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Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

1:20 AM

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/315771/…

Somewhat

3:13 AM

(still) Morning...

ɪʙᴜɢ

5:11 AM

Any real effort on stopping the Anonymous Teacher troll??

They delete their account within 30 seconds of first post (plagiarized, of course)

While we can be helpful towards content cleanup, I don't think there's much we can do to really stop them.

I recall gparyani has already raised a question on MSE and haven't got some good response

So, 5 mins has passed and this is the instance I'm talking about.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

6:08 AM

@ɪʙᴜɢ Tim Post did comment saying that it would be one thing that would be looked into once all the responsive designs have rolled out.

Of course, if you really believe that it has high priority, you can follow the steps at How do I get attention for old, unfixed bug reports and feature requests without official responses here on Meta?.

chaos-emerald-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/315774/… (@Shadow @rene @Glorfindel)

For context, here's the question ɪʙᴜɢ is referring to:

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Q: Prevent users from immediately deleting their accounts if they've made one post

I'm posting this following the discussion at Should we disallow users from immediately deleting their accounts if they've made one post?, which seems to be positive and generally in favor of doing this. I got reminded of this issue again because the same thing I mentioned in the other post happen...

Somewhat

6:45 AM

Hardworking spammer...

b_jonas

7:53 AM

Dear SE overlords. While "site redesigns" suck 90% of the time, I'm now convinced that this particular site redisign you did is actually a quite good one.

John Dvorak

It did score a net positive at phy.mse, yes

b_jonas

In particular, "responsive design" is an infamous buzzword, and it's also a very badly chosen word, its meaning is actually good, and you have actually implemented it correctly rather than abused its capabilities, which is a very rare thing to see.

I still don't much like the left sidebar (because I use a large font and don't like the horizontal screen estate taken up, and don't like the alternative dropdown menu either), but it's not that bad of a thing for most users.

The one thing people really dislike is the lack of site-customized vote icons (and backgrounds apparently). I hate backgrounds, and I already wrote a solution for the customized vote icons for Sci Fi SE.

I'll try to do a bit more in my power to convince people that this is a good update, but I'll have to do it sneakily. I can't just go around thanking you and saying that I like this update, that won't help at this point.

What I can do is advertise the vote buttons customization, and perhaps try to design a few sets of entirely new vote buttons (purely symbolic, nothing very site-specific) and advertise them in general for sites that lost a custom vote button or have a custom theme.

b_jonas

8:17 AM

I tried to add a popular description of why I like the new site design into scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12102/4918 . Feel free to quote me on it.

Tinkeringbell

@b_jonas You called it 'responsible' design... isn't it 'responsive'?

At least you've done it consistently, now making me doubt!

b_jonas

@Tinkeringbell I don't know. I don't use web designer buzzwords, so I've no idea really.

If you find out which term is appropriate, feel free to edit my post or tell me.

Tinkeringbell

@b_jonas You.. called it responsive in your messages above, that's why I thought one of the other might be wrong ;)

I'm not that familiar with web design either, so I'll leave it from when someone else passes by

b_jonas

Apparently it's "responsive design"

rene

yes, it is

It responds to the size of the "screen" you view the site on and tries to offer the best UX for the given "screen size", hence responsive

b_jonas

8:29 AM

@rene Right. I still think it's a stupid buzzword, but sure.

rene

Yes.

b_jonas

Since the explanation in that post is licensed by the usual CC-BY-SA license, please feel free to quote or rework it to convince more people.

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A: Exactly which features of SFF.SE's magnificent theme will we be losing?

You will lose the custom graphics and custom size of the upvote, downvote, favorite question and accept buttons next to posts. The custom graphics is specific to Sci Fi SE, and there's a recolored version specific to Sci Fi Meta. I have a customization that you can enable to get the traditional...

See bottom part.

This stuff is important to me, because 90% of website designs suck, so I generally hate them too, but for once, the SE team is rolling out a good web design change. This is an opportunity I feel I should advertise and celebrate as much as I can.

I wonder if I should copy that explanation to its own top-level Meta post to make it easier to link.

But I'm not sure how to do it without backfiring. I don't want to make it look like a stupid advertisment or suck-up.

Heck, I will do so. Even if I get downvoted to hell for it (it's on a meta, mind you) and thought of as a suck-up, it's worth the chance to advertise the changes themself. This is so important to me.

b_jonas

9:05 AM

I'm working on editing the writeup and copying it to a standalone top level post on Sci Fi Meta.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

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Q: Does the new unified design theme result in more off-topic questions where lost users asked on the wrong site?

This is partially a request for opinion, and partially a request for statistics. For a very long time, Meta Stack Exchange has suffered from a problem where a lot of users ask blatantly off-topic questions here, such as programming questions. One of the reasons for posting off-topic questions he...

discussion support off-topic responsive-design

b_jonas

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Q: How I met web designers using their new powers for Good for the first time: a tale about the new design of SE

I'd like to show you a rare* example of good website redesign. It's right here on Sci Fi Stack Exchange (and Meta too, whichever you choose). To see it, you first have to enable the new site design, because this example is about that new design. You can enable the new design for all SE sites...

discussion design

^ Feel free to advertise or copy or copy modified it elsewhere. I posted on Sci Fi Meta where many old users who dislike the new site design will see it.

b_jonas

9:31 AM

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Q: How I met web designers using their new powers for Good for the first time: how the new SE design will help bring some new users

I'd like to show you a rare* example of good website redesign. It's right here on Sci Fi Stack Exchange (and Meta too, whichever you choose). To see it, you first have to enable the new site design, because this example is about that new design. You can enable the new design for all SE sites...

discussion design

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