Questions tagged [design]
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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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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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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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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....
LaurelMod
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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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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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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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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 ...
Andrew LeachMod
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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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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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"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 ...
LaurelMod
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Related questions overflow
The text can flow out of the bottom of the related sidebar when the titles are too long.
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On ELU and Meta.ELU, filter buttons not aligned in user page
I am using Google Chrome version 25.0.1364, on Windows 7. For me, in the "Users" section of both EL&U and the Meta site, the last filter button of each set is aligned a bit too high. For example, ...
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Misaligned box edge in privilege description pages
I went to look at the privilege descriptions as a result of a different question (e.g. https://english.stackexchange.com/privileges/edit ) and the "Reputation Required" box has its right boundary ...
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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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“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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Make more evident those words are links
Right before writing this question, I clicked on the "tools" link on the main site to see if there were questions voted to be closed; to my surprise I was redirected to the review page.
I then ...
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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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What's up with the background image
The background image on the main site:
It seems to have developed a very subtle "pixelation" effect.
Here is enlarged, contrast-enhanced version of the image, making it plainer:
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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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