Questions tagged [design]
for meta questions and discussion topics concerning the site design.
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Changing vote buttons back to pen nibs
TeX.SE lost its iconic voting icons in The Great Undesign of 2018, while some other sites were allowed to keep their custom voting buttons. That was a very tragic day for the site.
Luckily SO now ...
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Someone has written 100 thousand (!) answers (graphic design bug)
I was really surprised to see that egreg has written 100570 answers!
I thought it's a bit too much, and indeed -- it is. The number of answers blends into the number of questions. In my opinion, this ...
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Is there a possibility to have the previous design of TeX-stackexchange page?
Today I suddenly saw my personal information on the page very small and on the black background. It looks like a necrology! Additionally, not the same information as earlier appears. In particular I ...
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Bug in answerer's identity picture
I know, I have too many badges, but since I'm aiming at 1000+ silver badges, the way the number of badges is shown in answers (for questions I can't tell) is annoying:
As it stands, it shows 1625 ...
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Emphasis needs more space after it
An emphasis gobbles the following space (or does not add some needed additional space),
text *text* text <em>text</em> text
becomes
text text text text text
(I can't use \␣ ...
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Ragged alignment of question titles on main page
update January 18, 2019
Yesterday or so I first noticed this issue seemed to have been solved (possibly network-wide). It my have been so for weeks.
I don't know where to link to, if that issue has ...
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Misalignment of badges/numbers on user-profile page
The current user-profile page shows the badges/numbers looking like this:
Here is a similar view of the top-bar:
I think the vertical alignment of the badges in the user-profile view should match ...
WernerMod
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Improve spacing of headlines (# and ## format)
Sometime I use the markdown headline # and ## to structure my answers, mostly I use only use ## since the # is much too big in my eyes. Furthermore in my opinion the spacing is not that good. I’d like ...
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An awkard alignment in the comments
I am attaching below a picture to indicate how the arrows intended to indicate you have upvoted some commment is aligned awkardly. Is that by-design or something that should go unnoticed? Anyway, it ...
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Font size and "show excerpt" link in tag wiki pages
These are technically two different issues, but they're not too big of a deal so I'm putting them in the same question.
Status quo:
1. Size of About {braces}
Can the font size of {braces} be ...
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suggested edits counter graphic
For 10k users and mods, whenever the queue of suggested edits is non-empty, the following sign pops up in the bar at the top:
That counter looks out-of-place compared with the rest of the design. For ...
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Only two questions show on a newly launched session
When booting up a new session (presumably with an empty cache), the number of questions on the new page is exactly two. The option to increase this to 15/30/50 entries is offered (and the change, once ...
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Why does it say "1 questions" rather than "1 question" with new activity
Why does the notification at top about number of questions with new activity says "1 questions" rather than grammatically correct "1 question"?
Is this error uniform among all SE sites? I waited for ...
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Change the color of the number of suggested edits
The 2 on the review page is hardly visible. Even though a disabled/grayed out look might be desired (because I couldn't actually review these suggested edits), this is just illegible:
(Using Safari 5....
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Mouseover on questions show a horizontal rule
When hovering over questions on the front page (either on the main page or on meta), there is an underline associated with the hyperlink that extends across the entire question block (when viewed ...
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Please lower the threshold for the brown review number to 1
The brown number appears next to the review button in the top bar only if there are at least 3 items to review. I would pretty much prefer to show this brown button whenever there is at least 1 item ...
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Post title font cut off under review queue
Consider the following review when viewed through Google Chrome:
Here's the same review through Firefox:
Here's the same review through IE:
Both Chrome and IE cut parts of the descenders off the ...
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Rendering issues due to overlapping fields
The stats of users with 10k+ reputation and many badges appear clipped in my browser (follow this link to see an example). The following picture illustrates the problem:
the bronze badge to the left ...
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has the tex.sx banner been "simplified"?
i have recently noticed that the banner for tex.sx is missing the beautiful
background. there used to be some very well chosen examples of tex output
along with the obvious tex logo.
i've checked ...
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Click anywhere to close this box
I got the message 'Welcome back! If you found this question useful,
don't forget to vote both the question and the answers up.'
To my dismay, I had to click a tiny font instead of having the freedom ...
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On the website headers design
As a loving user of TeX-based typesetting systems, being also interested in the integration of high-quality graphic content in technical and scientific documentation, I resort daily to the facilities ...
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What is the meaning/importance of Krampus?
I've noticed some images through documents and on site that use Krampus as part of a certain iconography. Where does this come from? Maybe related to GNU? But why/how?
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Does anyone else see this weird spacing on our Markdown help page?
https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help
Take a look at the (lack of) space between the header and the expander triangle. Doesn't seem very 'touchable' in its current state.
Using Safari.
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Should the avatar of the person that edited a question be displayed?
This question is inspired by a mistake that I did here How to know the number of pages in a PDF file? (see the comments)
I generally find that the editor's avatar and name tend to distract. Should ...
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Missed the time of the day, hour, minute on every profile?
I've noticed, and I hope that I'm not wrong, that every user profile is missing the time and the date when they last logged in TeX.SE.
The question, although synthetic, refers to the opening or ...
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Misplaced 'votes' button on profile page
The buttons for the different tabs on the Activity part of your personal profile page are aligned perfectly fine if you have no recent activity:
but as soon as you have new reputation changes, ...
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Adjust vertical alignment of checkmark for obtained badges
This is a view of the badge description and checkmark for a specific badge (say, Mortarboard):
Here is the same badge description from the list of badges:
Could we adjust the vertical alignment of ...
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Non-question: I really like the site's layout
I just would like to say: I really really like the site's layout. It's something that always supports my senses navigating the site and does not add confusion or any sort of friction. It's a pleasant ...
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Notification sidebar style makes links jump on hover
Moving the course across the links in the sidebar makes them jump:
This is with FF 54.0.
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Question listing formatting bug
I think this is a formatting bug. Can be seen for instance on
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/formatting?page=2&sort=unanswered&pagesize=50
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