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MathOverflow updated site theme is ready for testing!
The presence of three distinct colours for "unanswered, answered, accepted" was a helpful feature IMO. In the new layout the "unanswered" questions no longer stand out. I regret that change.
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Opt out of the new upvote/downvote buttons?
There is a structural tendency for discussions of this type to underweight the voices of people who think that things are fine. I will therefore state explicitly that I do not care about the shapes ...
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MathOverflow updated site theme is ready for testing!
Comment. As I was preparing this post, a completely new (temporary?) design with a top nav bar showed up and disappeared again. Perhaps this post is no longer relevant.
Even though I am not a tablet ...
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MathOverflow updated site theme is ready for testing!
With apologies, I'm not sure this is the right place for the following, but the site-wide meta post on these changes is locked, and this is a bit long for a comment. I've been blithely ignoring all ...
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How can I customize site in my browser to get "old feel" look of MathOverflow?
Here is the CSS I was talking about:
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MathOverflow updated site theme is ready for testing!
Like მამუკა ჯიბლაძე, I slightly miss the pastel colored background to accepted answers - could this be re-instated in addition to or instead of the check mark?
(But I do not consider this a big ...
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How can we visually differentiate MathOverflow from MathStackExchange within the constraints of the new design themes?
EDIT: Some more information from Catija: This screen element is not currently customizable, so if we wanted it customized, SE would have to implement a new feature. Here Catija indicates that the ...
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How can we visually differentiate MathOverflow from MathStackExchange within the constraints of the new design themes?
As a data point for our Stack Exchange overlords, I have twice now tried to migrate a question from math.SE to math.SE because I didn't realize it was already there. I'd really like to get a striking ...
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What's the purpose of the favorite button?
You can find links to some basic info on favorites here, specifically this post is rather detailed: How do favorite questions work?
This feature request has been posted on main meta a few years ago: ...
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I don't like the new design and I am not the only one
I sympathize with you. Apparently, StackExchange has recognized from the start that the new themes were going to lead to a sense of "missing identity" on various sites. Personally, I would have ...
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Can anybody provide a clear list of design changes that are obligatory, with explanations?
No design changes are mandatory, no matter what the SE people say. If we write some Javascript code ourselves, we can make arbitrary customizations to the UI.
The MO foundation has an agreement with ...
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MathOverflow updated site theme is ready for testing!
Could hiding the left navigation be made the site default - accompanied by easy to find instructions for unhiding it, when someone wants to do so - rather than showing it by default, accompanied by ...
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Color of links (both in posts and comments)
Based on this request, we've updated the link colors using a brighter blue that is more distinguishable from the surrounding text, and tested with a colorblindness simulator (though it's not an exact ...
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Next badge appeared and disappeared
There was apparently some A/B testing of this some days ago, see Anna Lear's comment here:
We're currently A/B testing this feature [next badge/privilege progress in the achievements drop-down] to ...
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On the search results page, many questions appear to have white-on-grey rep counts, which is very difficult to read. I'm not sure what information this is meant to convey, but it is ...
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In the new site design, what should the background look like on MO?
Above all it should be noticeable. The MSE grid paper background is nice but done in blueish white on grayish white and nearly invisible even for people with normal color sight (checked 6 months ago) ...
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On the main site the following are too large.
"Asked/Answered by" (including the user name)
"share/cite/..." buttons
"Edited by ..."
"Add a comment" and "Start a bounty" are the ...
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In the new site design, what should the background look like on MO?
The post mentions that "Sidebars/backgrounds can have a light-colored solid." The site Travel Stack Exchange is cited as an example. A possible advantage of having some color in the sidebar (and ...
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Is there left any way to highlight part of text after all?
Section headers.
Or smaller section headers
Or even smaller section headers
And, please, for the love of Erdős, do not use those other hacks. They are wrong semantical markup, and I find them all very ...
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Text on some buttons has become unrecognizable
Thanks for reporting the issue. This will be fixed with our next production build.
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How can we visually differentiate MathOverflow from MathStackExchange within the constraints of the new design themes?
I suggest that we leave the job to Stack Exchange's design team. I'm not sure why we are supposed to come up with a solution ourselves; we are not professionals, and surely SE has someone on staff ...
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In the new site design, what should the background look like on MO?
What makes Worldbuilding so nice is that there's an image in the bottom left which doesn't disappear when you scroll. I wish the MO logo in the top left would just stay as you scroll, but without ...
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Tabs misaligned
Thanks for sharing this issue. I also noticed the issue today and pushed a fix which is now live on production. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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As suggested by quid I am reposting here my question
I've got new interface and I like it, but there is something strange:
Some numbers are supposed to be there, right? They ...
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How can we visually differentiate MathOverflow from MathStackExchange within the constraints of the new design themes?
According to the post on Meta Stack Exchange1 (and the stuff I was told in chat) it seems that color of tags can be changed. (To be more specific, Catija mentioned as an example of a site which ...
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What about temporary design changes just to make better distinction from other sites?
I think this is a good idea, and that the minor temporary change should be changing the background color to some shade of orange that matches part of our logo (as was suggested by Martin on another ...
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Is there left any way to highlight part of text after all?
I personally liked to use quoting for highlighting a question in a long body of text,
but now the style has changed, and I am also persuaded by the semantic markup issue.
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The new site logo is slightly blurry at default zoom:
(Screenshot scaled up by 200% in GIMP and freehand circles added to highlight the blurry parts.)
I guess I can't complain much,...
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The math! It's overflowing!
The problem is caused by the fact that if a comment contains many consecutive characters without a space, the Stack Exchange software inserts invisible unicode character (\unicode{x200C}\unicode{...
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