Timeline for Can I keep the old design? It looks better than the new one
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| Nov 1, 2018 at 4:55 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | Try browsing Google.com with a user agent code that emulates Internet Explorer 8 or Internet Explorer 6. Older UIs are served to these users. | |
| Oct 27, 2018 at 7:45 | comment | added | e-sushi | Well, even Google does design studies before changing stuff and they know how UX is influenced by UI design. Yet, in my own humble opinion as someone with a BA in visual communications, I have to say SE dropped the ball hard. It's not only the left sidebar and visual centering glitch, it's also the right sidebar hopelessly floating centered under the main content on sone screens… so much for "featured Qs" et al even being noticed. (details) TL:DR: this design looks and feels like an amateur job. | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 12:41 | comment | added | balpha StaffMod | @ɪʙᴜɢ You can, but I wouldn't get my hopes up too high. You're approaching things based on visual changes that you see, but "give me an option to make X continue to look like Y" is probably a bigger undertaking than "just don't delete this particular CSS file". | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 12:36 | comment | added | balpha StaffMod | @ShadowWizard Much of the infrastructure stuff (i.e. implementation, as opposed to creating actual designs). | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 12:35 | comment | added | iBug says Reinstate Monica | @balpha If I want a part of the old design, should I open it as a feature request? That would partially solve the problem. | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 12:34 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | @balpha just curious, what's your role in the unified theming project? | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 12:33 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | @ɪʙᴜɢ Temporarily, soon it will be removed. And then they can make changes much easier, without being afraid to break something on one site and without having to test some tiny change on 150+ sites. (Or roll a small change just to see it broke something on one site) | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 12:33 | comment | added | balpha StaffMod | @ɪʙᴜɢ Yes, but only until all sites have been converted to unified theming, at which point we can finally remove a lot of hard-to-maintain legacy code. | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 12:31 | comment | added | iBug says Reinstate Monica | but the old design is still available and remain on some sites, no? | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 12:30 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | Edit is not really relevant, the new design is deeper than just fonts and colors. They changed the whole logic (how they create the design) behind the scenes, how they load things, etc. It can't just be reverted. | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 12:27 | comment | added | iBug says Reinstate Monica | I also accept their decision, but in my (and many other users') opinion it's ugly, undeniably. | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 12:26 | comment | added | iBug says Reinstate Monica | last paragraph edited. | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 12:24 | history | answered | Shadow Wizard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |