Questions tagged [user-experience]
For questions about how Stack Exchange handles User Experience and tries to improve it. For general questions about UX, please visit User Experience Stack Exchange.
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Have an option to permanently switch to the jQuery fallback across all SE sites
Every SE site loads script from https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.4/jquery.min.js. Unfortunately, the majority of Google's domains, including ajax.googleapis.com, are blocked by GFW.
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Make it flow smoothly to add a post to a specific saves list
I am an avid user of the saves feature. I like it. I want to love it. One of the biggest pain points is how much I need to move my mouse around to add a post to a specific list.
saves button is to ...
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GDPR deletion form is unintuitive
One would assume that a user who's going to be deleting their account completely and irrevocably network-wide would be unimpressed with dark patterns.
I was looking up the GDPR deletion page to point ...
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Warn after the first tag that one needs 300 points to create new tags
Warn after entering the first new tag that one needs 300 points to create new tags. Don't wait until the user is through filling in the tags and presses Post, before informing him or her that all ...
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The "Add" button in the edit interface for "Your Communities" is nearly invisible [duplicate]
I was trying to add my most visited sites from the top-right dropdown menu, and it took me so long, because I did not realize the faint add button is not disabled.
I thought I was doing something ...
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Why am I being prompted to help improve the site when I don't have the reputation yet to access any review queues?
On Meta Stack Overflow, mousing over the review queue menu item on the top navbar displays the tooltip "Review queues - help improve the site" together with the hand cursor, so I click and ...
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Prevent losing uncommitted translation input on popup editor close in Traducir
Context on Stack's community translation platform moving to be internally hosted:
We’re moving Traducir to our internal infrastructure
Editing the translation in Traducir takes place in a popup ...
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Skip the extra popup confirmation window "Nominate this question for reopening?" to streamline the "Reopen votes" review process
I was going through questions in the review queue Reopen votes: Vote whether or not to reopen closed questions. I clicked on Reopen.
I expected this to reopen the question. Instead, I got a popup ...
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Prevent browser popup error on wrong regex in Traducir
Since traducir.win is now under SO responsibility, could you please prevent the browser popup error from appearing on wrong regex input, and showing it again and again if I press Esc to close that ...
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Tabbing through the inline tag editor doesn't focus the input or allow adding new tags
While editing a post one can press the tab key to go from the Body editor to the Tags input, then type letters to add a tag. For example:
However, when using the inline tag editor, one can press the ...
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When choosing "In need of moderator intervention" post flag reason, the input field is no longer auto-focused
The comment flag "Something else" option will auto-focus the text input field when selected. But the same is not true for the "In need of moderator intervention" flag reason for ...
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"Show X more comments" link appears even when there is nothing to be shown [duplicate]
My flag "It's no longer needed" was accepted for four comments under this question: Safeness of changing proto field number
After deletion, when I revisited the post, it showed "Show 2 ...
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Why do "bookmark" and "follow" behave differently for logged-out users when both are non-privileged features?
When a user is logged out, there are some elements that they can interact with:
And this is how they behave:
Upvote/downvote: show a "join the community" pop-up with the required ...
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Will extra statistics be included in the new post summary layouts, and when?
Since Stack Exchange introduced and implemented the new post summary designs in January 2022; hundreds of users have voiced their dissent. But no one, as far as I could tell, actually referenced one ...
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Scanning information has become harder on home site pages [duplicate]
How am I supposed to navigate the new site home pages?.
I look at the page, and it is just a giant blob of meaningless non-information in a dense cluster and white space — the only regular information ...
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