The user interface elements and web pages that make up this site.
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New Stack Exchange icon ugly and un-welcoming to use [duplicate]
I am frequent user of the Stack Overflow website and I was wondering if anyone else finds the new icon at the top left of the page which notifies/shows you the new responses/comments/badges ugly and ...
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1answer
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Drop-down menus in new top bar react inconsistently to click / hover events
The behavior of the site switcher, inbox and achievements drop-downs in the new top bar seems inconvenient and unintuitive to me. I would like to propose a change to it.
Expected behavior:
Every ...
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How to see reason for close votes in advance? [duplicate]
How the user can see the reason to close his/her question before it has enough votes to be closed? All I see is close(2/3/4), but if I would know the reason in advance I could improve a question.
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View summary of changes while editing [duplicate]
In the revision history of edited posts, there is a helpful display that highlights the changes between the edited and the original. Often, while editing, I find myself looking back at the original ...
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new search box looks janky when browser width narrow enough for horizontal scrolling [duplicate]
This is not a post about the positives or negatives of the new navbar color at the top of all StackExchange sites, but it does have to do indirectly with the navbar color.
Now that the expandable ...
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“Recommend Deletion” on a question?
When I was reviewing in the low quality posts queue, something odd has struck yet again:
I swear I did not touch anything on that question to make that happen. Does anyone know how this could ...
7
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Jittery login buttons
When I go to the log in screen for a StackExchange site, I am presented with a few buttons. However, there is a small area for each button (usually not more than 1-2 pixels) that causes the cursor to ...
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1answer
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Show user reputation in community wiki posts
Being reputation a rough measurement of how much a user is trusted by the community, I usually take a quick look (and with a pinch of salt) at the answerers' reputation when looking through the ...
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1answer
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Not able to see links to chat, logout, or privileges [duplicate]
Today I open my SO account like I always do. But the UI of menus has changed. I am not able to see the chat tab, the logout link or the privileges link. Are they missing or moved somewhere else?
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14answers
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Is anyone else personally terrified of the new bar at the top?
It's just that the children are worried and so am I. Is it safe?
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2answers
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Please return the hot question dropdown to most pages
The UI update from a few minutes ago appears to have removed the hot questions tab of the StackExchange dropdown on the top menu bar from all pages except the Stack Exchange homepage. Instead all I ...
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“delete post” doesn't always show votes remaining
I came across the following subtle inconsistency when you're given the option to delete a post (answer or question):
They both show a confirmation dialog, but the delete link shows the number of ...
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2answers
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Extend the new Hot Questions sidebar
I really like the new sidebar. With the new top bar eliminating the "Hot Questions" area there, I think this is the perfect place for it. One-click access to time-wasting questions about topics I may ...
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Low Quality Posts review queue no longer saying “recommend closure”? [duplicate]
It seems that there has been a regression in the "close" text in the Low Quality Posts review queue. For example, on this question, it can be seen that a sub-3k user is shown to have cast a "vote to ...
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1answer
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Last visited page place holder?
How can I return to my last browsed page upon returning to your site? Is there a remember my place button I'm missing?
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1answer
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“Welcome back [object Object] you've been logged in” when changing sites
I switched from Stack Overflow to meta and saw this:
Welcome back object Object?? Do I see an unhandled situation here?
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Let's play Space Invaders! [duplicate]
Not exactly a huge bug, but I think one loader would suffice.
For the record, my connection dropped in the exact moment I clicked the flag link and every further click spawned a new loader (kind of ...
3
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1answer
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How can I check for the last activities on a given questions?
I'm interested in answering a question. But my answer still isn't ready. I added the question to my favourites. I also got some messages (mostly answers to my comments? ...I'm not sure...) However, I ...
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2answers
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How to get back to SO from MSO [duplicate]
I've always appreciated the "main" link in the MSO header, just as I appreciate the "meta" link in the SO header, as I frequently go back and forth between the two.
I just wanted to confirm that ...
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Tag description box prevents me from reading titles when scrolling with arrow keys
As I recently started to use my laptop more often than my PC, I noted a small annoyance when scrolling down using the keys ↓ & ↑, it was just matter of time and bad luck until my cursor landed on ...
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2answers
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Why is the profile dropdown suddenly combined with the site dropdown in top bar?
Previously my account name was written out in the top bar with nice real letters and it was also a link that took me to my profile and a dropdown for profile stuff like logout.
It felt like I'm part ...
3
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Duplicate popups in Data Explorer
Every time you click the "n sql" links in the data explorer, it pops up a new dialog, even if one is already showing. This isn't immediately obvious, but you can see it by looking at the backdrop ...
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Unicode characters breaks close-vote reason text
The close-vote reason for this question (10K+ link) looks like below:
The comma should come after the little guy (웃 ). I don't know if Pekka would agree, but it would be nice to see ...
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Stackoverflow events notifications does not work (or work weird) in IE10 (Windows 7)
Actually, besides of actually the question itself, I've got also a question whether should I post such things in here or there is some other specific place for it.
The problem:
When I use ...
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1answer
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After flagging a question, parenthesis are appearing
I flagged a question as off topic / opinion based. After the flag was submitted, parenthesis appeared next to the option to flag the post. These disappear when the question is reloaded.
I am using ...
3
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1answer
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Different relative time labels in Firefox vs Chrome
On Stack Overflow, when viewing the Questions section, questions listed on the that page:
in Chrome are displayed as "modified 17 secs ago" near the question
in Firefox are displayed as "asked 17 ...
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1answer
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Helping tendency of Stack Overflow is overflowing
Whenever a user is making consecutive clicks on the help link which is provided adjacent to the comment box, some duplicate help boxes are appearing. I guess that this is being caused by duplicate ...
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1answer
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Android options button is hard to distinguish
In the Android application the button which take us to the options of open in browser/favorite/flag/share/edit, is somewhat indistinguishable from the rest of the questions itself.
Should be made ...
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0answers
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Access to the off-topic sub-dialog again after voting to close [duplicate]
When I vote to close a question as off-topic vote, I often copy the text of the close reason from the close vote dialog to post as a comment to explain to the asker why the question is off-topic. ...
15
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1answer
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Can we display the users' remaining votes when voting to delete?
Can we display the user's remaining votes in the vote to delete dialog box?
Dialog box in Chrome:
I'm not talking about the post's remaining votes before deleted, which can be seen when hovering ...
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1answer
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Missing space in the user activity report
In my profile under the activity report there is a small visual bug: a space is missing between the word "on" and the subsequent word.
See the following image:
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Is there a way to post on SE using non-graphical software?
Computer enthusiasts often like to use non-graphical softwares for several reasons (saving cpu, efficiency, keyboard oriented, ...).
I would like to know if there are projects which aims to provide a ...
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0answers
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Make the entire bottom div resizeable, rather than just the text box
You can currently only resize the text box in chat. Given that there's only a few pixels below the text box, this resizing doesn't help all that much.
Would it be possible to make the entire bottom ...
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Quick-links on close vote review queue
Another close vote review queue suggestion...
What about making quick-links for the close reasons already voted upon?
This should make it a bit quicker to work through the queue.
Example:
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Mod links disappear on profiles with long display names
I just noticed that on a profile with a sufficiently long display name, the HTML element containing useful moderator links gets wrapped behind the profile text box and is thus invisible. Best ...
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Accidental triggering of Recommend Deletion button on VLQ queue
Because of the speed of loading, it's very difficult to reproduce, but if you click somewhere near the bottom, in line with the Recommend Deletion button in the Low Quality section when it's loading, ...
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Baseline/alignment of close vote dialog text options
I've found this and this question about this issue, but one is a duplicate of the other and the other one is status-completed. The problem however still exists for me. As I am asuming that no-one will ...
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1answer
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Literal ' appears in flag panel instead of being escaped
As you can see, the off-topic page isn't quite right...
Could this (minor) issue be fixed?
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Easy close review queue filtering interface
Short version:
Make a filter selection page the default entry point for the review queues
Show the size of the queues for tags they are likely able to work with - not the whole queue
When all review ...
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2answers
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When hovering link, show “open link in new tab” option
I've searched the web for a standard on when to open links in new tabs, found no standard but found a lot of posts in which clearly experienced web users were saying that they needed control over the ...
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Hide profile fields when not populated
I have edited my profile and removed some fields like email, website, real name and age. They are shown blank when I see my profile. but when they are empty why does Stack Exchange show them?
Can we ...
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1answer
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Make links in comments immune to being hidden by username
In this comment, there is a clickable link (the word here); however, because of the distance between the word and the dotted underline, it is actually covered by the grey box surrounding the author's ...
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Unify the positioning of the “Favorite Tags” div across site pages
Nearly all of my SO activity involve my favorite tags. When I am done looking at a question or a tag feed, 90% of the time I want to visit a feed for one of my favorite tags.
This takes more clicks ...
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Flag panel no longer has “you have already raised this flag” [duplicate]
Previously, I was unable to select a flag when I had already flagged it, however now when I flag I am still able to select it, only to find when I have clicked it that "You have already flagged this ...
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1answer
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When adding tags to a Question, the Excerpt for [seo-friendly] does not match that of its master
As an example, if you try py3k, only python-3.x is shown. But if you try seo-friendly, it shows up, complete with its own Excerpt, even if it's just a synonym (of seo). I don't know what was intended, ...
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Missing space when hovering over tag score on Meta
A little pedantic, but once I noticed it I couldn't unsee it.
When I hover over the tag score for a user who has asked and answered a question in the tag on Meta, there is no space after the first ...
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1answer
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Bad wrapping of long words in question titles on S.E. landing page
I saw this pop up on the real-time 'recently active questions' list on the Stack Exchange landing page:
I know this is a minor thing, and anyway that question will disappear in a few seconds and be ...
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Make clicking on duplicate in flag panel stay in menu
When you load the flag panel, select a post which is a duplicate itself, then click on the duplicate link (i.e. "this question is a exact duplicate of: ..."), it takes you out of the flag menu instead ...
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1answer
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When signing in, clicking some of the buttons highlights them, setting off the others
More of a cosmetic issue here, but when signing in you can choose from options such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Stack Exchange. Now when clicking one of these, a highlight box is set around the ...
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1answer
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Missing space and extra comma in search results
A couple of days ago I saw an edit of a post essentially only changing the team address to/from stackexchange.com. I couldn't remember which way, so I searched for it and got this back:
A space is ...
