Questions tagged [user-experience]
Use this for questions about the interaction design, behavior, and organization of the site, in terms of user experience.
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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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Can an Advice post be changed into a QA post (or vice versa)?
Regarding this post:
How to detect use of std::string short string optimization?
Very clearly a question looking for a technical solution, but it was posted as Advice instead of QA, so it can only ...
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Deleted comments show as [deleted] in threaded comments
When experiments are enabled, it appears that if a comment is in "reply" to a comment that is then deleted, a "[deleted] [deleted]" place holder is instead shown, rather than just ...
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"Show n more comments" button missing and all comments displayed by default
It appears that the "Show n more comments" feature has disappeared when experiments are enabled.
This means that comments, which were taking up too much space already with the new design, ...
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Modify chat so that pressing enter selects a user rather than sending message after typing @
In chat today, multiple users send a message consisting of the @ symbol followed by the first three letters of a user's username. This happened for me after typing @, typing the first three letters, ...
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Developments in our experiment to add a live activity panel to the site
Update June 30th, 2025: A new design is available to view on this update post which removes user avatars from the sidebar design.
Back in May, we shared an experiment to add a live activity panel to ...
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Degraded date display in comments experiment -- why? [duplicate]
In the current comments experiment, why are older dates displayed uniformly as "over a year ago"?
Noticed it reading this answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/67260205
Comments are not part ...
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The Stacks Editor leads to users posting table-only answers
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header 1
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cell 1
cell 2
cell 3
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I have previously noted this as a reponse but here it is a separate question.
Since the Stacks Editor was released to all new answerers we have ...
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New user experience is insanely irritating
This is how Stack Overflow looks when you visit it the very first time
There are four dismissable dialogs/announcements there and two things in the sidebar begging for attention. You have to dismiss ...
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An experiment in adding a live activity panel to the question ask page
New users frequently report to us that they view Stack Overflow as a slow place to get answers to problems that they face. Their perceptions are often rooted in the belief that many posts go ...
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An experiment on pairing askers with experts in the community
We are evaluating a conceptual feature of the platform that would seek to pair askers and available experts in the community in a live session format. Beginning today, we are running an experiment to ...
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What are the essential things to know before trying to use Stack Overflow?
It seems pretty clear that the tour doesn't explain the site very well in practice. I'm sure most people don't read it in the first place (the corresponding badge only seems to be awarded to about 13% ...
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How can I revert the style/layout changes to comments?
The style of comments has become very eye-catching now, and I have to scroll down a lot to see the next reply.
If comments are so important, they should be published as answers.
In short, is there a ...
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The post score says "Vote" on posts where I've already voted
When the change to the site was made so that numbers start at "vote", not 0 there was an answer posted that asked that if you aren't eligible to vote on, you won't be prompted to vote. It ...
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"similar questions" seems to ignore assigned tags
When asking a question (like How to use code (`(?{ ... })) in right side of substitute?), it seems the proposed "similar questions" ignore any tags assigned, mostly using the title of the ...
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