Questions tagged [design]
for meta questions and discussion topics concerning the site design.
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Request for revert of the top bar background colour
I would like to request that the background colour of the top bar gets reverted to the previous warm brownish. There are three reasons for this:
The black top bar is the most emphasized element of ...
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Make TeX.SX look nice again!
A collection of user scripts to make the main site look a bit better again, after the new design has gone live on August 3, 2018.
The scripts can be used e.g. with
Tampermonkey (Chrome)
Greasemonkey (...
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Colorblind, links hard to see
I have red-green colorblindness. I don't really notice it, except on two occasions:
When I see an Ishihara plate.
When hyperlinks are styled using only a color that normal people have no trouble ...
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Why is the kerning wrong in the TeX.SX logo/banner?
I really love the beautiful shaded TeX.SX logo — I think it makes tex.stackexchange.com one of the best looking of all the StackExchange sites.
But I am curious why the kerning is wrong? (By that I ...
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Can the box made by the <kbd> HTML tag be made smaller?
Keyboard input can be indicated with the kbd HTML tag, as in
<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>S</kbd>
which displays as Ctrl + S. The boxes created by this tag are quite large, so that ...
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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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Could we lighten up the Google+ icon a little?
Don't get me wrong, but I'm getting slightly annoyed by the tiny Google+ icon right below the voting controls, in the er... social bar. The size is OK, but the color... well:
I swear, at first I ...
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Site design updates are live!
I'm a designer for Stack Exchange, and I wanted to give everyone a heads that minor site design updates have just launched.
Most of the changes will not be visible; these tweaks go along with recent ...
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Tags displayed in bold
Personally, I don't like them. But maybe this is beyond the point.
Were we consulted about this?
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Site Design Ideas (updated with mockup)
Hi all. I'm Jin, and I'll be working on the designs for the Stack Exchange sites as they graduate from the beta phase. Each site will have its own unique theme that will reflect its topic. However, ...
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Use dashes in page titles instead of hyphens
In every page title on tex.sx, it says
TeX - LaTeX - Stack Exchange
These horizontal lines between the words are hyphens (Unicode point U+002D "Hyphen-minus"). In proper typesetting, these should ...
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Should the spacing between the star number indicator and the question star itself be increased?
On the TeX SE, the number of stars a question has received seems to overlap the star.
It isn't really an issue with single-digit numbers, which seem to fit neatly into the crevasse between the two ...
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New user greeting.
With all the talk about branding I wondered what the new user greeting on our site is. So I logged out and was greeted by:
Welcome to Q&A for expert users of TeX, LaTeX and other related ...
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Missing tie in signatures of comments
There is something a bit wrong with the comment formatting; it seems to be like this now:
\interpretCommentMarkdown{#1} - \userLink{#2}
But it should be more like this:
\interpretCommentMarkdown{#1}...
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New Design Launched
Hi all,
Thank you for your helpful design input. As you can see, the new design went live, grats!
If you see any CSS/Styling issues, please start a new question for the bug report, and tag it with "...
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"1 times" is incorrect, every time
Recipients of newly-created badges live with the following reality:
Is it possible to have this print as
This badge has been awarded 1 time. Recently awarded to:
in the event of a single instance?...
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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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Nothing indicates that the meta site is meta....
While I could eventually figure out that I was in Meta and not Parent, I found myself wondering for a few seconds....I think that the design should specifically include the word meta.
I hereby ...
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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 the logo appearance with the new black top bar
With the new fancy black top bar, the logo of the site got mutilated. I believe that the following CSS fix would bring it close to the original state, however, I'm not 100% sure and IMHO the old ...
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Make the Google+ less distracting by syncing its saturation with the other icons
This is a follow up to Could we lighten up the Google+ icon a little? which I think was unfairly declined. On Stack Overflow, Super User and Server Fault the Google+ icon is less distracting because ...
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Accepted answer checkmark color
I just asked this question at meta.programmers.stackexchange.com when I realized I have the same problem over here as well.
When I ask a question (and every answer has a check mark next to it for me ...
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404/CAPTCHA/Error images
I knew I forgot something right before the new design launch today. I didn't get a chance to create custom images for the 404/Captcha/error pages on the TeX site.
Do you have any suggestions?
A ...
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Display bug causes number of badges to be shown incorrectly [closed]
There is a display bug which causes the number of badges to be shown incorrectly.
Here is an example from Are there any disadvantages of TeX being Turing complete? where the number of bronze badges is ...
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Dark mode in TeX Stack Exchange
I just realised that there is an option for dark mode for Stack Overflow. I was wondering if there is any chance our community could use it too.
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TeX Stack Exchange Moderator Cards
We recently printed some business cards for our Stack Exchange employees and they turned out great.
It got us thinking: our sites' moderators have been working hard to keep our sites high quality for ...
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Layout problem in comments
There is a problem when showing text of an answer comment.
If you look at my comment here, the text should read:
... right, this is because of the _. For some reason ..
But the underscore is ...
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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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Can someone explain the homepage new look?
Can someone explain the new look of the Tex.StackExchange homepage and what is displayed? I could find no reference to the changes and did not know who to ask. I think I get the Here's how it works ...
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Update the TeX Community Blog logo
Now that the tex.sx logo has the real kerning, the Community Blog logo should be updated, too. Compare:
(tex.sx logo)
(blog logo)
I stick to my comment to Jin's answer though, that the braces ...
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New top bar... feedback?
The new top bar is live and has been receiving mixed reviews after its initial anouncement.
There are some things that are network wide that will most like not change (deemed status-bydesign), but ...
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Still missing illustrations from Duane Bibby
There was a post by Jin asking what we should do for the captcha/404/etc. images.
This was followed up by a post to main, in which we seem to mostly agreed that it would be really cool if we could ...
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Incorrect tag used to zap a question by the golden badge hammer
I found this strange thing which is IMHO a bug:
The problem is that egreg zapped the question using his golden xetex badge. However, the question isn't tagged xetex, it had the tag but lost it ...
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Site name - TeX versus LaTeX
Why is this site called TeX and not LaTeX? Does it have to do with copyright?
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What does the number under my username mean in chat?
As the title says. Here's an image:
This is not my reputation.
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Incorrect leading when using tag links
When using tag links like bug, some extra leading is added between the line with the link and the following, leading to unnecessary whitespace. I've tested this with Firefox 8.0 on Windows XP and ...
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Strikeout doesn't work properly with markdown
Strikeout in HTML (using <s>...</s> or <del>...</del>) doesn't strike out links to tags as specified in mardown. For example:
<s>See [tag:discussion] for some questions ...
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Design flaw concerning the location of a notification box
When voting on a comment, one can only up-vote once every 5 seconds. Try to vote more often than that, and you'll get a yellow box telling informing you of this policy. However, the box is placed ...
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Can we have proper italics rather than slanted text?
I visited the http://english.stackexchange.com recently and I couldn't but feel jealous at the nice italic font used over there. At this site, which is much closer to typography we have a slanted ...
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more problems with the new site redesign
edited problem statement
the link to return from meta to the main site is not "parallel" to the link on the main site to meta. i found the latter under "help", but the link from meta to the main ...
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Recent changes on the TeX.SE website
This evening I have logged in and found some news on the site TeX.SE, for example on the explanations for closure of the questions. I also saw a new screen regarding the reopening of the questions ...
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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
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text text text text text
(I can't use \␣ ...
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Do we like the share buttons? Do people use them?
I'm not a facebook or twitter user, and this question might be a reflection of that, but I wonder if people like the little share links near every question.
I guess this question will have several ...
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Add an additional Licence to "MY" content
following the discussion on licensing, I propose an additional field in the user-profile (this can be a SE-wide thing, or just for TeX.SE, though it would probably fit in Programming.SE as well, as an ...
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The favorite count makes part of the star unclickable
I was idly browsing through TeX.SE, and at one point attempted to favourite ("star") a question that had already been starred more than a hundred times. Nothing happened. I tapped (yeah, touchscreen) ...
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List positioning wrong on privileges page
On the privileges page, the list with the privilege stages on the right is all the way down, which shouldn't (and didn't use to) be the case. Clicking on some of the specific privilege stages didn't ...
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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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The prominent link to tex.blogoverflow.com has been buried
I'm fairly sure that http://tex.blogoverflow.com/ used to be linked to in the top bar by the word "blog", close to the chat link. Now we have a supply of good content on the blog it seems to have ...
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why does "asked yesterday" persist after more than 24 hours?
after absence for a day i returned to checking what had happened while i was gone.
a question that i knew i had seen earlier reported "asked yesterday":
the date shown, on a mouse-over, is "2014-09-...
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Links are invisible on the Main site
I've noticed this for quite some time, but I suppose the time has come to do something about it. At least for me to speak about it, hoping to cause some change.
Links on TeX SE Main are invisible. ...
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