Timeline for Cards below questions with ask button and tag links
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| Mar 14, 2025 at 17:15 | comment | added | Sinatr | I am sure nobody will ever click/use those things (won't go in details, it's plain obvious), but if devs are happy and think they are doing good work - let them. | |
| Mar 12, 2025 at 22:58 | vote | accept | Marijn | ||
| Mar 12, 2025 at 21:29 | comment | added | TylerH | @Marijn I'm not convinced of that since you have to scroll down (after you see the answer box) to see this. We know the users who post follow up questions as answers do so because they can't or don't read, so it's unlikely that displaying more guidance they can't yet see by the time they get to the answer box is going to change that behavior. | |
| Mar 12, 2025 at 18:03 | answer | added | SashaStaffMod | timeline score: 26 | |
| Mar 12, 2025 at 16:38 | comment | added | ColleenV | @KevinB Redundancy is a symptom of bad design. I wouldn't tolerate a bunch of copy-pasta in code I was reviewing just because it was more convenient than writing a function with a unit test. Why should it be tolerated here? Putting the entire site into tutorial mode for every user all the time is not a good solution to the new user engagement issues. | |
| Mar 12, 2025 at 16:04 | comment | added | user400654 | I simply don't see "it's redundant!" as really much of an argument. Yea, it's redundant, a lot of things are. But is it serving a good purpose? I think widgets down here can, but the current two are a bit lacking. | |
| Mar 12, 2025 at 16:03 | comment | added | ColleenV | @KevinB Having a footer with duplicate links is not good UI just because it already exists. Frankly, the SE interface is really cluttered and confusing. We have text you can click on that doesn't look like a link, duplicate links all over the place, "Welcome back!" fluff and the hamburger menu to switch between sites is not as useful as just a bookmark because it doesn't go to the page I want. There is a whole section of "Related" questions that are different from the list someone gets by clicking on tags. It's a mess. | |
| Mar 12, 2025 at 15:55 | comment | added | ColleenV | You know what would be nice is if the "Explore related questions" would do a search with all of the tags together instead of each being a separate search and having to know how to refine it by adding in the other tags. | |
| Mar 12, 2025 at 15:46 | comment | added | user400654 | I don't see a problem with it existing at the bottom of the page, yea it's redundant, so is having a site footer with most of the same links that exist in the header yet every site has one. | |
| Mar 12, 2025 at 15:42 | comment | added | ColleenV | Honestly if a UI requires redundant stuff at the top and bottom of the page, it needs work. (Thinks fondly of the olden days when we could choose to have the top bar come along for the ride as we scrolled) | |
| Mar 12, 2025 at 15:40 | comment | added | Marijn | Indeed the location directly below the answer input box may persuade visitors to ask a follow-up question of their own instead of (incorrectly) posting that follow-up question as an answer. That would be great (although they should also be aware that a comment should be used if they have a clarification question instead of a follow-up) - but I would like to know if this was indeed the intention behind adding this or not. | |
| Mar 12, 2025 at 15:27 | comment | added | zcoop98 | It's by-definition redundant, but I can also see value to having this, particularly on Q&A pages where there are a handful of answers which makes the page fairly tall. It doesn't seem unreasonable to me that someone would get done reading/ skimming through all the answers and want to keep reading through tags, or ask a follow-up question of their own. | |
| Mar 12, 2025 at 15:15 | comment | added | TylerH | The content is also completely redundant. All that content is visible already on question pages, and it's already visible above the fold if the question isn't particularly long. | |
| Mar 12, 2025 at 14:42 | comment | added | user400654 | the wording on that first one feels very weird to me | |
| Mar 12, 2025 at 14:07 | comment | added | toolic | I see this on several sites, including here on MSE. I first noticed it yesterday. Both cards seem redundant; neither seems needed. | |
| Mar 12, 2025 at 14:05 | history | asked | Marijn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |