and expecting to go to, say, worldbuilding.stackexchange.com, is intuitive at all. I think the primary issue people have with it is that it's not the site switcher anymore (yet looks exactly the same), not that the link goes to exactly where it says it will go. | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 15:58 | comment | added | called2voyage | @Izkata I know, I used to use that to get there too. Makes sense if you know to look for HNQ, but if you're a new user looking for the central page of the network it is a rather unintuitive place to look. Also, depending on screen layout, sometimes you have to scroll to get to that link. | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 15:56 | comment | added | Izkata | @called2voyage Clicking on the "Hot Network Questions" title on the right-sidebar also goes there, the only way I use to get to it | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 15:34 | comment | added | mrf | I really hate the stackexchange button (even if I've only seen it for a few minutes)! | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 15:06 | comment | added | called2voyage | @JoonasIlmavirta From a network perspective it makes sense for the Stack Exchange logo to link to a central page from which you can view an overview of the networked sites. | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 14:58 | comment | added | called2voyage | @DavidRicherby Yes, I visit stackexchange.com nearly every day. I use it to see the full queue of Hot Network Questions, I click my network profile page to go through my recent activity across multiple sites, etc. | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 14:55 | comment | added | called2voyage | @DavidRicherby Not true, I often utilize stackexchange.com to leaf through cross-site information. | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 14:52 | comment | added | battery.cord | The confusing part for me is that the stackexchange nav bar still has the site switcher on the right, er, left, and the logo is identical to the version used on the new nav bar. Its now a waste of space with no real function except subverting the expectations of the users who click on it expecting a site switcher from years of muscle memory. They could have at least changed the logo, too. | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 9:50 | comment | added | Mad Scientist | @JoonasIlmavirta Tag filters are a pretty useful, if a bit neglected feature for users that are active on many different SE sites. I'm not sure how many people except me actually use them though. | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 8:01 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta | Hmm... Is the linked page stackexchange.com even useful to users? Do people want to go there so often that it warrants such a visible link? (I don't know. This is a genuine question.) | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 7:57 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta | Could we at least have a tool tip telling what we get when we click the logo? That would alleviate the problem to some extent. | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 0:19 | comment | added | auden | Yes, I hate that it doesn't become the site switcher...=( | |
| Oct 9, 2017 at 22:12 | history | edited | Mad Scientist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 9, 2017 at 22:00 | history | answered | Mad Scientist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |