Personally, I don't like them. But maybe this is beyond the point.
Were we consulted about this?
asked Jan 18, 2016 at 12:58
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We tracked down the bug. The Tex community has a few special classes for text formatting and those happened to conflict with a recent mixin that was added to a global file. The change was unintentional and an update is rolling out soon. Thanks for the catch and your patience.
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@Werner this is in response to this feature request: meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6451/…– Kurtis Beavers StaffCommented Jan 29, 2016 at 20:08
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2@KurtisBeavers: Yes, I noticed that. It also changed the markdown syntax highlighting.– Werner ModCommented Jan 29, 2016 at 20:09
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@Werner I'm not sure I understand, would you mind posting a screenshot in a new answer?– Kurtis Beavers StaffCommented Jan 29, 2016 at 20:11
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@KurtisBeavers: I'll try and find older pictures of the markdown highlighting together with the new...– Werner ModCommented Jan 29, 2016 at 20:12
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@Werner Oh, I see, I'm guessing the markdown highlighting probably used to be bold, and is no longer. I will try to fix as soon as I can.– Kurtis Beavers StaffCommented Jan 29, 2016 at 20:14
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2@KurtisBeavers: The
{}and[]inside a code block used to be gray (I think); now they're red.– Werner ModCommented Jan 29, 2016 at 20:19 -
1thanks for this. at the risk of being a pain, but while somebody from "the management" is paying attention, could you please consider taking a look at this: Site design updates are live! it really does mean a lot to us. Commented Jan 29, 2016 at 21:19
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@Werner and Barbara, I'll look into both issues soon– Kurtis Beavers StaffCommented Jan 30, 2016 at 0:34
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The unannounced change should be reverted as soon as possible. I would even remove boldface from the current tab name, normally active, because the rule under the tab name is sufficient.
Boldface is a device to be used very sparingly, because it catches attention: with the current setup, tags are more prominent than question titles.
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1I like the boldface for the current tab. (Doesn't have to be bold. A different colour would do. Just I don't like relying on underlining.) But it is bonkers that the tags currently jump out at you whereas the question titles and teasers are much harder to pay attention to. Are the tags really more important than the content of the question title?– cfrCommented Jan 24, 2016 at 2:09
Honestly the SE sites have generally very good designs and very nice choices in regards to how things appear, but the tag change is really a punch in the eye. The tags now are as black as the text, making them virtually indistinguishable from the text at a first sight.
I'll just say this:
Using bold for everything is like using the highlighter pen for the whole book you're studying: it is pointless and kills your eyes.
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Do they really look only as black as the text to you? For me, they are much, much heavier than the text, the titles... most everything else.– cfrCommented Jan 24, 2016 at 2:10
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@cfr Yeah, I meant that at first glance, you can't distinguish between one or the other. But the tags do look bolder.– AlenannoCommented Jan 24, 2016 at 2:31
I think the main site looks a little bit silly now. In the following screenshot, the things encircled in red need to be bold as well.
The content of the blue circle needs to be super-mega-bold to fit again.
Just reverting the bold tags to normal would be easier and better, though.
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There's a difference in the colour of the tags. Here's a screen grab from the "legend" on the tags page:
{required-tag}has RGB = (68,68,68){tag}has RGB = (85,85,85)
However, this is too close to discern when both are bold. For example, on Meta.TeX.SE one is required to have one of the four tags bug, feature-request, discussion or support which are one-boxed in bold. With the current setup all tags are bold:
I enjoy the feature of having certain tags represent something other than the usual content. For example, the red colour of the moderator-only tags: status-completed, featured, status-bydesign, status-deferred, status-planned, status-reproduced, status-review, status-declined and status-norepro. This is lost though with the addition of making all tags bold.
This looks particularly ugly on Firefox 43.0.4 on Ubuntu 14.04, in my opinion.
There is a lot of extra space around the name of a tag and the { and }.
answered Jan 22, 2016 at 3:31
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I'm not sure, but I suspect that's a font setup issue – I've had similar weirdness in the past. I would find out what font Firefox is using there and see if you can reproduce it (e.g.) gEdit. Commented Jan 23, 2016 at 13:56
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@SeanAllred Hmm, it's a fresh install, but thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it!
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Arch is similar: i.sstatic.net/UbAVH.png. @SeanAllred If it is a font issue, it doesn't seem to be Ubuntu-specific. Unless I've misunderstood what is especially bad about the screenshot. I noticed because it looks 'normal' to me. I agree it is especially ugly but I only ever use the site via Firefox on Linux. It looks similar on Arch and Fedora. (And the font configurations are not the same - one is bohoomil's specialist configuration and the other is Fedora's defaults, I think.– cfrCommented Jan 24, 2016 at 2:21
:):)font-weight:boldto empty string inall.cssremoves all those annoying bold stuff...more refined approach is to find the tags in the css, which is calledpost-tagandrequired-tag.