Timeline for Thoughts on the future of Stack Exchange site customisation
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| Jun 23 at 5:14 | comment | added | JBH | I can't upvote this enough. As I read the OP post I kept thinking to myself, "this is a thinly veiled but very verbose warning that everything unique about the Stacks is about to go away." Thanks for elucidating what I couldn't. | |
| Jun 9 at 10:33 | comment | added | OrangeDog | "There are thousands of Reddit sites." - hundreds of thousands. Also that design was so generally unpopular that a significant chunk of the most active users disabled it, reverting to old.reddit.com | |
| Jun 6 at 2:11 | comment | added | curiousdannii | Also in the META logomark here the E and T don't even have aligned tops! | |
| Jun 6 at 2:08 | comment | added | curiousdannii | I'd given up complaining about the three hamburger "menus" and horizontally scrolling icons in the mobile version. We've had years of backend ("Stacks" etc) changes which were never accompanied by designs that appeared to have ever actually been tested by someone who regularly used the sites. At least on Reddit I don't have to scroll to see all the icons in the top bar. I don't understand why you're so down on it. | |
| Jun 6 at 1:59 | comment | added | Catija | I feel that even allowing undesigned sites to choose from 6-8 color-only themes would be a vast improvement over the beta blue and failing to recognize that would be a disservice to those sites. | |
| Jun 6 at 1:56 | comment | added | Catija | It's exhausting to bring ideas to meta and constantly get fatalistic, negative reactions that spend everything on explaining why something is terrible and how idiotic they are for even suggesting it but won't even acknowledge the goals or contemplate how they might be achieved if they were willing to consider alternatives. Refusing to proffer anything but negativity doesn't allow for the conversation to actually progress and I sincerely believe in the value of theming options for sites with no design and users who wanted to customize the design for their own needs. | |
| Jun 6 at 1:48 | comment | added | Catija | @wizzwizz4 that's fair... I just feel the need to recognize that it's unlikely that anyone in the company will actually accept community feedback and change their mind about implementing this, so if all I can hope to impact is how they go about it, I will offer that suggestion. By offering an alternative that will actually benefit some sites while also potentially slowing the inevitable for others and potentially lead to a better final implementation for those sites... that's a win to me. | |
| Jun 5 at 22:58 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | I don't think you should be giving "how to convince people" advice, for… well, the beginning portion of this answer explains quite well. | |
| Jun 5 at 16:02 | comment | added | V2Blast StaffMod | Full support for "Start with the unthemed". There's so many SE network sites that don't have any custom theming (and barely any customization at all). Giving those sites the tools to customize their design would be a great way to convince folks on other SE sites that these benefits would be a positive for their sites. | |
| Jun 5 at 9:39 | history | answered | Catija | CC BY-SA 4.0 |