Questions tagged [design]
question about the design of the site
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Change the Launchpad logo on Ask Ubuntu's Contact and Login pages
As of now, this is the logo of Launchpad shown in Ask Ubuntu contact pages (https://askubuntu.com/contact and https://meta.askubuntu.com/contact) and login page (https://askubuntu.com/users/login):
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Underline on new reputation graph looks weird
This is what I see when hovering my reputation graph in the new profile page:
Can the underline please be removed?
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Ask Ubuntu on mobile has an extremely large font size
When using Ask Ubuntu on Android, the font is too large when it comes to anything except post content and comments.
I can reproduce the issue exists in Firefox and in Chrome.
The issue is exclusive to ...
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Why are askubuntu.com and meta.askubuntu.com considered as same site?
Why are askubuntu.com and meta.askubuntu.com considered as same Stack Exchange site (Same Reputation points on both site), while stackoverflow.com and meta.stackoverflow.com are considered as ...
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Hover state colour for the "Ask a Question" button in the tour is broken
This happens on Chrome 46:
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Why is "Ubuntu and Canonical are registered trademarks of Canonical Ltd." not mentioned in Ask Ubuntu Meta?
In the bottom of Ask Ubuntu website, we can notice this:
Ubuntu and Canonical are registered trademarks of Canonical Ltd.
But in Ask Ubuntu Meta, the aforementioned text is not there.
Why is the ...
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Askubuntu mobile-optimised website is difficult to read
The current askubuntu.com mobile-optimised website uses a black background and a gray foreground(text). This makes it difficult to read and draws attention away from the important part, i.e., the text ...
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Can chat get a redesign? Please?
I considered posting this on Meta SE instead of Ask Ubuntu Meta, but because several of these are Ask Ubuntu specific, I went with here. That said, I think the rest of SE chat should get an update, ...
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Ask Ubuntu new site theme coming soon [duplicate]
You might have seen the featured post Rollout of new network site themes on Meta Stack Exchange already, but here are the relevant parts for Ask Ubuntu again:
As mentioned on meta.stackexchange.com ...
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Is there any official "Ask Ubuntu" color defined?
I´m planning to add the "Ask" logo into the simple-icons project, in the hope of contributing to the growing collection of the stack exchange network icons.
Things are, I haven't found a ...
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The "accepted" word is not visible under the "all actions" tab in the profile page
This bug exists on both sites, on meta and on main.
The word is there, but its text color is in the same as the background (technically, the background on the span is black, but has an opacity of 0, ...
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"Marked as duplicate" should include a link to the duplicate(s) and not just "Ask a new question"
At the top of the question, we have:
and at the bottom we have
Sometimes the question can be very long and these two boxes can be very far apart. If you come from somewhere else (for example, via ...
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Minor site design updates
As you can see, Ask Ubuntu community site got a slight design update today. I have moved site's CSS to a newly refactor LESS system, so it's more maintainable for us to fix SE network CSS bugs ...
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Reject buttons looks too much like an ok button
I got the following notification inside my inbox:
Edit suggested
I clicked on the notification and got to the following page:
https://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/880858
Because it ...
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Ask Ubuntu new site theme is live
We rolled out the new site theme for Ask Ubuntu. It is now live.
What new theme?
If you're like, "What the heck are you talking about?", then you should read the Meta Stack Exchange post entitled ...
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Badges getting cut in half
Seems like the badges are getting cut in half. Attaching the screenshot below
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Bug with code of conduct notification
Not sure if this is related to the new theme that's being worked on or not, but:
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Why user is able to edit comments in multiple textareas in the same time?
By accident I have clicked edit link on comment twice.
After first click I have textarea for editing it (it is normal and expected behavior).
But on second and third click on edit I get garbage:
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Text on Ask Ubuntu overwrites other text
This occurred today and at other times. Anyone else experienced it?
It has occured on 16.04 and 18.04.(Ubuntu Mate)
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The top menu has moved to the left
The top menu has moved to the left. I checked in two different browsers.
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Mobile view adds linebreaks before and after images even if they are very small
If my answer uses a package one has to install first, I like to add an AptURL link with the small package symbol , e.g. for sl using this:
[`sl` ](http:...
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Ask Ubuntu site layout is wrong on Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey
I use Mozilla Firefox ESR 52.6.0 and Mozilla Seamonkey 2.49.2 on Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS x86_64 and Windows 8.1 x86_64 with installed updates.
After some updates of site design its layout is somehow broken ...
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Commenting on a test review question automatically scolds you with "STOP! Look and listen" - Why? [duplicate]
I stumbled over a review question, which turned out to be a Test question.
I tried to write a comment that OP might consider using the older, 4.10 kernel, since there seem to be a lot of issues with ...
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Push users through the Tour as part of onboarding
Recently, this post came up on Meta, and they brought up a good point (paraphrased):
I should have read the tour, but i couldn't even find it or even know that one existed. When you ask for help, ...
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New navbar bug review queues not operating as expected
This is different from Review queue false negatives on the new top bar which has been dismissed as status-by-design. When I first logged on this morning the review queue indicator was not lit. After ...
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Glitch on profile page with dropdowns
The next privilege button on the profile page shows through the three drop-downs on the top.
I tend to start my browsing at this page then check my inbox so I see it every visit.
Chrome&Firefox
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Visual bug using accent marked characters
Reading this answer I found that á and è (and also right now in this question) characters from Déjà Dup are shown different than the other characters (they are less "bold" than the others):
Link: Why ...
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Bounty button on mobile looks as if it's already rewarded on question with open bounties
I have a question with two answers, that I had an open bounty on.
When I opened the site on mobile to award the bounty before time runs out, the +100 buttons looked as if the bounty was already ...
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Ubuntu related Stack Overflow Careers ad
Why aren't there a "looking for a job" section in Askubuntu like other Stack Exchange sites ( stackoverflow , server fault .. )
I think it will be cool to show stack Overflow linux/ubuntu Careers ads....
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Toast notifications overlap the Ubuntu top bar
Part of the Stack Exchange JS library includes functionality to create notification messages - the most common perhaps being "Thanks, we'll take a look at it" after casting a flag.
These ...
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Background with dots gives unpleasant effects on scroll
Most LCD monitors have problems displaying regular patterns of dots (or lines). I've tried several LCDs, and on each of them dots in background of askubuntu flicker badly. That's why it's a bad idea ...
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The yellow "question has been deleted" bar is underneath the Ubuntu navbar when scrolling
When scrolling down, the "this question has been deleted" bar is partially hidden under the Ubuntu navigation bar:
I think the z-index ordering should be done in such a way that the yellow popup bar ...
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Ask Ubuntu logo is quite wobbly
Look:
Please fix. You could use this sprite file (all text is converted into paths).
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Menu bar is covering the Deletion pop-up
The "Recommend Deletion" pop-up is not fully visible.
Yes, this is a minor bug, but it looks clean it this is fixed.
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Topbar design is out of date
Ubuntu redesigned their website, meaning Ask Ubuntu's top bar is out of date.
Note how the top bar "jumps" about:
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Firstrun "How it works" #herobox is misaligned
I like to think the Ask Ubuntu is lawful good but we've got a box on the homepage that is clearly chaotic evil. What, no AD&D fans in tonight? *sighs* Tough crowd.
Awful jokes aside, ...
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Feature request - Change color of block quote [duplicate]
I'd like to request that the color of block quotes gets changed from a light gray to a light yellow (like SO, AE)
As it is now, it's very hard to see the difference between a block quote and a code ...
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What about simplifying the UI for AskUbuntu?
I've had an idea of simplifying the overwhelming interface of AskUbuntu by correcting any overload on the users.
If you want an example I can make some images, but first someone has to be at least ...
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Redesigned disabled buttons in review are hard to distinguish
After recent redesign, the buttons in review queue [No Action Needed] and [I'm Done] look almost the same. I would start competition if you can distinguish which one is disabled on the below image (...
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User profile tabs are double-underlined on hover
When one hovers over a tab name on user profile / activity page, the name gets underlined twice, in addition to changing color to red. I suspect this may be a CSS bug, because having three effects on ...
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MS Azure ads not showing correctly in the sidebar
I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I've noticed something strange. Every ad for Azure that comes up in the sidebar on Ask Ubuntu is cut off on the right side, taking some text ...
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Could we improve the visibility of links
The color on links is, fitting to the site design, red.
As somone suffering from red–green color blindness, which isn't rarely (depending on origin up to 10%), it's hard for me to spot links on ...
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The Canonical navigation bar has diverged from the canon
Possibly due to the recent CSS refactoring, the pseudo-Canonical navigation bar no longer matches the top bar of ubuntu.com sites. Here is how they compare in my Chrome (Windows):
AU bar
Canonical ...
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Why can't a question be marked a duplicate of a question on another stackexchang site?
I came across the following question: Merging 2 files based on single column. Even though two answers have been posted already I answered a very similar question already on another stackexchange site:...
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Upcoming site design changes
A few weeks ago Canonical reached out to me about making some design changes on Ask Ubuntu to reflect the official Ubuntu site's new design guidelines. The goal is to keep all Ubuntu related sites(...
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Why are there hyperlinks when you scroll up a bunch
On Safari 8.0.6, scrolling up above the ubuntu bar causes links to show up. Is this a bug?
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By scroll up I mean scroll beyond the top limit which is only possible (I think) with the trackpad. ...
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More black links on deleted question page
This is a continuation of this question: Black links on new duplicate banner are counter intuitive.
On Ask Ubuntu, when users with less than 10k view a deleted question they land at a page that ...
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Questions with 0 answers not highlighted any more :-(
I used to easily see the questions which have not yet got any answer as they were displayed in a red circle until recently.
Now it's very hard to easily spot them, and I don't think the argument "too ...
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