Questions tagged [design]
Use this tag for questions regarding the design of the Stack Exchange websites; e.g., for issues with the layout.
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Why did the voting buttons change to this horrible design?
I just noticed that in the past hour, some changes were made on voting buttons, it became: Why were these changed? The previous ones were really good. Those ones are unaesthetic and aren't even well-...
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Who can help us implement Dark Mode?
I would like to know where to send my money so that Dark Mode can come to Ask Different. Stack Overflow has had it for two years and it is an absolute delight. I mostly spend time at AD in the evening ...
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Let's support Dark Mode!
With the introduction of dark mode in macOS, Safari Technology Preview 68 has released a new feature called prefers-color-scheme which lets us detect whether the user has dark mode enabled with a ...
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Why are visited links not rendered differently from non-visited links in AskDifferent?
I subscribe to several SE sites. I've noticed that the question links on the Questions page are rendered differently on the AskDifferent site than they are on the other sites I visit: After clicking ...
3 votes
7 answers
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Ask Different new site theme is live
We rolled out the new site theme for Ask Different. It is now live. What new theme? If you're like, "What the heck are you talking about?", then you should read the Meta Stack Exchange post ...
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New Ask Different site theme coming soon
As mentioned on meta.stackexchange.com several months ago, all network sites will be getting updated themes. Ask Different is one of the first sites that will be updated. As such, I'm posting the ...
4 votes
1 answer
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Background colour of remaining flags/close vote count
Whenever I choose to cast vote on a question or flag a post, the count of remaining votes/flags for the day is shown besides the button. I have observed that the background colour of the box shown ...
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‘meta’ in Meta title is a serif font
The word ‘meta’ in the .meta-title is a serif font instead of sans-serif. The font family was previously sans-serif, but is now using the default font for the browser, which in Safari is Times.
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1 answer
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Inactive button not readable when reviewing First Posts or Late Answers
When reviewing First Posts or Late Answers, the inactive button is hardly visible: This seems to be Ask Different-specific, it doesn't happen on a dozen other sites I checked. I've tested this on the ...
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Small design problem with number of eligible voters on election page
The election page looks a little bit awkward, because the number of eligible voters is 'orphaned' on the previous line, at least for the first three elections: The problem seems to be a missing <br&...
6 votes
3 answers
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Is this really our new look?
All I can say is... please, no. It's like someone threw a bag of crayons at Windows 10. The old 'fade out' version was fine. This is just a distraction. For anyone who hasn't yet read the Meta post, ...
2 votes
1 answer
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Rainbow/Empty header on on AskDifferent and Meta.AskDifferent
For the last couple of weeks, I've had the weird rainbow header on AskDifferent, as seen in Why do I occasionally get a big rainbow in the top banner? This is what it looks like: The Meta site does ...
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Why do I occasionally get a big rainbow in the top banner?
So, the question is not so much about the rainbow itself (I see it as a reminder of the old Apple logo I grew up with), but more about why it appears sometimes and not other times? Below is a ...
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Markup or styling broken on profile page
I'm using Firefox 50.0.2 and noticed the layout in my profile on this site is broken. Something is wrapping or overflowing unexpectedly and it's throwing the whole section off:
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1 answer
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Dupehammer message is not styled correctly
The message that appears when hovering the tag badge on a dupehammer close is not styled correctly: missing the correct font not being restrained to a standard width not being positioned appropriately ...