Questions tagged [system-message]
Messages that are displayed within each page near the top which cannot be dismissed and are usually in regards to planned downtime.
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Let users close/hide system messages, such as the "Please nominate yourself" bar at the top
For the past hour, whenever I went to Music Stack Exchange, I saw the "Please nominate yourself" bar at the top, and there was no way to disable it. I think that adding a feature to close ...
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Fine-tune the programming topic warning on MSE
There's a warning bar across the top of every MSE page, warning me that the site is for discussion of the network, and that if I have a programming question I should take it to SO.
That sounds useful....
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"We have detected a strange activity from this IP address" message
At 15:04 UTC, during the Read-only test - August 1, 2015, trying to open my Stack Overflow profile page I received a message saying something like
"We have detected a strange activity from this IP ...
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How to get rid of persistent per-site meta reminder message [duplicate]
I just went on Woodworking SE and this message is at the top of the page, wherever I go.
I find it kind of annoying.
I suggest adding a x for dismissing the message.
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Why was I warned to edit constructively?
When trying to edit a post on security.stackexchange.com I saw the following screen:
Why is that?
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Capitalize all system messages
Sentences that don't start with a capital hurt to my eyes. Especially when they're this large:
There's more: the system posts for you sometimes (for the 'possible duplicate' message). These autoposts ...
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Re-adding Election Notices to System Messages
In June, we had a Moderator Election here at Stack Overflow (as well as on other sites, which we'd continue to run several over the course of the summer). While the running of the election wasn't ...
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Incorrect grammar in maintenance mode message [closed]
This message appears when Stack Overflow is in maintenance mode:
This site is currently in read only mode, we'll return with full functionality soon.
This message has a comma splice, meaning that a ...
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Is it by design to not show system messages on mobile?
On mobile, a recent maintenance message was not shown. I know screen estate is limited, but shouldn't the mobile theme show the system message banner as well?
In this very case it was not a ...
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For moderator elections, bring back the system banner *and* put in the community bulletin box
Currently, we only have 10 nominees in the Stack Overflow moderator elections.
Granted, it's only been a day, but given the size of Stack Overflow, the moderator election is something that everyone ...
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Appropriate usage of System Messages
People hate system messages for one simple reason, you can't dismiss them.
If they come too often, people ignore them. Which is bad.
Because of this, they're only used for grave emergency (downtime ...
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Provide a non-system-message channel for moderators to contact all users
For various reasons, SE site moderators occasionally want to send a message to all users. It could be to announce a new in-site contest, promotion, or event. It could be to alert people to pending ...
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If the SOPA message is so important, why isn't it displayed on the other sites?
I suppose this is the opposite of complaining about too much use of the system-status banner...
If something is so sinister that it threatens the very existence of the StackExchange network, why isn'...
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Is there a way to remove StackOverflow notice message [duplicate]
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Allow us an exit hatch to dismiss the system message notification bar
I would like to remove SO notice message because I have read all about it, and I don't want it there.
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Why would the SO developers use `document.write`? [closed]
This is a spin off of this question: Why is the SO system message written in by javascript?
Why would they use document.write?
Current Code on page:
<div id="system-message-temp">
<...