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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Tag and reputation popups are visible simultaneously
Due to timeout before showing the tag popup on the activity tab of the user profile page you can see the simultaneously appearance of both popups. Here are the gif and stop-frame:
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UX error on new SE login page [duplicate]
So, I see the login page for SE has been updated, which is neat.
However, when logging in by email, if I enter my email address and press tab, instead of taking me to the password field, it ...
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Pasting Excel cells as an image [duplicate]
When I copy a cell content from Excel 2013, it is pasted as a regular text to most / all apps . Tried:
Skype,
Word 2013,
Notepad++,
Chrome (address bar),
other website (Google Help),
Windows 10 (...
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Earth Science vs. Spanish Language favicons: now with 0% lowercasing!
Coming from here: Favicon of Earth Science and Spanish are too similar
If you thought they were too similar... check this out:
Seems like now both favicons appear as all-uppercase in the small HNQ ...
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Minor alignment issue in improve edit popup window
There is a minor alignment issue in the "Improve Edit" popup window. The text "hide preview" doesn't have proper margin.
Screenshot for reference:
The alignment issue is not occurred, if I ...
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Highlight (Colored) Watched Tags [duplicate]
I have a few watched tags I would like to pay attention to. But the problem is when I'm going through StackExchange questions, sometimes I have to double check to see whether I have subscribed to that ...
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Offline maintenance message not legible on Christianity.SE [on hold]
The offline maintenance message is not easily read on Christianity.SE because it's white text on an almost white background.
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Preview on editing profile looks different from actual profile page
When editing my profile, I noticed that <h1> has a bottom border and bold text (click the first image), while <a> has text underline.
Click to see full image
But on the actual ...
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Increase spaces between badges in expanded usercard
For the established user, in the expanded usercard the spaces between the badges are very less. Could be this increased little more.
Less space for badges in expanded usercard:
Proper spaces ...
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Double back slashes escape code formatting in comments (but not answers) [duplicate]
I recently posted on answer on Stack Overflow which mentioned the discrepancy between windows and linux path separators in the answer. I enclosed both in inline code snippets like so: \\ and /. These ...
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Ugly scrollbar shown on HNQ when user image can't be shown
It appears that when a user image can't be displayed, the user in the Users List on the right side of the HNQ page gets a scrollbar:
Looking at that user's profile, it looks like the link for the ...
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Avatars won't load in Firefox if very restrictive content blocking is enabled
This is quite a trivial bug. On https://math.stackexchange.com/tour if content blocking is enabled, avatars won't load:
Content blocking is set up to custom, trackers are blocked in all windows, ...
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Site bar missing on Meta Stack Exchange
It seems a new design has been rolled out to Meta Stack Exchange. However, the only way I can see I'm on Meta is the browser's address bar and the placeholder in the search bar ...
I'd expect that ...
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What happened to code fences and Stack Snippets?
I just noticed that something weird happened today with code fences and Stack Snippets.
Examples:
<h1>Hello World!<h1>
Hello World!
Seems like the boxes are bigger. What is ...
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Tab border rounding doesn't take wrapping into account
When tabs can't fit horizontally into page, they're wrapped to new line. But since the first, and the last tab borders are rounded this looks little bit odd:
I zoomed an image to show the issue ...
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Minor alignment issue in the site's home page for the anonymous visitors
When I'm visiting any Stack Exchange site with out login (as anonymous visitor), in the home page there is an alignment issue.
The grid cells are not aligned correctly in the Mozilla Firefox, Google ...
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Filter sites are not responsive
Viewing questions from a global filter (like this one) looks like this on my mobile device:
My requests:
Please make filter sites responsive, so I don't have to zoom and scroll horizontally when I ...
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Enabled/disabled mod menu options should be more visibly distinguished
Moderators get a menu of things we can do to questions. Some that aren't applicable will be disabled. There's a problem: depending on one's browser and OS it's nearly impossible to tell what's enabled ...
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Nomination owner highlight is displayer in the comments only after clicking the “show n more comments” link [duplicate]
When navigating to the election nomination page, in the comments section, by default there is no highlight for the nomination owner.
But when I click the "show n more comments" link at the end of the ...
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History pane on iPad breaks new design
The new design seems to work reasonably well on my iPad (2018, 9.7”, iOS 12.1.4), until I open the History (aka Reading List / Bookmarks) pane. This causes the page to shrink in width (as expected?) ...
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Incorrect badge icons? [duplicate]
I was browsing Aviation.SE site when I noticed "+10" on the reputation dialog. I clicked on the achievements icon in the top nav bar to see what I got that rep for. It was for a answer on Stack ...
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Site logo issue in international Stack Overflow site's profile page for anonymous users [duplicate]
In the international Stack Overflow sites for logged-out users, when navigating to a specific user's profile in the top bar the partial text is truncated.
For an example in Russian Stack Overflow ...
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When gravatar is not loaded the “title” text is displayed in sidebar - Google Chrome browser
In the chat room section placeholder for the side bar, if any of the user's gravatar is not loaded, the title text is displayed inside the box, it contains the user name along with when was he/she ...
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Problem clicking on title of question to link
Consider the title of this question -- it's very long, multiple lines regardless of the size of the browser window..
If I wish to connect to the question, if the cursor is positioned between the ...
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Newsletter title fix colors the wrong element
One of my previous bug report was fixed according to the developer’s answer but the fix has introduced a new problem. In particular there is something odd with text coloring:
For English based ...
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The bottom part of site logo for localized SO is obscured on user profile page when not logged [duplicate]
E.g. my own profile page on ruSO.
When not logged (just open on private mode):
All is good when logged:
All localized SO are affected.
Related report on ruSO.Meta: Ползёт и перекрывается ...
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What is the state of the new site designs promised after the redesign?
Last year, Jon Ericson wrote in an announcement about the completion of the responsive design rollout:
We'll continue fixing bugs and starting in 2019 we'll be working on designs for sites with the ...
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Error message for HTTP image sometimes flows over into preview
When editing a post with an embedded HTTP image (example), you'll see an error message asking you to upload it to imgur or specify an HTTPS URL:
However, the lack of a line break after the image in ...
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Bounty box is not aligned properly under the score value
Bounty box is not aligned properly under the score value (visible only for bounty offerer)
Tested in Firefox 65.0.1 and Chrome 72.0.3626.119 on Windows 7
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When are questions about Stacks - Stack Exchanges design system - on-topic here on Meta Stack Exchange?
Stacks is a design system that is developed for Stack Exchange and maintained by Stack Exchange developers.
In this way, it is both, about the Stack Exchange network and third-party.
When is a ...
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Can we show post lock timers to all users?
Currently only mods can see lock timers and that's only for questions.
Temporary locks on answers not showing lock duration
When a post is locked, it frequently causes consternation and frustration ...
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Temporary locks on answers not showing lock duration
Tested on Stack Overflow, Stack Overflow Meta and Pets.
Questions
Temporary locks on questions are showing the duration (mod only).
Stack Overflow.
Meta Stack Overflow.
Pets.
Answers
On answers ...
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Don't clear the custom flag message when dismissing the window
It has happened with me a lot of times, when the text I wrote was cleared after a flag dialog was dismissed.
Please, don't clear the message, when window dismisses.
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Unable to hide the horizontal scroll tabs in a long code snipped [duplicate]
I faced the issue on several occasions, so I am reporting it here. Please see the screenshot for a better understanding of my concern.
I use a Mac. Please auto-hide it after, say, 1 second.
The ...
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Reduce the size of site newsletters to ensure that they don't get clipped in Gmail
This is related to a different question, but I'm going to propose specific changes.
The goal is to reduce the size of the message below 102K so Gmail stops truncate the message, hiding a portion of ...
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Workaround for horizontal scroll bar obscuring single line code markdowns [duplicate]
Occasionally this happens on chrome from a mac:
Single line code markdowns can thereafter be difficult to read. Clicking elsewhere on the page doesn't seem to 'undo' this. My workaround is to double ...
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Add margin to the “Communities” block on the profile activity page [duplicate]
https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community
Actually, h tags have margin:
h1, h2, h3 {
margin: 0 0 1em;
}
But "Communities" block has class .gs4, which overides this rule:
.gs4 {
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Available length of search inputs is different between top bar and search page
The top bar length for search query is 240 symbols, but for the search input on the search page the length is limited to 140 symbols. This leads to weird behaviour, when a can only delete the ...
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Inconsistency in behaviour for comment upvote/flag and delete between mobile and desktop browser
On my mobile Chrome browser all the items (flag/upvote and delete) for comments are always visible due to the lack of pointer item like a mouse. This is fine.
But on desktop browser "delete" link is ...
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Flag summary page title may overflow into description block for non-English UI sites
In case of localized sited (in particular for Stack Overflow in Russian) and for a small screen there is a design issue with the head block of the flag summary page. For instance title of the current ...
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Alignment issue in election - add comment section
There is an alignment issue in the Election - "add comment" UI. The Add Comment button and help link is overlapped with the comment box.
Currently the ongoing election in "The Workplace". The issue ...
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Vertical scroll bar overlaps top static bar
In attached image, Vertical scrollbar just overlaps when code snippets is too big and am scrolling up on code snippet area that time vertical scroll will overlap to top static bar.
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Inconsistent tooltip capitalisation on question pages
The capitalisation of tooltips on question pages is quite inconsistent.
Looking, for instance, at the featured Meta Stack Overflow question "Take the 2019 Developer Survey", many inconsistencies can ...
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The cluttered and not very useful Bugs page
Any visitor or user who clicks the Bugs tab, situated on the Top Questions Page, is presented with *single page of bugs ranked in order of votes. These upvotes might lead an inexperienced user (and ...
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Alignment issues in achievements dialog on non-responsive pages when viewed on mobile
When viewing the achievements dialog on non-responsive pages (like the review queue detail pages) in Safari on an iPhone, the alignment is off: reputation changes take more horizontal space than ...
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Top bar of mobile chat is hardly readable for some site(s)
The top bar of the mobile chat pages has a background matching one of the colors in the site's design. For some sites, like Aviation, a light background color has been chosen which makes the white ...
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“Recommended” text overlaps the badge progress text on the profile page
Can't see the actual progress of this badge. Can you do something with it?
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Need more vertical space in revision page above tags
It seems that there is need to add more vertical space in post revision page when the tags and the last post line are modified:
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Recent names popup may overlap the top bar
Users that has changed their names at least once may see the "recent names" link in the Profile page and the corresponding popup with the list of names. Scrolling the page when this popup is opened ...
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Safari - overlapping boxes on mobile flag page
On Safari when I went to my flag summary I noticed the Rude or Abusive and Pending boxes overlapped each other:
This doesn't happen with other flags like Not an Answer of Low Quality as they don't ...
