Questions tagged [design]
For questions about the design of MathOverflow. This includes bug reports and suggestions about the user interface.
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The color of links in comments
In the following image, depicting a piece of a comment on MO.se
the words «this link» are a link to some URL, yet the styling makes it quite not apparent; the only styling I can see is a ...
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Questions containing my "favorite tags" are barely distinguishable
I liked the fact that in MO v1, any question which contained one of my list of favorite tags was noticably highlighted (a brown-orange color, if I remember correctly).
In the new version, such ...
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Visited / unvisited links in the questions / answers
I just posted a question and I noticed that unvisited links use a color that is difficult to distinguish ... but visited links are even harder to recognize. See the snapshot below from my Firefox 41....
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Make edit history more accessible
Once a post has been edited once, there is a direct link to the revision history of the post that is visible to everyone as in this example:
However, when a post has not been edited, this link is not ...
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Change of colors
I decided to follow up on my own thread regarding the color scheme, and test something up.
Using archive.org, I loaded a copy of MathOverflow from 2011, and it turns out that the questions in one's ...
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"2 views" hardly different that "2 kviews"
In the old version of MO, the header of a question was accompanied by a graphic information (this is an example): a huge "2" or "2k" and a tiny "views". Now we see Huge "2" and tiny "views" or "kviews"...
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Tag suggestions on ask page
The ask page tag input box currently looks like this:
The old ask page on MO 1.0 had a much more detailed description of what top-level tags on MO are:
Since appropriate tagging on MO can be ...
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What happened to the fonts?
It appears that MO (including MO Meta) has recently changed the display fonts:
I couldn't find any topics on MO Meta pertaining to this new change, hence this question. SO has also switched the fonts,...
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Minor graphic glitch
Every time I see this I cringe a little:
For comparison, the corresponding thingie in math.se always has the numbers centered in the circle.
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Typography on login page
It needs some love: line spacing is off, alignment is off and a title overlaps with the input boxes.
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Weird display of results from search
The results from this search don't seem to display properly. I'm assuming that it is not restricted to this search alone.
Added later: I have included a screenshot below. What I'm referring to is the ...
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Navigation tab position bug on tag pages for tags that have featured questions
When there are featured questions for a tag, the inclusion of the "featured" tab in the header cause the tabs to flow out of position.
(I'm using Chrome 34.0.1847.131 and Firefox 29.0.1 ...
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Clicking question author username sends to revision history
This happens with Every mathematician has only a few tricks: the link with the author username leads to the revision history. I checked several other questions, including some cw (this one is cw), ...
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"Add comment" button overflowing
I was leaving a comment on an accepted answer, and I noticed that the "add comment" button was overflowing, as was some of the text of the comments.
This appears on several other threads (one, two, ...
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Problem with links to tags on meta
For example, [tag:lo.logic] renders as lo.logic. It seems that the color for the top and left edges is the same as the background color for meta.
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Disabled button not visible in flag dialog
Since a while, it's possible to retract a flag by opening the flag dialog again and clicking the 'Retract flag' button. Of course, if the flag is already handled, retracting isn't possible. In this ...
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Discrepancy between MathOverflow logo and this site's logo
There is a slight difference between the sizes of the boxes in the MO logo and the Meta.MO logo. The MO logo's box is slightly longer and the gap in the rightmost side is slightly less tall. The ...
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