Questions tagged [design]
For questions regarding the design of the Stack Exchange websites; e.g., for issues with the layout.
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Ch-ch-ch-changes: Left nav, responsive design, & themes
Thanks everyone for your feedback. The team has responded to feedback in the post Left nav, responsive design, and theming next steps
. Check it out.
Ch-ch-ch-changes are coming. As you've ...
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New post summary designs on site home pages and greatest hits now; everywhere else eventually
Update 3 - 2022-02-01
We've rolled out another small set of changes + bugfixes. The largest change was that we removed the yellow from watched tags entirely, leaving just the new "watched" ...
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Badge symbol in notification is of the site you're on, not where badge was earned
It's so cool that the notification reminds you of the colour of badge you've earned. But I am a little puzzled by the symbols:
Is it feasible to use the symbol from the earned site? At the moment it ...
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Help us test the shiny new "User Activity" page! (Plus a bunch of new features.) [duplicate]
We've launched! Please give feedback here.
Today, we're shipping the new "Activity Page" of the Profile here on Meta SE, so you can test it out and hopefully share some feedback and ...
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Some changes to the profile while we make it responsive
Update 1
I’ve restored the profile age to all and fixed a few bugs y’all reported. I’ll be addressing individual answers as best as I can.
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On our way to a fully responsive Stack Overflow,...
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Right-hand sidebar covers the footer on the "ask question" page and markdown help page
I have noticed that while asking questions and scrolling to the bottom of the page, the right sidebar containing recent questions covers the footer partially. Also, a part of it goes beyond the ...
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<kbd> elements are way too intrusive [closed]
<kbd> is a great way to mark up text to be entered. But when you use it on Stack Exchange sites, it's really difficult to read. For instance, say I typed this sentence by starting with a Shift+F,...
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Is there some markup to post tags?
I am wondering because I was editing my profile and I though it would be nice to put the languages I know and stuff like tags.
Is it possible to post a tag? If it's not, do you think it's possible to ...
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Goodbye, Prettify. Hello highlight.js! Swapping out our Syntax Highlighter
Update 2020-09-24
This is now live network-wide.
Update
This is now live on Meta Stack Exchange and Meta Stack Overflow. Any bugs and feedback can be posted here as an answer.
I’m Ben and I’m a dev ...
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Dark Mode for Stack Exchange sites
Each Stack Exchange site should provide users the option of using a dark mode design/theme.
Why is this feature missing?
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What does constructive criticism of a design change look like?
Last week we rolled out the new network theme to several sites. Some of these sites had beautiful designs previously and now have a less striking look. Unsurprisingly, the response to these changes ...
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How does the review-needed indicator work exactly?
With the rollout of the new top bar, you’ve probably noticed the new review indicator:
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It’s possible there will be a different review icon by the time you read this. But this post is just about ...
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Can SO have a fluid vs. fixed-width layout? [duplicate]
When will SO stop wasting real estate of my screen by having static width layout?
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It would be very interesting to hear how does Joel, being UI specialist, feel about this. JoelOnSoftware site ...
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New post formatting
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What was changed?
Sep 23, 2020
It took me longer than I wanted, but I’ve got some updates for you on our s-prose component. You can see the pull request with my thinking over at our ...
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We are switching to system fonts on May 10, 2021
Update 3 - The changes from round 2 are live, but with one notable exception: On Linux, we spec’d “Liberation Sans” and “Liberation Mono”. Did some digging on that PR and installed a few Linux VMs and ...
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