Questions tagged [design]
For questions about the design of the site. Using this tag will ensure that the designers will see any bugs or feature requests.
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Are there any plans for delivering a dark mode version for this stack?
Since this is mostly visited by programmers, I think it would be a great improvement to follow StackOverflow and add that functionality here.
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Is there any significance ot the cat(?) in the 404 image?
The 404 page of this site has an image of what looks like a cat:
Is there anything special about this cat? What does a cat have to do with software engineering?
Is it a historical inside-joke? Does ...
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Question about designing a schema - on topic?
I have an SQL schema and I have some doubts whether the schema is going to massively change in the future. The schema describes entities of a game like user, rooms, board etc.
Would a question ...
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Can I ask for feedback on a list of ideas and thoughts, and the pros and cons I could think of, about designing a chess game?
I'd like to try coding a program to play chess. Therefore, to help myself, I'm writing down some possible choices that I will have to make to design the program (e.g. what data type for the chessboard,...
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Software Engineering's updated site theme is live!
UPDATE - We've pushed this live for everyone now. Thanks to those who took the time to give feedback. Please do know, being live doesn't mean we can't address further changes for you! Write an answer ...
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The cup of coffee has gone cold
The steam coming from the coffee cup in the favicon blends in with the background on an inactive Chrome tab (OS X). Although it's still barely visible, there should be more contrast between the steam ...
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Unwanted horizontal scroll bar in all the pages in Firefox browser
There is a horizontal scroll bar in the bottom of this site in all the pages in Firefox browser.
There is no use of the horizontal scroll bar in the pages.
Configurations:
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Mozilla ...
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"more" link in footer is hardly viewable
In the footer, the more link is hardly view-able due to the free handed image in the background, when select the Technology sites.
Screenshot for reference:
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Editing an answer - fixed sidebar flows behind footer
Editing an answer and scrolling down causes the "sidebar" to flow behind the footer:
Appears on my system (Windows 7 Professional) on all browsers I can test
FF 45.8 (ESR)
IE 11
Chrome 53
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Badges and tag "X" buttons misplaced
While I only have one badge, it is appearing incorrectly on meta:
While I was reporting this bug, I noticed that the "X" button that appears in the tag field is misplaced as well:
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New logo for Software Engineering Stack Exchange
Changing this site from the increasingly anachronistic "Programmers" to the more fitting "Software Engineering" has been... A long road. So far, we've discussed...
...the name ...
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What's that text above the viewport?
I was scrolling back up to the top of a page when I noticed this weird red text floating above the viewport in the "rubber-band-scroll" region. It says "Stack Exchange Inbox" and "Reputation and ...
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When your question is flagged as a duplicate, the edit link appears to not render correctly
I posted a question that has since been flagged as a duplicate of an already existing question.
The panel at the top of the question is as you'd expect, apart from the 'edit' link which hasn't ...
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Use pink background when rendering historically locked posts
Related: Tags that only exist on locked questions, should we treat these the same as tags that don't exist at all?
philosophically Historical Lock questions are deleted
Visual difference between ...
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Network icons are broken
Any idea why the Hot Network Questions suddenly look like this on P.SE? (But not here on Meta.P.SE, for whatever reason...)