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Merge [naming] with [terminology]

I just found out we have a naming tag which has 7 questions. 5 of 7 questions would be appropriately tagged by terminology instead. The remaining 2 have to do with file names and layer names, which ...
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Please tell me this is not a new design that's staying in place

Today, the design changed: All white Background grid reminiscent of subway tiles Conveys an appearance of a clean room or surgical bay Completely unfriendly, and uninviting. The previous design had ...
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Unpinning the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers

Following up on this decision: Unpinning the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers Stack Exchange will be altering the way accepted answers work. Accepted answers will no longer have to ...
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Just me or is tag highlighting not functioning?

Traditionally, a question containing one of a user's designated "favorite" tags would highlight with that mustard-yellow background. I'm not seeing any highlighting the past few days? Is ...
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Rename tag [embedded]

I just stumbled upon embedded during review but for the sake of consistency can we rename it to embed or embedding? Most verb tags are either on the infinitive form ( export print resize ) when it's ...
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AMA with UXPin on on Wednesday, October 2nd, 4PM–6PM GMT+02

First Ask Me Anything will be on Wednesday, October 2nd from 4pm-6pm GMT+02 [9am EST] It will be with UXPin UXPin is a design tool you can use throughout the whole product creation process, ...
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Ding ding ding! Dejavu

Iv'e often wondered about duplicates, most of the time they are onlyy so and so. Check these two out: How to turn curves into a series of straight lines in Illustrator Automatically transform curves ...
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Synonimise [opacity] and [transparency]?

OK, I know, opacity and transparency are not the same thing, they are antonyms. But as stated in the description of the transparency tag, adjusting transparency is adjusting opacity and vice versa. I ...
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Synonimize [freelance] and [freelancing]

Synonimize [freelance] and [freelancing]. They are the same thing, the freelancing tag is completely superfluous and rarely used.
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Anchor position does not take top bar into account

Since a few days, it occurs to me that when I click a time tag to jump straight to a(n) (new) answer, that the position of the anchor is wrong. As in, the anchor does put the answer on top of my ...
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Synonymize [web-applications] with [website-design]

Can we please synonymize web-applications with website-design? There's only 23 questions with the tag and all that I've seen are applicable websites in generaly, not limited to web applications. As ...
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Election tab in events (on sidebar) shows wrong amount of time remaining

Both on Meta and on the main site, it shows the wrong amount of time remaining for the election: In reality, the election ends in over a week (May 29th) This was likely caused by the extension of ...
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Project bye bye Adobe tag

Since mostly all questions focus around Adobe software I'm hoping to encourage an initiative to audit/removal of any Q&A tagged with adobe. As I mentioned in chat: just a suggestion. If anyone ...
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Tags vs Tagging on Meta

Here on Meta GD, there are both tags and tagging. On both MSE and MSO (and probably others as well, but I didn't check), tagging is a synonym of tags, so that should probably be applied here as well, ...
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Help center page links to redirects with HTTP errors

In the help center for Graphics Design, the highly visible page What topics can I ask about here? has some broken links. It says For some kinds of questions that are a weird fit for our Q&A ...
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Community ad stats bar isn't hidden

The stats bar that shows when you hover over community ads should be completely hidden until hovered over, but you can still see half of the bar below the ad: The problem is that the space around ...
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Review action bar alignment

The review action bar seems to have grown a bit... The "Skip" button is trying to escape too. It doesn't matter how many buttons there are, the bar sticks out of the page wrapping anyway (W8, FF 57.0....
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Revisiting closure, part 3.3: Close reason(s) to replace “tech support”

Main question As there is consensus on refining our scope with respect to tech support, the next step is to rephrase the respective close reason accordingly. As we have one free slot for a custom ...
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Merge [icc-profile] with [color-profile]

From the definition of color-profile: Color profile, or an ICC profile, is a set of data that characterizes a color input or output device, or a color space, according to standards promulgated by ...
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Merge [industry-term] with [terminology]

industry-term has only 5 questions where it's used, no usage guidance or tag summary, and is equivalent to terminology. Can we please get these tags merged?
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Bug Tag Removal

bug as a tag makes no sense as we don't allow those questions.
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Updating the "How To Ask"

As part of the ongoing efforts to better our little piece of the vast universe I intend to update the "How To Ask" This is our current, and default, how to ask blurb: Here is one of the custom ...
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Self Improvement Tag

Until just now as a result of this question, How to overlap a continuous line on itself?, I didn't even realize we had a self-improvement if there's no objections I'm going to destroy it. I have no ...
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Designing an ad for The Looking Glass

There are one or two ads I think we could really use: An ad for The Looking Glass chatroom An ad directly to the Critique Guidelines (it may not be a bad idea to put an ad to the Font Guidelines as ...
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BUG - Election page overflow

It would seem there's a small bug on the election page where content overflows the container on the right side. At first, I thought it was intentional, because I like the fact that the summary boxes ...
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Topic Challenge #3 – User Interface Design

For the next two weeks you're challenged to ask interface-design questions. The next instalment of the Graphic Design Biweekly Topic Challenge is User Interface Design. In the words of PieBie... I ...
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Topic Challenge #2 – Font Design

For the next two weeks you're challenged to ask font-design questions. The next instalment of the Graphic Design Biweekly Topic Challenge is Font Design. I'd really like to see some non software ...
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Topic Challenge #1 – Famous Designers

For the next two weeks you're challenged to ask famous-designers questions. Let's start the Graphic Design Biweekly Topic Challenge with Famous Designers. We'll keep this topic pretty broad... style ...
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Chat room for spam coordination

I would like to invite active GD users to help combat spam on this site. Towards that end, I have created a dedicated chat room called The Spam Blot where I have been posting links to recent spam. ...
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Shouldn't [software-recommendations] be [software-recommendation]?

Shouldn't hardware-recommendation and software-recommendations both have the plural "s" or not? I think it makes more sense for them to both be singular, since each question should be limited to one ...
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Burninate [buying]

I noticed we had a tag buying that is only used on 8 questions. It is most commonly used for questions related to buying fonts, but is also used on some software and hardware recommendation questions. ...
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Burninate [how-to]

I bring your attention to the tag how-to ...what the holy batman is that? It's a meta tag. It describes nothing about the question at all, doesn't help categorize the question, help anyone find the ...
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Should we burninate [extracting]?

In its current definition, extracting has partly the same definition as background-removal and part 'accessing defined data from larger datasets'. I'd like to either kill the entire tag or have it ...
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Typos and other errors on the site

I've noticed that we have some typos and other errors in the copy on our site. I don't know what to do when I do see such errors. For the record, it's not that I'm looking or mistakes, but I just ...
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Changing how we handle low-effort and tutorial-on-demand questions

I have concluded that the answer to my earlier meta question about closing questions is 'yes, we are closing too many questions'. Anyone who has seen the Close Vote queue lately will agree that a lot ...
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Burninate [arranging]

Can we kill arranging? Right now it was used in only 2 questions from last year and a new one just asked, has no wiki and it's quite a generic term... There's already alignment and composition, do we ...
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Can we get some code highlighting?

There has been some discussion about this before, but it seems we still don't have any code highlighting. The illustrator-scripting, indesign-scripting and photoshop-scripting tags would definitely ...
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Chat bots missing profile images

Both the meta chat bot and featured Qs chat bot seem to be missing their profile images (404 error). It seems that something is messed up in their file path.
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BUG - Tags at bottom of question page unreadable

Found a "bug". At the bottom of question pages, in the dark bar, you've got the text 'Browse other questions tagged' and then the question tags get repeated. But these tags are white text on a white ...
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I can't view any posts on GDSE today

I was browsing, as I usually do, answering, commenting, etc. I'll admit, I'm working on a badge that involves a lot of voting, so I've been trying to view as many questions/answers as possible, up ...
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Was [tag:motion] supposed to refer to Apple Motion?

Seems to ne the tag motion is being often misunderstood, mainly because it does not have a description. Should the tag be renamed to apple-motion? This is more self evident and matches our other ...
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burninate [font-matching]

Should we remove the font-matching tag? There are 3 questions using font-matching that also have font-recommendation. I see that the later is already used in more questions, and seems redundant to ...
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"GUI design" and "user interface" tags should be synonyms

...because non-graphical user interface questions like "how can I make my bank's phone service maze of options less homicide-inducing" belong on UX.SE I reckon user-interface should point to GUI ...
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Curious sighting regarding Up votes on comments in the election

So, if you review the election link: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/election?cb=1 Scroll down to comments on @Ryan's nomination.... How is it that the comment from @bjb568 has an up vote???...
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Answer section going out of bounds

When editing an answer of mine, I noticed that the answer section goes out of the bounds that it's supposed to be in, as seen in the following image. This can be fixed by adding .answer * { /* Fixes ...
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Burninate [scale]

Right now we have the scaling tag and the scale tag, which I think is unnecessary. To me scaling is a better tag, has 69 questions, 1 follower, and a wiki tag. Scale, on the other hand, has 17 ...
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Burninate [image]

We have both images and image which seems absolutely silly to me. The images tag has 240 questions, a wiki tag, and 11 followers. The image tag on the other hand has 8 questions, no wiki, and 0 ...
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Should the [sketch] and [sketch-3] tags be merged?

We have a decent amount of questions about Sketch, but there seem to be two separate tags: sketch and sketch-3. The first has 27 questions, the other 18. I am no Mac user and have never seen the ...
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Flags summary page styling

Right now our flag summary pages (this is mine) look something like this: There's a good amount of misalignment going on, from the vote count with the question title, to the flag reason and vote ...
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Where's that Font-ID tag alert?

We've got shiny new font ID guidelines. But there's nothing telling people what the guidelines are until after they've asked the question and someone's closed it - and so every new font ID question is ...