"Design" refers to front-end elements, such as page layout, coloring conventions, etc. For questions about database structure, algorithms in the code, please use "architecture" instead.
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Reconsider UI for home page and questions page
The UI for the multiple questions list is confusing to me (and apparently to some others). Various issues with the current model are described on this UX.meta post, but I will try to briefly descripe ...
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Top Users page clips long tag names
I just noticed this. Hey! I'm there! But that's beside the point.
The point is that Nick Craver is there too. Nick seems to like really long tag names, so his profile shows up like this:
Akk! ...
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Can we make the post-issue indicator more tolerant of window size?
There is a handy moderator tool that adds a little indicator to the left margin of a post that has deleted comments or flags. This is really useful, as it pushes information to the mods instead of us ...
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1answer
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Why markdown **bold** rendered as italic on parts of words? [duplicate]
When I try to **bo**ld part of the word it turns out weird.
It's rendered as:
*bo*ld as you can see the BO is italic.
I rarely use it but lets say I want to emphasis _un_downvote what should I do?
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1answer
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Allow code snippets to use more screen width
I understand, from reading other Meta questions on this topic, that the StackOverflow administrators have good reasons for keeping the site to a fixed-width layout. However, one disadvantage of this ...
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1answer
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The highlight color used for updated favorite questions is too light to see
At least on my screen (Dell laptop, Windows 7, default color settings), I have a very difficult time seeing which question(s) are highlighted on the profile favorites tab. If I guess wrong (and click ...
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Italics on Closing > Off-Topic dialog oddly suspended [duplicate]
If you go to a question that has a pending close vote for a custom off-topic reason whose text includes italics on a line that coincides with the pending close vote count for that reason, the italics ...
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Please standardise the edit-box UI across the SE sites, see eg the hyperlink icon
Above the box where I'm typing this text there is a menu bar. The menu bar here has a different icon for hyperlink than the menu bar on (for example) Unix & Linux. Here a globe with an arrow is ...
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Duplicate dialog close button causes preview to be too narrow
The close button on the close/flag dialogs causes the form inside to be narrower than intended. This happens on all views, but it's particularly noticeable when voting to close as duplicate because it ...
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1answer
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Voting to close in the “First Posts” review queue improperly updates the close link's text
I just found another bug that relates to close votes.
I was reviewing First Posts on main SO, and voted to close one. Afterwards, the bar of actions below the post changed to this:
...| close Your ...
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Gradient background on buttons cause it to not show in IE 10
Buttons, submit buttons and .btn class have the following CSS defined in "all.css" in Stack Exchange site:
background: -webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,from(#fba00c),to(#f67c16));
...
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Internet Explorer 10 log in icons display
I was trying to up vote a question in Internet Explorer 10 (Compatibility View turned off) while not being logged in and I saw the icons are not exactly the form they should be (or at least the way ...
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1answer
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Bug: Help Center Privileges Page [duplicate]
I just noticed the new Help Center's "Privileges" page. I really like what has been done, except for one thing... all the icons are the Facebook/G+/other sharing site icons.
In fact, ...
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Closing a question (Off topic) dialog [duplicate]
When closing a question I am presented with this dialog:
Which is nicely laid out and clear what options are available to me (As to why the question should be closed).
However when I choose Off ...
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Has the color of “accepted answer” icon changed? [duplicate]
I have the feeling that the "accepted answer" checkmark (displayed right next to an accepted answer) has changed to a somewhat lighter shade of green a few days ago. However, I cannot be sure as I ...
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More CSS related issues?
Just read about the recent CSS related issues here: Misplaced navigation bar and question title
Take a look at the complete lack of left margin in both the stock Android as well as latest Chrome for ...
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1answer
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The search box in mobile version of the site is too small and hidden
When we access the Stackoverflow by the smartphone, even if it is a Galaxy Note 2, you have to touch a tiny down arrow to see the notification bar, and there is a little field for searching questions. ...
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Why are some of my question titles blue and others gray?
When I look at the question page of my profile, I see some question titles in blue, and others in more of a gray, but I don't understand why.
Here's a picture of what I see, in case you don't see the ...
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1answer
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miles display in distance slider falling down
On http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/ the XX miles text is on it's own line compared to distance (use slider), making it hidden behind the drag bar for the distance:
After playing around a ...
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Superuser website design flaw [duplicate]
Just noticed this on superuser. Refreshed the page, still buggy. Using newest Firefox :-)
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Accepted answer colour inconsistency
Why does the accepted answer use 3 different colours? It feels inconsistent across the site.
On the main answer page the accepted answer colour is a bright green (#46b525)
Where as the accepted ...
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0answers
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Reputation chart in Opera has a display bug
Last item in the user reputation chart summary in Opera jumps to new line. I am using Opera Version 12.15 and Windows 7 64-bit operating system, zoom level is 100%.
See the screen shot:
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1answer
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Design bug on the new badge page
I found a bug on the badges page in the new help center. If the question name is too long, it's not possible to see who has earned the badge. See for example for the Announcer Badge page:
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1answer
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Fix the inconsistent usage of the new checkmark color
The accepted answer checkmark seems to have gotten mysteriously lighter. While I question why this change was even made in the first place, I have a bigger problem with this:
If you're going to ...
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4answers
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Who stole the darkness from the accepted-answer-tick?
At first I thought my eyes were fooling me, but after taking a second look, I found the SO answer-tick to be brighter than before!
old:
new:
(I find the new color to be too bright and stingy, ...
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1answer
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How are Stack Overflow's default profile pictures generated? [duplicate]
Anyone else wonder how the default profile pics for Stack Overflow are generated? It must be generated dynamically as it shows random patterns. Can anyone show an implementation of the algorithm in ...
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Stack Overflow lost its padding on the sides
I noticed now that Stack Overflow has its padding set to 0, unlike before.
Note the padding on left side of the page; it looks shifted to the left and everything is touching the left-hand side of the ...
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1answer
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I need a pair of binoculars to see the badge award count
...from space, since it's huge on the trilogy sites:
I know it's meant to be emphasized, but given that it dwarfs any of the other text on the site and it doesn't seem to be consistent with the ...
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0answers
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If I downvote an answer to -1, I don't get the “delete” link until I reload [duplicate]
Stack Overflow has a bunch of nice UI things that are XHR'd.
However, when I vote to -1 an answer, I need to reload to get the delete link. It's not very obvious, as most things just work.
Could we ...
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1answer
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Custom CSS for Stack Exchange
I think Stack Exchange should allow users with a certain amount of reputation to use a custom css for customization of their viewing experience. Black-on-White strains the eyes immensely. ...
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0answers
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Timestamp in the suggested edits review page is going out of it's boundary [duplicate]
Timestamp in the suggested edits review page is going out of it's boundary.
AFAIK, the suggested edits timestamp was near to it's type (i.e. asked, proposed) like this:
Checked on Chrome ...
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Info box for guests switches to the right side of the screen while shrinking
If you look at a question as a guest, you see a small box above the question title:
Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. It's 100% free, ...
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1answer
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Suggested edit times are skewiff
The times that a suggested edit was suggested and the post was posted don't line up in the suggested edit view.
I've observed this behaviour on both MSO and SO, but can't see it in any other ...
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0answers
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CSS class issue: “Today” and “All time” columns of Review are misaligned (on some sites)
The "Today" and "All Time" columns of the Review history section (accessible through site/review/close/stats and similar for the other queues) are misaligned due to a CSS issue (it apparently doesn't ...
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0answers
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Really long Suggested Edit comment breaks into more than two lines, and the text overlaps [duplicate]
I've just ran into a Suggested Edit which has a really long comment. The issue is that the comment is barely readable, given that the 2nd (and subsequent) lines overlap half of the previous. This ...
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2answers
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Multi-line flag messages for “other” flags overlap in the flagged posts list
Not appreciating the letter 'g' is is of course a problem. And I'm glad this has been resolved. Whether I appreciate the solution however, I'm not certain. ;)
It now seems the lines are ...
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1answer
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Why don't you like my “g”?
When a comment on a suggested edit is long enough to be on two lines, part of the descender of the first line is being eaten by the line beneath.
I'm on Chrome 27.0.1453.94 m and Windows 7 if ...
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1answer
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Remove dotted outline in Firefox when clicking accepted answer
With FF (at least in Linux), when you click the accepted answer in any of your questions (or un-accept it) a dotted outline is rendered by the browser this looks quite odd:
This seems to be ...
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AskDifferent and AndroidEnthusiast profile pages
Why is it that on AskDifferent and AndroidEnthusiasts the profile tab sections are left aligned while on every other SE site, or at least all the ones that I have signed into at some point in time, ...
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I am shown the 10K users' “edit tags” link but it doesn't work [duplicate]
I was looking at Drupal Blocks Custom Display Naming Convention? and I noticed that hovering the mouse to the right of the tags, I saw the "edit tags" link only 10K users see. (My reputation is 9915.)
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Visual-Bug: Right side-bar titles [duplicate]
Questions with 4 character scores (1000 and higher or negative -100 and lower) in the right sidebar get out of phase. Check the attached screenshot below.
Bug can be seen best here: Using a ...
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Move footer to center of site on chat
The footer on chat is left aligned. Can we center it so that we follow the format of all the other stack exchange sites?
Is there any response by the team? Perhaps @balpha?
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2answers
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Is there a setting I can change to optimize SO for my widescreen monitor? [duplicate]
I have a 24" monitor that I run at 1920x1080 resolution. When I view SO there is an excessive amount of whitespace. And the code 'example' markup boxes often truncate the data (they provide ...
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Minor bug in tab CSS [duplicate]
When I move mouse to the very top of non selected tab (at the border) , it starts trembling. Such tabs can be found in any review page or in any user's profile.
It is minor, but it can be very ...
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1answer
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On the active questions list, the entire phrase “modified XX ago” should be a link
Recently, the whole "edited on XX/YY" phrase was made to link to the edit history of a post.
But with the similar "modified XX ago" text on the active questions list, still only the time/date ...
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1answer
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On question pages, the entire phrase, “Edited on MM/DD/ at TT” now links to the edit history
Previously, only the date/time part was a link, which was highly undiscoverable:
Now, it all does:
Are you as happy as I am?
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1answer
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Logo is slightly misaligned
Am I the only one, who feels like the logo is slightly misalinged? I think the first angled bar should be moved a little bit to the right, so that both corners are aligned. (pink)
I also found out, ...
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1answer
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Related questions vote column too narrow
Did anyone else notice the vote column is too narrow for 4-digits (1000+ votes)?
Seems like a very minor issue, but I thought I'd just point it out.
If we don't want to widen it (and still have the ...
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2answers
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Footer area suggestions?
Not sure where to put this, but I was looking at the footer of for instance StackOverflow.
The bottom portion font is very hard to read, the colors should be looked at:
This:
site design / logo © ...
