Good day. Today I was just working when I saw that there was a snowflake in the top-bar-menu, and it had a purple notification number on it. I had never seen it before.      Note: This has been solved now.    Is this a new StackExchange Meta feature? Or was it there already? What does it do? The tooltip for this literally says Winter Bash. What is Winter Bash?  Thank you.      Note: This is not a duplicate of  That is simply a feature request asking for a (new) better tooltip for the snowflake icon.       Note: This has been solved now.
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I tried to write , but I couldn't find any simple explanation page to link to. I ended up garbling a home-spun description of my own with a not-terribly-helpful image from 2012.  This  puts it better than I can:     As a new user in 2015 can there please be more information about what is WinterBash. The link took me to a bunch of stick figures running around making (I think) numbers (I think its a countdown clock). It doesn't explain the event or even what a hat is. – Ian Miller Dec 4 at 2:58   All I found on Meta was dead links. For example,  was downvoted to -2 and answered with a link to an FAQ page that no longer exists.
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This is the right edge of my topbar, starting today:    Any particular reason why I'm not seeing my total reputation and badges there? Since it's a major part of the "gamification" setup, am I correct in thinking it's a bug? Is it exclusive to Safari iOS?  Update: I highly doubt it's my viewport, since there's plenty of space for it:    If this is a viewport problem, why is there so much space for it?
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A member of one of the sites I participate in is experiencing a bug exclusively on that site. Since being concrete is generally helpful, .  There is some concern over whether bugs get noticed on per-site metas, so I figured I'd ask to clarify: if we post a bug or a feature request on a per-site meta, do the Stack Exchange devs notice it, just like if it were posted on Meta Stack Exchange? Or do bugs and feature requests requiring their attention exclusively need to go here?
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The new  for Meta Stack Exchange looks exactly the same as the one for the  site:        This can get a bit confusing, especially if you happen to have many tabs open from both sites.  It also looks a bit silly in the site switcher menu:  All the per-site metas (and MSO, even before the MSO/MSE split) have favicons that are grayscale versions of the main site icons.  Why not do the same for MSE? Conveniently, michaelb958 already wrote a nice  to do just that (and I  it to apply to the menu too), so you can easily see for yourself how it would look.  Or just see the screenshot below:  So here's my proposal: Let's make this gray icon the official MSE favicon.  Update: The meta.SE favicon has recently been changed to a simplified outline version of the SE logo:  I'm not sure how much I like the new logo (for one thing, it doesn't seem to match the dimensions of the main SE logo), but at least it's different, which was the main point of this request.
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Update  A month Several months later, a new top bar, and the bug still exists. An answer has already been posted that would fix the bug, so is this something that the dev team plans on fixing?  There are also a host of other problems caused by this, especially on the  and . Again, this would be fixed with  html{min-width:1000px;}   There is a slight bug with small windows on both the new meta and main site(s)?, shown here. The problem is that the top bar coloring doesn't stretch across when you resize and scroll left or right.        On Meta, when a horizontal scroll bar is needed, the black background will only be as wide as the width of the viewport, but when you scroll the coloring will not shift.  To reproduce:   Make screen as large as possible, or wait until the menu bar starts expanding Make it smaller and smaller until horizontal scrollbar appears, then scroll left and right.
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As seen below, the Puzzling icon is very big compared to other sites' icons.   Is this intended or is it just abnormally large? Or am I just crazy?
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Another meta question identified a bug that was marked as designed. To summarize the bug, the little number that appears next the Review link in the header shows an incorrect value most of the time.         I would like to propose that the feature be dropped. Honestly, I would prefer it be fixed, but the response to the question above gives me little faith that it will be. Half of the time, I click that little brown box and find out that I was lied to. There's nothing to review.  The little number no longer does the job it was created to do.        Oh sweet! Three things I can review!        Just kidding...
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I recently got an answer upvote on an answer on Programming Puzzles and Code Golf.  However, I ended up checking this on chat.stackexchange (specifically , but it appears on main  too. Testing looks like favicons for multiple (at least 3) sites are not working. Here is what it looks like on stackexchange.com (still old top bar, but no visual error):  Here's what it looks like on chat.se:  I'm not entirely certain what that is? Looks like a meta icon for another site. If you look closely, you can see a tiny bit of the &quot;PCG&quot; icon just below it, but it's cut off. This also happens on Literature notices, and Sci-fi and Fantasy (but not Vegetarianism or Veg.meta).  I don't have any meta notices to test with, other than the vegetarianism one (which is fine).  I'm not providing an image, but this works with answer notices too. (tested with PPCG) This is on Chrome (latest version, 61.0.3163.100) on OS X El Capitan.  (but tagged ) and  (unresolved).
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Description of the hat unlock requirement:     at least 5 flags dismissed as helpful and at most 20% of non-disputed flags declined   Does "dismissed" mean something unusual here, or is this hat not unlocking properly? I'm not sure if that means "since winter bash started" or "since your account was created": if the former, I've flagged 8 items so far today, of which 6 were marked "helpful" (the other two are still active; none have been disputed or declined). If the latter, the flag page indicates I've flagged 391 items (plus 6 for spam), of which 1 was declined (which incidentally, I assume that was by accident, given that the question was closed soon after for the reason I flagged it for), 1 was disputed (that one was legitimate), and 21 are still open. That is definitely way under 20%.  So what's up with that unlock?  edit: it appears to be the case (further edit: this has now been confirmed first-hand) that this hat unlock disregards any flags that are the flag equivalent of voting to close. I put forth that if this is intended behavior, well, it shouldn't be (if it's to equalize the playing field for over-3k-rep people, it should just also count votes-to-close. Though granted, I suppose in the scheme of things it really doesn't matter much, as it'll all go away in a couple weeks anyway. But dang it, I want to show off all the flagging I do! :p)
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So, maybe these have always been there, but I just noticed that at the top of my catch screen, I briefly see tiny icons that look like the medals. What purpose do they serve (other than identifying which categories the pokemon would fall into)?  I tried clicking on them, but nothing happened. I just wondered if I might be missing out on something?
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On the meta home page I noticed the  is listed as doing something, but cannot figure out what it is.  There is nothing on the  or its , but the recent activity is listed with the same timestamp.
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The top bar is showing (again) the suggested edits count and 10K flags count, like it was before.  On Stack Overflow it looks like this: (that's the original color, same as in old top bar)        And on this very Meta site:        Same top bar. But different colors! Consistency broken.  I've just noticed the suggested edits count on Meta:        Black on black, I can see just a floating number - really confusing and out of any context.  In the name of Consistency, can we please have the same color on all sites?
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Since the new top bar has been rolled out - a number of different people, established and new users alike, have asked questions on where a specific link has disappeared to with the new top bar design. Where has the link to &lt;X&gt; gone?
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At this point, I am relatively confident that Winter Bash will become an annual event. The event is oodles of fun for our communities, and almost everything we do as employees in putting the event together is done with an eye toward repeatability and automation.   With that in mind, I see a lot of feature requests come through on MSO and child metas that are great ideas, but simply not possible (or not worthwhile) to implement for this year's event. The same happens with minor bugs that give Winter Bash a few rough edges without disrupting functionality - they often get left behind on the "eh, maybe next year, if there's time" list.   Reader, this is that list.   What tweaks and feature requests have come up this year that we should keep in mind for next year?
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This may seem really trivial, but somehow it really annoys me.  I'm somewhat OCD, so I can't bear to have any unread notifications. Sometimes, when I'm reading a post, and I see a notification, I'll click it, see what it is, then quickly return. However, the notification icon is still there, and I have to refresh to get rid of it.  Also, if I write a comment, then click a link on the page, then click the back button, I have to refresh to see the comment I made.  Yup. I know, first world problem... but it really bothers me. Besides, it's all in the details.  Is this due to the way that the browser caches pages, or a bug in stackexchange?
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When I loaded the review page (in Stack Overflow, though I have no specific reason to think it is related) I got a weird hat in the upper left hand corner.    See the hat in the upper left hand corner?  That's belonging to user # .  His profile page also has the hat in a ... weird ... location, but not this weird.    I'm guessing this is due to the not-loaded image for the avatar (adblock blocks Facebook avatars for me often)?  It also causes the toolbar notification to show his link unless I'm hovering over something else.  It also changes the location of the gray box to the upper left hand corner when I hover over the hat (and hovering over the white box does nothing).  It's definitely him (or any not-loaded avatar perhaps), once he fell off the last 6 reviewers it stopped appearing.
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This is the first year I've done the whole "winter bash" thing, and I was interested; how did this tradition start? Mainly, who (and why, and how) invented the idea of hats on avatars (on SE and subdomains)?? It seems like a cool idea, but it seems like the weirdest thing ever. Any clarification is appreciated!