Questions tagged [responsive-design]
For questions related to how the site looks, feels and behaves when its responsive design comes into play
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Winter Bash top bar not responsive enough on very narrow screens
I like the responsiveness of the Winter Bash page, but I found one small problem: on very narrow screens, the user information in the top bar will shift down and overlap the Winter Bash logo:
It's ...
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Flag-summary page is *mostly* responsive, but post titles overflow into the stats box
I see this on my flag-summary page:
At first I thought this was because not all pages on the site are responsive yet, but this one (otherwise) seems to be. The stuff on the main part of the page re-...
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Responsive design makes it impossible to select a mod message template on mobile [duplicate]
I just tried to select a mod message template to compose a mod message. However, since that's basically impossible without a mouse (a complaint for another time), I switched to mobile. However, I got.....
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Responsive Design Themes - What can sites customize and how can they get changes implemented?
There have been a few questions here on MSE along with some on various child metas about how fixed/permanent the new site redesigns are. I'm posting a new question rather than answering so that we can ...
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Too many hamburgers and not enough space for icons
This is how the new responsive design looks on a narrow screen when you have a lot of stuff going on in the top bar:
This is how it looks when you narrow the screen a bit:
The help and the review ...
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Responsive design now available on all sites; new theme customization coming soon
It's been a long process, but the changes we announced back in March are done. Most sites will see their new themes live for all users on November 30. Some sites with blocking issues may have to wait ...
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How to show only new questions (with the new responsive theme)
As an administrator, I want to see all new questions that are posted to the site.
Starting from the site's homepage https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com, how do I show only new questions, in as few ...
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The “choose a template” modal for moderator messages is obscured on my mobile browser
If I attempt to create a Moderator Message ("contact user privately") in my mobile browser (Chrome on Android) for Mi Yodeya, with the new responsive design, the modal that allows me to pick a message ...
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On sites with new responsive theme, word wrap on long titles breaks in the middle of a word
For sites that have the new responsive theme enabled, where the "Ask Question" button is in line with the question title on question pages, the word wrap on long titles is not working correctly. It ...
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Cannot edit leftmost tags on a mobile device in the new responsive design
When I'm on a mobile device with a narrow viewport, I am unable to edit or remove tags that are on the left hand side of the tag edit bar. I am only able to reach the rightmost tag or, if it's short, ...
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Editing the duplicate list doesn't really work on mobile with the new responsive design
When trying to add a duplicate target to a closed question on my iPhone, I'd like to paste a URL in the box where you're supposed to 'search, or enter a question link or numeric id'. However, the ...
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Please display editor and poster flairs side by side on smaller screens
This is the normal situation:
This is the situation on screens 965px or less:
However, we still have a large gap where these could fit, and it pushes the content down.
I would prefer it if ...
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Horizontal scrollbar on responsive sites I don't belong to
On sites that allow you to post an answer without logging in I get a horizontal scrollbar even when the site has a responsive design, probably due to the sign up/login boxes:
Example links to sites ...
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Nomination edit page not responsive enough (yet)
The page for adding/editing your nomination during an election has been made (partially) responsive already; the top bar is optimized for the small width and the sidebar widget is moved to the bottom.
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Rendering bugs with smart quotes in default font stacks
SUMMARY: The default font stacks using the old 1990s Microsoft fonts don’t work well because of collisions with smart quotes. Those font stacks all need adjusting, and quite possibly should be served ...
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Ransom-note problems with IPA and Greek under new font stacks
When you stitch together letters from multiple typefaces, your text begins to resemble a ransom note that pastes together cut-outs from different newspapers and magazines:
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Tracking set too tight on uppercase text-transform CSS
You have a bunch of CSS elements that include:
text-transform: uppercase
But you are not correcting the letter-spacing at the same time — and under your setup, you need to. That’s because normal ...
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Make “Disable Responsiveness” persistent even when cookies are cleared / not allowed
Please add an option to make the "Disable Responsiveness" button persistent
At the moment it seems to rely on cookies set in the browser. This means that the setting is lost if cookies are cleared or ...
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Unchanging font size, leading, and measure are incompatible with dynamics of responsive design
The new Responsive-Design theme doesn’t work for small viewports — nor for very large ones either!
In the new, would-be “responsive” design, the actual font size used does not vary as a function of ...
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Some profile pages are messed up in sites with the new responsive design
Few examples across the network:
MSE:
Physics:
IPS.SE:
Can this please be fixed? Pretty sure it's related to the responsive design or left nav bar somehow, though can't see what's ...
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Top bar resized and overflowing on reputation change
In the normal case I don't see reputation points on the top bar on my Android phone:
But it seems that after a positive reputation points change (green indicator on achievement icon) the top bar ...
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Responsive design squashing user image on profile page [duplicate]
When a user includes a large image in their "About me" section it appears to squash the user image on the left of the page. Reproduce here:
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/54887/aegon
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Review queues left menu bug
I want to report a bug in the layout in the review queues.
As you can see there is a scroll bar on the bottom, so it's not responsive. That's not the problem. When I scroll to the right, the left ...
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Will Area 51 Discussions be getting a responsive design?
It's been said already that due to the age of Area 51's code base, it will not be affected by the upcoming design changes. However, the Area 51 Discussions site runs on a more modern code base, the ...
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Why do we have two sidebar columns instead of combining them into one?
I know that SE is committed to both left nav and responsive design, and I'm not trying to disrupt that. The main reason the new design isn't working well for me is that the new left nav combines with ...
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Why all the downvotes on “updated site theme is now live” announcements?
Why all the downvotes on "updated site theme is now live" announcements?
I have just taken a sample and found sites with downvotes:
Software Engineering's updated site theme is ready for ...
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What does the Home Screen do that the Question Screen doesn't?
I'm one of the folks that don't like the left nav bar (hanging out mostly on EESE). I tried hiding it, but notice that I constantly need to hit the "Questions" choice.
If I just click on the site ...
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Responsive design for international sites has been released
I am excited to announce that international sites have gotten the new responsive design Wednesday, September 26th.
Last week, all beta and undesigned sites got the new theme:
Some things to be ...
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Does the new unified design theme result in more off-topic questions where lost users asked on the wrong site?
This is partially a request for opinion, and partially a request for statistics.
For a very long time, Meta Stack Exchange has suffered from a problem where a lot of users ask blatantly off-topic ...
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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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Updates to error states
We have updated error states for Ask a Question to use a new inline style that works better for smaller screens.
New error state
Old error state
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What’s the redesigning campaign – in a nutshell?
On my favourite site, a new design was announced. It contained a lot of links to posts which in turn contain a lot of links, answers, timelines, and references to stuff like Teams which is not ...
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Helpful sidebar content is down below
Currently, when the window becomes too narrow, the whole right sidebar is just appended below the whole main column.
That is bad for two reasons.
Parts that are immediately related to the top and/...
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Unable to upload an image or even close upload popup when responsive design is on
When responsiveness is enabled on the site, I can’t upload or even close the image upload dialog due to unscallable nature of the upload popup. Here’s the screenshot:
“Add image” and “close” ...
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Is there a way to disable responsiveness network-wide? (If not, can we add one?)
In the footer, there is a "Disable Responsiveness" link that toggles responsiveness on the current SE site:
But I don't like responsiveness and would prefer to disable it across the entire SE network,...
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Image upload dialog is not responsive, rendering it unusable on mobile
The image upload dialog looks like this on mobile:
Adding the image works, but it's not possible to click the add picture button.
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Too much horizontal space on mobile
On a mobile device, the responsive design mostly fits a single page, but the "Post as guest" pushes out and increases the horizontal space for the whole page.
In the image above, the red line is ...
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Responsive design on a phone indents posts and comments too much
This is what a question on MSE looks like on my phone, with left nav turned off:
For comparison, here is what a question from a site that doesn't yet have the responsive design looks like:
Long ...
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Why doesn't the site banner support zooming?
I understand that a common feature like zooming can be complicated enough to be not supported, but why can't the site banner zoom too? If the black top bar can be made screen-fit, and the fact that ...
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Answer count is not aligned horizontally in responsive design
In case of the existence of answers for questions in responsive design the middle block text is slightly (~2px) shifted to the bottom:
This makes me nervous.
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top bar is clipped, hiding site switcher, on non-responsive pages with new design
The new top bar adjusts to the window size instead of clipping important stuff off to the right in smaller viewports. However, on sites with the new responsive design, individual pages that aren't ...
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Show “edited” in one line with “posted” if possible in responsive design
I just noticed on my iPad, that “edited” block is displayed above the “posted” block in case of responsive design:
In old (normal) style both items are displayed in single line:
As you could ...
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Tab switch in responsive design should be allowed to wrapping
For very narrow width of the page view area the tap switch should be allowed to wrapping. It draws outside the page layout instead:
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Live: Left nav, new theming and responsiveness
This post is now locked due to a lot of off-topic or very tangentially related issues being posted here. It's so large that it is pretty hard to find/triage issues listed. If you have a concern ...
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New? Buttons on “Users” page behave differently than each other
I don't remember seeing these buttons before... I'm pretty sure the "Users" page used to look like the other tabs with the options being in a row with red underlines to highlight which tab is active ...
