Questions tagged [user-interface]
For questions about the user interface elements (inputs, checkboxes, etc) that make up this site.
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Comments UI change: If you edit a previous comment while writing a new one, your new draft disappears
In the new comments UI, if you're writing a comment or reply then edit a previous comment, your new draft disappears without warning.
Steps with screenshots:
Start writing a reply or a new comment
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Comments UI change: If you press Escape while writing a comment, your draft disappears
In the new comments UI, if you go to comment on an answer but press Esc, what you typed disappears and the comment box closes. I hope this isn't by design, cause I just lost a long comment I was ...
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Why do replies to "Advice" posts have 2 thumbs up/down widgets? [closed]
On an "Advice" post (but not "Best Practice", etc), why does each reply have two thumbs up/down widgets?
For example: Valid but unspecified state. What is specified then?
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Close button doesn't close the Share chat dialog in AI Assist
So I opened the AI to abuse it. I noticed there is a Share button, I clicked on it, I found nothing interesting, so I clicked the close button.
Interestingly nothing happens, the dialog doesn't close.
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How to start bounty on a "Best practice" question?
I've visited my questions page, and to my surprise I see a banner to start a bounty or accept an answer on my opinionated question.
As far as I know, it is not possible (source)
We're removing the ...
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Can we remove the new code block headers?
Code blocks now have a header with a language tag and a Copy button. While this feature probably addresses a very old request, it poses multiple problems:
the copy button is only useful for very long ...
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Comments UI change: Please add back flagged icon
When I've flagged a comment, the UI used to show a little red flag symbol, but it doesn't anymore.
This icon is helpful when re-reading a list of comments so that you know that you can skip the ...
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Show NN more comments links not working on new comments UI
The "Show N more comments" links on answers doesn't do anything. For examples, try expanding the comments on the answers here and here. This only appears to be a problems for answer, not ...
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Add a “clear” button to the search box on mobile
On mobile, please consider adding an X button to the search box to clear the current criteria.
It's difficult to search for watched tags on mobile (please add this!!), so I have to type them in ...
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Comments UI change: Pressing Enter while the text is too long truncates the text
When writing a comment, once you go over the 600 character limit, the Comment button gets greyed out, but Enter still works, and on press, it submits the comment with the text truncated.
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I put ...
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Comments UI change: Please revert word-wrap behaviour
In the new comment UI, words can break over lines. However, I'm writing code, so the hyphen makes it look invalid.
Here I'm typing the word _type_interpret_morph but it's shown as _type_inter-...
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How to hide the disturbing "Challenges" counter or leave the event until hopefully possible?
How to hide the disturbing "Challenges" counter or leave the event until hopefully possible?
Every day it shows this counter (i.e. (1)) unless I visit the challenges to mark it "read&...
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Add a comment is not working for answers
"Add a comment" is not working for answer posts when Enable Experiments is turned on.
I'm using Chrome for Mac. I have deleted the stackoverflow.com data in Chrome, signed in again, and ...
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"Add a comment" option appears twice on answers that have comments
When experiments are enabled, and there are comments on the post there are two add a comment options. One at the top of the comments and one at the bottom
More oddly, both are interactable and you ...
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Comments design change: Deletion doesn't ask for confirmation
When clicking "delete" on a comment in the new UI, there's no confirmation, unlike in the old UI where you would get a popup: "Really delete this comment? [Cancel] [OK]".
I guess ...
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