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Footer is not styled at the bottom in Meta chat
I recently visited a page here and see that the footer doesn't stick to the bottom of the page. I don't think it is intentional. There is a lot space under the footer which doesn't look all that ...
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Highlight in Moderator Tools wraps
When you view the list of flagged questions in the moderator tools, questions with multiple flags have a yellow highlight. This highlight wraps to the next line incorrectly.
Example:
See how the ...
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Possible issue: Chrome v29 (OS X) currently not showing bold font in post?
Reference Post: Does using an unofficial charger negatively affect overall battery lifetime of a GS4?
As of right now (Sep 19, 10:33am EDT) on OS X 10.8.5, Chrome v29.0.1547.65, bold font is not ...
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Flag history page needs better design
I think the flagging history page needs more design attention. As of now, I think it's getting a time consuming task to just see what's happening.
Maybe adding a ordering option by "helpful", ...
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Flag as duplicate breaks mobile layout [duplicate]
If I vote as duplicate the design is broken. It is much worse if the question has no answers yet, then the answer box has a higher z-index.
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Mobile version layout misaligned
The answer textbox on mobile version is mis-aligned.
Screenshot below:
On Android 4.3 Firefox 23
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Why the difference in color when a question has an answer?
Why is there a difference in color for the accepted answers between Meta and Meta Questions?
In the image below, the first section is what you see when you click on the Questions tab when on Meta. ...
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Careers and favorites tags swap positions on main page and questions page
This is a relatively minor UI annoyance. On the main page (http://stackoverflow.com/), the block of Favorite Tags are immediately below the Ask Question button and above the careers ad:
but on the ...
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SO mobile site “Your Answer” textbox appears on top of flag dialog
The "Your Answer" textbox seems to be eating the flagging dialog as shown in Figure A.
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“Full Site” link lacks pointer cursor [duplicate]
Steps to reproduce:
Go to the Stack Overflow home page
Click "Mobile" at the bottom of the page.
Wait for the page to refresh and scroll to the bottom.
Hover over each of the links, noticing that ...
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Body links in meta are hidden in plain view in mobile at default size
Find the link(s) in this question, opened at the default size in portrait mode on an iPad:
If I zoom in, the underlines appear, but then not all of the content is on the screen:
This happens the ...
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Wrapping long tag names in question list
I know this isn't a big deal, but I thought I'd bring it up anyway.
When a question has a particularly long set of tags, it causes the user name to drop below the tag list:
This is a bit ugly IMO, ...
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Is this a design break down or a feature in Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
when taking the 'Ask Question' tab, the side bar 'How to Format' or 'Similar Questions' goes over the footer when scroll down like as show in the image.can anyone tell that whether it was a layout ...
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When site icon fails to load, it's taking down the whole Accounts section with it
As usual, much easier to explain with a screenshot: (sorry, no free hand circle seemed fitting)
Networks/Proxies tend to hiccup, nothing we can do so this scenario is pretty common.
Enforcing ...
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Inconsistent CSS overlap on Stack Exchange notifications
Sometimes when questions generate a lot of heat, or when a user is inactive for several days notifications can build up in the top bar like so:
The issue is obviously when the number reaches the ...
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Bug in right column with similar questions [duplicate]
I found a CSS bug in SO. The right column that appears when you write a question moves along with the scroll bar instead of staying as the rest of the layout.
I made a screenshot to make it easier to ...
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Display the actual number of questions on the tag page [duplicate]
On the main tag page a tag can have a number to the right or not. If there is no number to the right then this means that there are either 1 or 0 questions tagged with this tag or that it is a ...
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Editing tags in a First Posts review showing scroll bars [migrated]
When editing in a First Posts review if we edit tags in the review page, it shows scroll bars because of tags suggestion. See the below image for more clarity:
This happened on a First Posts review ...
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Background image on the stackexchange site is quite big
Is there a reason the background image bg-hatchlines.png on the main stackexchange site is 148x38 in size?
It looks like it could be 5x38 at a minimum or at least half the size, keeping the same ...
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Can we get rid of the disclosure triangles that don't disclose anything on the edit screen?
I can't count the number of times I've tried to click one of these triangles:
Could we change them to something more... non-clickable? Like these little things: ● ● ● ●?
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There's a stray semicolon in the View of the “Question” page [duplicate]
(It's right after the "Answer" text)
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Extra semicolon near answers header
On all the SE sites that I checked, the text that normally says something like “1 Answer” now says “1 Answer;” (with a semicolon seemingly in superscript):
The HTML for that part of the page looks ...
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Why the messy use of a bulleted list in the bounty page? [closed]
I just saw the bounty help page and it seems that someone decided to use a bulleted list for these statements:
I believe that those list items should be changed to a more homogenous format.
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Weird border issue around sponsored links
When filtering by multiple tags, the tag wiki doesn't appear, but the sponsored links are still there. This can cause some weird formatting issues:
It may be hard to see exactly what I mean, so ...
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Featured tab color changed
I just noticed change in color of number in bounty tab in SO. Its not like that I'm big fan of specific color or so, but why mess the consistency.. OR OKKK JUST ADD MORE COLORS strategy..
Below in ...
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Could post annotations be put next to their posts instead of after the comments?
A post that has earned the "sources needed" annotation usually (in my experience) has several comments explaining what the problems in the post are. These comments are still relevant (until the ...
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Broken links for changing page in SO -> Users [duplicate]
The page links in squares at the bottom of Users are broken, as in this example:
http://stackoverflow.com/users?page=2&tab=reputation&filter=week
Note extra "amp;" after "&".
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Questions on the Related/Linked sidebar have issues on multiple sites
From here, notice how the sidebars for these three sites are a tad different, notably, Math.SE. I'm not sure if it's just me, but Math.SE clearly shows whether or not a question has been accepted ...
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Bounty comment gobbling text [duplicate]
The Problem
Writing a bounty comment will, after a text exceeds a certain length and passes down to the next line, reformat the frame and the first characters of the next lines thereafter will be ...
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Upvoted answers counted as accepted in app's results list
So I'm scrolling through questions, and I see this:
Oh, goodie, there's an accepted answer here!
Or not.
Is the bubble supposed to be green for any upvoted answer? It seems that it is meant ...
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Overflow issues in Android app [duplicate]
Long usernames can overflow and overlap the timestamp:
And if there are too many tags, the end gets cut off:
The above question has another tag - language, which is completely missing. Tags ...
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A minor detail: “super user” misaligned in off-topic close vote window [duplicate]
See this:
I believe this is similar to the problem described here
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Minor issues with Android App OpenID login
First issues, on the initial sign in screen:
Text overflows box (see highlighted area in picture)
There is no indication of what to do after you put something in the box. The login button is over to ...
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Small layout problem with refresh icon getting cut off
As you can see in the attached screen shot, on my Nexus 4 the refresh spinner (progress bar) arrow ends gets cut off. I suspect the view is smaller than the image.
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White Space after Header too Big
I think the white space, after the header markup, is way too large. Answers look more large than they appear to be. On Web Applications, the white space is left or minimized.
See following two ...
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How does Stack Overflow manage notifications and templates? [duplicate]
Each Stack Exchange site has the same kind of style. How are these styles maintained in a uniform fashion? Is there some sort of base template that each site shares and overrides as necessary?
And ...
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Nighttime “light on dark” skin [duplicate]
It would be good to be able to view SO using light text on dark background.
The use case is evening or night on a mobile device when you don't want alert your significant other that you're lurking on ...
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Comment score is misaligned for own single-line comments [duplicate]
When a comment by you, the logged-in user, fits on one line (the signature too) and has a nonzero score, the score indicator is slightly misaligned.
Own single-line comment. Misaligned.
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Suggested question scores do not line up with their titles
The alignment of items in the block Questions that may already have your answer is weird. The first question score is shown before the question and subsequent question and scores doesn't match. Here ...
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More visible styling for disabled actions in the mod menu
The “mod” button on posts brings up a dialog box with actions selected by a radio button.
For this particular post, the actions “convert to edit”, “show flag history” and “show review history” are ...
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When opened from mobile website, the migration site icons are extra large
On my Nexus 4 running Chrome browser, if I choose to migrate a question using the Vote To Migrate dialog box, the icons of destination sites are huge.
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Heading h2 changes to make it stand out a little less
I feel that the h2-headings with their CSS properties make them stand out a little bit too much in questions and answers. Many users seem to prefer using bold text for headings – possibly because the ...
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Make the ellipsis after the list of ignored or interesting tags more obvious
It is tiny to the point of invisibility. I was trying to work out why adding tags to the ignored tags list was doing nothing and I clicked on it by accident and discovered I'd added one tag about 3 ...
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Indicator for width (length of lines) in code boxes
It is generally agreed that posted code is best formatted so that the horizontal scroll is not required for the code box in most cases and for most users.
I have conducted surveys here and on Meta ...
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Careers 2.0 advertisement formatted as a simple bullet list
Please find the below two images
Careers 2.0 Section: Usual Display
Careers 2.0 Section: Unusual Display
Today only, I found this issue in Stack Overflow. It appears that one of the ...
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Any data on how well-received formatted v. non-formatted answers tend to be?
Just curious.
I've noticed:
Answers with formatting (usually markdown; I don't see much HTML) tend to do a lot better than unformatted answers.
And, even when a question uses formatting, the amount ...
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Expanding a closed question in 10k-Tools moves menu on right side to bottom
I have noticed a layout issue in the 10k-Tools that stretches the posts horizontal and moves the menu from the right side to the bottom of the page (see Image). I reproduces it twice, but i´m ...
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Increase size of flag “other” reason box
Typing a decent explanation can quickly fill up the reason box in flag post -> it needs ♦ moderator attention -> other (just from a display perspective, not the amount of text allowed).
Can this box ...
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“tag favorite/ignore/normal” character shows a box if Helvetica not present
That box to the left of "50 followers" is supposed to be a black star. When I "inspect element" on this character, I see a style definition:
font-family: 'Helvetica ...
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“Show more comments” produces a layout overflow on Firefox
This is how the comments are show before I press the show more comments link:
And this is what happens:
You can try it here and here, although it happens to me everywhere. It doesn't seems to be ...
