Questions tagged [top-bar]
The black bar across the top of every Stack Exchange site.
701
questions
14
votes
2answers
246 views
After scrolling beyond the SE site's logo/name, replace the “StackExchange” sticky header logo with it
It's very useful for the user to know which SE site they're using at a glance. For example, I use Unix & Linux, Ask Ubuntu, Vi and Vim, Stack Overflow, and Server Fault, which can have ...
2
votes
1answer
52 views
Reputation display in top bar when accepting an answer in responsive design
There is a minor display issue in the desktop and mobile web view with the responsiveness is enabled.
When the responsiveness is enabled, usually we didn't see the reputation in the top bar. But if ...
5
votes
0answers
27 views
No data loading on the inbox, achievements and review boxes in the promotion site
In the Promotion site https://contests.stackoverflow.com, when we are clicking on the inbox, achievements and review icons from the top bar, only the place holder is visible and there is no data ...
1
vote
0answers
66 views
Achievement icon shows different reputation than what was earned [duplicate]
The other day, I checked on my recent question. To my surprise, the achievements icon displayed a different reputation change amount than what I had earned:
There is a discrepancy of 2, just as in ...
21
votes
1answer
276 views
Bring back the deeper-green rep change color
A couple of days back, the color of the green box indicating reputation change changed to light blue. Ok, it's a winter bash thing, I get it. Or - maybe it wasn't. Anyway, now it's light green. Why? :-...
30
votes
1answer
297 views
Reputation changes showing with blue background
I just refreshed a page to see my +10 rep notification turned blue. On chat it still shows green, but everywhere else (MSE, regular stacks, SO) I see this blue background.
I didn't see any posts ...
8
votes
0answers
75 views
Don't reset search bar in top bar after searching on stackexchange.com
When searching on a Stack Exchange site, your query is shown both in the top bar and just above the search results:
However, this is not the case when doing a networkwide search on stackexchange.com. ...
13
votes
0answers
72 views
Distinguish questions and answers in reputation alerts
When question upvotes were worth five points and answer upvotes ten, it was immediately obvious what new reputation was for. If I saw "+5" it meant that a question got upvoted while if I saw "+10" it ...
3
votes
1answer
59 views
“Your Communities” dropdown still shows my old rep counts for some sites
When I look at my network profile, I can see that my rep counts have already been recalculated after the question upvote value was increased. I now have about 350-450 extra rep on the five sites I ...
6
votes
0answers
58 views
Rep change alert pops up then vanishes upon refresh
Say I get an upvote on an answer. +10 indicator shows up, great, I click, click out, it's gone. Then if I click to a different page, or refresh it, it'll pop up for a second and then go away without ...
7
votes
0answers
51 views
How can I always show the search bar at a medium window width?
My preferred window width is wide enough to have plenty of space between the left-hand icons and the right-hand icons, but too narrow to have the search bar displayed.
How can I cause it to be always ...
asked Nov 7 '19 at 21:45
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
102k25 gold badges202 silver badges449 bronze badges
9
votes
0answers
52 views
Notification on achievements dialog doesn't take account deletion into account
A minor issue with the notification on the achievements dialog in the top bar: it doesn't seem to properly handle account deletions.
Steps to reproduce:
Have an account with enough reputation to ...
3
votes
0answers
66 views
Review-needed indicator is trigger happy [duplicate]
Since I recently gained 2K, and quickly thereafter 3k reputation here on MSE the review queues became accessible to me. Every now and then I check on them to see if there is something that needs ...
6
votes
0answers
49 views
“Review queues” button spots an “attention badge” even while you are review banned [duplicate]
Possibly only during the last [your timezone - SO timezone] hours of ban, but, for obvious reasons, that's hard to verify as an end user.
Update, as I fell for an attention test with a too-short late ...
0
votes
0answers
21 views
Bug in Badge Award display? [duplicate]
This morning, I was awarded "Nice Answer" in Super User. However, I was viewing a different stack (Puzzling) at the time I noticed the award, and the notification had the PUZZLING badge icon instead ...
2
votes
1answer
41 views
Does the silver badge count have a different font weight or size than the bronze one on MSE?
I was looking at my badges here on MSE. It appears to me the silver badge count has a different font-weight / font-size then the bronze badge count and the reputation.
I tried looking at the sites ...
3
votes
0answers
107 views
Alignment issue in the previous year's Winter Bash site's top bar
There is an alignment issue in the previous year's Winter Bash site's top bar. The tool tip texts are displayed next to its DIV.
For example, when trying to access the following Winter Bash sites, I ...
2
votes
0answers
25 views
Not able to see the newsletter confirmation message box fully when the top bar stickiness is enabled
When the top bar stickiness is enabled, if I'm subscribe or unsubscribe any newsletter, not able to see the confirmation message box. It was sticky with the top bar. After I scrolled the page too, ...
13
votes
1answer
91 views
Notification button not loading on the top bar
The message notification menu on the top bar seems broken.
Everything else seems ok, but not being able to read my notifications is bad.
Can we have it fixed please?
4
votes
1answer
83 views
Color for new events in dropdown is too light
Whenever I get new reputation events, badges, or comments I end up scrolling too far because the highlight is too light. See for example in this image:
The regular background is white (#FFFFFF) ...
6
votes
1answer
140 views
Search functionality is easy to miss on Stack Exchange sites
Came to the Parenting site and it took a while to find the search functionality. This blends into the top bar so much it would certainly take forever to find the search window being hidden in plain ...
2
votes
0answers
55 views
I got 1 reputation on SO meta, is it a bug? [duplicate]
I pinned the SO meta to the SE site switcher.
I looked at my reputation and it is 1.
When I go to SO meta I am not suspended or my reputation is one.
Is this intended?
The SO meta reputation in the ...
7
votes
1answer
83 views
Hidden left nav looks weird (blue linkish design)
Previously the left nav hidden in the topbar had the same black layout as the uncollapsed nav. However recently they turned into some strange bluish/link color. I don't think this is intentional:
...
21
votes
1answer
430 views
Top bar notifications (global inbox, +reputation) reset after refreshing or visiting another page
Normally, when you click the Inbox or the Achievements icon in the top bar, the notification (x new messages, +y reputation) clear. They still do, but upon refreshing the page, they're back to their ...
3
votes
0answers
47 views
Area 51 navigation bar doesn't display properly in half-window mode
When in half-windowed mode, the Area 51 top navigation bar's dark blue background breaks on the right side of the screen, showing the text over the background image, in Firefox and Chrome.
9
votes
0answers
94 views
Please make the red dot visible also if there are pending reviews near timeout
(example)
Now the problem is that surely enough people has seem that site with the privilege of making a decision about my suggestion.
The problem is that the review queues on smaller sites (...
2
votes
1answer
57 views
Why is there sometimes a dot on the review tab when there's nothing in the queues? [duplicate]
I oftentimes have a dot on the review queues tab, normally indicating that there's stuff to review in the queues, yet nothing is available for reviewing, in both main and meta sites.
What does it ...
6
votes
0answers
27 views
Available length of search inputs is different between top bar and search page
The top bar length for search query is 240 symbols, but for the search input on the search page the length is limited to 140 symbols. This leads to weird behaviour, when a can only delete the ...
4
votes
0answers
85 views
Vertical scroll bar overlaps top static bar
In attached image, Vertical scrollbar just overlaps when code snippets is too big and am scrolling up on code snippet area that time vertical scroll will overlap to top static bar.
8
votes
0answers
43 views
Recent names popup may overlap the top bar
Users that has changed their names at least once may see the "recent names" link in the Profile page and the corresponding popup with the list of names. Scrolling the page when this popup is opened ...
2
votes
0answers
32 views
Missing item in Achievements
Yesterday I wrote an answer and subsequently noticed an alert on the Achievements icon for upvotes. Clicking on it and returning to the answer, I noticed that the answer score was +5 (with 5 upvotes ...
2
votes
0answers
26 views
Top of answer covered by sticky top bar after clicking direct link… if it's a short answer just near enough to the bottom of the page
I thought this was resolved after my other question was status-completed, but I just saw it again. This is the first time that I've seen it since then, so it only happens in very specific ...
2
votes
0answers
39 views
Why the first post review tab is red? [duplicate]
This happened to me on the ELU stack exchange, though I figure perhaps this could happen on the other sites.
The review tab has a red dot on the left of the first post review tab, however it's ...
7
votes
0answers
86 views
Replace Stack Exchange logo by site's logo in the top bar
One of the complaints I have seen about the new design is that it is more uniform that it used be and often it is difficult to distinguish sites from another.1 (Especially if you are viewing a ...
10
votes
1answer
69 views
Capitalize “your reputation” in topbar tooltip
Most tooltips in the topbar are capitalized:
But not the reputation:
Let's capitalize your reputation!
5
votes
1answer
55 views
Incorrect tooltip for inbox messages before manual page refresh
When you have unread inbox messages the topbar inbox button contains an indicator with number and tooltip is saying "You have unread inbox messages":
Now you can click on the button to see unread ...
11
votes
2answers
319 views
No review, only hats
I can’t see the review or help icon in the top bar. All I see is hats and some other stuff:
The help icon is typically missing for me when I unlock review. But it’s blocked by hats even on sites ...
-2
votes
2answers
80 views
Use more available space for search box in top bar
Today I noticed that top bar's search box width was increased. It's a good news! But I can't understand why it's not increased even more. In particular, the right offset could be minimized as done for ...
6
votes
0answers
95 views
Size of the search textbox in the top bar is increased suddenly on all the sites
Size of the search textbox in the top bar is increased suddenly. I can recall the size of the textbox being smaller previously.
Is the textbox size increased on purpose, or is this a bug?
-10
votes
1answer
112 views
What is the new 'Snow-Flake' symbol? [duplicate]
Good day. Today I was just working when I saw that there was a snowflake in the top-bar-menu, and it had a purple notification number on it. I had never seen it before.
Note: This has been solved ...
3
votes
0answers
49 views
Top bar bug - no reputation shown for Area 51
The top bar's hamburger menu displays all the community's you're a member of, and your reputation there.
Area 51 is displayed there, but its reputation isn't. Funnily enough, Area 51 Discussion Zone ...
16
votes
3answers
248 views
The icon positions are changed in the Top(bar) hat
I am aware that Monica Cellio suggested the Top(bar) Hat.
When compared with the current actual top bar, the icon positions of achievements and review are interchanged. Even in Monica Cellio's ...
2
votes
0answers
44 views
Clicking on the inbox button on the navigation bar before it's finished loading takes me to the 'All Items' page
Scenario:
Log into computer, auto-pilot to Stack Overflow, take first sip of coffee, click the inbox item.
Expected:
The drop down menu opens up, and I can see my latest interactions.
Actual:
I ...
2
votes
1answer
81 views
Did I get a dissociation malus? [duplicate]
In the “community selection” drop down menu, my reputation on a particular meta site has been displayed 100 points smaller than the true amount for at least a week or so. The behaviour is consistent ...
4
votes
0answers
33 views
Show reputation decreases on top bar? [duplicate]
Early today, I logged in to SE, and the top bar (trophy cup icon) showed a rep change of +27. When I pulled it down to see the details, it showed +20 in each of two stacks (three actions - two ...
3
votes
0answers
83 views
Also show reputation and badges on review subpages
The answer to the question "Why are rep and badges now collapsed on Safari iPad?" explains that for narrower viewports, your reputation and badges are not shown in your topbar. As a sample, in my case,...
2
votes
0answers
35 views
Issues with topbar of sites I'm not participating in
For sites I'm not a member of there are two issues with the top bar after.
Problem 1:
Logo cut off and white space on the right
I don't see this problem on sites I'm logged into:
Problem 2:
When ...
2
votes
0answers
35 views
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 ...
3
votes
0answers
39 views
Flagging box goes over the title bar when scrolling
I was flagging a question when I noticed that the flagging dialog does over the top bar when scrolling.
Here are some screenshots.
(Screenshots were taken from Android Enthusiasts Stack Exchange ...
13
votes
1answer
305 views
Three “hamburgers” but still no direct link to meta
Users from EL&U will know I am not an admirer of the new theme which has befallen on my once beloved site. See my answer on English Language & Usage's updated site theme is ready for ...
