Questions tagged [design]
For questions regarding the design of the Stack Exchange websites; e.g., for issues with the layout.
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Ch-ch-ch-changes: Left nav, responsive design, & themes
Thanks everyone for your feedback. The team has responded to feedback in the post Left nav, responsive design, and theming next steps
. Check it out.
Ch-ch-ch-changes are coming. As you've ...
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New post summary designs on site home pages and greatest hits now; everywhere else eventually
Update 3 - 2022-02-01
We've rolled out another small set of changes + bugfixes. The largest change was that we removed the yellow from watched tags entirely, leaving just the new "watched" ...
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Badge symbol in notification is of the site you're on, not where badge was earned
It's so cool that the notification reminds you of the colour of badge you've earned. But I am a little puzzled by the symbols:
Is it feasible to use the symbol from the earned site? At the moment it ...
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Help us test the shiny new "User Activity" page! (Plus a bunch of new features.) [duplicate]
We've launched! Please give feedback here.
Today, we're shipping the new "Activity Page" of the Profile here on Meta SE, so you can test it out and hopefully share some feedback and ...
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Some changes to the profile while we make it responsive
Update 1
I’ve restored the profile age to all and fixed a few bugs y’all reported. I’ll be addressing individual answers as best as I can.
Original post
On our way to a fully responsive Stack Overflow,...
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Right-hand sidebar covers the footer on the "ask question" page and markdown help page
I have noticed that while asking questions and scrolling to the bottom of the page, the right sidebar containing recent questions covers the footer partially. Also, a part of it goes beyond the ...
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<kbd> elements are way too intrusive [closed]
<kbd> is a great way to mark up text to be entered. But when you use it on Stack Exchange sites, it's really difficult to read. For instance, say I typed this sentence by starting with a Shift+F,...
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Is there some markup to post tags?
I am wondering because I was editing my profile and I though it would be nice to put the languages I know and stuff like tags.
Is it possible to post a tag? If it's not, do you think it's possible to ...
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Goodbye, Prettify. Hello highlight.js! Swapping out our Syntax Highlighter
Update 2020-09-24
This is now live network-wide.
Update
This is now live on Meta Stack Exchange and Meta Stack Overflow. Any bugs and feedback can be posted here as an answer.
I’m Ben and I’m a dev ...
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Dark Mode for Stack Exchange sites
Each Stack Exchange site should provide users the option of using a dark mode design/theme.
Why is this feature missing?
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What does constructive criticism of a design change look like?
Last week we rolled out the new network theme to several sites. Some of these sites had beautiful designs previously and now have a less striking look. Unsurprisingly, the response to these changes ...
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How does the review-needed indicator work exactly?
With the rollout of the new top bar, you’ve probably noticed the new review indicator:
or
It’s possible there will be a different review icon by the time you read this. But this post is just about ...
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Can SO have a fluid vs. fixed-width layout? [duplicate]
When will SO stop wasting real estate of my screen by having static width layout?
EDIT
It would be very interesting to hear how does Joel, being UI specialist, feel about this. JoelOnSoftware site ...
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New post formatting
Timeline
Date
What was changed?
Sep 23, 2020
It took me longer than I wanted, but I’ve got some updates for you on our s-prose component. You can see the pull request with my thinking over at our ...
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We are switching to system fonts on May 10, 2021
Update 3 - The changes from round 2 are live, but with one notable exception: On Linux, we spec’d “Liberation Sans” and “Liberation Mono”. Did some digging on that PR and installed a few Linux VMs and ...
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We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows
Update
This experiment has been graduated. The new styling for vote arrows is now live across the Stack Exchange network.
About a year ago, the Product team, focused on improving the general ...
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Let’s improve our site navigation
A Release Candidate has been announced
A.k.a. the 2015 Questions to Answer Refactoring Konversion (QuARK)
A.k.a. the great cheese move of 2015.
TL:DR; we are looking to change the navigation of ...
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Alignment issue in 'Your Sites' section in the Android app
There is some unwanted extra spaces in between each site in the Your Sites section.
Steps to reproduce:
Touch the Nav Icon in the left top corner
Touch the EDIT link in YOUR SITES
Scroll the screen; ...
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Profile Page Makeover, Part 3: the Prototype returns
Update
We have done a bunch of work following your feedback - just look at all those status-completed tags on the different answers here!
The top suggestion was to do something about the badge ...
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List of communities with base css updates completed
By January 2016, All communities have been updated
The design team has been rolling out design updates to sites as part of network-wide update to a new base css framework. The updates allow us to:
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New Staff and Mod Labels on site metas and Meta Stack Exchange
Update: As can be seen on this post and elsewhere on the site, the styling for the mod/ staff labels has been modified, and hopefully will not pop out and be as overwhelming as the original colors:
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"You've earned (badge)" panel layouts are broken
When I visit my activity page I see this:
The "Congratulations! You've earned (badge)" section has dropped down completely beneath the tabs under it.
The "You've earned a new privilege!" section has ...
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New colors launched
November 21, 2023: To help with internal managing issues, you may see a reference number added next to the status tag on your post. These numbers don't determine the order or priority of issues but ...
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SO mobile site "Your Answer" textbox appears on top of flag dialog
The "Your Answer" textbox seems to be eating the flagging dialog as shown in Figure A.
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Bug in textarea in bounty creation popup
I was attempting to create a bounty for a question over on Stack Overflow and ran into a rendering glitch on the last page. After entering a sentence that exceeds the length of a single line, the ...
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Z-axis issue with the floating review info panel, permits various elements to flow over it
I was having a look at an old question of mine when I browsed the reopen review page from the timeline.
I scrolled downwards and realized the Review completed panel comes along for the ride. While ...
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Tags in spoilers are always visible
Tags in spoilers are always visible, even if you don't put your mouse on the spoiler (on this Code Golf answer for example). See the screenshot:
Looks a bit strange on this site too:
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CSS for Stack Overflow didn't load
I originally thought this was a mobile-theme related issue, but it is not. The css of the page does not load.
I guess I could clear my browser's cache. Is there any other option?
Edit: I do not ...
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Let's break up with "Graduation" and remove a bunch of "Beta" labels
Over two years ago now, we made a big shift in how we handle "graduation" - nearly severing the connection between "graduation" and site design. We also talked about removing the &...
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Rollout of responsive design site themes - Tracking post
This post will be updated as the responsive design and left navigation layouts are released on each site.
Previously, we tried this out by releasing still screenshots of the site designs and getting ...
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"Similar questions" overlaps footer and has no background [closed]
When I can scroll down far enough to have the hot network questions overlap the footer (because my question is short) there is no background under the text:
Could they either be given a white ...
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Some improvements to blockquotes
Update
Sorry for the delay! I’ve been thinking about this feedback in between my other projects, and I’ve landed where I’ve started 😕
I’ve made sure to continue highlighting spoilers in gray. The ...
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Why do some questions in question lists have a yellow background? [duplicate]
On SO, when I'm scrolling through "questions" some have a yellow background. Is this intuitive to everyone but me? What is the yellow background trying to tell me about this particular question?
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New! Smarter profile creation and syncing
We've made some changes to profile editing. The TL;DR is:
We now encourage users to set a name and picture during signup. If you sign up with Google or Facebook, we pull them in and let you edit ...
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Left nav, responsive design, and theming next steps
Those interested can now opt-in to beta testing new themes across the network. More details in Opt in to beta testing new themes
In the post entitled Ch-ch-ch-changes: Left nav, responsive design, &...
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Visited links should be more visible
(This is mainly for Stack Overflow, I did personally not check out color schemes on the other sites. But a similar issue has been raised for beta sites.)
I don't think the current style for visited ...
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Responsive design released for all Beta & Undesigned sites
This is now out for all of the sites
We've had the new default unified theme up on Programming Puzzles & Code Golf for a month and a half now and the response there has been really positive. We ...
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Stack Overflow duplicated layer bug
Originally posted on Stack Overflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59320473/stackoverflow-duplicated-layer-bug
Requirements to reproduce:
Windows 7 x64
Firefox 71.0 x64
Steps to reproduce:
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CSS alignment issues on close reasons with pending votes
"Should" word in italics is shifted down in the vote-to-close popup when there is at least one pending close vote.
Just have a look at this:
Now without close votes:
So the issue occurs ...
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Rollout of new network site themes
For the remainder of updates, see the tracking post:
Rollout of responsive design site themes - Tracking post
See updated schedule below and updated stock theme
As promised (albeit delayed), we ...
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Please revert the line-height change!
Just checking how many people feel similar. At least for me, the increased space between lines makes it a nightmare to read. My eyes lack guidance and just feel somehow lost with so much white space.
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Feedback Requested: Design-Independent Graduation
Last month's announcement about our updated criteria for graduation and site closure sparked some solid examination into the intended nature of public beta and graduation.
One thing these discussions ...
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The flag pop up on heavily downvoted answers has grey text
Go to any random heavily downvoted answer
Click on the flag button
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Is this status-bydesign?
This is still happening, over a year later, and with work having been done updating the flagging ...
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Make clear which profile data is visible to whom
Looking at my own profile and the edit profile form, it isn't really clear to me which data will be publicly displayed/visible to registered users/visible to mods and which won't.
When I look at ...
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We’ve removed the option to disable the fixed top bar
We’ve removed the option to disable the fixed top bar. We didn’t change the default. We’ve only removed the ability to change the default.
According to SEDE, we’ve got ~13k users with the fixed top ...
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Stack Overflow T-shirt, 3rd anniversary edition [closed]
I was talking to Jarrod the other night about the early days of Stack Overflow. I then realized SO came out of private Beta three years ago.
What better way to celebrate this milestone than making a T-...
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Responsive Design Themes - What can sites customize and how can they get changes implemented?
Update:
We've begun working on new site designs and the information below also applies to them. I've added a new section about it and adjusted some of the guidelines as they've changed a bit.
There ...
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Reducing the weight of our footer
As you may be aware, we’re deprecating our mobile views, so with that in mind, it would only make sense to try to reduce the page weight in the responsive views that’ll be replacing them.
Currently, ...
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Did you ever wish you could have a Hot Dog Stand-themed meta.stackoverflow.com? [closed]
Are you depressed by all the gr[ae]y colors plaguing meta? Do you wish you had some exuberance on your favorite website? Are you hungry? Are you still reading this?
Well, worry no longer. I'd like ...
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New Stack Exchange Beta Theme
We launched the new Stack Exchange Beta theme on our Judaism site a few weeks ago. Starting today, we'll be gradually rolling it out to the rest of the Beta sites. Yes, we're retiring "Sketchy,&...
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