Timeline for Stack Overflow Redesign: Navigation and Homepage
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| Nov 12 at 2:18 | answer | added | David Roberts | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 10 at 20:08 | comment | added | Piper Staff | @FlorianF the large margins are just to show that the navigation will stick to the left instead of intruding on content space. I'll make sure to remove them for any future mockups I share | |
| Nov 8 at 18:23 | answer | added | Florian F | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 8 at 17:13 | comment | added | Florian F | What is the use of these large margins? Sometimes I need to follow instructions in SE that explain how to do something in antoher application. I need to see SE and my app side by side. It is often difficult to fit enough of both windows to be comfortable. These added spaces make it more difficult. if you want these margins, ok, but please explain what is the added benefit from these margins. Btw the spacing between the menu items on the left also could be reduced. It looks like headers with no content. | |
| Oct 28 at 11:37 | comment | added | CcmU | I have to say that I do like the current "Welcome back, {user}" panel and I wish it would not be removed. Personally, I love to be able to see in the homepage my results and progress towards achievements and reputation. Furthermore, I agree with @TylerH, the current topbar looks way better than the new one | |
| Oct 20 at 16:58 | comment | added | roundabout | The AI upsell doesn't seem OK and I hate the style of icons. No, you don't need one line in the + to cut the other, it is the most cliché thing ever | |
| Oct 10 at 14:57 | answer | added | user400654 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 10 at 10:25 | comment | added | emanresu A | Please, please, please, try designing this not with placeholder content but with the actual questions, answers, and users that have made SO what it is. The hypothetical Stack Overflow that this appears to be designed for is not the one that exists today, and likely will never be. | |
| Oct 9 at 19:55 | answer | added | Slapout | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 8 at 16:14 | answer | added | Philipp Ludwig | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 8 at 12:58 | answer | added | kj7rrv | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 8 at 10:50 | comment | added | Lundin | @starball Just review the various feedback threads for the various AI initiatives over the past years. Can you find a single feedback answer saying "Oh this is a nice and helpful feature, but-..." | |
| Oct 8 at 10:48 | comment | added | starball Mod | @Lundin from what I've seen, such as in the SO lobby chat, the assertion that no users what AI prompt is false. I suppose one could debate over whether those new users count as "current", but maybe we could avoid hyperbole here? (for the record, I'm not saying this to show support of more AI chat things) | |
| Oct 8 at 10:26 | comment | added | chrki | The homepage is hard to parse without the distinguishing borders and new conventions of e.g. rearranged vote count. The sidebar icon list reminds me of Mystery meat navigation, why is everything shoved in there and the top bar empty now? Feels all wrong and weird, harder to use for no reason. | |
| Oct 8 at 9:18 | comment | added | Lundin | I don't think I (or anyone else) can give any feedback which hasn't already been given a hundred times before (to deaf ears), including things like literally nobody of your current users want an AI prompt anywhere, least of all rubbed in their face. Also I'm not going to learn the secret meaning of some twenty new nondescript monochrome icons. If you push through these design changes it is going to be the last straw, I promise not to complain about them since I will simply leave. No users means no complaints, success! | |
| Oct 7 at 21:08 | answer | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | timeline score: 8 | |
| Oct 7 at 14:37 | answer | added | user400654 | timeline score: 8 | |
| Oct 7 at 7:58 | comment | added | ꓢPArcheon | Exactly what is the purpose of hiding the text in the left navigation bar (I assume the full label will appear when hovering the buttons) if the central column of the page - the one with the actual content - stays the same? When I hide the ribbon in Word or a side menu in Visual Studio, the main content area expands to utilize the new space. Having an unpinned, on-hover "Mobile-UI" like menu that still occupies the same space even when closed seems an useless exercise in adding noise to the page... | |
| Oct 7 at 0:05 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | More likely a placeholder. | |
| Oct 6 at 22:28 | comment | added | Rebecca J. Stones | I don't understand why the non-Stack Exchange site Hugging Face is listed together with Stack Exchange sites (Seasoned Advice and Ask Ubuntu). (Is it an ad?) | |
| Oct 6 at 22:08 | answer | added | cfr | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 6 at 21:40 | answer | added | vandench | timeline score: 25 | |
| Oct 6 at 20:35 | answer | added | VLAZ | timeline score: 17 | |
| Oct 6 at 20:32 | answer | added | VLAZ | timeline score: 11 | |
| Oct 6 at 20:25 | answer | added | VLAZ | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 6 at 20:16 | answer | added | bta | timeline score: 30 | |
| Oct 6 at 19:46 | answer | added | Rob | timeline score: 12 | |
| Oct 6 at 18:41 | answer | added | Larnu | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 6 at 18:32 | comment | added | TylerH | @Piper OK... so you have added more clicks to do something, and reduced the speed at which we can do it. Is that regression intentional? What is the benefit to users in making things slower to access and require more clicks, along with hiding information that used to always be exposed immediately and on every page? | |
| Oct 6 at 18:18 | answer | added | Resistance Is Futile | timeline score: 28 | |
| Oct 6 at 17:45 | comment | added | Piper Staff | @cfr This will be a responsive layout. If you have a smaller screen, then there just wouldn't be white there. | |
| Oct 6 at 17:45 | comment | added | Piper Staff | @TylerH This doesn't include moderator tooling. As stated, we will be working directly with moderators on where to include tools. We realize speed is access is extremely important for them and we weren't comfortable making those decisions without them. Notifications and achievements are under one menu to the left of the avatar. | |
| Oct 6 at 17:15 | answer | added | VLAZ | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 6 at 17:12 | answer | added | VLAZ | timeline score: 46 | |
| Oct 6 at 17:10 | answer | added | VLAZ | timeline score: 13 | |
| Oct 6 at 17:04 | comment | added | cfr | So what is the empty space on the left for exactly? (more ads?) Perhaps most of your users have wide screens, but many of us have rather small screens - both depth and width. Screen real estate is precious and web designers are far too fond of squandering it, IMHO. I assume this is because they typically have multiple large monitors and assume people who don't are all on phones or tablets. | |
| Oct 6 at 16:45 | answer | added | user400654 | timeline score: 26 | |
| Oct 6 at 16:44 | history | edited | SlateStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 88 characters in body |
| Oct 6 at 16:40 | answer | added | Mast | timeline score: 60 | |
| Oct 6 at 16:35 | history | edited | SlateStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 85 characters in body |
| Oct 6 at 16:30 | answer | added | user400654 | timeline score: 8 | |
| Oct 6 at 16:29 | comment | added | TylerH | Are you redesigning/removing the topbar too in this? The new topbar looks way less useful than the current one. Where are the buttons for notifications, achievements, review queues? Where is my rep and badge count? What about mod flags for moderators? A good 40% of my daily clicks on Stack Overflow/SE sites are on the topbar, but now I can't tell where I should go for that 40% of clicks. It would be good if you could highlight and annotate in the 'new' screenshots where all the stuff from the old layout went, for anything that moved/changed. | |
| Oct 6 at 16:26 | answer | added | Journeyman Geek | timeline score: 30 | |
| Oct 6 at 16:22 | history | edited | SlateStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 254 characters in body |
| Oct 6 at 16:18 | history | asked | PiperStaff | CC BY-SA 4.0 |