It's the unicorn attack!  I bought the bar color change with my hard-earned Unicoins.  Even if the change is barely noticeable, I think it would be great to be able to change it, maybe even have more options.  So, I was wondering if this change will be available from now on, or if it's just for today...
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I have grown fond of the upvote animation as i am sure most of you did as well, was wondering if we could choose to keep it after april 1st has passed.  The unicorns and I have bonded, it would be heartless and cruel to separate us now :(
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The changes have now been rolled out across the network!    Most of these changes are cosmetic.  We moved the list into the main content area, increased the font size a little, and used the check marks from badges to show progression.  Each privilege gets a one sentence summary so that you can easily browse the list, and we have added categories and filters to help you get a better idea of what kind of privileges there are.  Finally, we have added a progress bar to the right sidebar instead of showing simultaneous progression for all of the privileges.
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This is now out for all of the sites  We've had the new default unified theme up on  for a month and a half now and the response there has been really positive. We got a lot of great feedback from the PPCG community and worked out a lot of trouble spots.   If you've been following the progress on my , you'll know that one of the staff will usually post a discussion on each meta site as the theme rolls out. With so many sites using this theme, we decided it'd be easier to post one announcement here on MSE and feature it so that the entire network can see it and respond in one place, as a bug on one site will probably be affecting all of them.  We don't expect there to be any bugs in this theme (famous last words, apparently), since it's been used for a while on PPCG but if you do see anything amiss, please use this post to point it out so that we can dig into it. Some of your concerns may already be mentioned on the PPCG announcement post I linked at the beginning of this one, so please check there to see if they've been reported yet.  If you have general concerns about left navigation or responsive design, please use the .  Some things to be aware of:   Left Navigation is active on most pages (but can be collapsed into a menu by visiting your site preferences - ). Responsive layout is active, which lets the site adjust as browser widths change - no side scrolling (some pages haven't been updated, yet, though). For now, if you prefer the scrolling, you can disable this by clicking the "disable responsiveness" link in the footer. Link underlining is active. In an effort to make links more visible, they are now being underlined.     While this change is definitely something many users have strong feelings about, I'm really excited about this step in particular because it means that some very long-standing communities will be a lot closer to getting custom themes. We have about ten sites that are no longer in beta but haven't gotten a custom design yet, and once this changeover is complete, we'll move forward in designing those sites - and maybe others.  The layout unification is also allowing us to more easily improve existing features like  and develop new features that have long been requested like , which is currently in testing. We'd love to get more features out to you all and that's easier when we spend more time working on the new features and less time squashing bugs they cause because we have 60+ very different site layouts.  This is addressed in a  if you want more detail.    I'll be doing my best to keep an eye out for - and respond to - questions asking about this change on the child metas for all of the beta sites as we transition to the responsive design but feel free to link users here as well.
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I seem to have clicked on something that changed my display preferences. The main site is now very minimalistic, with fewer controls and different fonts.  I want to change it back, but where is it?
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Do not know whether someone else observe it or not but today I found my profile Gravatar changed. It is now different than earlier I have. Is it because today I have updated my profile information?        My previous gravatar looks like:
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After slaving away on meta, I finally hit the rep cap yesterday. By "slaving away", I mostly mean making an , but whatever. I got my first meta Mortarboard, and was expecting a shiny(?) black ribbon to go along with it. I think it would look rather dashing pinned to my fedora. Even if it doesn't, it would add to my hat-count, which is sorely lacking.  So I waited. As I know, it's always a caching issue. But alas, after a couple hours passed with no sign of a ribbon, I grew despondent.  So I waited. After all, many things around here happen at the end of the UTC day. I know, I know, apparently , but I had to find out for myself. Of course, you can guess how this turned out for me.  My next thought was to search for others with the same problem. The only post I found was someone reporting , which is obviously not the same issue.  Then, I thought maybe it just isn't awarded on meta sites. After a , I ruled this out as well. MSO being special and all, it appears that several users have earned it here.  Seriously, how do I get this thing? It's not a secret hat, and the description is brutally straightforward.
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Update: this change is now live across the network. You'll still see some narrow 220px ads because it's going to take us a good while to update all of the old ads, but if you see any other style issues, please report here on meta.   Stack Exchange sites are ad-supported. We run relevant, unintrusive ads that don't get in your way--but they help us keep the lights on. Even sites that don't have paid external ads usually have a few internal ones, used to promote other sites on the network and . We don't run a lot of ads, and , but the ones we do run have one crippling problem:   The sidebar ads are currently a weird non-standard size. Yes, standardized ad sizes are . And apparently if you ignore them, folks are more reluctant to advertise and have a tendency to make uglier ads. We don't like ugly ads, and we do like selling ad space. So starting next week, we will switch to the industry-standard size for sidebar ads. The new ad units will be 300x250 and the sidebar will be expanded to 300px wide to accommodate them. We won't be reducing content size or doing any sort of weird overlay; the ads and other sidebar content will just extend an additional 80 pixels to the right.  However, even though the sidebar is growing by 80 pixels, by reclaiming some margin space, the overall page width is only increasing by 60px. Here's what it's going to look like:     of Stack Exchange users won't be affected by this change. Either they already use a viewport big enough to accommodate the new width, or they already use a viewport too small to accommodate the existing width. (And those who do find themselves affected won't be losing any content, the juicy stuff we all come here to look at. They'll just see a bit of the sidebar cut off unless they scroll.)  We're planning to roll this out on Tuesday, January 12. (There will be a transition period after that date while we work on getting all ad types swapped over; you'll still see some of the old size ads during that time.) In the meantime, let us know your thoughts.
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Got a commentator badge today. Though my  shows only 8 comments. Either the  has changed or the SO App was generous to me today. Thanks for the badge, don't take it away :)
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This may be me being silly, but has the start a bounty text colour changed?  I distinctly remember it being the same colour as the add comment text?
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I was trying to change the selected items color from the default orange to something else, however, the option isn't there, as it used to be in the Appearance properties in previous versions of ubuntu. Any idea where it could be in the beta?
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In the new header could we please move the chat link back to where it was? (One click away)  As a daily frequent to the JavaScript room that's the one link I'd love to have visible 100% of the time.  Aside from that, I actually love the new header. (Maybe take it a step further an add a customizable header with (X) link spots for your most used links?)  Just my thoughts
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There was an update around the 17th or 18th. Now, I see that all of the sites have been updated as of the 25th. I know that there was a time when a weekly or every-two-week update cycle was planned, but I couldn't find any confirmation of this having been implemented. The  still says monthly, but there had been a delay of a few months at one point, so I'm not entirely sure that the FAQ is trustworthy on all points. Every other post that I've found about the Data Explorer is at least a few months old, and this appears to be a recent change.
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What makes a design look old? How subjective is this? Who decides?   Look at this Bell logo:    It's from 1969. And boy, does it look that way. It's simple and minimal, but.. it looks old.  Take a look the this BP logo:    Old. And not too pretty. And yet.. someone thought it's a good idea.   And something I find ridiculously curious: the old Chrome vs the new Chrome logo:    I remember when I first saw the new icon. I thought it was pretty bad. It lacked something. Today, I look at the old one and smile, thinking "aw, that was ugly. In a cute way, though".  This doesn't only apply to logos that have been improved, I think:    Sorry, Nike. I love the brand, but that logo looks like you paid $35 back in '71 for it.  Now let's go for something else, though a bit off the real logo-esque topic:    I'd believe if someone told me this was a 2013 model. I want one, by the way.  Take a look at most cars from the 90s. 80s. 70s. 95% look horrible. 4% are nearly classic, 1% are so ugly they have their own cult.  What drives the way we perceive "new" vs "old" design?  Look at the web. Flat UI is becoming more and more popular, making gradients look old.  Why? Who decides this? How much of this is about taste and how much about trends?  I mean.. you couldn't slap the old, rainbow-colored Apple logo on the back of every MacBook out there and make it look good today, could you?
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Anyone aware of a way to customize the appearance of the screen during fast user switching? I'd like to disable the background blur to make it look more like it did in Mavericks.
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Badges look differently on each SE site, as per the unique themes of each site.  However, when looking at the Summary of Accounts in a user's profile, the badges for all sites use the icon for the site that the viewer is viewing the page from at that time.    I think it would be an aesthetic improvement to keep the badge icons consistent with their site of origin, and not where they are being viewed from.    The effect of this change would be subtle, but I think it would help reinforce the appealing idea that the badges from the different sites are unique, different types of rewards, and make it more engaging to collect from all over SE as opposed to focusing on single sites.
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I can't find any way to change the Terminal theme and have that theme applied permanently.  I want to change to another darker theme other than the default 'basic' theme, and (most importantly) have it remain as the theme every time I open Terminal.
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Since there already seem to be ways to do this with user-specific CSS: why not have a couple of base themes for the sites? I'd like to see a theme like the dark flair that is available.  Getting into the more unlikely, what about a way for users to choose their own colors? I know this site is more for questions and the like, but customizability never hurt anyone :P