Questions tagged [design]
Use this tag for questions regarding the design of the Stack Exchange websites; e.g., for issues with the layout.
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Is it intentional that the green rep change bubble no longer has a plus sign?
(Note: While this image is taken from a desktop browser in F12 mode, it's in line with what I see on my phone and my tablet)
The text in the green bubble on top-right used to be like +10, and it ...
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Large white space in the check queues
Recently, the mobile version has changed a bit. On the top left, a button has been added. When you click on it, the queues of checks appear. But half the space is just a white spot:
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Are there any updates on the project to make the profile page responsive?
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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Furigana not served on my Desktop, have to get it to go (mobile)
On our Anime and Japanese Stack Exchange sites we have support for Furigana.
In the Desktop View the settings dialog and the link to it isn't accessible (I also checked my Profile Settings and the Top ...
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List of recently awarded badges has no correct spacing [duplicate]
When visiting https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges (at this time) the list of badges awarded recently is display with no spacing between them, which I think is incorrect since it doesn't follow the ...
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Site badge icons are not used on new revisions screen
With the latest change to the revisions screen, a site's custom badges are not displayed on the user card. Here's an example - you can see the custom badges used for Arqade on the top bar, while the ...
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Highlight the “Ask” link for mobile site
I usually ask questions via the desktop site. Today, I had a burning question that I wanted to ask via my phone. It took me quite some time to figure out how, because the "Ask" link is "...
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New Contributor hover card information opens a scrollbar on a post
Not sure when this started happening, but the new contributor hover information now makes a scrollbar appear, and keeps all of the hover card information constrained to a small area surrounding the ...
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Unformatted string in new close-vote review queue format [duplicate]
In the new review queue page, in the "This question has been flagged as" section, there is a header that shows up as "subreason.InputTitle"
I believe this is unintentional since ...
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Get your position in “tag-league” (top x%)
There is a "top users" list that you see for each tag python or numpy etc. This also is used to give a "top n%" to the user on their developer page.
My question is since the next ...
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Chat banner escapes sidebar [duplicate]
Today on sidebar, Worldbuilding SE:
As you can see, chat room name turned out to be too long and unsplittable due to question link and decided to run out of sidebar. I think that long links can be ...
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Alignment issue of tags on Question Review page
When writing my last question, I noticed another alignment problem, this time with the tags on the Question Review page:
Again a tiny problem, but probably worth mentioning.
When reviewing this ...
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Alignment issues on personal Activity page [duplicate]
When going to the Questions and Bookmarks tabs on a user's profile's Activity page, the questions and their meta-data are not properly aligned:
Colours due to Dark Reader plugin
Of course, this is ...
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Margins are inconsistent in badge page sidebar
I noticed the following inconsistency in the margins between badges and their descriptions.
The margins have a considerable difference in the sidebar between the main badge page and the tag badge page....
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“Recent Badges” list is displayed without margins on “Home” page
When the "Hide Hot Network Questions" preference is enabled (i.e. HNQ sidebar is hidden), we see "Recent Tags" and "Recent Badges" in the homepage instead of the HNQ.
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Greatest Hits definition text should be more visible on all sites where dark mode is enabled
Similar to this post, the text:
On the /questions/greatest-hits page for RU SO, ES SO, and PT SO in Dark Mode is too faint, too silvery. I'd like that to be changed to something like:
Or (credit to ...
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How's site design going for smaller out-of-beta sites?
I'm curious about the progress towards site design for multiple out-of-beta sites, particularly smaller sites, which are yet to have a design.
I understand this is not a straightforward process and ...
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“Don't show this to me again” button for the “Are you sure you want to answer this question” popups
There are some questions (e.g, this one and this one) where I have provided a lot of answers and may provide more. Each and every time, though, I get a popup saying:
Or:
This becomes very annoying ...
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Sentence caps for the flags in your flag history
On Stack Overflow, your flag history shows flags you've raised with proper capitalization:
Whereas on all other sites, like on Meta, the flags aren't capitalized:
That makes it inconsistent, and I ...
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Questions only option doesnāt fit for following posts section on mobile browser
On my iPad with Google Chrome as a browser āQuestions onlyā option doesnāt fit into block for following posts section.
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“Tag is too long” error overflows sidebar in Ask Question page
When someone who's either faffing about or is actually trying to tag their question enters too many characters into the tag box, it shows an error: "The tag X is too long", and that error ...
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Plans for dark mode for all Stack Exchange sites
A while ago, a dark mode was added to Stack Overflow (including the English site and non-English sites). I'm wondering if the dark mode will be coming to other Stack Exchange sites, including all meta ...
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Checkmark on badge page not vertically aligned [duplicate]
The checkmark besides the badge on the Badges page is not vertically aligned to the badge.
It appears that this can be fixed by changing vertical-align: top; to vertical-align: middle; in the ...
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“Max 2 MiB” and “Provide a link from the web” strings overlap in the profile-pic uploader on SO in Russian
On SO in Russian, the "Max 2 MiB" and "Provide a link from the web" strings overlap in the profile-picture uploader:
And when actually uploading the picture. It's fine on SO in ...
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Recent change in tag-badges style doesn't look good in dark mode?
I think there's been a recent change to tag-badge styles in dark mode that in my opinion makes those badges look less appealing that they used to. I recall tag-badges used to have a deep dark look to ...
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Can we have the error shown when close-voting a deleted question use the Stacks Notices component?
When you attempt to up/downvote a deleted post, it shows an error that uses the Stacks Notices component:
But if you vote to close a deleted question, it shows an older message:
Which... is kind of ...
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Line-spacing for lengthy question titles in timeline is far too much
In the timeline of questions with lengthy titles such as this one or this one, there is an insane amount of space between one line and the next in the title:
The line-height of 2.22 is simply too ...
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Error shown when voting on deleted comments does not use the new Stacks Notices component
When I attempt to vote on a deleted post, the error shown uses the Stacks Notices component:
However, when I attempt to vote on a comment on a deleted post, an old-style error message is shown, ...
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Tooltips with different styles after a fix was done [duplicate]
This was found in Windows 10 with Chrome.
After the resolution of this question, I noticed that we have the following tooltip style when hovering on "Following"
When we hover in the others, ...
asked Jan 11 at 17:04
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Capitalization of post action links is causing multiple rows of links
Just now, all the post action links at the bottom of a post suddenly are capitalized and slightly bigger. Which in general is nice, but sometimes they're now in double rows, and inconsistently too:
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In flagging dialog, IF “too old to migrate” THEN remove the tip “… or belongs on another Stack Exchange site”
I spotted a question which I think clearly belongs on another site. I tried to flag that, and one of the options was "needs improvement", which includes the situation where
"This ...
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Asked a question yesterday and SE metrics say that it was today [duplicate]
I am currently in Portugal (UTC timezone - which is the one used by SE), and it is 2021-01-09 11:31AM.
I have asked a question yesterday, 2021-01-08, at 02:54PM
However, if one looks at the metrics ...
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Does a low rep user see a question has answers, if the answer is voted -3 or lower?
I can't think of a way to test this for myself.
As I'm high enough rep to be able to see what is actually a spam answer that just hasn't had enough flags yet, I can also see on the main page that this ...
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Why do privileges on some sites have different reputation requirements? [duplicate]
(For the purposes of this post, disregard the beta and meta sites on the SE Network.)
We know what reputation is, right? When you reach a certain milestone of rep, you gain a privilege. What's strange ...
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Please change the color of the hats/usernames on the Winter Bash 2020 /stats page
On the Winter Bash stats page, the color of the hat names and the users they were awarded to is not really a great color:
It requires a bit more effort to read than, for instance, the stats from WB ...
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Please have same background color for indented code and inline code
In this answer I included both indented code, and an inline codeblock. (Yes you may blame me for abusing code make-up for something that isn't technically code)
They both have a different shade of ...
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Hat does not display fully on a user's activity page [duplicate]
I'm aware Winter Bash is ending soon, but perhaps this could be fixed for next year's WB.
As seen in the image below, my hat does not display fully.
It appears that this can be fixed by removing ...
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“Votes” label isn't centered on locked posts with an extreme score
The "votes" label underneath a locked post with an extreme score is not centered:
It's set to text-align: left; it needs to be set to center.
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Stack Overflow design broken in Firefox Mobile [duplicate]
Is there an issue when Stack Overflow is used with Firefox on Mobile devices? A few weeks ago the design suddenly changed, now it looks pretty much like the desktop version, see screenshot. The nice ...
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Why are not all of the communities shown in hat display?
I was looking at my hats, and because I am a member of a bunch of SE sites, which I visit regularly, I earned the Social Distancing Main hat on 9 of them. But my profile will only show 7 of the sites ...
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Winter Bash 2020 “Log Out” not aligned with the username
On the top right-hand side of the Winter Bash 2020 site, you'll see your avatar and username (assuming you're logged in) and the "log out" link. It looks like they're supposed to be aligned, ...
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Hat in profile image overflow: hidden
Hat in profile image gets cut like the following image:
I've inspected the element:
<div class="gravatar-wrapper-32 wb-hat-checked">
<div class="hat" style="float: ...
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SEDE search mashes together “X queries containing” multiline text
An example query. If the search query is big enough so that it spans two lines, it blurs:
Can we free the bottom half of "containing" and add a bit more space?
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Show that the question was migrated under the “Active Questions” tab
I always view the "Active Questions" tab, and questions that were migrated from another site always show up like this:
Would it be possible to add something that actually tells us what ...
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Visibility of selected menu background color can be improved in activity tab
In the Activity tab, if I select any one of the menu items (such as Summary, Answers, Questions ...), the background color of the selected menu has less visibility. When I hover over on any of the ...
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Loader issue with inline tag editing
While I'm doing the inline tag edit by clicking on the "Edit tags" (privilege earned when reaching 10,000 reputation) on a post, there is a loader image which is briefly visible. However, ...
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What do grey backgrounds signify on a user's account list? [duplicate]
I've recently noticed (within the last few weeks or so) that when I view certain users' network profiles and click on the 'Accounts' tab, some of their accounts are highlighted with a grey background:
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Can we get the styling for the pagination on Winter Bash leaderboard pages back?
This year's Winter Bash leaderboard pages do not have any styling for the pagination:
However, in past Winter Bashes, the pagination buttons look much nicer, and most importantly, more user-friendly ...
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Standardize the Home Page Link of other Stack Exchange Communities like in Stack Overflow
Since I started to join other communities like Writing, English Language & Usage, etc. I always noticed something that made my UX a little bit confusing, the home page button redirects to Stack ...
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Tags aren't wrapped [duplicate]
When I go to a question on a mobile phone, I see that the tags are not wrapped so that a horizontal scrollbar appears over the whole page. See below.
This issue appears on every SE site except Stack ...
