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114 votes

Mathematics new site theme is live

status-review My biggest complaint is about all the wasted space. I think the text size of the headers is the biggest culprit. When I go to the main page of math.se, there's just an egregious amount ...
Viktor Vaughn's user avatar
61 votes

Mathematics new site theme is live

status-completed bug Yet another problem with this is that (at least in a comment) a link is barely distinguishable from usual text. How is anybody supposed to tell at a glance that 7 old answers ...
Jyrki Lahtonen's user avatar
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It’s become difficult to see visually if I’ve upvoted a post

This is not an A/B test - those happened a while ago and it has now been rolled out to all sub's. There has been a bunch of stink raised over it on https://meta.stackexchange.com/, but then that seems ...
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Mathematics new site theme is live

A couple of little problems: status-completed bug When you ask a question, there is an info box on the right which gives advice on how to ask a question. The text "Provide details" is a link. It ...
Xander Henderson's user avatar
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33 votes

Mathematics new site theme is live

Let me comment with CSS style overrides I use, slightly updated for the new theme. Those style overrides also apply to first-time visitors to which the new site theme must appear like a torrent of ...
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It’s become difficult to see visually if I’ve upvoted a post

For the moment (given that it is highly unlikely the buttons will be modified soon), you can use a script to roll-back to the usual buttons. For the sake of completeness, here's the full script which ...
Pedro's user avatar
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20 votes

Mathematics new site theme is live

status-review bug Here is a screenshot of the behavior I mentioned in the comment. Note how the title of one question is completely misaligned. This happens precisely on questions with tags I have ...
Tobias Kildetoft's user avatar
19 votes

Mathematics new site theme is live

The new design is TERRIBLE. Please, delete it or put an option to rollback. PLEASE!!! Delete as soon as possible the left navigation column.
Masacroso's user avatar
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18 votes

New Mathematics site theme coming soon

I like the simplicity of the current math design, and I like the simplicity of the redesign. The graphpaper background is maintained and appears to remain pretty subtle. Cool. We aren't going to ...
davidlowryduda's user avatar
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15 votes

Mathematics new site theme is live

status-review 1. Repeated/overlapping equations in duplicates previews (for example through review queues): (Go to review queues, review question that has flagged duplicate, click to Close, select ...
Sil's user avatar
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13 votes

Mathematics new site theme is live

I'm visually impaired and have huge problems with the new design. I use the "Zoom only text" and a larger font under "Options" in Firefox. That worked great with the previous design. However, ...
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Is there any plan to bring dark mode to MSE as in the case of Stack Overflow?

It would appear that it is not: Introducing Dark Mode (beta) for Stack Overflow. There are a lot of challenges to implementing dark mode across a platform like ours. We are among the 40 largest ...
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12 votes

Mathematics new site theme is live

status-bydesign As mentioned in the comment, the left nav is still availble under the hamburger menu in the top left. I did go to left nav link and turned off left nav panel as instructed (with some ...
Ethan Bolker's user avatar
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12 votes

Mathematics new site theme is live

When I use a zoom > 100, say 125% , the subscripts and the low parts of the equations are masked by the scroll-bar, for example : I read somewhere that zoom > 100% is not supported. Of course, this ...
JJacquelin's user avatar
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9 votes

Mathematics new site theme is live

The font for posts on main is a serif font, while the one on meta is sans-serif. I'd prefer the same font on both main and meta (either font is fine with me). [I hope that's not a dupe, but I did ...
quid's user avatar
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9 votes

Mathematics new site theme is live

tl;dr As a mathematician, I'm not all that experienced with CSS. However, after spending 5 minutes adjusting the page layout, I feel I got something far simpler and yet far superior. See below for a ...
Brevan Ellefsen's user avatar
9 votes

New site theme - are there statistics on how readership has changed?

This data has been a bit longer time coming than first expected... but the wait is over and I have some interesting results for you... but not a lot of answers. Based on the question and comments ...
Catija's user avatar
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8 votes

Mathematics new site theme is live

status-completed I don't see this here yet, but bug: in the Safari browser on a Mac, math that is larger than a normal text line seems to be cut off. See the integral signs in the top line here: and ...
Calvin Khor's user avatar
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8 votes

Mathematics new site theme is live

I normally use the site in Firefox on smartphone with "request desktop site" feature of the browser. The right side-bar which includes meta links, watched/ignored tags and hot network questions no ...
Paramanand Singh's user avatar
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7 votes

Mathematics new site theme is live

There's always been a very slight discrepancy between the line breaks in the preview and in the posted version; every once in a while, one more letter would fit in in the posted version than did in ...
joriki's user avatar
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7 votes
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Can a question's colour or background be changed if I have visited it?

Visited links are now a lighter shade of blue than both the unvisited and hover colors. Thanks for your patience and for bringing this to our attention!
Catija's user avatar
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7 votes

Dark theme in MSE

There is already the correct answer that there is currently no native Dark Mode offered by SE for the Mathematics SE (or indeed any SE site). While we wait, I'll just point out that there are browser ...
Calvin Khor's user avatar
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7 votes
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The [mobile-web] tag info is outdated

I have updated the mobile-web usage guidance and tag wiki. The use of this tag for new questions is now discouraged in favor of design.
Martin R's user avatar
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6 votes

Mathematics new site theme is live

status-completed MathJax Zoom doesn't work properly I'm pretty sure that this is at least partially related to the new theme. In the MathJax context menu (right-click some MathJax) you can enable a ...
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauot's user avatar
6 votes
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When did the background turn into graph lines?

This design element is present since the first time this site got its own design (so around end of 2010, details in the post linked by Martin). Depending on the screen it is not very visible. It may ...
quid's user avatar
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6 votes
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How can I get the *.svg version of the logo of math.SE?

It seems that svg-file with the logo is available here: https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/math/Img/sprites.svg?v=fa2277060fb6 I got the link after choosing "Inspect" and "Sources" in Google Chrome, while ...
Martin Sleziak's user avatar
6 votes

Dark theme in MSE

Dark mode is only available for Stack Overflow. There are pending feature requests and discussions on the main Meta see e.g. Plans for dark mode for all Stack Exchange sites
quid's user avatar
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5 votes

MathJax broken in "Related" section

The issue appears to be that the page's CSS causes the links in the sidebar to be display: flex, and that changes how the children are treated. The content is no ...
Davide Cervone's user avatar
5 votes
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Bug on the moderator election page

I've gotten this fixed and the fix should be deployed some time today (current revision is 2017.10.13.27422, so anything after this should be fixed). Thanks for reporting!
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