Questions tagged [information-display]
For questions relating to how information is displayed to Stack Exchange users.
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Chat Landing Page Redesign - Phase 1
[UPDATE - this is now live] [UPDATE 2 - thanks for the bugs called out below. I'll start creating tickets for them in the morning (July 3, 2025).] On Wednesday, July 2nd, we’re rolling out a new ...
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Too many full stops…
This has got to be the smallest text correction request ever… …but as noticed in a question on English Language Learners - Should a full stop punctuation be used in Abbreviations? - there are too many ...
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Top "One percent" rating. Is the float number formatting correct? (1.00%)
I noticed that if you are getting "top 1%" per year it is displaying as "1.00%" instead of "1%". It is right in case <1, such "0.98%", but it looks like ...
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How many SE sites are there? What about an "N sites and counting..." message at the top of stackexchange.com/sites?
In this recent site meta answer I wrote There are almost 200 SE sites to choose from! But they vary in question rate and temperament. I actually took the time to count them the first time I used ...
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0 answers
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Could election announcement posts be formatted better?
The moderation election post posted by the community bot looks something like this, in this case for Codegolf.SE: The 2022 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections ...
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View count are shown highly inflated in display [duplicate]
View count for my post How can never ending decimal numbers represent finite lengths? e.g. $\pi$, $\sqrt{2}$ has barely touched 2500 and it shows 3k view in the display, which is 20% inflated from the ...
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Suggested edits on answers show the author of the parent question instead of the answer's author as they used to [duplicate]
In this suggested edit on an answer it shows the user that asked the question above the revision and the user that proposed the edit below it. The answer was posted by a different user and that is not ...
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Deleting answers, reloading pages, and changing focus
This question is closely related to the recent changes in answer sort ordering, but I think it’s different enough (or niche enough) to warrant its own question. Here is the workflow: Be a moderator ...
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Inline code formatting tries to escape the page! [duplicate]
I was going through the First Questions review queue, and was given this review. I don't think the inline code block should render like that. Even though the OP should have used a code block, I don't ...
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Inconsistent styling and formatting in the notices for closed questions
While using my Android v.11 Galaxy XCover Pro, with Google Chrome app version 12.41.19.23.arm64 in "full site" view at Law SE (the only site where I have the necessary privileges)... Both of ...
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Have post previews surround blockquoted text in quotation marks
When a post uses a blockquote, the preview of that post obviously doesn't retain that formatting, but this means that the text runs together like it is one sentence. For a concrete example, here is an ...
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Pronoun-specific field in profile (that also shows up in hovercard)
Edit/Preface A lot of the objections so far, especially in the comments, seem to be 'this isn't useful to me, therefore it's not useful.' I would like to edit to clarify that I, and I think most LGBTQ+...
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1 answer
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Can other bots have an identifying label, too? Even user-run bots?
Now that the Community user is going to be explicitly labelled as a bot, how about adding the same label to other bot accounts, too? There is an old request for essentially the same thing, but at the ...
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21 votes
1 answer
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Can we please avoid calling this staff / bot / mod identifying label a "badge"?
Recently, indicators have been added to make explicit the fact that some accounts have a special status. Unfortunately, the term "badge" has been used to describe this feature; but calling ...
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Profile Picture not consistent across network [duplicate]
I was a bit shocked to find out my profile picture got somehow disappeared(?) in the other network. I checked on Stack Overflow, Meta Stack Overflow, Meta Stack Exchange and seems like only in Stack ...
