Meta Stack Exchange Weekly Newsletter - Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Top new questions this week: New navigation for Stack Overflow is in alpha testing As announced 6-8 weeks ago... In a major effort to move as much UX cheese as possible in a single deployment significantly improve the site browsing experience, we have deployed a new version of the ... discussion featured navigation new-nav   asked by Sklivvz 168 votes answered by Christina 32 votes Sexist Job listing on Careers So I was emailed on Careers by a company and was shocked to see the following in their company listing: We have enough problems with sexism in the tech industry without this kind of thing and I ... support careers offensive   asked by jackslash 36 votes answered by Patrick Hofman 17 votes Unreadable text on http://stackexchange.com/sites On http://stackexchange.com/sites, a few of the sites have words that are impossible to read. For example, the words on the Biology block are so faint that it is almost impossible to read: This is ... bug status-completed design stackexchange.com   asked by mmking 22 votes answered by Anna Lear 3 votes Change "comment" to "critique or request clarification" Got around to talking about comment flags with Robert Cartaino this morning... We're working on rejiggering the flagging options to make it a bit more obvious when stuff should be flagged, with the ... feature-request comments user-interface   asked by Shog9 20 votes answered by Monica Cellio 10 votes Questions from rus.SE shouldn't become hot Localised sites such as pt.SO, ja.SO and ru.SO have been hidden from the Hot Network Questions list. However, questions from rus.SE do appear, as has just occurred: Link to question Can ... bug status-completed hot-questions   asked by grgarside 19 votes answered by Anna Lear 6 votes Badge progress indicator missing number counts Something changed recently, and since a picture is worth a thousand words: Until not very long ago, the "score" and "answers" labels were followed by numbers indicating the values of the progress ... bug status-completed profile-page badge-progress badge-tracking   asked by Caleb 16 votes answered by Jarrod Dixon 8 votes Ticker feeds in Chat The ticker feeds in chat are interesting, but also annoying. One feature that would make them very nice is a fade feature, where they fade away after displaying for N seconds (perhaps even user ... feature-request chat feed   asked by Hosch250 15 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Help me make myself a better moderator—give me statistics about my own close vote accuracy! In a recent answer on Meta Stack Overflow, Shog9 made the following note: Accuracy is all over the map too. Some of our most prolific close voters routinely toss votes at questions that don't get ... discussion feature-request vote-to-close personal-statistics   asked by Alexis King 72 votes answered by Roombatron5000 15 votes Can we add whatexactlyisyourquestion.com to the blocked list? I just stumbled on this and I think we might do well to squash it before it becomes a wide spread problem. http://whatexactlyisyourquestion.com/ I found a particular user, who shall remain nameless, ... discussion feature-request comments blocked   asked by apaul34208 31 votes Can you answer these? Excess whitespace deleted bleeds into suggested edit markdown As I was making a suggested edit, I had noticed a lot of whitespace at the very end, which I then removed. Now, when I look at the markdown of the edit suggestion, it kind of makes it look like I've ... bug suggested-edits diff whitespace   asked by Jamal 5 votes Can't submit Ask Question Captcha I'm not quite sure why, but I was stuck with a Captcha when asking a new question on Arqade. That's normally fine, but I'm not sure how I can submit it. I typed in the needed text, and copy-pasted ... bug asking-questions captcha   asked by RedRiderX 7 votes Footnote <sub> text collapsed into a single line in Mobile Safari I spotted this weird-looking text on the mobile site: I'm using Safari in iOS 8.3 (12F70) on an iPhone 5S. I get the same problem in the iOS Simulator, running iOS 8.3 (12F69). The question comes ... bug design mobile-web mobile-safari   asked by alexwlchan 5 votes

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