Questions tagged [design]
For questions regarding the design of the Stack Exchange websites; e.g., for issues with the layout.
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The best answer of the question doesn’t show in the full newsletter for the “Greatest hits from previous weeks” section
The screenshot below is from English Language Learners Stack Exchange Newsletter - Friday, September 13, 2024, after I clicked the “View entire message” on the email message.
I found this question ...
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Searching for a tag that does not exist takes you to an empty page
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Why should add a proper 404 page for tags that don't exist.
When I search for a tag that doesn't exists on a Stack Exchange tag, I get sent to an empty page. Here is an example on StackOverflow:
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Topbar Navigation drop downs move when screen is resized
The drop downs for the top bar navigation icons move awkwardly when you resize the screen:
I would think (and thought they use to) remain in place when resizing the screen.
Tested on Chrome Version ...
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Please add total number of flags raised and total number of helpful flags to the flag history
The Impact box on the User Activity page currently shows the total number of helpful flags raised, for example the following image shows 213 helpful flags:
On clicking, we are redirected to the users ...
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Change the style of answer numbers on the question page to make positive-scored answers stand out
Currently, on pages that show a list of questions, the number of answers is displayed in one of three styles:
Gray font without a surrounding box, if it has 0 answers;
Green font in a box with green ...
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Username in chat now has wrong color as a visited link
This seems similar to this bug report: Visited chat info page buttons now have a dark background color, making them hard to read. It is now marked status-completed. Maybe fixing the issue in that ...
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Odd cropping of Meta Icon on profile page
I went to a user's profile page that I saw had joined a chat room. On that user's profile page, I noticed the image for the Meta Stack Exchange was oddly positioned, offset too high, causing it to be ...
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Username in chat room info title bar may be partially, or completely, hard to see depending on the window width, chat room and browser
In most cases, the username is shown as white text on a black background in the chat room info title bar, so if the window width is wide enough, it's easy to read. For example, with a maximized window ...
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Styling of comment timestamps becomes similar to usernames when I click onto the timestamps
Maybe related to this, but the reproduction step aren’t the same and I think it is more related to this new announcement. I think this bug is related to “visited timestamps”.
First way to reproduce:
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It looks like it let me vote without an account (it didn't actually)
Screenshot is below.
Steps to reproduce:
Go to a stack where you do not have an account.
Go to a post where you are able to vote.
Attempt to vote on the post.
Click the "X" on the "...
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Badge text rendering in default link navy blue [duplicate]
This is on Board & Card Games which still has the default site setup. Rather than showing the most recent badge Necromancer with a dark background and white text, the default coloring for links ...
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The watched tag icon does not appear on tags included in searches or on its own tag page [duplicate]
Let's assume that you are watching the bug tag. When viewing the questions page you should see something like the following (notice the watch icon in the "bug" tag):
The chat tag is not ...
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Visited chat info page buttons now have a dark background color, making them hard to read
I recall that the background color used to be white, but the visited chat info page buttons now have a fairly dark blue or purple type background color that makes them hard for me to read, as shown ...
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After the visited links color change, I can’t easily see the badges I've earned
After this was announced recently, I can’t even see what badge did I earn on this site actually, see the picture below:
P.S. This only happens in the badge I have visited, other badges look like OK.
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Upcoming research on Stack Overflow and across the SE network (Aug 2024)
Today, I shared an update on the blog about the research we will be conducting over the next quarter.
TL;DR – this quarter’s research focus is as follows:
Motivation, incentives, and gamification
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Google login popup covers login area on mobile
I recently had to change my password, which led me to log into the site on mobile, which I haven’t had to do in a while. I noticed that the “Sign in with Google” completely covers the regular login ...
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Some user which is not a staff now but show a “white” staff indicator in user card [duplicate]
Like for this answer (Employee profiles are now marked with a “Staff” indicator)
When I scroll down the answer, it brings me to the user card of the OP. See the picture below:
The user Catjia is not ...
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Red star indicator on moderator dashboard doesn't work on iPad
There's an indicator on moderator dashboard to mark a moderator that didn't sign updated moderator agreement yet. It should have a tooltip with an explanation, but unfortunately it doesn't work on ...
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Weird spacing of nested lists in Moderator Agreement (also the HTML is wrong)
The list items on the moderator agreement have margin-bottom: var(--su16) !important; but no margin-top. This causes weird spacing of nested lists. Adding the mt16 class to every <li> on this ...
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Weird “pop out” when I click “Stack Exchange” in Chat [duplicate]
When I go to chat, click the “Stack Exchange” button on the top left side, and there’s a pop up shown as below.
I can’t see my reputation for all sites in the “Your Communities” section.
For “More ...
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Styling of comment timestamps becomes similar to usernames when comments are expanded
When clicking the "Show N more comments" on a post the styling of the comment timestamps of other posts on the same page becomes similar to the styling of the comment author's display name.
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"Warning" icon overlapping other on sign-in page upon inputting wrong credentials
When inputting wrong password and correct email in the Login page, I get a "warning" icon overlapping the show/hide password icon:
When inputting incorrect email, though, it doesn't overlap:...
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Button on suggested edit popup doesn’t fit on mobile
Suggested edit popup has a button that doesn't fit into it. At the same time the entire popup width looks correct, based on the close icon position.
The issue probably arises due to different length ...
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Long unbreakable text in notification summary causes timestamps to overflow in global inbox [duplicate]
There's an item in my inbox for which the relative timestamp (2 days) overflows the envelope icon to mark it as (un)read:
This happens in several browsers (Safari and Chrome on macOS, Edge on Windows)...
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Why are the site icons offset again? [duplicate]
The site icons (in the "Communities" tab, and in the "Hot Network Questions" sidebar) are misaligned. I've checked on multiple devices and multiple sites, so I don't think this is ...
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Skip to main content link on the Meta Stack Exchange header
Randomly, I encountered a "Skip to main content" link on the Meta Stack Exchange header.
Clicking on it redirects to https://meta.stackexchange.com/#content and hides the Meta site bar.
I ...
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Is "required" tooltip on required fields legend required?
Recently the new "required" icon (a red star symbol) was added next to Title, Body, Tags words on Ask New Question page around all SE network. I think it's a good change for site UX. But do ...
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Some tags in “Top Questions” in “Network Profile” have different colors for their font
See my network profile for top questions:
See the bug, status-completed, and email tags. They have a weird blue color in their tags’ font and they don’t like the color of their tags’ font in Meta ...
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Duplicate modal - row hover state not cleared
There seems to be a bug regarding the hover class in the Duplicate modal:
Full resolution GIF: https://i.ibb.co/Qcx7zjg/unnamed.gif
As commented by @VLAZ, it seems to be related to the following ...
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Can Stack Exchange have a direct interface to push code from GitHub? [closed]
I would like to see this feature implemented—an interface to push code from GitHub—as I keep having to copy paste code between Stack Exchange and GitHub.
I know that GitHub has its own discussion ...
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Customize the appearance of Stack Exchange sites
This extremely helpful post has enabled me to customize the appearance of the up/down arrows on Stack Exchange sites. By toying around a bit and making some fortunate guesses about the names of ...
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What happend with tags? [duplicate]
Is it new tag design?
The whole style of tags is changed: font, colors, filling ...
That's how it looked before, e.g. on ruSO.meta
And now it looks like that:
I didn't find any new related ...
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All tag labels suddenly appear in bold font
On all the sites, the tag names started appearing bold in the last 15 or so minutes. Looks rather garish. Is this some new un-announced feature release?
For example:
One of the worst affected pieces ...
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Stack Overflow | Borders on every UI element [closed]
There is nothing really to say about it; the screenshots are explaining it by themselves.
It looks like an active CSS Debugging.
The bug has existing since weeks/months.
iOS 17.5 (I updated today).
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The "Cookie Settings" link in the footer is not aligned vertically with the other links in the "Company" section on narrow screens
When the width of the browser window that is displaying a site on the Stack Exchange network is sufficiently wide, it shows the different sections in the footer (e.g. the "Meta Stack Exchange&...
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Almost useless list of filtered options in review queue on mobile
A review queue can be filtered by tags and other options (e.g., close reasons). I believe that it looks fine on a desktop, but it's not OK on mobile. For instance, on enSO not all conditions are ...
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Upcoming research at Stack Overflow
Today, I shared on the blog all of the things we are looking to learn at Stack Overflow over the next couple months. I want to remind you all that this type of research typically operates months in ...
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Too low baseline with italics in comments
I noticed that some of the italicized words in comments are too low, on at least one site. See I pronounce question as kweshtin. Is my pronunciation wrong? and also the following screenshot:
Comment ...
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How can I make a reversed numbered list in a question or answer?
Numbered lists are easy:
Item1
Item2
This is how it looks when I'm typing this question:
Reversed numbered lists are not that easy:
Item2
Item1
This is how it looks when I'm typing this question:
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Catch them if you can... but you can't. (aka can't click "Watch tag" and "Ignore tag" from tag popup) [duplicate]
While reading this possibly related bug, I decided to check other popup: the tag popup.
When hovering over a tag, the familiar popup does appear, however when going with the mouse away from the tag ...
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Badge achievements broken? [duplicate]
I recently got badges for Yearling in ELL and English Stack exchange, and they looked funny. I realized that I was looking at the badges from another site in the achievement dialog.
This is what it ...
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Strange color change when clicking the vote button and holding the mouse
I upvoted a question today and saw than when clicking the upvote button, there was a strange color change to a blue color that seems to be consistent across all sites.
Example taken from Stack ...
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Only add the "edited by" label for big changes, and not "Edit tags"
Editing tags is a minor change; "Edited by ..." should be added only for big edits/ improvements.
Personally, I find "Edited by ... Kilroy" distracting, not helpful.
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Add comment guidance has very low contrast text [duplicate]
This showed up the first time I added a comment:
The black on dark blue is very hard to read. I think it should use the standard code colour of code. so it would look like:
Comments use mini-...
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The search popover tooltip lost the keyword text in Meta
The search popover tooltip is missing the keyword in the Meta section. In the Stack Overflow Search screenshot, the keyword texts are displayed correctly.
Screenshot from Meta Stack Exchange:
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New Focus Styles & Updated Styling for Button Groups
New Focus Styles
We’ve released a design update to focus styles across the many components within our design system and as well as a new design for our button group component. See more details on how ...
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Too small search bar and the search icon/magnifying glass is shown twice while viewing sites in portrait mode on mobile
The search bar (with drop-down) in the top bar isn't responsive.
It also is duplicated, which means it takes up an unnecessarily large amount of space on Stack Overflow with the AI text:
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Bold text conversion doesn't work across paragraph break
When there is a paragraph break between two bold codes (double asterisk), the asterisks are displayed and nothing is bolded. Is it a bug, or intentional?
Possibly related; not duplicate: Markdown ...
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The vote button disappeared if I voted a question/answers without signing up [duplicate]
Today, I see this question on the TeX - LaTeX site. Command for Multiplying Integers
I want to upvote the answers.
I click the upvote.
Oops, I forgot I didn’t even sign up an account for that site.
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Vote Button :active state not reset after mouseDrag
The Vote button got some styling changes [1], which introduced a state where the ::active color does not reset, whereas the arrow stays white, becoming invisible on the white background.
Press (and ...
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