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A New Top Bar for Stack Exchange

33 points by codegeek 13y ago

sebkomianos 13y ago
I find it too black.
- Rudism 13y ago
  It's like, how much more black could this be?
  - andrewcooke 13y ago
    as black as the black, black hearts of the mods.
  - jere 13y ago
    It could be #000000. It's only #212121. Personally, I don't like the amount of contrast between the near black and grey text. The text has a 67% L, the background a 13% L, and the difference is only 54%.... obviously only about half the contrast available. http://contrastrebellion.com/ http://contrastrebellion.com/
  - ErikHuisman 13y ago
    20 shades of black.
mratzloff 13y ago
A Bigger, Blacker Bar Subtle reference to Cards Against Humanity. ;-)
iconjack 13y ago
Thank God! They no longer whip the search box across the screen the moment I enter a character. That was one of worst UX design choices I've seen. I know they were just making room for a longer search string, but to yank it like that gave me whiplash.
yconst 13y ago
The new bar is so imposing compared to the rest of the interface.
deletes 13y ago
Have a problem?, just visit this site: http://stackexchange.com/sites# http://stackexchange.com/sites# Stack Exchange is becoming the guide to everything.
talles 13y ago
I... hated it. I don't get it exactly what problem this new bar is solving. A let down is that will be out of place in some layouts. StackExchange got beautiful layouts, like unix.stackexchange.com or cooking.stackexchange.com. A big black bar up there will break the perfectness of those.
- robrenaud 13y ago
  I think it's awesome. You have a personalized and prioritized view into the other stackexchanges you care about. You can see reputation gains across all the stackexchange sites instead of the one that you are currently on. Of course, I'll agree that the stackexchanges themselves should have input into how it's rendered on their own page, so as to prevent clashing.
- MrBuddyCasino 13y ago
  Yeah, I hated it as well. The black really destroys the whole page, maybe another color wouldn't disturb me that much.
dmunoz 13y ago
One benefit they bring up is the site switcher, which is much nicer than the old drop down they had. I have a question for people who participate on multiple sites: do you need a separate account on each site? All I can recall is that it was indeed the case in the past, but there was mumblings about them making the system better for multiple site accounts. After a quick search, questions like this [0] make me think it still isn't the case that there is a universal account. The real reason I ask is because I was bummed when they removed the ability to filter by top questions per week or per month [1]. The justification given in the response is fair enough, but I have never understood why, as a comment there points out, they also removed the ability to manually filter by ?tab=(active|hot|week|month). The cynic in my thinks this was mainly to drive people to signup for the weekly emails. The problem I have with that is I just want to hit some sites once a month and see the top questions, some once a week, etc. For example, I have no need to read the physics or mathematics communities very often, but would love to read the top questions once a month. So, it seems like the option is still there when you are signed in, but I have never wanted to sign up an account for each site. Is my understanding of their accounts system wrong? [0] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/195849/how-can-i-fully-log-out-of-all-stack-exchange-sites-so-i-dont-keep-auto-logging http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/195849/how-can-i-ful... [1] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/180850/hot-and-week-tabs-not-shown-to-non-logged-in-users-except-on-so http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/180850/hot-and-week-...
- k3n 13y ago
  I don't know if this answers your question, but for me, I login to each site using my Google account, and the top bar shows me notifications across the network of sites. So, the authentication is on a per-site basis, but the account itself seems to be seen as a single account.
- teraflop 13y ago
  I haven't looked into it extensively, but my understanding of the account system matches yours. However, you can emulate the week/month tabs using the search bar, for instance: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&q=is%3aquestion%20created%3a2013-11-01..2013-11-30 http://electronics.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&q=is%3...
minimalist 13y ago
And yet it still requires a call to google's servers in order to function. That's kind of disappointing.
dimillian 13y ago
The logo is pixelated on my Retina Macbook. It's a new bar and it's not even retina. Can you fix it please? :)
- jeremyt 13y ago
  Fixing...

33 points by codegeek 13y ago

sebkomianos 13y ago

I find it too black.

Rudism 13y ago
It's like, how much more black could this be?
- andrewcooke 13y ago
  as black as the black, black hearts of the mods.
- jere 13y ago
  It could be #000000. It's only #212121. Personally, I don't like the amount of contrast between the near black and grey text. The text has a 67% L, the background a 13% L, and the difference is only 54%.... obviously only about half the contrast available. http://contrastrebellion.com/ http://contrastrebellion.com/
- ErikHuisman 13y ago
  20 shades of black.

mratzloff 13y ago

A Bigger, Blacker Bar Subtle reference to Cards Against Humanity. ;-)

iconjack 13y ago

Thank God! They no longer whip the search box across the screen the moment I enter a character. That was one of worst UX design choices I've seen. I know they were just making room for a longer search string, but to yank it like that gave me whiplash.

yconst 13y ago

The new bar is so imposing compared to the rest of the interface.

deletes 13y ago

Have a problem?, just visit this site: http://stackexchange.com/sites# http://stackexchange.com/sites# Stack Exchange is becoming the guide to everything.

talles 13y ago

I... hated it. I don't get it exactly what problem this new bar is solving. A let down is that will be out of place in some layouts. StackExchange got beautiful layouts, like unix.stackexchange.com or cooking.stackexchange.com. A big black bar up there will break the perfectness of those.

robrenaud 13y ago
I think it's awesome. You have a personalized and prioritized view into the other stackexchanges you care about. You can see reputation gains across all the stackexchange sites instead of the one that you are currently on. Of course, I'll agree that the stackexchanges themselves should have input into how it's rendered on their own page, so as to prevent clashing.
MrBuddyCasino 13y ago
Yeah, I hated it as well. The black really destroys the whole page, maybe another color wouldn't disturb me that much.

dmunoz 13y ago

One benefit they bring up is the site switcher, which is much nicer than the old drop down they had. I have a question for people who participate on multiple sites: do you need a separate account on each site? All I can recall is that it was indeed the case in the past, but there was mumblings about them making the system better for multiple site accounts. After a quick search, questions like this [0] make me think it still isn't the case that there is a universal account. The real reason I ask is because I was bummed when they removed the ability to filter by top questions per week or per month [1]. The justification given in the response is fair enough, but I have never understood why, as a comment there points out, they also removed the ability to manually filter by ?tab=(active|hot|week|month). The cynic in my thinks this was mainly to drive people to signup for the weekly emails. The problem I have with that is I just want to hit some sites once a month and see the top questions, some once a week, etc. For example, I have no need to read the physics or mathematics communities very often, but would love to read the top questions once a month. So, it seems like the option is still there when you are signed in, but I have never wanted to sign up an account for each site. Is my understanding of their accounts system wrong? [0] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/195849/how-can-i-fully-log-out-of-all-stack-exchange-sites-so-i-dont-keep-auto-logging http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/195849/how-can-i-ful... [1] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/180850/hot-and-week-tabs-not-shown-to-non-logged-in-users-except-on-so http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/180850/hot-and-week-...

k3n 13y ago
I don't know if this answers your question, but for me, I login to each site using my Google account, and the top bar shows me notifications across the network of sites. So, the authentication is on a per-site basis, but the account itself seems to be seen as a single account.
teraflop 13y ago
I haven't looked into it extensively, but my understanding of the account system matches yours. However, you can emulate the week/month tabs using the search bar, for instance: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&q=is%3aquestion%20created%3a2013-11-01..2013-11-30 http://electronics.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&q=is%3...

minimalist 13y ago

And yet it still requires a call to google's servers in order to function. That's kind of disappointing.

dimillian 13y ago

The logo is pixelated on my Retina Macbook. It's a new bar and it's not even retina. Can you fix it please? :)

jeremyt 13y ago
Fixing...