29 votes

Ask Ubuntu new site theme is live

I can't tell I'm on Ask Ubuntu once I scroll past our logo. I know there are small visual cues, but the generic .top-bar completely steals my focus and I think I'm on "Stack Exchange". SO has ...
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Ask Ubuntu new site theme coming soon

I myself would not mind if the bottom was less high. There should be enough room to make rows 2 and lower into 6 colums making it almost 1/2 the size. Never going to happen I know ;-) The orange bar ...
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Ask Ubuntu new site theme is live

Basically my only concern is that the orange header bar is so huge, and yet it doesn't do anything at all. It's as tall as an entire question! I don't understand why Stack Overflow gets a unified ...
ash's user avatar
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What about simplifying the UI for AskUbuntu?

Call me crazy, but I find this: Far more useful, practical, clear and easy to use than this: In the second image, all the useful functions apart from Open and Save are hidden away behind menus. I ...
terdon's user avatar
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Ask Ubuntu new site theme is live

Joe, I basically only have 1 issue: the vertical space where questions are shown. Example: The main focus of the page should be the questions. Not the left pane, not the right pane and not the top. ...
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Ask Ubuntu new site theme is live

bug badges status-planned Badge icons in the top bar are partially covered by the numbers (on the main site, not on Meta): (tested on Firefox and Safari on macOS) Seems to be wider issue. Also ...
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Ask Ubuntu new site theme coming soon

Like Rinzwind also already noted in his answer, the huge orange top bar is now mainly useless and empty. While I see that this is how it's supposed to be to match the new overall theme structure, it ...
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The top menu has moved to the left

Sorry about that. I broke this while rolling out support for fixed topbar across all network sites. There's no graceful way to make this work right now with the custom bar in play as well. Not ...
Adam Lear's user avatar
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Is there any official "Ask Ubuntu" color defined?

As far as I am aware there is no official "Ask Ubuntu" colours, however, before the change to responsive design, this site did use the official Ubuntu colour scheme. Rather than be concerned ...
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Can chat get a redesign? Please?

Chat has never been a priority for SE but if that changes and they decide they want to put some work into it, then I would say that the absolute least important thing to do would be this kind of ...
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Ask Ubuntu new site theme coming soon

If you dislike having the space on the left-hand side of the page being used for navigation links, there is a Hide left navigation setting in the Stack Overflow site preferences which works well for ...
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9 votes

Ask Ubuntu new site theme is live

status-completed bug Visited question links are not differentiated by color. Previously design had difference between :active and :visited CSS selectors for questions. Without such difference it ...
N0rbert's user avatar
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7 votes
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Bug with new top bar

Thanks for reporting! Fix for this is waiting in repo for next build so should be up in couple hours.
Paweł's user avatar
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7 votes
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Why is "Ubuntu and Canonical are registered trademarks of Canonical Ltd." not mentioned in Ask Ubuntu Meta?

JNat, Community Manager for Stack Exchange, has added the tag status-completed. Now, "Ubuntu and Canonical are registered trademarks of Canonical Ltd." is also mentioned in Ask Ubuntu Meta. ...
Random Person's user avatar
6 votes

Ask Ubuntu new site theme is live

Suggestion to get rid of the huge but useless orange top bar (post 1, post 2) and to keep us informed we are on Ask Ubuntu and not on another site: Move the Ask Ubuntu logo to the left side menu ...
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6 votes

Ask Ubuntu new site theme coming soon

Date/Time stamps should be standardised or localised. Currently a non-standard format is used: "mmm d 'yy hh:mm": Recommend international standard ISO 8601: "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssTZ" Or something ...
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Ask Ubuntu on mobile has an extremely large font size

This is supposedly a fixed bug: Mobile font-size way too large. But with caching involved, it may take a while to go away, and which sites you see it on is a matter of timing. I don't see the problem ...
muru's user avatar
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Redesigned disabled buttons in review are hard to distinguish

Thanks for sharing this bug. This bug affected a number of Stack Exchange communities, one of which was Ask Ubuntu. The problem arose because the disabled buttons, by default, only changes the ...
Hynes's user avatar
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5 votes

Ask Ubuntu new site theme is live

status-completed bug The top-bar isn't sticky for me. It is sticky on U&L, Meta SE and Meta SO. I have custom styles set, but disabling those don't help with stickiness. I have tried toggling the ...
muru's user avatar
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4 votes

Push users through the Tour as part of onboarding

I'd go for the option of having a banner that reminds the user. By "banner" I mean a bar at the top like that one that appears to tell people that the site is about to go into read only mode for ...
Eliah Kagan's user avatar
4 votes
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User profile tabs are double-underlined on hover

This has been fixed in the source, and will be available after the next deploy. Thanks.
Marc Gravell's user avatar
3 votes
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"Marked as duplicate" should include a link to the duplicate(s) and not just "Ask a new question"

With the recent redesign of post notices w.e.f. Dec 5, 2019, the banner has been reduced to just one and that too appears on the top eliminating all the confusions which were present before. Unlike ...
Kulfy's user avatar
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Could we improve the visibility of links

Instead of a user script, I highly recommend using an addon like Stylish. This works on Firefox, not sure if there is a similar extension for Chrome. After you install the addon, you can then ...
Dan's user avatar
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Could we improve the visibility of links

In the meantime, following muru's suggestion I created (with a bit of help from jokerdino♦ and Seth♦) a userscript which underlines all the links on askubuntu.com: // ==UserScript== // @name ...
kos's user avatar
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New navbar bug review queues not operating as expected

Looks like I was wrong and the new behaviour is intentional. It's not so much the fault of the new topbar itself, but rather an attempt to draw attention to review in different ways at around the same ...
Adam Lear's user avatar
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2 votes

Ask Ubuntu new site theme coming soon

I just have a question about the placement of advertisements; will it be changed? Because while some of us don't care, or care little about that because we have sufficient reputation which removes ...
damadam's user avatar
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2 votes
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The "accepted" word is not visible under the "all actions" tab in the profile page

This issue seems to be fixed now. The accepted now has a green backgroud color.
Dan's user avatar
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2 votes

Firstrun "How it works" #herobox is misaligned

The hero box width is now correct and should no longer overflow.
Stéphane's user avatar
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2 votes

Background with dots gives unpleasant effects on scroll

I've noticed this too, on pretty much every computer I've used with this site. It seems to be worse on Ubuntu than Windows, which is somewhat ironic. I personally think it would be nice to get rid of ...
TheWanderer's user avatar
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2 votes

Reject buttons looks too much like an ok button

The second line of text in the yellow box above the review area is supposed to explain what you're doing in this case, though I can understand if a lot of people skim it in preference of the bright ...
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