Ask Different (a Stack Overflow site for Apple) has officially launched

apple.stackexchange.com

11 points·kylec··7 comments

I'm surprised it took so long, but wow, what a terrible UI! Whereas the majority of the other StackExchange network sites have fairly clean, sparse, and well whitespaced designs, this apple Q&A site is a real eyesore! It looks like a site from.... 2002? with too many colors and too many icons all packed together.

I'll admit that it is a little busy (and there are a lot of gradients), but I wouldn't call it terrible. If you have specific suggestions, the designer is open to making changes:

http://meta.apple.stackexchange.com/questions/291/new-design...

a couple notes:

* Poor, low contrast on text across the site

* The nav links at the top have a different baseline than the search box and StackExchange logo.

* The active item in the active | featured | hot | week | month link row doesn't appear to be on the same baseline as the inactive items.

> * The active item in the active | featured | hot | week | month link row doesn't appear to be on the same baseline as the inactive items.

The metaphor seems to be radio buttons; I would expect a depressed button to have text lower down than a non-pressed button, but that's not the case here. I did some pixel peeping, and the active item's text is in exactly the same horizontal pixel line as the inactive items. Frankly, though, I think they look fairly slick.

Serious stack overload. Why so many sites to get answers? We need a "which site stack" to ask which stack site to go to. Isn't that what tags are for?

Wow.. that's a great news ! Long wait is over.

Stack Overload

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