Questions tagged [navigation]
Relating to elements such as menus, bars, and links which help users get around the site.
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Drag to "visible tabs" while editing the tab bar on the iOS app
The current design requires you to press the + or - buttons on the left of each tab to make it visible on the menu bar or not while editing on the iOS SE app.
The design can be improved if ...
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Make it easier & quicker to find relevant Stack Exchange site with tooltips
When browsing https://stackexchange.com/sites you have to click on a tab in order to see what that particular site relates to. While in many cases it's obvious, in many others it isn't (eg. Stack ...
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How to get back to a site when viewing one of its questions [duplicate]
When viewing a question on a site which I don't use (I never registered on it), I can't figure out how to get back to the list of questions of the site.
See this example What female mathematician can ...
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Should the navigation tabs be less sticky?
Each SE site has tabs as a second level of navigation, for example below the "Questions" top-level navigation there are the "newest", "featured", "frequent", "votes", "active" and "unanswered" tabs.
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View top week/month questions on pages I am not logged in [duplicate]
On Stack Exchange sites where I am not logged in, I see the header saying "How it works" and a list of questions saying "Explore our questions".
On sites where I am logged in, these disappears and ...
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Navigating between the different Stack Exchange sites quickly
I belong to several Stack Exchange Sites. They are linked by a common email address, but it is difficult to quickly navigate between them.
Am I missing something or would it be possible to have a ...
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Question disappearing upon page refresh
I would like to point out the bug which I have started to encounter recently:
When a new question is asked, a notification is displayed as: "one new question is to this activity" and when I click it ...
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Why 'Modified -- ago' link in home page of SE (ProWebmasters) not navigating to the exact place of the comment?
When I clicked "Modified -- ago" of one of the post in Pro Webmasters, it's navigating the question and not to the exact comment of an answer. But the question URL is passing the ID of that comment. ...
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What is holding back the new navigation from rolling out to graduated sites?
It's high time to bury the old navigation in my opinion.
The iteration on the great cheese move appears to have ground to a halt now that MSE, SO and MSO have received the cleaner navigation.
I ...
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Change default start page on Stack Overflow
By default stackoverflow.com shows me a page named “Top Questions”, but I would rather see the following:
My unanswered questions (to see what’s going on with them)
The unanswered questions with my ...
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In Featured tabs, why does the page title use “Bounty” when a tag is selected, but "Featured" without a tag selected?
Without a tag selected, the (main) Featured tab uses "Featured" in the page title, however with a tag selected the page title uses "Bounty" instead.
For example:
The page title for the main ...
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Reliable paging [duplicate]
Stack Overflow is high volume Q&A site. So it happens regularly that when I read the last question and press the button to see next page, I see the same questions again, because there are plenty ...
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What happened to the "parent" link in the navigation bar on meta sites?
I was about to ask for a link on meta sites, similar to the "meta" link on normal SE sites, that would let us navigate back to the parent site. However, it's already been requested, and apparently ...
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Days-Filter is lost when changing page size or page
According to my other question (bug) which has been solved, now the result contains the right number of daily or weekly questions of the corresponding tag.
But when i change the PageSize or move to ...
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Different search paths when searching using the new question page
I was just looking for a duplicate using the top search bar, so I typed global-inbox. I got this page:
Here I can sort for votes, which I was looking for. Then I noticed I missed the tag brackets ...
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Feature request: use Ctrl-RightArrow/Ctrl-LeftArrow to navigate between pages
http://habrahabr.ru/, for example, uses Ctrl-RightArrow to go to previous page and Ctrl-LeftArrow to go to next page. It's a very convenient way to navigate and supposed to be an easy change.
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Weird animation effects in tab bar
When navigating through the app there is a weird animation effect happening on the tab bar.
Video: https://youtu.be/JJ5Fl-L0clQ
You will need to force it to play in a high quality to see properly
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Careers jobs listing - back to top
I've been looking on http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs# recently and I found out that when browsing the listing, clicking on 2 (page 2) or next (or other pages) does not return to the top of the ...
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Site Navigation @ StackOverflow.com
I think it is difficult not perfectly smooth to navigate the StackOverflow.com site. Next to the logo, there are a number of major categories: Questions, Tags, Users, Badges, and Unanswered. And in ...
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Clicking on "TIME ago"should have the same functionality in "micro" and "mini" view
Jeff pointed this out in this question.
Currently, in most situations (a question's "micro view") a question listing has four fold navigation functionality:
However, if you click on Questions in ...
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The navigation links for pagination of "newest" questions should be relative to the currently displayed questions
Currently, the next, previous and page number navigation links for the newest questions are related only to the total number of questions and are of the form:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions?...
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Dropdown within mobile navigation menu on stackoverflow.co doesn't open
On Stack Overflow's marketing website stackoverflow.co, nothing happens when I click on the dropdown in mobile responsive view. The same goes for every page on that website, such as /teams.
With this ...
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Is adding a Back button and/or a Next Question button a good UI/UX decision? [duplicate]
In terms of UI/UX it is a good decision, also for accessibility reasons. But is it worth the screen space it takes?
To clarify, I'm talking about a Back button that would take you the previous ...
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Trying to access community list beyond "Top 5" always lands me on my user page
I frequently switch SE communities by tapping the hamburger logo and then tapping on a community name.
The initial tap gives a menu with my "Top 5" communities. If I want to visit one ...
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How do I add education and company logo to my profile? [closed]
I am a very new user (< 1 hour).
As I was filling out information on this site, I believe that I saw a section in profile about education and a place to insert a 60x60 pixel company logo in the ...
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The maddening brown review number in the navbar displays the wrong number [duplicate]
Currently, the review number does not serve to alert me about review tasks I can perform, only that there are review tasks outstanding. I am already aware that this is a known issue, so I am not here ...
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Link to "All sites" (https://stackexchange.com/sites) shows an error [closed]
When navigating to All sites from main page or directly via https://stackexchange.com/sites in Chrome browser, there's an error page displayed with message:
ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS
Similarily, ...
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What's the desired navigation path from the communities to the top site "StackExchange"? [duplicate]
When browsing within one of my communities I sometimes would like to navigate back to the top site "StackExchange" (= http://stackexchange.com) to see the hot questions for example, but I don't see a ...
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Add tool tips (alt text) to the links in the bottom nav on all sites
The SO, SF, SU, and Meta links (at least, and for consistency you'll want to add them to api/apps, careers, howtogeek.com, doctype.com, and any others you add to the second row) should have tool tips (...
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Why do "Badges" have their own tab in the navigation?
I'm talking about the tabs provided in the navigation (menu-bar): "Questions", "Tags", "Users", "Badges", "Unanswered" and "Ask Question".
I think "Badges" is a topic in the help center and can be ...
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How long has swipe left/right been a feature?
I use a Mac touchpad and only by accident discovered that a two-fingered swipe left or right navigates between topics.
How long has this been a feature and what exactly does it do in terms of ...
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Why can't I use my "back" button to go back from Stack Overflow to Google?
When I Google, and end up on Stack Overflow from it, if I click the back button to go back to Google, it just refreshes the page. I have to hold in the back button (in Chrome) and go down to the ...
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Request to add keyboard navigation to the lists of questions
Can the list of questions be responsive to using the up and down-arrow keys for navigation?
http://duckduckgo.com uses this method for choosing an item from their results page, and it works very ...
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message when navigating away with an unsaved edit
Everytime I see this message, it makes my brain think...because I automatically read it as "You have started writing or editing a post. Press OK to continue..." and it puts me in the mode of "OK to ...
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Please don't prioritize answers in the new profile page query strings
I was testing out the new back functionality on profile pages. It works great, except for one part. If I have ever changed the page on my answers, then when I navigate back to the page via the "Back" ...
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Add links between related chat sites at top, just like regular sites
Regular Stack Exchange sites have helpful links to the corresponding Meta site in the top navigation bar. Likewise, the meta site links mack to the corresponding main site. Further, you can browse to ...
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CSS fix/feature request: Visited link color for SO main navigation
I see that there are a hundred questions here on meta about the color scheme, but this one is very specific and easy to fix:
stackoverflow.com has colored links for each of the main navigation ...
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Setting for hiding left navigation is ignored on logout page
https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/preferences/current
But on logout page this setting is ignored:
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Navigate individual Q&A pages from tag or search Query (maybe with Left/Right Keys?)
Sometimes browsing a tag or search term combination is a good way to get an overview of a subject. But going through the Q&A is a bit labor-intensive because you keep clicking back and forth ...
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Linkify site name to navigate to landing page [duplicate]
On the full website, I click the title banner image all the time to hit the content display. It would be fantastic if the site name in the app's title bar was a link to the landing page. It's ...
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Add visual indicator of side menus
I was in the midst of writing up a feature-request to ask for a way to open the navigation menu from any screen rather than just the feed page. Getting around the app without one is hard. But lo and ...
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Clicking in any Main menu should also reset submenu
I would suggest that when you click on the title "Questions", the selection on "Active/featured/hot/week/month" should also be reset, same with other Main Menu entires. Simple, clicking on any Main ...
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Careers 2.0 navigation and filter problem, no bookmark support for list filter
In the job listing page after applying a filter the url does not change, this makes it impossible to bookmark the page. Another issue is after selecting a job from the list it navigates to the job ...
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Why do I get the "confirm navigation" message every time I submit a post on Stack Overflow?
Every time I enter a question on Stack Overflow and hit "post your question", I get this:
The question still posts without any problems, but the confirmation dialog is really annoying.
OS: Ubuntu 13....
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Missing 'Filtered Question' on right navigation side [duplicate]
I noticed the following problem for the second time within two weeks (noticed on stackoverflow.com.)
I usually see a link to my filters of stack exchange (Filtered Questions). But today it's the ...
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chat link removed from navigation bar at the top? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Eeeek! Where did the chat top navigation link go?
The navigation bar has no chat link anymore, if there is a new blog post.
Crypto Stack Exchange:
Meta:
Stack Overflow:
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Cumbersome navigation of the 10k tools [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tabs missing for “flags” page in the tools section
When going to the 10k tools, you are presented with a few tabs with listings. They work as expected, except for ...
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Could we go to the meta sites more quickly?
Currently when wanting to see the current questions in a meta site of a specific community (without using the URL because that would involve extra work), this means I have to:
Click on the Stack ...
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An optional navigation bar floating at the top that has DVD like navigation buttons
I picture a navigation bar that includes new navigation elements to jump to the next or previous answer in the current question. See mockup below:
Since devinb's comment here makes a good point, I ...
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Why is there no back to questions button?
This isn't a criticism by any means, nor do I wish to see one added. I simply ask because I'd like to know the design motivation for it. I personally like it, but whenever I try to implement similar ...