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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Questions only option doesn’t fit for following posts section on mobile browser
On my iPad with Google Chrome as a browser “Questions only” option doesn’t 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, ...
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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 on Firefox browser
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 is visible. But the loader image is ...
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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
When I go to a question I on mobile phone, I see that the tags not wrapped so that I've a vertical scrollbar over the hole page. See below.
This issue appear on evey SE site except Stack Overflow.
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Display positive question record actual number/ratio for user convenience [duplicate]
Personal Opinion
Example Badge: When I click on the Electoral badge (Picture One) I can see percentage, but why not on this Curious badge (Picture Two)... generally new user are confused by seeing ...
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Some topbar items aren't properly 'selected' when using the Tab key to navigate
When using the Tab key to navigate the top bar, most items have a vertical line to the left and to the right when they are selected. Except for the profile link and the Stack Exchange 'hamburger' menu;...
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Make the Winter Bash dropdown consistent with the others on the top bar
The winter bash dropdown isn't dark mode compatible.
The text is too dark. In fact, it fails all WCAG standards.
while text in the inbox looks like this:
The scrollbar is not the same as in other ...
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Hats left floating when viewing “less” information in review queue [duplicate]
I was reviewing a question in the Reopen queue on Stackoverflow where someone who had edited the post had a hat on their profile picture:
At the time I had the "(more)" dialog open:
When I ...
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Please make the Hat Dash leaderboard link a different color
Over at the Winter Bash page, the link leading to the leaderboard under the Hat Dash button is not a great color and is kind of hard to read:
Especially against the orange background. Can we make it ...
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After “run code snippet” winter hat image create duplicate image [duplicate]
After "run code snippet" hat image created a duplicate image. This happens in my Google Chrome browser, but in Firefox it's okay...
Bug link. Better see the picture:
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When I hover on “No hats for me, please”, it's too dark
When I click the snowflake icon, there is No hats for me please button. But when I hover on it, it's too dark. Can we change it to another color?
Change this to a brighter color (white? lightblue?), ...
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Alignment issue in the taginfo page
There is an alignment issue in the Tag info page, the vote counts and post text are not aligned correctly.
For example in the winter-bash hot/new questions page, we can see the alignment issue.
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Position of my hat appears to change after I wear the hat
The position of my hat appears to change after I wear the hat.
From picture 1 and 2, the sword is clearly aligned with the letter N.
However, after wearing the hat, the position of the sword is ...
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Can profile pictures be aligned straight on the Winterbash leaderboard?
On the leaderboard there is a fixed width between the rank and the profile picture, as they both have a fixed padding in CSS.
Can this be adjusted to account for the fact that single digit numbers ...
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Why is the text for the number of hats on the Winter Bash Leaderboard for SO so small in size?
I was looking in the SO Winter Bash Leaderboard, and I wonder why is the number for the number of hats much smaller in size than for the whole network leaderboard:
Whereas the numbers for the SE are ...
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Console errors when opening the Winter Bash dialog
When visit any user profile page, I get some console errors:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'top' of undefined
at Object.addHatToGravatar (hakovaim.js?v=6:311)
at wb-kovah.js?v=3:810
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Display bounty expire time in the bounty tab
When I go to the question details page it shows the expire time form (picture one)... I am requesting it should also show in the bounty tab like (picture two).
I think it will be helpful for question ...
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No margins for Winter Bash popup
When opting out the Winter Bash the top bar popup related to snowflake looks like this for me:
Is it intentional that there are no horizontal margins for popup content?
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If you run a code snippet, a hat still appears (hats are above snippets in the Z-order) [duplicate]
If you run a code snippet, a hat still appears.
Steps to repro:
Go to a question where there is a snippet and where the OP wear a hat
well, if you find that hard, just go here. rowspan not changing ...
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Whitespace error in the “Unique posts” count in /tools/post-feedback
On the Post Feedback 10K-tools page, there's way too much whitespace in the "Unique posts" count:
It's the same under all the other tabs. Can we eliminate (most of) the whitespace or make ...
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Invisible icon for Winter Bash in top bar
A picture says more than a thousand words ...
I'm pretty sure the Winter Bash icon is supposed to be visible there, but only after the upcoming UTC midnight.
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Search doesn't space out tags in a post
I went and did a search for my answers, and this answer, which was reported as a bug and then marked status-completed, isn't showing the tags as spaced out:
It should look like this:
Another example:...
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Odd duplicates link for questions that were closed as duplicates a long time ago [duplicate]
I occasionally notice this odd duplicate notice, but only for questions that were closed a long time ago. Apparently there was an update that changed the interface, changed how closing questions as ...
