Questions tagged [design]
Feedback relating to the appearance of the site.
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Text color of topics on Physics.SE frontpage
On Physics' starting page, the color used for the topic texts is quite pale blue, #0587AC to a color picker.
Most pixels are even brighter than that because they are anti-aliased against the white ...
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How acceptable is prosemirror-math as an editor style for this site?
This is a follow-up to one of the possible answers raised in the thread The proposed changes to the text editor would break this site.
Prosemirror-math is a math editing framework that allows for ...
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Why do we have a profile page and an ability to chat if SE is not a social network?
I was reading these exchanges about the (lack of) ability to follow other posters:
Automating the ability to "follow" posters
I can follow posters, presumably like many others do, simply by ...
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The proposed changes to the text editor would break this site
You have probably seen already a link, on the Featured on Meta sidebar, to an announcement of an upcoming upgrade to the text editor on Stack Exchange, Opt-in alpha test for a new Stacks editor.
As a ...
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Feature Request: Dark Mode
Would it be possible to implement a "Dark Mode" on the Physics Stack Exchange as is being trialed on the Stack Overflow? I personally would prefer that viewing mode. Use the upvote on this comment to ...
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What, really, is a good question?
So it seems like the general consensus of a "good" question is one that includes adequate research/reasoning to provide context for/justify the question being asked, and if applicable cites sources ...
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Help needed. format turned colored and with bubbles when I hit a question
A nonsense format comes up when I hit on the list of Physics a question to look at it. Colors and bubbles and distracting fuss. Help please. It happened after I rejected and edit by xray0, but it ...
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Profile/Activity layout issue [closed]
There seems to be an issue with the layout on the Activity tab in User Profile. The text and button at the bottom of the badge are obscured by the next row of tabs since the box is larger than normal ...
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Physics' updated site theme is live for everyone
Update - the theme and layout is now live for everyone.
Thanks for your feedback in this process. If there's additional feedback, please feel free to add to the answers below.
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Ch-ch-ch-changing the site logo to cut out the weird arrow thing
Apparently, Ch-ch-ch-changes are coming to the site navigation and theming.
Given that that's the case (and that therefore there are designer work-hours already scheduled to attend to our site design)...
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Header background not tall enough with the new top bar
With the top bar redesign (currently mod-only, broader rollout planned for the next couple of weeks) in Chrome the header seems not to be tall enough to contain its content anymore. In this image, you ...
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Should we get a vector logo?
Right now, we use a raster logo instead of a vector logo.
For those who don't know, a raster is an image made of pixels. If you zoom enough, you'll see the image become pixelated (as is the case with ...
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Are the colors of this two comments different?
http://i64.tinypic.com/21l7uw2.png
These are the comments from the question What is “relatively uniform resonant frequency”?. I'm pretty sure that the colors are different, maybe their brightness. Is ...
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Hot Network Question titles are interpreted as LaTeX / MathJax?
I noticed when viewing a question here that a hot network question from Money.SE was formatted strangely. Presumably because it's interpreting the title as math markup.
Screenshot from this site:
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What is the function in the Physics StackExchange website picture? [duplicate]
I'm sorry if this isn't a question fit for this site, but what exactly is the function that's plotted in the website logo/picture? It looks kind of like a simple decaying exponential multiplied by a ...
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What does the mexican hat/sombrero logo of Phys.SE stands for? [duplicate]
Beside the word physics is drawn a figure which looks like a mexican hat/sombrero. Where does it stands for and why is this used. Does it has to do something with condensations?
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There is a subtle bug in the review queues: The (up to recently) normally greyed-out options are no longer greyed out (yet remain unclickable)
The title says it all, really. Normally, when one hasn't done anything the "I'm done" option in the First Post review queue is greyed-out. Now, it is no longer so, but one still cannot click it. ...
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Was the new font incompletely implemented?
As you all might have noticed, our posts appear in a brand new font since today (as requested long ago. However, there are some places where the font has not been implemented, and this leads to some ...
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Please don't stretch the old community ads!
So the sidebar got stretched by about 30%. No problem. This entails a change to the network-provided ads (not visible above certain rep thresholds) and to the community ads. No problem. Some old ads ...
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Move focus to text box when editing favourite tags
I'm not sure whether this is a problem with the new design or if it was there in the old one, but it's there. If I click on the edit button on the Favorite Tags ...
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Minor design updates to site
You may have noticed some minor updates to site design this week, they are part of a SE network-wide update to a new base css framework.
The updates allow us to:
Use SVG icons for retina display
Fix ...
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Serif fonts like Chemistry and Math
Last year, we asked Can we have a font which harmonizes better with MathJax? and the answer was yes, it would be included in the CSS rollout.
Now that the CSS and profile rollout is complete, it was ...
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Minor flaws in the new profile design
There are two minor issues with the profile layout/design. First, when mousing over the impact number, the box is clipped at the top by the top layout:
Second, most of the explanation text boxes are ...
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Is there a known timeline for the deployment of the new CSS?
Some six to eight weeks ago, Stack Exchange announced a programme to re-design the CSS and tweak the site styles throughout the network, including the completely redesigned profile pages. Since then, ...
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Up and Down Voting a Moderator
Do moderators know when you are down or up voting all their answers? Is it anonymity for all?
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Cannot view LaTeX on the Comments section and the Title in the stack exchange app
Sorry, I don't know if this question should be asked here (feel free to remove if this doesn't), since this is only regarding the stack exchange app, my main concern is that I cannot view LaTeX on the ...
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What does the question count include?
At the time of writing this there where 64,202 questions according to the figure given on the questions-newest tab. What does this number represent, is it the total number of questions on the website, ...
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Why is the main page of PSE looking so weird in my Opera browser?
Pictures would say better:
Then this; notice a large bar in the right part of the page; the conspicuous part is the appearance of hot questions at the bottom:
What is going on? I'm using Opera 30....
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Site sidebar appears below content in Google Chrome
As of right now, the sidebar is appearing below the content, with vertical and horizontal scrollbars around the #content div.
Imagine there is a red freehand circle around the misplaced sidebar...
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Design for up-down buttons
I am not entirely sure whether this can be asked here, however I will give it a go. I have seen that most of the SE sections have very pretty designs for the up-down vote arrow buttons, that are most ...
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Why aren't we using the new stackexchange [duplicate]
All my other accounts have newer stackexchange profiles and better websites. why are we still only using the older version of stackexchange?
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Can the OP comment highlighting be turned up a bit?
This is a minor quibble but since the site's CSS is in review I thought I'd bring it up. I just found out, via this MSE answer, that if you ask a question and then comment on the answers below it, ...
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Can we have a font which harmonizes better with MathJax?
It seems that we're somewhere in the queue for a site CSS adjustment, accompanied by the new profile pages. Since the CSS is getting a makeover, I would like to float this idea: can we change the font ...
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Is the new profile style on SE coming to Physics SE?
I've noticed that other stack exchange sites have a new style of user profile. The new style has a different layout, as well as more statistics, such as "people reached", which is interesting. Is the ...
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Bug Fix: the tabs in the Physics forum appear cluttered [duplicate]
I am not sure whether it's a bug or not. But if you hover over the menu below banner labelled 'Physics', the background changes to light blue, however, that background comes behind the written texts ...
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Navigation on the anonymous homepage is styled wrong [duplicate]
This is what I observe. Watching from an ASUS laptop; an i5 intel CPU, and a chrome web browser (latest version). Well, I found an screenshot from a physics.SE user and it looks like this:
So ...
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The site toolbar looks broken in Opera
The site toolbar looks broken in Chrome. How can I fix it?
I have the same problem but in Opera. I've read in one comment that this isn't a problem in Opera but it's for me.
Edit: This is really ...
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The navigation is borked in Chrome [duplicate]
When I open the site in Chrome - either main or meta I get this:
rather than this:
I think this is the CSS used to display the elements in the list:
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Physics stack exchange styling issue in Chrome when not logged in [duplicate]
Looking at this question on physics.stackexchange:
What are washers for?
The highlighted heading (Questions) looks odd. I'm not logged in to that site and I'm using Chrome.
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The site toolbar looks broken in Chrome. How can I fix it?
Since earlier this month, the main toolbar of the site (with links to Questions, Tags, Users, Badges, Unanswered and Ask Question) has changed, distinctly for the worse:
The font looks blocky and ...
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Bounty icon is poorly placed
I just had a bounty awarded for my answer. (Thanks, Ruslan!)
When I went to look at it, though, I noticed that the bounty marker icon looked kind of awkward, like it didn't really want to be there, ...
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Can the label "per page" on lists made look different than the links next to it?
Lists of questions etc show links to select the count of items per page on the lower right. Next to it, there is a separate describing label with the text "per page".
Because the label has just the ...
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Sombrero / grid logo [duplicate]
This site has a 3d grid looking like a sombrero as a logo. Does it represent some specific physical phenomenon or is it just art?
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Is our site due for a redesign?
So many of us agree that the new not-black topbar looks awful on Physics.SE. One solution to this would be to change the top-bar to reduce the discord, as has been done on scifi.SE and askubuntu.com (...
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Help! There's a giant ugly thing on top of the page!
As you probably noticed, there is a new top bar implemented on this site. This is part of a network-wide experiment in... UI design I guess? Details on
The new top bar is out on meta. Consider it a ...
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The "add / show 1 more comments" link doesn't do anything if you don't have comment permissions
I recently lost commenting permissions due to offering a bounty.
Since then, I've noticed that when reading answers with comments, clicking on the "add / show 1 more comments" link doesn't reveal the ...
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Physics.SE color layout change
Most of the questions here are about the content, and not about the layout of the site. (Which is good, content >> layout, in terms of importance).
I'm new in SE, as you can probably see, however, I ...
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A request to allow links to be opened in a new tab
Often when working my way through a question or answer there are several links in the middle of the text for references. It would be nice if I could click on that and not lose my place on the page I ...
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Minor edits should not make questions 'active'
This issue has been bugging me for a while now. I suppose it's more appropriate for the main SE site, but I want to know how others feel about it.
I find it very annoying that the 'active questions' ...
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How about a better 404 page?
The current 404 page is very plain. I know there was a question for a better 404 page: Ideas for 404/error/captcha pages, take 2. However, it was not implemented in the end. Maybe, it was forgotten, ...
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