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Can our badges be some symbol that's more recognizable than just featureless hexagons?
I like the dice badges, and I appreciate their minimalistic design: they're dice if you look (the RPG.SE banner d20 is right there for the comparison) but they don't call attention to themselves. I ...
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We still don't actually take flags seriously, right?
It’s corporate boilerplate, yes, but it’s not wrong either. We do take flags seriously — we consider each one on its merits and on its context and take appropriate action.
Whether someone gets in ...
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New ask page: How do we want to use it to help new users specify their system?
Let's at least throw the basic "Make sure to specify your system" on there
There are three spots on the new ask page which I think can benefit from telling (new) users to specify their ...
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Can our badges be some symbol that's more recognizable than just featureless hexagons?
Make the Badge icons we already have even better.
I've taken the liberty of creating a few mockups of possible badge designs that keep to the dice format while maintaining its linework at lower ...
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Can we look at the contrast on tag warnings?
You're right, there's an accessibility issue with these colors.
The colors are #9f8010 for text and #fffdf7 for background. ...
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Can the system tag policy be stated to askers in advance?
Yes, I think our interface should advise users to include a system tag.
They don't always need one—many social questions don't need a system tag—but we should have something hinting they should ...
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Can our badges be some symbol that's more recognizable than just featureless hexagons?
While they are dice, if we're going to change them, we might pick different types of dice for the different badges. A triangle (four sided die), a square (six sided die) and an octagon (12 sided die) ...
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How can I access the close/reopen/first-time-answer/low-quality queues on my phone?
You might be using the "mobile" version on your phone
The mobile version of the site does not include all the buttons in the top menu:
Fortunately the "full version" of the site is responsive and ...
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If a question has one tag that I've watched and another tag that I've ignored, how is it displayed?
Current as of January 28, 2022
Watched and Ignored, Ignored, Default, Watched:
Obsolete: January 27, 2022
Watched and Ignored, Ignored, Default, Watched:
The peepee tag is back. Subject to change ...
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Can the system tag policy be stated to askers in advance?
You don't need to tag a question to definitively identify the game.
And I hope nobody's playing tag police when someone adds a tag to a question where the original querent specified the system in the ...
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Amusing display bug when hovering over tags in a question
This is one of the loveliest bugs I've ever had the pleasure of reproducing.
Go, little KRyan user banner! Go, be free!
Wait, he came back! ... He's showing SevenSidedDie's user info the way out! Go,...
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What is the process for editing the tag prompt?
We won’t be changing anything right now
The system restrictions around changing this field means that we have no realistic options for changing the tag recommendation text in a way that meets our ...
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On a desktop browser, is there any way to navigate directly from the RPG.SE mainsite questions page to the Meta questions page?
There's a button in the burger menu
When you click the stack-icon/burger menu in the very right of the topbar, the dropdown includes a link to the meta site for the site you're currently on. It also ...
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What does it mean when a question is highlighted yellow?
In the image below, I have examples of the four possible highlight states for a question in this order - Watched and Ignored, Ignored, Default, Watched:
You probably have the dnd-5e tag set to ...
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Why some questions appear with a blue/cyan title?
This was indeed a bug, and theme colors have been restored. Staff Dan Cormier reports:
This issue was caused by a non-theme color being set on watched post summary titles in a recent design system ...
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Meta Image not on meta question?
This has been resolved, SE Dev Felippe Rangel writes on meta.se
Sorry about that! We're releasing new site themes (have you checked out https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/ and https://datascience....
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Why am I suddenly being notified of privileges?
See here: New onboarding for review queues
From the question:
We are also showing a popover to users who earned access to review queues in the past, but have never done a review or haven't reviewed ...
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New ask page: How do we want to use it to help new users specify their system?
I've had to make a few adjustments due to how our customization options are actually implemented, but this is done and hopefully in a way that doesn't ruin y'all's intent.
The modal on the Ask ...
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Amusing display bug when hovering over tags in a question
From Meta SE, reproduced, explained, and fixed here: User card senses danger when chasing tricky "edit tags", runs for dear life.
Turns out it was a weird JavaScript/jQuery/CSS interaction ...
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Interface problem with disabled side bar?
This is not a bug. The navigation is not supposed to show up where you've highlighted; nothing makes it show up there.
If you look in the top left you will find a hamburger menu beside the Stack ...
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Why ask if we're sure about deleting a question with answers, if it's not possible anyway?
This is deliberate behavior on the part of the system, speaking on the general point.
There's two component messages here. The first is, when clicking delete, you're always given a warning about what ...
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Missing aside text on first answer queue
Thanks for the report - this should be fixed in prod this afternoon
Meta Issue: Review queue "First questions" does not show any message when reaching the maximum number of daily votes
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How can I get to the SEDE (Stack Exchange Data Explorer) without having to search up a link?
Go to the bottom of the page, under "Stack Exchange Network", click "Other":
Then click "Data".
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Has user 'last seen' information been moved?
This was a recent privacy related change
Some changes to the profile while we make it responsive
The work was done while they were making the profile more 'responsive', but was motivated by privacy ...
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What does the "Watched" label on questions mean?
Note, as of January 26, 2022, the peepee colored watch tag has been removed.
It is the new iteration of the “watched tags” feature.
See this meta: New post summary designs on site home pages and ...
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Question and Answer text areas remain blank even as the preview updates with what I typed (Win 10, Firefox 92.0.1) (fixed in FF 93.0?)
When I checked my version of Firefox, I noticed that it offered to restart to update. After doing so (now 93.0), the bug appears to be gone. Still bizarre that it was only this site and no other.
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There's a new Ask a Question page!
I have made a suggestion on how they ought to improve the first screen that a new user sees.
Here, if any of you want to add anything.
I'd like us to do that here as well.
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New ask page: How do we want to use it to help new users specify their system?
I wish it were possible to have mandatory tags, like in meta.
In meta, you must specify one of the dark tags (e.g. discussion) to be able to post it at all, unlike the lighter "normal tags" (...
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