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Use this tag when referring to the level of difficulty when using a Stack Exchange feature or operating a web page's controls on Stack Exchange.

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I just noticed that the top ad banner seems to be reloaded every minute or so. When that happens, the content jumps up for a fraction of a second before jumping back down. This causes the screen to ...
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On e.g., https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions there could be a convenience link added to "My questions". That would save the user having to poke around, eventually arriving at e.g., ...
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Whenever I try to run a query with the Data Explorer, my process is: Type the parameters for the query. Click "Run query". Click the "I'm not a robot" checkbox that suddenly ...
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Anyone who has been on SE for any length of time knows the bypass of copying the comment, deleting it, and reposting it. Yes, that puts our revised comment out of order, but that is often acceptable. ...
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Motivation: Once again I spent time creating an elaborate answer on Stack Overflow, only to find the page locked when I was done, because people were not satisfied with the details given. Sometimes ...
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I'm a screen reader user, and am extremely sad to notice today that on a page presenting questions, questions are no longer inside an heading tag <hX>. Example of such a page with the tag ...
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For the longest time I thought one can invite a chat user to the site's main chat room if and only if that user has used the site's main room recently. But it turns out, simply being in whatever room ...
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Today I tried to look up a question on Stack Overflow. I had two popovers on the page, one inviting me to take a short survey (which didn't even load!) and one inviting me to learn how the review ...
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Just checking how many people feel similar. At least for me, the increased space between lines makes it a nightmare to read. My eyes lack guidance and just feel somehow lost with so much white space. ...
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Unread notifications have large spacings on top and bottom. But they are not a part of the link and you can see default context menu when clicking them (also this area is not clickable): Instead, ...
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Recently, I asked my first question on retrocomputing.stackexchange.com . I later attempted to ask a second question there, but when I clicked the "Post Your Question" button, a div element with a ...
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The comment flag dialog recently changed. A side effect of that change was to reduce the size of the clickable area. In particular, the clickable regions on the new flag dialog are pretty skinny, as ...
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Currently, in the new comment flag modal, when you want to select an option, you have to click either on the radio button, or on the top part of the description. This is because only the top part of ...
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While browsing through the questions in a mouse and pointer free environment, if someone accidentally clicks on C instead of the intended V, they go to the comment mode on post itself. Intuitively, ...
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Definitions I suspect most of you reading this question are familiar with the terms usability, usability testing (also known as user testing), and UX (user experience). However, for some folks these ...
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I know the expanded usercard is a privilege given to established users. However, it would be much more useful if you could see some basic profile information of any user without having to go to their ...
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The current design requires you to press the + or - buttons on the left of each tab to make it visible on the menu bar or not while editing on the iOS SE app. The design can be improved if ...
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I recently discovered keyboard shortcuts and have been using them extensively since then. Unfortunately, I find that they don't work reliably for precisely the scenario where they would be ...
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I visited ServerFault earlier and needed to login so I could post a comment; so I went to the login page, couldn't remember my login details, and didn't want to reset them as I didn't really need to ...
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There's a lot of posts with the pattern http://%20http (here's an example search for Stack Overflow; the Stack Exchange multi-site search unfortunately does not grok this syntax) and by quick testing, ...
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There is a usability problem when you visit a site on which ads are being served. The top banner ad doesn't render immediately, and then when it does, it causes the rest of the page below it to jump ...
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While it's possible to get links to questions and comments that include the title of the question in the link, I haven't seen a way to do this for answers. Question link: https://meta.stackexchange....
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I come from lands afar, also known as Hardware Recommendations Stack Exchange. Over there, we have a serious problem with first-time Stack Exchange users coming along and asking off-topic questions - ...
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I recently posted a question here, for the first time in awhile. I wrote up the question, added an appropriate tag, then pressed submit. A red banner appeared at the top of the screen (I'm on the ...
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I've been testing the new mobile chat, and I've found that the text entry box is too small, which makes writing longer messages difficult. It's only large enough to show one line, so if my message ...
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The context of this question is that I have been thinking of reporting a bug I found on other SE site, so I need access to this meta.SE site. When I try using the site switcher on the top left of the ...
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You need 150 reputation to vote in a moderator election, which is noted in the sidebar and in the footer of the election page. If you have less than 150 rep and visit an election page, you still see ...
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Finding the Answers on Question page is not as easy as it could be when using a screen reader. One of the most important tasks when using StackExchange sites, is reading the first few Answers. When ...
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I posted Why is ReactJS not performant like raw JS for simple, stupid proof of concept?, walked away, came back, and realized I'd stated a setInterval() delay as 100 seconds when I meant 100 ...
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I wanted some feedback on Windows 10 upgrades (basically, whether a free upgrade from 7 to 10 is desirable), so I went to superuser.stackexchange.com, which doesn't exist... so I went to what I should ...
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On the "Reputation" tab (sorted by "post" or "time"), the reputation changes are grouped by day (example). If you want to collapse/uncollapse a day, you have to click at the triangle icon. Proposal: ...
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I was in the midst of writing up a feature-request to ask for a way to open the navigation menu from any screen rather than just the feed page. Getting around the app without one is hard. But lo and ...
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I just rejected an edit for an incorrect reason because I thought it was removing perfectly correct links with a bogus reason (“formatting”), whereas it was actually removing Markdown syntax that ...
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Stackexchange's 'column layout' leaves over 50% of my screen space unused. I can understand this is for design purposes, and in most cases it's not a problem. However, especially on 'sub stacks' like ...
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When I get a notification in my inbox in the upper left corner about an event on one of the SE sites other than the one I am logged into, frequently I have to login again. This is mildly annoying, ...
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I have a usability suggestion. Since we are now dealing with six versions of PHP, generations of Java, and decades of HTML, the relevance and value of answers are critically based upon these versions ...
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A lot of energy is spent managing poor quality questions. Poor questions create an enormous tax on SE sites: Good users spend an awful lot of time flagging, reviewing, commenting, clarifying, and ...
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Often users are forced into excessively looking back at posts to check if anything has changed. Many times, we as users will have multiple tabs open in a browser. While some of the tabs may be older ...
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The navigation's contrast is too low, which hampers my ability to quickly scan the navigation. I find myself many times having to concentrate and read the section I'm in. I think part of the problem ...
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White and other bright colours on AMOLED screens burn it in and decrease battery life. How about a completely black skin?
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Here are a couple of issues and a proposal how to address it: Issue 1. Some questions seem to be applicable to multiple SE sites. Sometimes users wonder: should THIS applied math question go to ...
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Since its inception Stack Exchange has tried to make it as easy as possible to ask a question, most of the time. This was done by implementing the concept of an "unregistered" user, ...
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Let's say you want to close a question for being just plain off-topic, in the non-SE-jargon sense, on Stack Overflow. (Yes, we're on MSE, not MSO. Bear with me.) Since all of the choices under ...
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I often find it intimidating to try and figure out where my question fits. And will often end up posting in the wrong spot. Then I will get sent links to meta sites with large amounts of text, ...
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Until just recently, I did not realize you could reply to a chat transcript. I have always used the arrow at the end of each line to reply and never use the dropdown. These are the buttons I use: ...
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I received an email from Careers 2.0. So my email is known. I click the link to log in, but it requires me to enter my email. It could easily be entered for me from the link I clicked. Type email ...
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When a question contains a link to another question, the question title is automatically inserted. For example, I'm going to paste a URL here: Replace links with the current question title in ...
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My normal mode of visiting the site is to refresh the start page and scroll down looking for interesting questions. This has degraded significantly recently, and the reason seems to be that the start ...
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I tried to close a question on Meta as a duplicate using the iOS app. The experience was.... troublesome. I followed a chain of comment and answer links to a post that I knew my starting point was a ...
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As of April 22nd 2014, the 10k flags queue is no more thus the below isn't relevant As it stands now, the "disagree with a flag" option is, unintuitively, buried in the middle of a bunch of "agree"-...
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