Questions tagged [top-bar]
The black bar across the top of every Stack Exchange site.
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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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Two years later: How has moving the Meta link affected Meta usage?
Two years ago the link to a site's Meta was moved from an always-visible position in the top bar to subitems in the help and Site Switcher menus, as part of the top bar redesign progressively rolled ...
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Please don't show the red dot indicator for review items I can't do
This is not a duplicate of Please don't red alert me for queues I've handled, because this reports different things from that question. That question is specifically about the case where the ...
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Make the chat link one click away in the new top bar
In the new header could we please move the chat link back to where it was? (One click away)
As a daily frequent to the JavaScript room that's the one link I'd love to have visible 100% of the time.
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I can see my reputation "increasing" even though I am suspended
So I got myself suspended, for being an idiot. My fault.
I now have 1 reputation. But while I was sitting on the front page of the site where I'm suspended, somebody upvoted one of my answers. I ...
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Topbar tells me about a +1 recovered from a deleted DVed post, but detail view doesn't show it
The topbar only tells us about reputation gains (see related issue with lost rep). But sometimes it only half-tells us:
The explanation of that +1 is nowhere to be found here. An answer that I ...
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Change the color of the moderator inbox diamond
Currently the diamond that notifies you of changes to the moderator inbox changes its color from grey to blue.
Grey Diamond:
Blue Diamond:
I think the blue blends far too well into the design of ...
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Menu to show daily progress towards vote / flag limits
I want to track how many of what (regular votes, comment votes, close votes, delete votes, flags, etc... excluding review actions) I have left throughout the day. I find I often will run out of one of ...
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Stop sending me to stackexchange.com when I click the site-switcher
Note: I am aware that the site switcher has moved to the right side of the page. This isn't a case of me clicking the wrong icon, it's a case of the site-switcher itself being a link to stackexchange....
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Unwanted horizontal scrollbar, when rep hits 10k+ (plus badges)
I am facing a little CSS annoyance with the top bar containing my rep count representation:
Can we get rid of that horizontal scrollbar please. If necessary shorten the rep/badge info from the ...
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Websockets can be used to spy on users' activity
Stack Exchange's removal of "last seen" has demonstrated that the time that users are active is considered private information. However, there are still a variety of ways to circumvent that, ...
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Top bar navigation partially lost when accessing from Tor network - unable to post answers or comments
Starting around 2023.09.17, I've been unable to access the review queue, recent inbox, or achievements using the top bar menu, when using TorBrowser. At the network level the response to the GET (for ...
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The top bar on Area 51 is malformed
The top bar on Area 51 seems to be malformed:
For a while now, Area 51 has been using an older version of the top bar on Stack Exchange sites, that better conforms with its 2011 design. However, it ...
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Mark moderator inbox item as read when I've read it
As a moderator on a beta site, I receive a notification for every meta question. This notification was formerly delivered in my inbox (still is on Ask Ubuntu, blessed be its top bar while it lasts) ...
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Clicking reputation on the new top-bar should take me to the reputation tab of my profile as before
With the old top bar, clicking my reputation would take me directly to the reputation tab of my profile for that site. Now to accomplish the same, I must do two clicks.
For bonus points, clicking ...
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Capitalizing issue in the header pages
In the header's "review queues" drop-down menu, in the link text of "all queues" and "tools", the first character is a capital letter:
But in the "achievements"...
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Close search "help" box on unfocus
I don't specifically require any accessibility features, but I prefer to use the site with my keyboard sometimes. When I tab through the link/input fields the help box that appears below the top-bar ...
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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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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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Link design within the new unregistered user inbox/achievements dialogue looks weird
That looks weird.
The log in is hyperlinked, but sign up is not and instead, there's a big blue button saying sign up underneath it. Why not just have 2 buttons? Or hyperlink both? Something like:
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Wrong reputation calculation in achievements dialog
Looks like there is something wrong with reputation calculation:
+2*5 -6*2 = -2... why there is +6 in reputation popup?
As @Catija said in comment calculation is OK in the profile:
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Reputation and badge counts are harder to read on the new top bar
I'm finding it harder to read the reputation and badge counts on the new black top bar. The bold white text on the black background seems almost blurry. Also, I don't know if it is the 1px size ...
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Why are reputation changes not showing in the top bar?
Since some time in the last two or three weeks, upvotes do not show in the top bar the way they used to (like, +10 on the achievements dropdown image for an answer upvote), at least on Super User. I ...
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Moderator meta notification broken for employees
Moderators get notifications of new Meta posts on their site, which is totes rad and I've loved it from when I was a moderator.
Right now, though, when I click on a link from the mod box, it doesn't ...
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Add new top bar to chat rooms
Now that we have a shiny new top bar, have there been any changes in plans to make it visible in the chat rooms? The responses in old threads I've found seem to defer or decline the option due to ...
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Area 51 and Careers favicons are loaded with an absolute scheme
The Area 51 favicon is loaded with an absolute (http) scheme, which makes my pretty green lock go away when I open the site switcher:
All of the links to notifications et al also use the http scheme, ...
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Area 51 Discuss Link Goes to Old Chat Parent
If you go to Area 51 and click on the "chat" link, it redirects to a list of rooms that seems to be parented to discuss.area51.stackexchange.com, while the parent site that is used for new ...
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"More Stack Exchange Communities" Search Improvement
The "More Stack Exchange Communities" search box is useful for finding specific Stack Exchange sites when their URL doesn't necessarily match their content. For example, if one is looking ...
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Per-site Meta post didn't populate Moderator Inbox
Per this post I'm posting this issue. I'm a moderator over on Sci-fi & Fantasy.SE. My moderator inbox missed this question:
The Meta Question in question should show up after the moderator ...
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Is badge awarding still not working properly?
I am told I have earned the Informed badge and to to "See my profile", but the Informed badge is missing from the profile.
EDIT:
1) Still missing.
2) For comparison, subsequently I was told I ...
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Topbar on mobile clogged: hereāre some suggestions
Below you can see how topbar looks on mobile currently:
Oh sorry, wrong photo
There was a question regarding topbar overflow. Iād like to go slightly further:
āhomeā not needed, since the logo* (ā...
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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 (...
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Having SO Careers in the drop down for the CrossValidated site?
I have noticed the SO Careers tab in the drop down list of sites like ServerFault, etc.
As SO careers also have data scientists and analysts careers in them, would it be sensible if it is ...
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Change the profile link in top bar from the reputation tab to info tab in Area 51
When I click on my profile link on the top bar in Area51 it takes me to the reputation tab of my profile.
http://area51.stackexchange.com/users/1/username?tab=reputation
I think its more ...
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Edits to code no longer explicitly noted outside of mobile
Notifications for non-trivial edits were added a while back, with a special rule for edits made to code within a post on sites where code is treated specially:
a non-trivial edit is one which ...
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Green achievements indicator overflows the button if above 1k
When hovering over the achievements indicator while the accumulated rep is above 1k, the number overflows the button below.
The button should resize itself when its contents are too large, or the rep ...
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Allow us to limit achievements to the current site, please
It would be nice if we could limit the achievements view to the current site only. The current view list everything globally.
Now it would be nice if we would have the option (f.e. with tabs) to ...
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Help menu on new meta toolbar has CSS issues
In the new top bar on Meta, when we hover over the options under the help menu, it'll show an extended selection view.
Additional Info:
Browser: Firefox 23
OS: Windows 7
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Inbox only shows one message if two replies are received close together
I've noticed this a few times now with the new "sticky" inbox. I'll get two comment reply notifications close together, which will show a 2 badge over my inbox icon in the top bar.
When I ...
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A glitch: 10 notifications or +10 rep?
I ran into a funny bug: my iPhone was resting with the Stack Exchange page opened (puzzling) for about 10 minutes (screen on), when I glanced and saw 10 unread notifications.
āThatās strangeā - ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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UX consistency across SE sites with the new layout / theme
This is somewhat related to this question, which asks about the point of the Stack Exchange logo in the top bar.
There's a rather frustrating experience when navigating between Stack Overflow and ...
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Review queue indicator not firing in the top bar even though reviews are available on a small SE site
The top bar on Webmasters didn't say there were reviews, but when I clicked the queues icon, I see that there are reviews to be completed:
I hadn't checked the queues in over an hour
The question in ...
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Wrong icon for chat top bar notices
I recently got an answer upvote on an answer on Programming Puzzles and Code Golf. However, I ended up checking this on chat.stackexchange (specifically this, but it appears on main chat.se too. ...
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Favicons in top-bar dropdown not SVG
Would it be possible to update the StackExchange button drop-down to include scalable vector graphics (SVG) favicons for each site?
I didn't notice any mention of this during the original design and ...
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Can "and" be made a synonym of "&" when searching for a site name?
I was trying to look up the "Board & Card Games" site in the site-switcher on the top bar, but I typed "Board and Card Games" and got no results.
I see now that pretty much all multi-topic sites ...
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Suggested edits in top-bar put flags over the winterbash snowflake
Suggested edits in the top bar put the flag count right over the winterbash snowflake. Looks pretty ugly if you ask me...
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