Questions tagged [design]
For question regarding the design of the Stack Overflow website, e.g. for issues with the layout, use this tag.
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Some of the icons does not appear correctly in the dark mode
As you can see, some icons, such as tags and questions, did not turn light in the dark-mode, while others, like highlights, are fine:
Also, The StackOverflow icon in The sidebar has visible delay in ...
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Iterating on Beta design
Last week, we opened up the new question page design on beta.stackoverflow.com and the feedback started rolling in immediately. While many of you appreciate the cleaner aesthetic, one piece of ...
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Please show us a version number on the beta site
This is what we have on the main site:
Goal is, we would know if there is a new deployment. We would also get some hints about its date or some internal version number, if there is one.
On the ...
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Tag excerpt incorrectly positioned and cannot be seen totally
In some cases if the tag is in a special horizontal position, the top part is cut and not displayed. Seem, that instead of placing it below the tag, it is positioned on the top, and another object ...
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Beta "Newest Questions" page: questions are not aligned properly
I just tried the Beta version of the "Questions" page, and have noticed what seems to be a fairly straightforward bug with how the list of questions is presented: the alignment of questions ...
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Inconsistency and invalid colors on beta site
There are some hovering colors in the profile page, different from each other and all are wrong (based on the original SO design system).
For example, The selected page should be orange but it seems ...
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Selected Profile tab button doesn't display properly
Side-by-Side comparison with the rest of the states
It appears that the selected tab is obscured by an unwanted rectangular border.
Tested on:
macOS
Safari and Chrome
Dark and Light mode
Old Design:
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Is the new Stack Overflow beta UX really useful? What is the purpose of these changes?
I just tried the Stack Overflow beta. This new UX has some obvious and less obvious changes. Here is a tentative list with my personal feedback:
👎👎👎 less color
👎👎 no visible separation for the ...
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Early bugs with the sidebars in the redesign
Black icons on dark grey in dark mode
Go to this page
For the popular tags and popular unanswered question icons, they're hard to read. Removing the native CSS class seems to fix it for me
What's //...
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beta.stackoverflow.com returns error 500
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Something went wrong
We apologize for any inconvenience, but an unexpected error occurred. This our fault.
Detailed information about this error has been recorded and we have been notified.
If you’...
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New site design and philosophy for Stack Overflow: Starting February 24, 2026 at beta.stackoverflow.com
Update February 26th,2026
As was mentioned on February 20th, we have another post covering more of our thinking and plans on how we are going about improving question closure.
Update February 24th, ...
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User privilege idea: private user CSS
Just a random thought I had, which would actually solve 2 problems at once:
I propose that when an SO user (or any SE user?) hits some reasonable score threshold, let's say around 10,000 imaginary ...
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Please drop the large vertical space at the beginning of code blocks [duplicate]
A while ago (several weeks I think), code blocks in SO posts gained a corner "Copy" icon, which is fine, but the entire vertical span of that icon is now unused across the horizontal span of ...
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Mods aren't denoted as mods (missing their diamond ♦) when interacting with open ended questions
I just posted an answer/comment/reply to an open-ended question, and I was missing my diamond (♦). Our diamonds aren't displayed when we post in these questions:
The mod diamond (♦) should definitely ...
Thom AMod
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"Ignore tag" button is missing [duplicate]
This is a regression of Add to favorites/ignored tags
Ignore tag button is missing from tag hover popup:
The button is also missing from tag page.
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