Questions tagged [design]
A question with this tag is about the visual design, layout, and appearance of the website.
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How do OP cards exist in meta but not in main site?
When I asked this question I didn't have an OP card and my comment also didn't have it:
But in meta posts like this the OP cards exist:
In comments:
Why is there this difference between our meta ...
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Who is the artist behind the mothership?
Who is the artist behind the mothership artwork shown on the top right of Arqade and Meta Arqade?
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Where can I find the Arqade UFO animation?
I always seem to miss it :(
It's the one in the top right with the UFO and antenna and it sometimes shoots lasers.
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Minor spelling error in flagged question description, part II
Shouldn't it be "technical support for modded Minecraft" in the description below?
(The title is a reference to this question.)
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Capitalized L replacing lowercase L for inline code tags?
This is driving me absolutely bananas so I have to ask about it at this point. I created a post that contains multiple inline code tags containing the letter L in it's lowercase form. However, these ...
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UI issue while viewing the bounties tab when there are no bounties to display
Previously, there was a question with an active bounty, so I visited the "Bountied" tab. I guess between the time I clicked on the link and visited the page, the bounty had expired and ...
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Minor spelling error in flagged question description
There is a minor grammatical mistake in the description that shows up in the review queues:
It should read
"This question doesn't meet an Arqade guideline."
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Text on Footer on Arqade Meta Difficult to Read [duplicate]
I noticed today that the footer across the Arqade Meta site is difficult to read the text on because of the gray lines. It's as if the lines are going through the text, almost like a strike-through.
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Unable to zoom in on the Screenshot of the Week widget [duplicate]
I was unable to open a larger resolution version of the current screenshot of the week in a regular way.
Seeing that the current one is mostly text, I wanted to zoom in and read what is written. The ...
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The Screenshot widget should include the game tag or a direct link to the submission entry
Finding the game from the screenshot of the week in the side bar is unintuitive. Today I saw a screenshot, and was interested in it. Interested enough to go "what game is that?"
However the ...
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Horizontal scroll on the revisions page when the post contains long code sections
The revisions page for Was the { Levels:n } beacon tag removed/altered in Minecraft Java 1.14?, seems to have a rendering bug when it comes to displaying code.
Instead of constraining the code section ...
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Header background drawing problem
Since a month now, the banner of both the main site and the Meta site have this strange effect (a dithering problem?):
It is more apparent on the right side:
I'm using Firefox 83.0. In Edge there is ...
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Can we have Dark Mode?
Stack Overflow just got new fancy Dark Mode https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/03/30/introducing-dark-mode-for-stack-overflow/?cb=1
Can we have the same here?
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Why has the quotation markup changed?
Since a week or two, the vaguely yellow background (reminiscent of Post-it notes - see the sidebar to the right ā ) of > quotes has changed. Does anyone know why?
It's currently a lot harder to ...
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Do we want to enable the photo widget for our site?
With the screenshot-of-the-week being popular for about 2 months now, the mod team was wondering if the community would like to enable the photo widget for our site to highlight these screenshots.
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How am I supposed to know that this post is locked when there is no mention of it anywhere?
I found this post today that obviously didn't belong on Arqade meta, so I was going to downvote and voted to delete as it was already closed. However, when I clicked the downvote button, it said I ...
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Formatting broken when bounty is suggested
Looking through my list of questions, I noticed that the banner suggesting accepting an answer/offering a bounty breaks the formatting of the list, pushing the question item far to the right. Should ...
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Markdown or HTML for gamepad buttons
I've been wishing for this for a long time, but it seems nobody even mentioned this so far.
I'm talking about markdowns or HTML tags for gamepad buttons.
When talking about how to perform certain ...
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More space needed between badges and numbers [duplicate]
In both the question list and on the question itself, there is not enough room between certain numbers and the badge icon they go with (images zoomed in for effect):
Here is my question for an ...
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Badge count numbers are too close to the badge icons
This is probably just a little CSS spacing issue, but with the recent redesigned site theme, there is a little extra ugliness around the user card. The numbers next to the badge icons bump right up ...
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How is the Arqade spaceship supposed to work in the new design?
Previously a mouse over on the spaceship would cause it to launch the lazer weapons. But in the new design, this is no longer the case.
But I do see it launch the lazer weapons sometimes, just not ...
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Visual bug on main site profile page
There's an odd graphical glitch on my profile page, but it only appears on the Gaming main site. I have not been able to reproduce it on Meta nor on any other SE site.
This blue box appears behind a ...
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Arqade's updated site theme is ready for testing!
As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing.
If ...
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Hovering over 'Delete' on your own post prompts you to 'vote to delete'
When I hover over my own question's delete button it says vote to delete instead of just delete.
I am not at the required privilege level to able to vote to delete posts on this site - and when ...
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"Ask question" button position
I am using StackOverflow most of time.
Today I struggle for a few minutes (!) when wanted to ask a question at Arqade.
The reason was: I couldn't find the button to ask a new question.
Should we do ...
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New white space when viewing questions?
There is some new white space on the sides of the page when viewing a question (it use to be the blue Arqade background). This also happens in the Meta site:
Is this a bug or intended now? I was ...
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Is it okay to use code formatting when there's no clear and obvious alternative?
Spurred by this question, which uses code blocks to format a table in a more aesthetically pleasing way than any other formatting option available.
There has been discussion in the past about using ...
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Is the bottom banner for Arqade not working? Or was it removed?
I first noticed when clicking the "Review" link at the top of the page that the bottom banner for Arqade appears to be broken.
If I remember correctly, there use to be video game like graphics down ...
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<kbd> elements are not hidden in a spoilers block
Recently noticed the following:
Is it intentional to have <kbd> text visible inside spoilers markdown?
Image for future reference:
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Can a spell check button be added to the Markdown editor?
Every time before posting a question or an answer, I copy my write-up to MS word. I use the spelling checking function that corrects spelling mistakes and also corrects grammar.
Can such functionality ...
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Visited hyperlinks are hard to distinguish against plain text
I don't know if it's just me, but I've noticed that if a Hyperlink is posted in a question, it's extremely difficult to differentiate it from normal text, considering the blue is so close to the black ...
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Can we please stop using block quotes for formatting Minecraft commands?
Block quotes are not the proper formatting tool for Minecraft commands. Instead, for large commands or a group of commands, we should be using code blocks. Why? Because Minecraft commands are code-...
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Shadow of vote to close button still displays after button is pressed
When you press the VtC button, the button's background disappears but the shadow remains:
The same appears to be happening to all buttons on the main site.
On meta sites, the buttons turn grey ...
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The Arqade review buttons color contrast is awful
The Arqade review buttons color contrast is really bad. The white color on a very light grey background is really hard to read. On a technical level, it fails WCAG AA and AAA for both large and ...
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Mobile site question list has extra space above the question text
The mobile site seems to have extra spacing which is pushing the question text way out of alignment.
Here it is on Firefox Android (logged in) And on Chrome Android (Cleared cookies and not logged ...
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Notches on tags not appearing on 'Top Tags' section of profile
As you can see, the notches/knobs/things on the tags in the 'Top Tags' section of the user profile are not displaying:
It does seem to display on the top tag though.
As a side note, long tags seem ...
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Bold, Italic links do not show in link colour on old mobile site
The 'HERE' in the screenshot below is a link, although when viewing the answer through the mobile site, it doesn't have the blue link colour.
The example answer is here
Here is the link when ...
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Reputation Graphs have been wound backwards!
This picture should say it all.
As you can see, selecting the bar (for example, the one on the 6th of August displays I have 245 reputation earned on the day. The only problem is that it actually ...
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Link colors don't match in both sites
Why are links blue in the main site, but orange in Meta? Was there a contrast issue? I wouldn't know, simply because I am a relatively new user.
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What's the name of this font?
I came across this site accidentally and noticed the font in this site:
Would anyone(mods?) care to tell me what this font is?
I do not know wether this is the right place to ask this silly question ,...
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"Top tags" look funny in profile
So I looked at my profile (for probably the first time) and see this:
I see at least three things wrong with this:
The tag background box seems to have a max width, but the text doesn't care, and ...
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Moving completed badges down on selecting new 'Next badge'
I tried to select my new "Next-badge", but all my completed ones are on top of the badges I can choose. Wouldn't it be more logical to move the completed ones under (I will never ever choose those as "...
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Visited links are invisible on new profile
Some of these words are links! Can you tell which ones? I can't, because having visited them, their colour is almost identical to regular text.
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Tags on meta look bad when hovered
When you hover the mouse cursor over a (non-required, non-mod) tag here on meta, the tag background turns gray. Except for the little tab on the left, which doesn't:
The problem is that the CSS ...
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Minor design updates
Just want to give you a heads up that I pushed some design tweaks to our dev server. The changes will go live after our next production build. Visually it should "feel" the same as the old site with ...
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Partly covered personal info on User Profile
Go to your Arqade profile (Not Arqade meta) and click less info. Then click more info. This is the result.
Notice the blank part?
The blank part which covered my real name?
Sometimes this bug does ...
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line-height difference between paragraphs and list items
Paragraphs (<p></p>) and paragraphs in list items (<li><p></p></li>) have a different line-height.
Example: answer with a paragraph and a list
the paragraph ...
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Sidebar links wobble when hovered
I just happened to notice a minor but annoying quirk in the styling of linked / related questions sidebar — when you hover the mouse over the links, all the following links move down by one ...
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Format a (long) bulleted list to be scrollable
In an attempt to format some questions (especially Minecraft crash questions) using this guide, I have run into a an issue concerning listing mods.
Some users come with games with over 100 mods (like ...
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