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54 questions linked to/from Deprecating our mobile views
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Italic text not recoloured correctly on mobile [duplicate]
On the mobile site, italic-formatted words in answers downvoted enough to receive the "greyed out" CSS are properly italicized but the font colour remains unchanged. See this answer on this question ...
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4-Digit rep up Bug in Mobile Device? [duplicate]
Referring to this profile. (in mobile theme - in case the profile's front page is changed in the future, the issue is originated from this (stackoverflow) post)
The 4-digit reputation up seems to be ...
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Badge bullet vertical alignment does not looking center in mobile UI [duplicate]
In the Marshal badge bullet (circle) vertically not center (red mark 3) and also it does not looking vertical center on badge numbers to me (red mark 2)
Also I think it needs some padding right after ...
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"Close as Duplicate" dialog on mobile changes size [duplicate]
On mobile, the "close as duplicate" dialog adapts its size according to a nominated original with all its answers (with quite a lot of content sometimes if the original question is very ...
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"Add a comment" doesn't appear below a question but appears below an answer when not logged in [duplicate]
I was trying to check into the situation described in the recent question -
Trying to comment on a particular question on the full site crashes Android Chrome
I was not logged in. I was checking it in ...
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Visual design changes to the review queues
The Public Platform team would like to announce another release in a series of planned work for the Review queues. This release focuses on refreshing the queue user interface in preparation for ...
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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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Now live: A fully responsive profile
Update
As of 2021-10-21T18:05:38+00:00 this is now live across the network. If you find any issues, you can post them as answers on this question. Try to give some details about your browser and ...
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Employee profiles are now marked with a “Staff” indicator
As of 31 July 2019, all staff member accounts have "Staff" next to their name on their user profile.
It looks like this:
(This is an updated image from the original one included in this ...
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What should we be looking to change and what is inviolable?
Updated note (with the original post still below the line)- Thank you, very much, for the time you've spent answering these questions. I learned a ton. In fact, as I've hinted below, I'd like to do ...
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New post formatting
Timeline
Date
What was changed?
Sep 23, 2020
It took me longer than I wanted, but I’ve got some updates for you on our s-prose component. You can see the pull request with my thinking over at our ...
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Mobile optimized version of Stack Overflow [duplicate]
I found this one on UserVoice, and I thought it was fitting to bring it up here for further discussion.
"Stack Overflow already works with Mobile Safari, but the experience is far from optimum.
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New Staff and Mod Labels on site metas and Meta Stack Exchange
Update: As can be seen on this post and elsewhere on the site, the styling for the mod/ staff labels has been modified, and hopefully will not pop out and be as overwhelming as the original colors:
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Some improvements to blockquotes
Update
Sorry for the delay! I’ve been thinking about this feedback in between my other projects, and I’ve landed where I’ve started 😕
I’ve made sure to continue highlighting spoilers in gray. The ...
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Reducing the weight of our footer
As you may be aware, we’re deprecating our mobile views, so with that in mind, it would only make sense to try to reduce the page weight in the responsive views that’ll be replacing them.
Currently, ...
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Navigation and UI research starting
We’ve been running the site satisfaction survey on Stack Overflow since 2019. Since its creation, the Stack Overflow audience has told us that Stack Overflow’s design is a pain point—stating that the ...
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The site settings section of user preferences is now fully responsive
As of this morning, the following sections of user preferences are now fully responsive:
Preferences
Flair
Applications
My logins
Hide communities
Delete profile
If anything looks strange, please ...
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Custom 404 pages are gone :-(
I just realised thanks to DavidW that all sites have just lost their custom 404 pages, see here for example:
They're the same across the entire network now, without the fun site customisations. Only ...
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Please don't completely remove the mobile website, for the benefit of users on slow connections
A Stack Exchange employee just said the following regarding the mobile site:
We are actively working on the responsive design that works on both desktop and mobile, based on screen size. Once that is ...
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We’ve removed the option to disable the fixed top bar
We’ve removed the option to disable the fixed top bar. We didn’t change the default. We’ve only removed the ability to change the default.
According to SEDE, we’ve got ~13k users with the fixed top ...
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Mobile font-size way too large
Just now, when reloading Stack Overflow on my mobile, the font sizes have been enlarged:
I'm aware that the mobile views are deprecated, but this change doesn't look intentional.
The font sizes ...
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“Prev”/“next” triangles rendered as Emojis on iOS devices [closed]
In the (default) Safari browser on an iPhone the "prev" and "next" characters in the links at the bottom of
the questions page are rendered as Emojis, which looks quite ugly:
The HTML source contains ...
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We’ve shipped some changes to the user profile navigation
The changes discussed and demoed in Additional profile refinements are now getting rolled out.
We’re changing some layout before enabling responsiveness on user profiles. However, we can’t enable ...
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What is the “Responsiveness”? [closed]
In the site footer I see a link named “Enable/Disable Responsiveness”:
It looks like some text/images are scaled when Responsiveness is enabled, but what does actually it do?
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How can I switch to the full site when the mobile view only has the "Mobile" link and doesn't provide the "Full site" link?
The mobile view has been deprecated since 14 Feb... or so it seems.
Catija mentioned this on The Tavern,
So... I have a guess... a few days ago we got rid of the mobile view, right? But we didn't get ...
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Link to own profile has disappeared
Maybe I am crazy, but I cannot find a way to get to my profile page anymore, while browsing from Android/Chrome.
I think the profile link showed up after clicking on the logo in the top left.
I tried ...
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Unfollowing a question triggers a "you're no longer following this answer" pop-up
Seen on mobile web, Brave browser version 1.27.109, Android 10, cannot confirm on other browsers (yet).
Following, then unfollowing a question triggers a pop-up reading:
You're no longer following ...
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Insert code in Stack Overflow mobile site [closed]
I'm currently accessing Stack Overflow through the mobile site (on a phone), and I tried without joy to insert a code block (seemingly, I'm not the only one who has had this problem).
I tried to put ...
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Flag-summary page is *mostly* responsive, but post titles overflow into the stats box
I see this on my flag-summary page:
At first I thought this was because not all pages on the site are responsive yet, but this one (otherwise) seems to be. The stuff on the main part of the page re-...
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Performance delay in editor when moving to a blank line
I initially thought this affected MSE only, but now I started to face the same issue on other SE sites.
I've encountered/reproduced only on Stack Exchange on Firefox for Win 10.
Place cursor at the ...
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Italic text remains black on greyed-out (very low score) answers
When browsing aimlessly on MSE, I came across this answer
It received a bunch of downvotes so it's greyed out (indicating a bad answer). It was delightful to find that there is black text among grey ...
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When implementing a major design / workflow change, offer an opt-in beta testing option before release
As we've seen recently with both the updated user profile and homepage designs, it's difficult sometimes to gauge the impact that this will have on users' experience just from screenshots or a video ...
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Is the "mobile" link on some pages broken or is it now redundant?
On my Android phone (using Google app version 12.41.19.23.arm64), I have the option to switch between "full site" and "mobile" views.
This switching functionality works perfectly ...
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Why stackexchange sites are not mobile friendly? [duplicate]
I use stackoverflow often. As a web developer, I notice nowadays many sites use bootstrap to be responsive web site. When you reduce the size of browser, you will see a little bit different layout and ...
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Are there any updates on the project to make the profile page responsive? [duplicate]
In December 2018, there was some information gathering about what could be improved in the profile pages and settings; the page needed to be adjusted to fit the responsive design in any case, so it ...
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Input box keeps snapping to the bottom of the text when writing a new post or editing it
Since Deprecating our mobile views, I have noticed an annoying bug affecting writing or editing answer or question posts on a mobile phone.
If you are in the middle of a long portion of text, if you ...
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"Add a Comment" is broken on <site>/admin/dashboard
The "Add a Comment" link on questions/answers on https://superuser.com/admin/dashboard is no longer working.
Clicking on it jumps to the top of the page. The link behind "Add a Comment&...
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Is it possible to make the "full site" persistent for mobile across Stack Exchange?
The "full site" setting seems to be stored in a cookie that has a frequent expiry time, and it's unique for every SE site.
Whenever it expires, it is a pain to have to click on the tiny link ...
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Occasionally reset to mobile view on phone
From time to time opening any of SE site pages on my phone leads to show them in mobile view:
Despite I selected full site and enabled responsiveness early before. It seems that cookies are outdated ...
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Please allow me to decrease zoom on mobile
Since the new site design, when using mobile chrome, I can fit maybe a third of a question or answer on the screen at once, in giant lettering.
I was able to get around it, by clicking "disable ...
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Can we make post editors and answerers more visually distinct?
I genuinely mistook a post editor for a post answerer. Admittedly this was on mobile view (the layout, not the alternative site mode, as that mode has been removed as far as I can tell) but it's also ...
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Stack Overflow custom tags don't appear in browser on Android phone [duplicate]
When logging into Stack Overflow from Android phone using Chrome browser (may be from any phone using any browser), the custom tag filters and watched tags option does not appear.
Is it possible to ...
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Linked and related questions require requesting desktop site when on a phone
I searched but I don't think it was reported.
When viewing a post on a phone (e.g. iPhone using Safari), the responsive design does not show the linked and related questions unless desktop site is ...
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Are there recent stats available for browser usage, screen size, etc. for Stack Exchange site users?
I have noticed that the Stack Exchange layout is being changed from time to time and that it seems to get worse for the desktop users, a fact also mentioned in one of the top comments for the post ...
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Why not have the editor with two horizontal panes instead of a vertical layout? [duplicate]
I was wondering why the preview is below the question's editor and not to its side?
A long question may require scrolling up and down to check the layout.
The window in which to type a question is ...
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Server error after switching from mobile to full site [closed]
Being on mobile web and trying to post an answer with empty body properly shows me an error:
This looks fine and friendly, until you switch to the full site from the bottom link on this page. ...
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Can't edit chat messages in the new - at least for 2016 - moblie interface [duplicate]
I can't edit chat messages as in the instruction menu (using the new interface; looks a little out-of-CSS but that's cool). I think they are not available. I know that Message response options symbols ...
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An Overflow Blog page is over-sized and extends beyond the edges of my screen
The title and first paragraph of the Blog page A Day in the Penalty Box over-extends beyond my screen's margins while viewing it via the Google app on an Android phone1:
I've not been able to ...
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Out-of-view inbox items can still be selected in mobile view [closed]
This bug is weird and hard to describe, so I'll demonstrate instead. These screenshots are of the stock Android browser. You can click any of these screenshots for a full view.
Here's my inbox (left),...
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