Questions tagged [design]
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Please fix the standard sans-serif page title
Once again the site design has been disrupted by a standard change.
This is how Help pages used to look:
They now have really bold titles:
Because of the size of the heading, this unbalances the ...
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Are crazy icons here to stay?
Am I the only on ELU whose icons are all shifted, some to the point that it is difficult to tell which is which?
The issue has been raised on META where they mention a temporary problem when new SE ...
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Is the background color of the ELU SE website based on the background color of the Etymonline website?
I was surfing etymonline and I found its background color exactly identical to the one of our beloved site. Is ELU’s background color based on Etymonline’s or is Etymonline’s based on ELU’s?
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Can we keep the previous green on English SE?
They are already quarrelling on meta about the accepted answer box getting a darker green. It looks especially disagreeable on ELU against the beige... I find it even annoying, but this is probably ...
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Can we have an optional dark theme?
Inspired by a post on Economics SE, I switched my Stack Overflow theme to dark from the Settings page. This will be based on user preference and not a site wide change. Can we have a similar option on ...
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Changes to block quotes in the pipeline
For some reference as to how block quotes used to look like on EL&U before the the theme was overhauled, see English Language & Usage's updated site theme is ready for testing! and Make ...
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Could we have this header on the mobile site?
We have two versions of the header on the mobile version:
The standard main site one:
And another one, visible in the help pages and review queues
Could the alternative header be made default?
Why:
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New theme: Color of visited links
Would it be possible to change the color of visited links in main-site questions and answers from the current blackish purple to some color that is more clearly distinguishable from the surrounding ...
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How to see the most recent questions?
On other sites I see buttons/tabs for Newest, Frequent, Votes, Active, and Unanswered. I thought I used to see similar on EL&U also. Now I see only Active, Featured, Hot, Week, and Month.
What ...
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New theme: fix serif-vs-sans font combinations
In what I hope is the correct spirit of bringing concrete, actionable suggestions for changes and updates to the new theme, I would like to ask for the fonts to be harmonized as tchrist went into ...
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Can EL&U please get its logo banner centered (again)?
The logo banner for English Language & Usage used to be centered. It was designed to be centered, way back when these things were created. How can I tell? Because it exhibits bilateral symmetry in ...
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Addressing the responsive EL&U site theme - moving forward
Hello, English Language & Usage Denizens!
(Yes, I know you don't literally inhabit this site, but hi, anyway)
First, an apology:
This site was probably the hardest site for me for a variety of ...
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It's hard to tell whether I've accepted an answer [duplicate]
When I'm looking at an answer to a question that I asked, I find it hard to tell whether I've accepted that answer.
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The difference is clear when they're placed next to each other, but not in ...
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Graphical issue on the activity profile page
Posting here because I don't have a profile in the right state to repro on other sites, but if it can be confirmed to be elsewhere please migrate to MSE.
The "track the next one" bar after earning a ...
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Tags! Huh, what are they good for?
…absolutely nothin'
Seriously, I have nothing against tags per se, they have their use but why does EL&U need that monolithic "Watched Tags" box on the right-hand side? The two boxes take up so ...
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"Learn More" button misplaced in privilege tracker popup
When you go to a high-enough-rep user's Activity page (here's mine) and click on the privilege progress bar, you'll see a popup like this:
That button should be on the same line as the dark blue ...
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English Language & Usage's updated site theme is ready for testing!
As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing.
If ...
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The Incredible Shrinking ELU Banner
Something awful has happened to the top of all our pages. Earlier today they looked like this:
But now it has shrunk to a nearly unreadable proportion:
The new version is completely shrunken, which ...
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Double scrollbar in First Posts Queue
When reviewing first posts I noticed there are two scrollbars:
Here are links to some reviews that I saw this on:
https://english.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/303268
https://english....
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Watched tags: design flaw
The title in one of the sidebar boxes isn't right. I hadn't noticed this before, so it may be new, although I don't think we've had any tweaks recently. Or perhaps it's just me and my browser (Chrome ...
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Two identical close reasons?
Wont - contraction or not?
This is closed with "please include the research...", but the reason shows up twice. What caused it?
Very trivial matter; curious nonetheless.
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"Skip" skipped to new line
I just noticed this after reviewing an edit by clicking "edit (1)":
It should look something like this:
I checked a couple of other sites, and this is the only site where the skip button is ...
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EL&U's top bar stopped being elegant in 2013
This is how the top bar appears in October 2017 on my desktop. I like the search box, it's larger and it is clear. But it's off-center, it's like a picture frame that's askew, I want to align the ...
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Review Queue filter drop-down cut off screen
This bug is little more than a minor nuisance, but it strikes me as something that would be easy to fix and improve user experience if it were changed.
When you set a filter on the review queue, and ...
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New top bar has introduced a design glitch
The new top bar has upset the ELU banner by pushing the central box down too far. Its ornaments no longer line up with the horizontal line.
This affects the main site and Meta.ELU.
Note: not ...
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When reviewing Suggested Edits queue, how to "improve" the suggested edit?
I came across a tag-edit that I wanted to improve slightly, while reviewing the Suggested Edits queue. At the top of the page it says, "Approve, reject, or improve edits suggested by users."
I see no ...
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The accepted answer check mark is almost indistinguishable between active/inactive
The active vs inactive checkmarks are very difficult to tell apart on this site:
When I'm scrolling down the page it's hard to tell which answer I've actually accepted (or if there is one). ...
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Colorblind-friendlier design
I am not sure what color links are on the ELU site, but they are really hard for me to see as I am red-green colorblind. Could we either change them to a color with more contrast or add a bottom ...
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Link style on the main site
Is this still active?
According to that thread there are supposed to be fine dotted lines beneath links. I have no such lines. Sometimes I actually do miss the links in the color scheme.
Links as ...
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Color Scheme on Meta
The second question should have a different color since I favorited 'tags'. While the RGB values I picked from the picture try to convince me of a difference between the background of the second ...
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Leading whitespace hover underline on privileges page
On the page that lists privileges, hovering over items in that list cause a single underscore/whitespace underline to appear before each group of text:
This does not appear to happen on some of the ...
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Election candidate statistics overlap candidate's user card, plus sprite CSS problem
There is a display problem on the current election page.
Information overlaps the "user card" and hurts legibility.
Compare (bad):
To better from the current ...
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Did our comments get bigger?
A while back, we noticed that our comments seemed to get a little bigger. I went and poked around a few other sites and it seems like Meta.SE, Parenting, Academia, and Programmers all have 15px in the ...
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User avatar is misplaced on the badge page
I think that the avatar, name and rep of a user are misplaced on the badge page.
Here is a picture with freehand circles:
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Make blockquotes inside blockquotes better distinguishable
Given the nature of this site, it happens that one wants to quote something that contains a blockquote itself, e.g., as an example sentence. For example:
A run-on sentence is something like this:
I ...
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"All Questions Answers" hard to understand on new profile pages
I was looking at a profile that seems to have a new layout and was initially confused by the post listing:
The "All Questions Answers" and "Votes Newest" text don't provide any indication as to which ...
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Partial content is not visible in the side bar
There is some display issue in the side bar in some browsers.
The see an example newsletter content is partially not visible in the side bar.
Firefox Version: 44.0b9
It's very similar in Chrome 47 ...
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Can a placeholder text be added to the question body box?
I posted this suggestion to another post, but thought it would be worth its own separate feature request.
Is it already possible to add a placeholder text to the question body box, or would the SE ...
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Pretty boxes not rendering correctly
Today I notice that the box around the box around the user information is not rendering correctly in my browser. I'm using Chrome 47 on Windows 7. Here is a screenshot:
Yes, I drew those circles by ...
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In a self answer question the date overhangs the box
In a self answer question the date overhangs the decorative box:
This is not an issue for questions because "asked" is shorter than "answered".
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Misalign between OP's avatar and editor's avatar
An edited question in ELU:
An edited question in Academia:
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Different Colour for @Mentions
When a comments section gets long, the @mentions can become a bit distracting. Would they be better off in a dark grey sort of colour?
Here is a screenshot of a comment I coded to help explain:
The @...
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"Read-only mode" banner is illegible due to color scheme
The Stack Exchange network was put into read-only mode today for a failover test. A banner was posted on each site to advise users of this. However, on English.SE (and Meta.English.SE), the banner ...
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Background of OP username looks ugly in comments
Firefox 36.0, Windows 7 SP 1 x64, the name of the OP looks strange:
This has already been reported before, but since that question was asked almost a year ago, I guess it was already fixed and now ...
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Updates to the site
My name is Kurtis and I'm a designer with Stack Exchange. You may have noticed some minor updates to the design of the site. The updates are part of a SE network-wide update to a new base css ...
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Comment overflow
Caused by this overflowed comment which isn't line-broken.
Your table layout sucks! shakes fist
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iPhone display is (almost) identical for EL&U and ELL
I am bereft of my laptop. Until recently, a friend of mine had lent me his mini computer while my laptop gathered dust at a friend of a friend's house who had promised to fix it. The lender has ...
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Links are visible far past the top margin of the page
I was experimenting dragging the page up as far as it would go for no apparent reason (I have rubber-band scrolling), and I noticed this:
I couldn't reproduce it on any other site that I tried.
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“possible duplicate of…” is uncapitalised
When we close-vote a question as a duplicate of another question, a comment is auto-generated. This comment reads:
possible duplicate of [Title of Dupe Question]
For as long as I've been here, ...
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Color of certain elements in Main site doesn't match up with the rest of the page
It is obvious that the grey of the blocks and the grey in the horizontal rule don't match up with the rest of the page.
Adding a small amount of the color from the background to it could greatly ...
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