Timeline for Academia's updated site theme is now live for everyone
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| Sep 7, 2018 at 7:47 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @Catija maybe leaving your username underneath the block quotes would avoid possible confusion. We're all accustomed to using block quotes to actually "quote" somebody or a piece of text, and if an answer already contains block quotes it's easy to miss new ones added by a Community Mod. The mod specific tags help to differentiate but maybe a different shade or colour could be reserved for mods/dev team announcements/comments/agreements etc.? | |
| Sep 6, 2018 at 16:37 | history | edited | CatijaStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 6, 2018 at 13:15 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | I'm 100% aware of y'all's policy here and the network's policy on quotes: meta.stackexchange.com/a/306037/284336 | |
| Sep 6, 2018 at 13:13 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | @FedericoPoloni I'm not using them for emphasis... I'm using them to indicate that the words belong to someone other than the poster... to literally remove the confusion of who wrote it. It would be the same as the OP quoting something I wrote in comments as a response. I'm just skipping the comment step and quoting myself in the answer. | |
| Sep 6, 2018 at 13:11 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | we've never had a complaint about it that I'm aware of until yours just now Actually, there has been a thread here on meta.academia about abusing blockquotes to add emphasis. | |
| Sep 6, 2018 at 13:07 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | @Catija I have no other option what do you mean? You clearly do have other options. Answering at the bottom or in a comment, for instance. | |
| Sep 6, 2018 at 13:05 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | @FedericoPoloni I have no other option and it directly is an official response. This is the standard way we've been responding to this across the network and we've never had a complaint about it that I'm aware of until yours just now. Comments are often invisible and useless. If there were only one issue in each post, I could change it but when there are multiple issues, I have no choice... and I'm not going to use one style for each. | |
| Sep 6, 2018 at 13:04 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | @Catija Could you please avoid that style where you answer to our observations using blockquotes on top of the answer? First of all, it abuses quotes, then it's basically top-posting, and then it is difficult to figure out who the actual author of that text is and who it is directed to. It seems a terribly bad choice to me to use this method to discuss suggestions for improvements. | |
| Sep 6, 2018 at 2:21 | comment | added | eykanal Mod | @Catija - I'll try to test this tomorrow on a PC, but this was the same browser with the beta on and off. Not sure that checks out. I'll update. | |
| Sep 6, 2018 at 2:01 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | We're fairly certain, @eykanal that what you're seeing with the kerning is due to a setting that's turned on on your computer. It looks like you're on a Mac. In preferences, on the General tab, at the very bottom there's an option for "Use LCD font smoothing when available". Coupled with certain monitors, this can give that "bold" appearance you're talking about. If you disable it and restart your browser, it should go away. That said, I'm not sure why you're seeing it on the new version and not the older one. | |
| Sep 6, 2018 at 1:43 | history | edited | CatijaStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 5, 2018 at 3:08 | comment | added | eykanal Mod | @Catija - Fantastic, thank you. Looking forwards to the evolving discussion. For what it's worth, if it would be possible for you to post high-res screenshots of the new pages that would be immensely helpful, as changing the settings is a pain in the buttocks. | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 2:20 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | Yep. I or someone from the design team will be updating this thread with status tags as we discuss/implement changes. Hopefully starting tomorrow or Thursday. | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 0:46 | comment | added | eykanal Mod | @Catija - Will we get any feedback as to whether these thoughts are incorporated into the final design? I've turned off the beta test for now as it really isn't as nice as the current design. | |
| Sep 4, 2018 at 14:05 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | stackoverflow.com/teams and stackoverflow.com/customers and stackoverflow.blog/2018/02/08/… might help in understanding why the left navigation was created in the first place. Less so why sites that are utterly unrelated to SO need to adopt this feature too. | |
| Sep 4, 2018 at 1:46 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | @NoahSnyder The placement of the elements is maintained on each page for ease of use. If you only look at the Home page, yes, it does look somewhat empty, but on search results or tag pages, there are more elements added and the space is utilized rather than empty. Keeping the elements in the same place makes them easier to find as the placement is predictable. | |
| Sep 3, 2018 at 19:12 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | I haven't seen a good explanation of what they want this space for, which presumably means it'll eventually be ads? | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 4:27 | comment | added | zibadawa timmy | I'm fairly sure "a lot of empty space" was the fundamental design theme. They've been consistently lambasted over the empty space and the left-nav panel-o-empty-space in particular (so much so that Catija was compelled to specifically mention a meta thread specifically about it). And yet they keep trucking forward. So my guess is that nothing's really going to be done about it. I hadn't really noticed the kerning thing yet, though. Good point. | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 2:41 | history | edited | eykanalMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 2, 2018 at 2:31 | history | answered | eykanalMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |