Linked Questions
16 questions linked to/from Some improvements to blockquotes
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Quotes should look different from spoilers [duplicate]
Spoilers are usually not quotes. But currently spoilers (after clicking) look exactly like blockquotes. So the reader has to memorize which paragraphs he clicked (spoilers), and which were already ...
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Quote's style changed. Is it a bug or just style update? [duplicate]
Now quotes look like that:
A quote.
Quote's style changed. Is it a bug or just style update?
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Formatting Sandbox
Notes:
Answers will occasionally be moved to the Sandbox archive when there are too many of them. When using them to report bugs, keep an eye on the post.
You may also want to take a look at the ...
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
This is an unofficial list/changelog of new features and various changes to Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network.
It is maintained by the community, while a Stack Exchange employee changes ...
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We are switching to system fonts on May 10, 2021
Update 3 - The changes from round 2 are live, but with one notable exception: On Linux, we spec’d “Liberation Sans” and “Liberation Mono”. Did some digging on that PR and installed a few Linux VMs and ...
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Deprecating our mobile views
Update 2
On March 2, 2022 we removed the Mobile button from the footer. This means the mobile views are removed entirely from Stack Overflow. Last week, we also removed the Disable Responsiveness ...
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Stack Exchange is failing its community
I guess this is very much an intervention.
There's a few policies in the pipeline - here's one, and there's another one that's not been officially announced that a good many moderators are opposed to. ...
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Stack Overflow 2020 Q1&2 Company Commitments Report Card
Five months ago, Teresa Dietrich posted an introduction and a mission statement of sorts, laying out some admissions of past failures, and intentions for the new year. This was followed by two ...
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Please revert the quote background from white to yellow
At some point during the day, quoted background, in I assume CSS, has been switched from yellow to white.
This is harder to find within an existing text, since the background color is the same for the ...
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Strange nonexistent link in a specific user's Top Network Posts
I discovered a strange, blank link in this user's Top Network Posts:
The above link and screenshot are of the user's Unix & Linux site profile, but this issue can be reproduced on any of the ...
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Can the sites about religions have suitable background for block quotes?
The usual application of quoting on most of the sites is to quote someone's sayings. It can be conversation, articles, webpage, newspaper or books etc. Now if we talk about sites about religions, ...
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Clicking on a spoiler incorrectly removes the gray background
As of the recent CSS update to quote markup and spoilers, quotes no longer have a colored background, while spoilers do:
This is a quote.
and
When the spoiler is merely hovered over, the gray ...
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Blockquote and Codeblock look too similar
Sometimes in Questions/Answers on Stackoverflow I really would like to have two easily distinguishable forms of emphasing (e.g. Code vs. Console Output). Unfortunately quotes and codeblocks look way ...
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What is the proper way to emphasize the central sentence of a question (if there is any)?
It's quite common for authors, in the post body, to emphasize a sentence which is 'central' to their question. It's often similar to the title, and for well-written questions with some introduction, ...
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Some changes to the profile while we make it responsive
Update 1
I’ve restored the profile age to all and fixed a few bugs y’all reported. I’ll be addressing individual answers as best as I can.
Original post
On our way to a fully responsive Stack Overflow,...