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Edge point for a diamond used as a popover arrow in tooltips should be slightly shifted

Recently I learned that a diamond shape is used for imitation of tooltip popover arrow: Animation was made on Suspicious voting tools page Looks like that to make an imitation more natural the edge ...
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Popover visibility issue in the stacks editor

In the Stacks editor, the popover on top becomes invisible when hovering over the tools icon, significantly when the editor menu block extends to the end of the page. Screenshot for reference: ...
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Title may not fit into popup width on contact page

On contact page in some cases the popup title may not fit into width because is covered by close button, e.g.:
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Community user's mini icon has bright background instead of transparent in dark mode

Community user has a user icon with transparency. Despite that, its mini icon (in the list of questions) still has a bright color as a background even in site's dark mode: ruSO enSO
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Can we have the SE site's clicked icon enlarge but zoom upward, and put the open button at top?

When I start SE at https://stackexchange.com/sites?view=grid, the sites are tiles to be clicked on. When I click on a tile, it enlarges, then zooms down so it lines up with the row below, and the open ...
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Browsing for any non-recent blog post is significantly harder with the new design (and "Show more" is broken)

The new blog design looks great! But it's left behind a feature that was really useful for navigating through old content: the archive/ date-based browsing page(s). The old blog design had date-based ...
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Different vertical position for "question owner" and "modified" badge on moderator dashboard

On moderator dashboard the badges "question owner" ("автор вопроса") and "modified" ("изменён") on flag item have different vertical position. Page content is ...
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Add thousands separator to reputation in Stack Overflow blog header

The Stack Overflow blog is redesigned, and in the new design we are able to log in to the blog. Upon successfully logging in, users are now greeted with a refined header layout that prominently ...
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Any details about the blog redesign?

I just noticed the blog got a new design after following a bug report saying it's down. Can we get details about the redesign? It looks pretty massive, and I didn't see any post about it, neither in ...
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'Edit tags' loading indicator styling bug [duplicate]

When pressing the 'Edit tags' button, most of the times the loading indicators get some absurd styling: Other question/GIF
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The visual hint for a vote is less visible than for a retracted vote on Chrome for iOS

Problem: The visual hint for a vote is less visible than for a retracted vote on Chrome for iOS. I sometimes have to revote and reretract to understand whether I did what I want (voted or retracted). ...
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On/off switch on mobile has shrinkable width

The on/off switch widget on mobile doesn't have fixed width and shrinks depending on other elements, e.g. in settings: It's OK for one-line text, but shrinks otherwise.
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The OP styling has disappeared from the suggested edit history [duplicate]

When a suggested edit was reviewed by the OP of a post, the "OP styling" - that background that shows up on the OP's username for comments and other actions associated with the post - used ...
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The bottoms of letters sometimes render blobbily in the question preview

When viewing questions on the front page (after clicking Questions or viewing all questions for a specified tag), sometimes the last few characters of previewed text from the question body render ...
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How can I hide related questions section in all sites?

I suppose this is trivial, but my Google searching didn't yield any solution. I suppose you all know what "related questions" means, the section of the sidebar (or middle bar) that displays ...
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Question Ban page has no formatting on SO and is rendered as gibberish on RU.SO

The situation is this: I asked the wrong question on https://stackoverflow.com, after which I received a ban on asking questions (I am not appealing the decision). But the ban itself looks strange. I ...
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Seeking your input on redesigning our post summary component

Tl;dr We are redesigning our post summary component and would like your input before the design process begins. The post summary component appears on most pages that show a list of posts, including ...
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"Modified" link sometimes takes me to footer

On the site's start page, if I open the "modified" link of one of the listed questions in a new background tab, I sometimes end up in the footer rather than at the modifed question or answer....
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Design Vision Updates to the Left Navigation

Update – August 22nd, 2023 We have reviewed all the answers and comments — thank you to everyone who took the time to read this post and provide feedback. Based on the reactions to the visual changes ...
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Design Vision Updates to the User Card

Background As part of our ongoing efforts to improve the design of the platform, which so far has included colors (original post and follow-up) and border-radius adjustments, we're now focusing on ...
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Our Design Vision for Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network

For those who don’t know me, I’m the Director of Design at Stack Overflow. I’m responsible for the team of designers who work on the public sites. The visuals of Stack Overflow and the network sites ...
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Close button for 'join this community' banner is too low contrast

The close button on the sign up banner when visiting a site that you're not a part of is too difficult to see, not only does the low contrast make it harder to see, but it's also near other "...
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Can the AI banner disappear globally once dismissed on any site?

I've dismissed it here on MSE, but I still see it on Super User. Given that I've already seen and dismissed the banner once, I don't really want to have to dismiss it on each site. (Ignore the font ...
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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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Remove hover text [tooltips] from 'vote' 'answer' and 'views'

Unless I'm missing something, there seems little point in having hover text for the three elements to the left of every question, as they simply repeat exactly what the element already says. There is ...
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Lots of empty space in inbox

When I scroll to the bottom of my inbox, there is a ton of empty space. It's not that I don't have a lot of notifications; my full inbox has plenty of stuff. Is it supposed to look like this? In any ...
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The "Delete" button on comments now always shows instead of only on hover; is this an intentional change?

I've noticed that the "Delete" button on my own comments now always shows, instead of being shown only when I mouse over the comment as before. I personally like the change, as it makes it ...
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Why does long tapping a link appear to upvote the question?

On this question (please don't cast test votes on it), I used a long tap (approximately where the red is) to see where the link led. However, it caused the upvote button to become highlighted, as if I ...
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Code background can overflow comments [duplicate]

Look at this: I think that overflow is due to the following CSS rule: code { white-space: pre-wrap; } Changing it to the following seems to fix the issue: code { white-space: break-spaces; } ...
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Colors update: A more detailed look

A few months ago, we let you all know that in order to progress our goal of being more accessible, we would need to redefine our colors within our design system, Stacks. Before I walk you through the ...
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Sites' icons appear shifted / wrong sites' icons are appearing

Just noticed that some sites' icons, both on home page and in "Hot Network Questions" sidebar are shifted and mixed with icons of different sites. For example, here, the Server Fault icon ...
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New vote-button font hasn't been applied everywhere

A while ago, the vote buttons were changed across the network. There were a bunch of design issues and bugs that came along with the change, and though a few of them have been fixed, some still remain....
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Stack Overflow Labs page has inaccuracies

There are several errors on the Stack Overflow Labs webpage. The page for the question formatting assistant has the MSE logo, not the MSO logo, and Meta is generally not spelled as META by anyone here....
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Upvote / downvote indicator lost after edit

When I edit a post, and return to the updated page when saving the edit, the upvote indicator to show that I had previously upvoted the post is lost. This seems to be related to the recent and ...
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When writing an answer, it should appear directly below the question

Problem When I am writing an answer, especially a detailed one, it's useful to be able to refer to the question to make sure that I am answering everything and doing it in a logical order. Because of ...
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Let us go to the timeline of the post from homepage

This is how the homepage looks like: Beside the username, we have words like "asked", "answered", "modified", + date and time. When the mouse pointer is over those words,...
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Deleted questions don't show as deleted on the home page

Repeatedly in the recent past, when I reloaded the home page and clicked on something, I was taken to a deleted post. Here is one example, from just now: In this image, I have selected the title of a ...
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Have voting patterns changed significantly after the recent change in voting button arrow style?

Two weeks ago on May 30, a change in the vote button style went live on the network. Instead of large triangles, there are now smaller triangles with larger circles around them and changed color ...
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No highlighting on tabs in review queue

Initially here the Revision tab is select and highlighted: Since I clicked the tab (even the current one) highlighting is disappeared:
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Vote button remains highlighted after retracting the vote

The recently changed vote buttons remain highlighted after retracting the vote: When you retract your vote the button remains highlighted (with lighter colors), highlighting disappears after tapping ...
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Vote buttons in the tour page are different from the actual vote buttons

Essentially the same as this question, Vote buttons in the banner are different from the actual vote buttons, except that this is about the example vote buttons in the tour page; the depicted buttons ...
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The anonymous "Post your answer" button gets squashed

Across all SE sites when I visit a question without being signed in and scroll down to the bottom, there is an option to submit an answer as a guest, but I don't think the button should be wrapped (...
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Add on-topic notice to the top part (logo row) for 1 rep users

Every time when I see the blatantly off-topic questions on the site I'm curious why the asker did this. This's probably due to a hidden from asker's eyes on-topic notice. What if we make the on-topic ...
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On the sidebar, highly-scored Hot Meta posts are squished against the title [duplicate]

This question on Academia.SE's Meta has a score of 106. On the community bulletin, its score has been squished against the title. This probably happens with all triple-digit-scored Hot Meta posts. (...
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Vote buttons in the banner are different from the actual vote buttons

When you visit a site you haven't joined yet, it shows this banner: The current vote buttons don't match with the ones in the banner. Is there a redesign in progress for the banner? Note: From my ...
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Empty area in tags block on user profile page

In my profile there's an empty area in the Tags block: Each tag on that block occupies 66px in height. The last tag here is bug, and this tag occupies 144px height, so it easily can contain at least ...
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I can't see if I've already voted on something

On many sites, I can't see the slight color change that indicates I've already voted unless I look very carefully. This seems like a massive accessibility issue, given that my vision is above average ...
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How do I change vote arrow buttons back?

I have noticed that the vote arrow buttons have changed to this: This change has been implemented on all Stack Exchange sites. I didn't consent to the change, I don't like the new style. The styling ...
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Chat inbox icon with number of unread messages should be a pixel wider

It seems that chat page inbox item is not wide enough to overlap empty inbox icon. So the odd gray pixels break through the top: Zoomed in: And animated version when number goes away:
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Popup for an active edit beneath the post contains the button that doesn’t fit into popup

When the post has an active suggested edit tapping on the link edit (1) leads to the opening a popup. That popup doesn't fit into screen width in responsive mode on phone's screen: Animation was ...
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