Can we have click-to-close back, please?

Question

The new pop-up message style is pretty, I guess, if you like making text smaller and smaller, but I don't find its "close" mechanism very functional.

Previously, this notification would go away when clicking anywhere on it; now with this smaller version, I have to move to an even smaller little box with my mouse to dismiss it.

Can we have "click-to-close" back on the whole pop-up, please?

Answer 1

Here's what happened:

We're currently going through an overhaul of our error styles to make them prettier, more consistent, and more user-friendly, and this one got lumped in accidentally, along with several others.

This is not an error, and shouldn't be displayed as such.

We will fix these over the next few days.

//UPDATE

New error styles

I see that there might be some confusion between our new red and blue error/notification pop-ups and our big white "modal" pop-ups.

As to the former, we have talked it over and we are going to be moving over the next week to four different pop-up styles:

• Error, require action – These will be red and will need to be either manually closed or they will be closed automatically when we detect that the problem is solved (standard errors)
• Error, no action required – These will be red and will fade out after one second. No manual closing will be required (time-limited throttling errors)
• Notification, request action – These will be blue and require manual closure (for situations where we would like the user to do something in response to the notification)
• Notification, no action required – These will be blue and will fade away after one second (standard confirm type things)

I know I said that we probably wouldn't use pop-ups here, but it looks like we'll be using the fourth type to fix this specific situation. We will not be implementing click outside to close on these pop-ups

New "modal" styles

These are the big white newly styled "modal" pop-ups that we use for things like the close dialog.

I think some of the commenters below might have been referring to these. We do in fact plan on adding click outside to close to these.

Answer 2

I am for the new error style proposal, except that I'd remove the close button and make all the pop-ups closable by clicking on them whenever you want (without the need of waiting for them to close with a 1 second delay with 2 seconds fadeout e.g.).

In short; if you see a popup (whatever kind) and click inside of it, it fades out (quickly). And, there would not need to be a close button. Just like before except the new style and the automatic fading out, which could be interrupted by closing a popup whenever user wants by clicking inside of it.

I see, that you're trying to save the space occupied by the "click to close" info, but it's in the cost of user friendliness in my view.

Do you really want to hunt a close button, press ESC, or wait 3 seconds at pop-ups without it, to hide them ?

Update:

That's how I feel from the currently deployed version of pop-ups: