Questions tagged [design]
For questions regarding the design of the Stack Exchange websites; e.g., for issues with the layout.
83 questions from the last 365 days
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Extra whitespace in Help Center titles
The titles in the Help Center articles have both leading and trailing whitespace. For example, here's the HTML from How to Ask:
<h1 class="s-page-title--header">
How do ...
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Right-column "featured on Meta" section formatting is broken [duplicate]
Here's what it looks like (Brave latest, Ubuntu 22.04) for me:
And on MSE (so this isn't SO-only problem):
The section headers look obviously misplaced vertically, almost overlapping with section ...
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Right sidebar box missing padding under headers
There should probably be padding under the headers - can it be re-added? I'm using Firefox on Windows 11, and I can reproduce this both signed in and when signed out (with userscripts & uBlock ...
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When cancelling the "Move messages" popup in chat the select feature doesn't go away
When you open the "move messages" popup, then open the "create new bookmark" popup (or in reverse, doesn't matter), then cancel both of them starting from "create new bookmark&...
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The text of the previewed body is clickable while the body edition place exists itself
The body activates and keyboard pops up when you accidentally click on the white background or the text of the previewd body, which is unnecessary I think:
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Difference between clicking the words "Title*", "Body*", and "Rev" on the edit page
If you click on the word "Title*" on the edit page (Chrome for Android) you can type in your desired title to edit the previous one. If you click on the white background to its right nothing ...
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Inbox notification count does not update for chat [duplicate]
The inbox notification count does not update when I get a new unread chat ping.
For example, before:
After:
However, if I get a new notification on StackExchange sites (for example, via a comment), ...
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Upcoming research on Stack Overflow and across the SE network (Nov 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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PiperStaff
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Is Stack Exchange interfering with Firefox browser fonts? [closed]
Recently I have noticed Google search results in Firefox to have a different font, from both google.co.uk and google.com (I use both).
I've made two attempts to override the font. One is by installing ...
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Extend asterisk next to close/delete vote to flags
We recently got an asterisk (*) next to the close and delete vote to indicate you've already voted on that question/answer:
Why is there an asterisk next to the close vote total? E.g. Close (1*)
Make ...
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What's the intent of the dimming/undimming feature on DV'd answers?
Answers with negative net votes are shown in a dimmed font color, but when you hover the mouse over one it returns to normal color (on computer, haven't tried phone).
What is the intent of both of ...
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Where are the popups like “How to tag” and “How to format” when editing questions on sites where I have <2000 reputation?
See the pictures to compare the differences on the Suggested Edits page of now and before. (I show the suggested edit's rejected version, as there are small changes on it).
Now (the change happened to ...
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Weird box asking me to personalize my account is showing up incorrectly
I recently got this box as a pop up on a site where I have an account (Specifically saw it pop up on this page). It asks me to (reference picture):
Personalize your profile
Complete your profile by ...
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Please make the timestamps of comments to have only a single color per site
I was surfing in some of SE sites and I found this strange thing: There are two types of colors for the timestamp of a comment (in some sites I think).
Two examples are French site and ELU site:
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Wrong alignment of timestamp for short messages in moderator dropdown
In the moderator messages dropdown, when both the title/summary and the body are short, the relative timestamp is not right-aligned, but immediately follows the preceding element without any padding:
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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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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
...
PiperStaff
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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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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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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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This issue wasn’t resolved; there were some color issues for the moderator tags in “Network Profile”
I found that a staff marked my previous question (Some tags in “Top Questions” in “Network Profile” have different colors for their font as in Meta Stack Exchange) as status-completed 3 hours ago. The ...
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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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