Questions tagged [top-bar]
The black bar across the top of every Stack Exchange site.
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Can the review-needed indicator be based on votes about to age away, rather than total tasks?
As a moderator, I generally ignore the close votes queue for the reasons outlined here, on the (apparently false) assumption that if a review queue requires attention, then it will turn red. However, ...
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Big grey area in my profile image on the top banner [duplicate]
No explanation needed (I hope):
If you need explanation:
Why is it grey?
Here is the direct link:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/JGCOn.jpg?s=32&g=1
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Can you spot the scrollbar?
With the winterbash Icon present a scrollbar is introduced on small screensizes. Can you spot it?
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Forward links different from the original stackoverflow community
I'm going to use the Code Review community as an example, but it works for several others as well:
When we are seeing a question on stackoverflow and we click on the icon on the top left side, we are ...
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Curse of the red blob (more than usual)
On the biology stack I comparatively recently started performing basic reviews, the last two days (this being the third) the first-post review queue has contained a notification red-blob, and during ...
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Fix layout of top bar in mobile [duplicate]
In the mobile version of some pages of Stack Exchange websites, the top bar appears wider than the page; it extends off the left side, but not off the right.
Pages where I've specifically noticed ...
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What's this weird black line on the topbar of a site I moderate? [duplicate]
When browsing the site on mobile - haven't yet tested on desktop - I see a little black line on the topbar of my mod site. It looks almost like someone used a freehand marker to draw over something.
(...
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Profile partially visible in reputation league due to sticky top bar change
If I click the achievement link in the "Profile" tab, it opened the reputation league. But my profile is visible partially there.
I hope the issue is due to the recent We’ve removed the ...
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Top bar with double user card [duplicate]
A double user card appears in the "community" menu of the settings/profile section of all sites:
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Notification for new review queue items in top bar
Change the color of the icon in the top bar to green when a new review comes up.
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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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Why is the top bar now sticky for everyone, and the preference to disable it removed from user preferences? [duplicate]
Ever since the redesign of the topbar with the option for it to be sticky (i.e. to stay visible as you scroll), I've had it not sticky. About five to ten minutes ago, I noticed that all of a sudden, ...
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Make the "Help" icon link to the Help Center
This is just a tiny request to simply change the href attribute of the "Help" icon's link from "#" to "/help".
All the other icons/menus have useful links except for ...
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The responsive mobile site's top-bar dropdowns are missing related links in each one's header
I've got the access to moderator tools privilege here on Meta SE, and the review queues dropdown ordinarily features the "tools" and "all queues" links that allow quickly hopping ...
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Could we get a more informative dropdown for when you don't have any review queues due to daily votes?
Currently, if a user has used up all their votes for the day (regardless of whether they did it in the review queues or not), the First Post and Late Answer queues will be hidden from their dropdown. ...
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Header line display sometimes hides red new-messages counter
I've been missing new messages/replies lately, because the red indicator in the header line is not always visible. Seems having a big Green number obscures the red one.
If I hover over the inbox icon,...
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Was hyperlink blue removed and font weight changed in top-bar review queue links for main sites in dark theme?
I noticed today that on the main site Dark Theme removed hyperlink blue and the font weights were also changed.
This is currently not consistent with
Font weights on other sites
How hyperlinks are ...
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Can we change the design of the reviews' indicator in the top bar?
In the old days, we used to have a number when there were reviews that need to be done. I understand why that had to go. I'm not asking to bring it back. But one issue that I've noticed with myself, ...
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Is showing the +100 in the top bar on joining a new site with the association bonus considered intentional today?
For years, whenever I've joined a new site, I've seen a +100 in green in the top bar on the achievement dropdown. I've always thought that this was part of the system's design. I've never been annoyed ...
asked Jun 9 '21 at 2:37
Sonic the Anti-New Variant-hog
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In case of loss of reputation, a green icon lights up with an inscription like -n
Recently, the top-bar has changed a little and after that, if you lose your reputation, the green icon will light up there:
It would be nice if instead of green showing, the background was either red ...
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Large white space in the check queues
Recently, the mobile version has changed a bit. On the top right, a button has been added. When you click on it, the queues of checks appear. But half the space is just a white spot:
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Can we add Stack Overflow teams to our list of communities?
I am a member of a private team. I would like to add a link to that team in my list of communities, here:
Right now it doesn't look like this is an option. I have to go to Stack Overflow to find my ...
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Cookie alert has a higher z-index than top-bar menus
The top bar menu dropdowns do not appear over the cookie notice, which means I'd have to accept/adjust my cookie settings before opening the site switcher/viewing my reputation gains/opening my inbox (...
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Review option lists Inbox messages in Promotion page top bar
There is a bug reported about the Promotion page top bar loading issue. Currently all the top bar menu options are loading with the data, but there is an issue with that.
While clicking on the Review ...
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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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Can we please get the full count of new hats now?
If you have earned more than 99 hats since you last checked the hat inbox, the counter gets limited to 99:
There should have been around 300 new hats there, by my count.
The 2-digit restriction is ...
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'1 new hat' notification doesn't go away
No matter how often I click the Winter Bash inbox, my [1] new hat indicator won't go away. This behaviour started when the inbox told me "You earned the right to run fast and jump for joy on ...
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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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What do these numbers mean on the right side of the different Stack Exchange Communities?
I'm not sure what these numbers are referring to, i.e. the 79, 11, 11, 1, 1.
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keep unread inbox messages highlighted, keep unread notification count in top bar icon [duplicate]
I dread clicking on the inbox icon because clicking it means that all messages are no longer "unread" and the notification number (usually color red) will go away. It means we must wait ...
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Add link to INBOX: either link reponse tab from current community or global inbox from network profile
Top bar menus: Achievements and Review Queues have useful links in top within them; e.g clicking on Achievements menu, you'll find links to privileges and badge, link to all review queues from ...
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Don't display review queues icon when user cannot review questions
Currently, when user cannot review questions because of insufficient reputation, the review queues icon is not displayed. This is fine. But when a user cannot review questions because they are banned, ...
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Reputation +n doesn't disappear from the achievements after reading it
I got +n reputation, while I was searching a question in the SE search. I clicked the achievements icon to make it disappear, but it didn't:
Received +2:
Clicked achievement dialog:
Clicked out of ...
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In user profiles on meta (SO-only?), the site's meta logo is partially hidden (by the search bar?)
So far I've only seen this on Stack Overflow, which is probably due to its topbar design being different than most of the network, but in case there might be more sites impacted, I'm reporting it here ...
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Reputation indicator green color is different in stackexchange.com
The reputation indicator green color is different in the stackexchange.com header.
For example in the meta.stackexchange.com header the reputation indicator color is color: #5eba7d
But in the ...
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The top bar is a little too full for moderators on mobile
Alternate title: why can't I hold all these icons??
The top bar has a bit too much stuff in it on my phone when there's flags:
You might spot the issue already: the site switcher icon has been ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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? :-...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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Red indicator light falsely positive most of the time
Over at Arts & Crafts SE, the “Review Queue” notification light has been mostly false lately, correctly indicating there is a vote to be made only about 10% of the time.
Others at Arts & ...
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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 ...
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"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 ...
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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 ...
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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'
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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 ...
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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 ...