most recent 30 from meta.stackoverflow.com 2025-08-07T00:44:45Z https://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/question/433817 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/rdf https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/433817 -371 Hoid https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/16680213 2025-08-07T19:01:21Z 2025-08-07T16:41:12Z

<h2>Update July 7, 2025</h2> <p>Earlier today, we launched additional commenting experiments that test smaller variations in style and placement of text elements (date, author name), as well as text size. Multiple variations are being tested during this experiment iteration, but will be served to randomly selected users.</p> <p>These variations will only be visible to the subset of users who are part of <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/434184/">the threaded comment experiment</a>, which remains ongoing.</p> <p>In all variations (for users with the appropriate permissions), the flag option has been moved to the three-dot overflow menu, instead of showing on hover. There is no change to the flag option for the control group (i.e. the original UI).</p> <p>As previously noted, these experiments aim to evaluate how these changes impact the commenting experience, and whether it encourages more users to engage by commenting.</p> <h2>Update May 20th, 2025</h2> <p>Earlier today, we turned the experiment back on for Stack Overflow. As for what happened, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/u/11107541">starball</a> identified and reported an XSS vulnerability. This occurred because the new comment UI, built differently from our current system, unfortunately omitted some necessary sanitization checks that are normally applied when rendering comments. After thoroughly reviewing all comments made since the experiment launched, we can confirm that no malicious comments were found. We have added the necessary sanitization code prior to redeployment.</p> <h2>Update May 15th, 2025</h2> <p>We encountered an issue with the commenting experiment and have temporarily paused it while we investigate and resolve it. We will provide more information once that has been completed.</p> <hr> <p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/408584/evolving-comments-an-experiment-to-encourage-engagement-and-follow-up-questions">As part of our broader initiative to evolve the commenting system</a>, starting tomorrow, May 14th, and for approximately the next two weeks, we are beginning a series of focused UI experiments with comments on Stack Overflow. The first experiment will introduce an update to <strong>the comment interface only on Answers</strong>. Users who do not wish to participate in the experiment can opt out by going to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/help/experiment-opt-out">settings&gt;preferences and toggling the enable experiments option off</a>.</p> <h2>Experimental UI changes:</h2> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/XIeobiIc.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/XIeobiIc.png" alt="Screenshot of the SO user interface displaying a question-and-answer page. Key elements include the left navigation sidebar, the central content area with a question, one answer, and six comments (all populated with 'Lorem ipsum' placeholder text), voting controls, user details, and a 'Your Answer' text editor at the bottom. The right sidebar shows sections for 'Related' and 'Hot Network Questions'."></a></p> <p>This initial test will include changes to the comment UI experience. Users on Stack Overflow will be split into two groups– Those who see the old commenting UI and those who will see the new commenting UI. Those changes will be as follows:</p> <ul> <li>An updated visual change for the comments UI, making them larger and more prominent than the current design, with updated buttons.</li> <li>Comment actions such as &quot;Share,&quot; &quot;Edit,&quot; and &quot;Delete&quot; will be consolidated within a three-dot overflow menu for users with the appropriate permissions instead of showing on hover.</li> <li>The flag option will become visible upon hovering over a comment for users who have earned flagging privileges, instead of it being visible under the upvote icon.</li> <li>As with the current logic only the first five comments beneath a post will be displayed. An &quot;Expand Comments&quot; option will be available to reveal the full set of comments under a given post.</li> </ul> <p>This experiment aims to evaluate how these changes impact the commenting experience and whether it encourages more users to engage by commenting.</p> <h2>Key Metrics</h2> <p>We will be measuring the overall volume of comments between the control group and the variant group. We will also be sampling comments to determine if they are in line with more expansive commenting rules that are as follows:</p> <ul> <li>Asking specific follow-up questions about the post.</li> <li>Seeking clarification on how an answer works or why it might not work for you.</li> <li>Sharing variations or related experiences pertinent to the Q&amp;A.</li> <li>Engaging in constructive, technical discussion sparked by a question or answer, even if it explores associated concepts.</li> </ul> <h2>Request for Feedback</h2> <p>If you have any questions, notice bugs, or have feedback to share, please share your feedback on this post. We will be keeping tabs on feedback left here till <strong>August 4th, 2025</strong>.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433818#433818 26 VLAZ https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/3689450 2025-08-07T19:35:34Z 2025-08-07T20:35:52Z

<p>The new comments include multiline code blocks. How would that show for people outside the experiment who will still see the old comments that, at least for now, are not multiline?</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433819#433819 11 Thom A https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2029983 2025-08-07T19:41:05Z 2025-08-07T19:48:46Z

<p>Based on the fact that the comments can include more markdown features, does that mean that comments during this experiment are able to include more characters than comments currently can? If so, what is the new upper limit? It not then I suspect providing a meaningful code block would either be difficult.</p> <p>Either way, I suspect it would be better <em>not</em> in a comment (especially when community edits on comments aren't possible).</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433820#433820 138 starball https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/11107541 2025-08-07T20:04:50Z 2025-08-07T18:50:19Z

<ul> <li><p>Please consider space usage.</p> <ul> <li>The vote button at the bottom of each comment is wasteful. Consider putting it under the commentor's avatar image.</li> <li>Also consider how much padding you want to give code blocks. I personally find what I see in <a href="https://i.sstatic.net/XIeobiIc.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the screenshot</a> excessive.</li> <li>I'm not a fan of the font size being the same as the post body font size. The main point of Q&amp;A is the Q&amp;A. <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/407025/997587">I thought there was commitment not to mess with the core strengths of what we have with Q&amp;A?</a> Or did I misunderstand Prashanth's words to hear what I wanted to hear?</li> </ul> </li> <li><p>Will the flag dialogue be keyboard-accessible? Update now that I see the experiment- it does not. Please, make it tab-key-accessible.</p> </li> <li><p>Please put the comment button at the bottom and make it expand all comments. We don't want duplicate comments. Putting the button after all comments encourages people to read existing ones first.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/405900/997587">Text colour for hovered Ask Question button is similar to button background</a> seems to be back and kicking with the buttons here.</p> </li> </ul>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433821#433821 364 Dharman https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1839439 2025-08-07T20:17:46Z 2025-08-07T20:17:46Z

<p><strong>Why is the comment section wasting so much space?!!!</strong></p> <p>Comments should be tiny and barely take up any screen space. Making them bigger and more prominent is undesirable.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433822#433822 14 TylerH https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2756409 2025-08-07T20:41:48Z 2025-08-07T20:41:48Z

<blockquote> <p>The flag option will become visible upon hovering over a comment for users who have earned flagging privileges, instead of it being visible under the upvote icon.</p> </blockquote> <p>Can you share a screenshot of what that looks like, and what the menu/modal will look like when clicked?</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433824#433824 55 Phil https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/283366 2025-08-07T03:20:05Z 2025-08-07T00:24:23Z

<blockquote> <p>code block</p> </blockquote> <p>I can't count how many times I've had to say <em>&quot;Code goes in the post, not in the comments. [Edit] your post&quot;</em></p> <p>If you do enable this, consider blocking it for the post author; they should not be putting any code in comments.</p> <p>While this pattern isn't particularly prevalent in <strong>answers</strong>, I'd worry about if / when this feature is graduated to all post types.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433825#433825 102 NoDataDumpNoContribution https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1536976 2025-08-07T05:05:38Z 2025-08-07T10:11:35Z

<p>Your key metrics is volume of comments and random sampling, as you say. Have you also considered checking for side effects like fewer answers, fewer votes on answers (especially answers further down below), lower question score, number of edits to questions or answers, visitors leaving earlier, etc.?</p> <p>It would be more complicated to obtain and might be less reliable, but maybe equally important. This really awfully sounds like a regression back to forums with low signal to noise density. The thing is: the volume of comments is high in a forum, but still its value is low. You might not be able to see this if you don't look for it.</p> <p>If experiments would have names this experiment might be named &quot;Reddit Overflow&quot;.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433826#433826 113 user3735425 https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/3735425 2025-08-07T11:40:57Z 2025-08-07T14:20:27Z

<p>Why are we making changes to encourage people to comment when we have spent literally more than a decade discouraging it? I support the long overdue look at the commenting system, but I think the cart is before the horse here. In what way does this support SO’s mission?</p> <p>This isn’t really an experiment, it’s a beta of improvements to the commenting UI that obviously some people will like. An experiment would be more focused on improving the Q&amp;A than measuring if people like the new proposed interface. I think you should have betas for features and shouldn’t have to twist them into the form of an experiment.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433832#433832 10 Themoonisacheese https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/7611125 2025-08-07T14:45:30Z 2025-08-07T14:45:30Z

<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p>clicking the 3-dot menu then share errors with: <code>navigator.share is not a function</code> (as it should, this is a desktop browser). Firefox 138.0.3.</p> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p>Links in comments no longer work (see <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28991481/what-do-the-fields-in-ls-ali-output-mean#comment102717054_28991647">here</a>).</p> <p>Because of the previous bug, I had to go find that comment share link deep in the debug menu.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433834#433834 95 Ian Kemp - SO dead by AI greed https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/70345 2025-08-07T17:07:47Z 2025-08-07T17:07:47Z

<p>I don't come to this site for comments, I come to it for questions and answers. So why on God's green Earth would you <strong>ever</strong> think that making comments so large as to crowd out answers, is something that <strong>anybody</strong> would want?</p> <p>The only good thing - and I literally mean only - about the new layout is that it allows comments to be collapsed. That's it. The rest of this is just terrible and completely orthogonal to the purpose of comments.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433838#433838 54 Thom A https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2029983 2025-08-07T08:06:12Z 2025-08-07T08:06:12Z

<p>Please don't tell us the comment's score is &quot;Vote&quot; when no one has voted on it; it's not a score of &quot;Vote&quot; it's a score of <strong>0</strong>. This is annoying enough for questions/answers, but at least we have the choice of voting up or down, and such posts are <em>meant</em> to be useful and helpful. Comments aren't like that. They also can't be downvoted, so what do a I do with a comment that is wrong/bad? Upvote it because <em>you</em> (Stack Overflow) told me to? That's clearly sending the wrong message.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433845#433845 43 micka190 https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/7321499 2025-08-07T14:46:42Z 2025-08-07T18:27:57Z

<p><strong>Concern: First 5 comments</strong></p> <p>I really don't like this change, personally. There's plenty of popular questions that, unfortunately, have received dozens of comments over the years. Showing the first 5, which may be very outdated by the time a user sees them doesn't feel like good UX to me.</p> <p><strong>Concern: Space</strong></p> <p>I don't usually complain about whitespace in UI redesigns. I tend to find that people that complain about an extra 5 pixels padding are making mountains out of molehills.</p> <p>That being said, the new design takes up a <em>lot</em> of space. I'm looking at answers on this post that have multiple comments with small paragraphs, and they're <em>smaller</em> than comments that have 1-2 lines of text with the redesign.</p> <p>I think too much importance is given to things that ultimately don't matter for comments: The user's profile picture and the reputation/badges indicator. As well as the new &quot;Vote&quot; button.</p> <p><strong>Concern: The &quot;Vote&quot; button</strong></p> <p>I understand that it's probably referred to as the vote button internally, but it was previously labelled as the &quot;This comment adds something useful to the post&quot; button via tooltip. I think labelling it as &quot;Helpful&quot; (or something to that effect) instead of &quot;Vote&quot; might be better to discourage it becoming a defacto &quot;Agree&quot; button. At the very least, consider adding the tooltip again as a reminder to users.</p> <p>The padding/gap between the comment's text and the button is too big. I agree with @starball's answer. It should be underneath the profile picture (especially if it's going to be that big).</p> <p>The gap between the arrow and the button's text seems needlessly large. It looks kind of bad as-is.</p> <p><strong>Concern: Visual hierarchy</strong></p> <p>The comment's layout seems to be kind of all over the place:</p> <ul> <li>The three dots is at the top right.</li> <li>The vote button at the bottom left.</li> <li>The flag button at the bottom right, and only appears if you hover on it.</li> </ul> <p>I think the flag should be visible at all times, instead of requiring the user to hover on the comment.</p> <p>Alternatively, place it in the three dots menu (but I'd rather it be more prominent like it used to be, personally).</p> <p><strong>Concern: Mobile-friendliness</strong></p> <p>The three dots menu seems to go off-screen on smaller mobile screen sizes due to the reputation and badge indicators taking up all the space.</p> <p>Additionally, the report flag is unusable, since mobile users can't actually hover on comments (not reliably, at least).</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433848#433848 16 mwfearnley https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/446106 2025-08-07T15:17:09Z 2025-08-07T15:17:09Z

<p>I think it's an issue having all the text being the same size, and having a uniform white background everywhere, and lacking distinctive horizontal dividers between anything (apart from a white comment box).</p> <p>It makes it less clear where one answer ends and another starts, or where answers become comments.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433849#433849 26 Woodrow Barlow https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/3961271 2025-08-07T15:38:16Z 2025-08-07T15:38:16Z

<p>I agree with other answers which express that comments should remain deeply constrained and should not be afforded more space at the expense of other answers. A comment thread is meant to improve a question or answer and holds little-to-no knowledge-value after the improvement has been made.</p> <p>Specifically related to the opt-out:</p> <p>I do not like the new comments, but I am afraid to opt out of experiments entirely because I will not notice new changes until it is too late to provide feedback.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433851#433851 13 VLAZ https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/3689450 2025-08-07T16:47:52Z 2025-08-07T16:47:52Z

<p><a href="/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required required-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p>Keyboard shortcuts for comments do not work.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433852#433852 15 VLAZ https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/3689450 2025-08-07T16:50:12Z 2025-08-07T16:50:12Z

<p><a href="/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required required-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p>No confirmation for retracting a vote. You are still unable to vote again, though.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433853#433853 17 VLAZ https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/3689450 2025-08-07T17:06:15Z 2025-08-07T17:06:15Z

<p><a href="/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required required-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p>Somehow <code>==</code> is treated as some sort of Markdown code that colours content between two such instances in yellow.</p> <p>See for example <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/posts/comments/124034978">the comment here</a>. The comment text is:</p> <blockquote> <p>At least == comparisons are commutative (i.e. (a==b) === (b==a)) XD</p> </blockquote> <p>And using the old comment system it shows up as:</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/rWnMtAkZ.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="The quoted text of the comment shows up as is with the full expression."><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/rWnMtAkZ.png" alt="The quoted text of the comment shows up as is with the full expression." title="The quoted text of the comment shows up as is with the full expression."></a></p> <p>While the experimental comment shows the part &quot;(a==b) === (b==a)&quot; as &quot;(ab) === (ba)&quot;</p> <ul> <li>omits the <code>==</code> operator</li> <li>colours the background the part from the first <strong>b</strong> to the next <strong>b</strong> in yellow (at least in high contrast dark mode)</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/mjfpmzDs.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="The rendered output of the new comment system where the comment omits the two == parts and puts a yellow background between them."><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/mjfpmzDs.png" alt="The rendered output of the new comment system where the comment omits the two == parts and puts a yellow background between them." title="The rendered output of the new comment system where the comment omits the two == parts and puts a yellow background between them."></a></p> <p>The HTML content in the experimental comment is:</p> <pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>At least == comparisons are commutative (i.e. (a&lt;mark&gt;b) === (b&lt;/mark&gt;a)) XD </code></pre>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433854#433854 123 VLAZ https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/3689450 2025-08-07T17:21:01Z 2025-08-07T10:02:10Z

<p>The new comments take up exceptionally large screen space. I know that is the point but I still think it is excessive.</p> <p>Side by side comparison:</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/0kHXkVeC.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="Regular comment - the screen shows the comment section of an answer, as well as the next answer and its comment section. Experiment - only shows the comment section of one answer taking up the entire screen."><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/0kHXkVeC.png" alt="Regular comment - the screen shows the comment section of an answer, as well as the next answer and its comment section. Experiment - only shows the comment section of one answer taking up the entire screen." title="Regular comment - the screen shows the comment section of an answer, as well as the next answer and its comment section. Experiment - only shows the comment section of one answer taking up the entire screen."></a></p> <hr> <p>Here is a screenshot of my <em>entire</em> viewport top to bottom. It shows the very end of the post and five out of the six comments that are under it. The sixth one is hidden behind &quot;Show 1 more comment&quot; button.</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/65YzhU1B.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="As described just before - the entire viewport is taken by the comments under a post."><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/65YzhU1B.png" alt="As described just before - the entire viewport is taken by the comments under a post." title="As described just before - the entire viewport is taken by the comments under a post."></a></p> <p>This is on my 24 inch monitor at 1920x1080px resolution with no zoom set in the browser or the OS. My viewport is about 910 pixels, so close to 90% of the total height of the monitor.</p> <p>Turning off the experimental feature and getting the same screenshot, on the same monitor, with the viewport at the same place, the same five out of six comments shown. I can not only see all the comments, I can see the full next answer, since now the comments take up less than half the vertical space.</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/1i25Sv3L.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="Same comment section but the full next answer is shown with its one comment."><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/1i25Sv3L.png" alt="Same comment section but the full next answer is shown with its one comment." title="Same comment section but the full next answer is shown with its one comment."></a></p> <p>If it is relevant: the comments in the screenshots are from <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/27523825/">this answer</a>.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433859#433859 34 Mark Rotteveel https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/466862 2025-08-07T19:06:35Z 2025-08-07T19:06:35Z

<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p>The new UI doesn't suggest/autocomplete <code>@username</code>; the old-style comments do.</p> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p>The comment entry form should be <strong>below</strong> the comments, especially given the amount of screen real-estate it takes, it is pretty annoying to have to scroll up an entire page just to be able to post a comment after you have read existing comments.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433860#433860 15 starball https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/11107541 2025-08-07T19:06:49Z 2025-08-07T19:06:49Z

<p>Why is it that when I delete my own comment, I can see my deleted comment with what looks like diamond-mod tools? I have a redact and undelete button. Upon refreshing the page, it's gone. But if I make another comment on the same post and then delete it, I see that deleted comment <em>and</em> my previous comment, both with redact and undelete buttons</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433861#433861 13 starball https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/11107541 2025-08-07T19:13:57Z 2025-08-07T19:13:57Z

<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p>Why do I see an upvote button on my own comments, that when hovered over, says &quot;you can't vote on your own posts&quot;? At the very least, make it say &quot;you can't vote on your own comments&quot;.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433862#433862 37 aynber https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1007220 2025-08-07T19:18:44Z 2025-08-07T14:23:33Z

<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/242306/397219">Magic links</a> don't work. If I turn off experiments, the links show properly.</p> <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/3KkSvyMl.png" alt="Testing about tour and ask links don't work"></p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433865#433865 21 Ivan Petrov https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/6908545 2025-08-07T22:46:46Z 2025-08-07T22:46:46Z

<p>Just NO.</p> <p>Could you please stop adding useless features. Instead let us be the &quot;product owners&quot; here on Meta and don't sneak attack us with this a/b stuff. Or maybe the goal is to have AI write the answers too when nobody's left.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433866#433866 14 Alan W. Smith https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/102401 2025-08-07T22:58:19Z 2025-08-07T22:58:19Z

<p>I wrote a blog post about this before seeing this note that it's an experiment. TL;DR. I'm not a fan. Not only because they take up more space. The avatar images pull my eye down in a distracting way.</p> <p>The &quot;Add a comment&quot; box above existing comments also feels weird.</p> <p>I do like the larger font size though.</p> <p>The full post is here:</p> <p><a href="https://www.alanwsmith.com/en/2x/8o/g2/id/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Stack Overflow's Design Change is Not For Me</a></p> <p>I appreciate the idea of making comments more useful. For me, the best thing would be to hide them until I explicitly open them. I only read them for answers I'm interested in. The rest of the time, they're just noise.</p> <p>This is the key image from it that shows what I'd like to see in comments (as well as tweaks to the rest of the answer to de-emphasize all the content that's not the actual answer)</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/lQiBrve9.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/lQiBrve9.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433891#433891 18 Thom A https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2029983 2025-08-07T10:44:05Z 2025-08-07T13:05:32Z

<p><a href="/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required required-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p>I am being asked to &quot;Vote&quot; on comments I can't vote on. I voted on a comment, but because it was an upvote (and I wanted to downvote it), I retracted the vote, making the score go back from &quot;1&quot; to &quot;Vote&quot;. Now that I've voted on the comment, and retracted it (without warning, see <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/433852/2029983">VLAZ's answer</a>) I can't vote on the comment any more (or perform the vote I want to); you cannot vote on a comment you previously retracted your vote on. I should not be asked to vote on a comment I can't vote on (in a similar point to <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/433861/2029983">Starball's answer</a>).</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433892#433892 11 Thom A https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2029983 2025-08-07T10:56:34Z 2025-08-07T10:56:34Z

<p><a href="/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required required-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p>When typing a comment for the first time <kbd>↵ Return</kbd> submits the comment. When you edit a comment, however, this adds a line break to the comment's content instead.</p> <p>I also attempted <kbd>⇧ Shift</kbd>+<kbd>↵ Return</kbd>, <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>↵ Return</kbd>, and <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>↵ Return</kbd>; the former also inserted a new line, while the latter 2 both did nothing. Therefore the only way to submit the edit is with use of the mouse.</p> <p>Please consider having <kbd>↵ Return</kbd> submit comments when they are being edited as well, for consistent behaviour (both when writting the comment initially, and to mimic prior behaviour), and I suspect is much better for accessibility.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433893#433893 16 Cornelius Roemer https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/7483211 2025-08-07T11:01:49Z 2025-08-07T11:01:49Z

<p>It's confusing that on the <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/408584/evolving-comments-an-experiment-to-encourage-engagement-and-follow-up-questions/409115#409115">original Meta StackExchange announcement</a> you state in large text:</p> <blockquote> <p>The comments are expanded here just for demonstration purposes. <strong>Default would be to have them collapsed</strong>.</p> </blockquote> <p>Yet, in the current iteration on StackOverflow, the comments are <strong>expanded</strong> by default.</p> <p>Given the feedback on the earlier SE post, why did you decide to expand by default?</p> <p>This is what it looks like for me, it's a horrible waste of space. 5 comments take one full page on a high resolution monitor, never mind laptop.</p> <p>If comments take up so much space, you must collapse all of them by default.</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/TpfoWcrJ.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/TpfoWcrJ.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p> <p>I will opt out immediately and hope this will always remain nothing but a failed experiment.</p> <p>If you go ahead despite the negative feedback, at least make <code>commentsCollapsed</code> a global state shared across a page or ideally across the whole account, so that you don't need to collapse comments for every damn answer on every question.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433894#433894 47 Thom A https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2029983 2025-08-07T11:08:30Z 2025-08-07T13:07:12Z

<p><a href="/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required required-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a><a href="/questions/tagged/status-completed" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__moderator moderator-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;status-completed&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;status-completed&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-status-completed-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">status-completed</a></p> <p>When editing a comment with markdown, the markdown is lost:</p> <h4>Comment to be submitted</h4> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/eQzXuTvI.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/eQzXuTvI.png" alt="An image showing a comment to be submitted, containing the text &quot;This is a test comment, showing use of *markdown* in **various** places, including \code`, magic links, [meta], and normal links. It will be deleted shortly, as it's for a [[meta-tag:bug]] report.`&quot;"></a></p> <blockquote> <pre class="lang-markdown prettyprint-override"><code>This is a test comment, showing use of *markdown* in **various** places, including `code`, magic links, [meta], and [normal links](/a/79623707/). It will be deleted shortly, as it's for a [[meta-tag:bug]] report. </code></pre> </blockquote> <h4>Comment Displayed</h4> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/M6ZKutYp.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/M6ZKutYp.png" alt="An image correctly showing that the comment, and its markdown, have been properly rendered"></a></p> <blockquote> <p>This is a test comment, showing use of <em>markdown</em> in <strong>various</strong> places, including <code>code</code>, magic links, <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com">Meta Stack Overflow</a>, and <a href="/a/79623707/">normal links</a>. It will be deleted shortly, as it's for a [<a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug">bug</a>] report.</p> </blockquote> <h4>Comment content when edited</h4> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/9QHlcGHK.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/9QHlcGHK.png" alt="An image showing that the comment's content has lost all markdown, and is now This is a test comment, showing use of markdown in various places, including code, magic links, Meta Stack Overflow, and normal links. It will be deleted shortly, as it's for a [bug] report."></a></p> <blockquote> <pre class="lang-markdown prettyprint-override"><code>This is a test comment, showing use of markdown in various places, including code, magic links, Meta Stack Overflow, and normal links. It will be deleted shortly, as it's for a [bug] report. </code></pre> </blockquote> <p>Submitting the comment would, as a result, remove all the formatting. Most confusing, in my opinion, is that the magic link content was replaced by the text for the link; <code>[meta]</code> became <code>Meta Stack Overflow</code>.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433896#433896 12 cafce25 https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/442760 2025-08-07T12:30:24Z 2025-08-07T12:30:24Z

<p><a href="/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required required-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a>⁉</p> <p>Comments by OP are not highlighted as it was with the current comments. Not sure if that's an intentional change.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433916#433916 41 RedStoneMatt https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/9399492 2025-08-07T14:47:04Z 2025-08-07T15:56:49Z

<p>This style of upvotes bother me a lot because it really looks like an <a href="https://v17.material.angular.dev/components/expansion/examples" rel="nofollow noreferrer">expansion panel</a> or an <a href="https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/components/accordion/#flush" rel="nofollow noreferrer">accordion</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/EDd16kMZ.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/EDd16kMZ.png" alt="display of the new upvote design on comments"></a></p> </blockquote> <p>I REALLY want to click, not to upvote, but to unroll something like there's more to be shown.</p> <p>This is partly due to the fact that the triangle is way smaller, with different proportions as our usual upvote triangle. Plus, it's all inside of a clickable box with rounded corners, indicating that the button isn't the triangle, but the triangle with the number as a whole. It doesn't feel like I'd click a triangle to change the &quot;3&quot;, it feels like I'd click a &quot;triangle and a 3&quot; button to do something else.</p> <p>This isn't helped by the fact that the vote count isn't next to the text anymore, but below it, further strengthening the fact that this button could make something else appear under it like an expansion panel/accordion, since it was placed in such a way so that it has space to do so.</p> <p>The old view made it much clearer that it was an upvote button:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/FH1ImYVo.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/FH1ImYVo.png" alt="display of the old upvote design on comments"></a></p> </blockquote>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433917#433917 6 Bergi https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1048572 2025-08-07T16:12:36Z 2025-08-07T21:01:17Z

<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p>I'm getting an error sometimes when opening a comment notification:</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/vTKcw5Oo.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/vTKcw5Oo.png" alt="Warning message: &quot;Comment not found.&quot;"></a></p> <p>(for example from <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79626920/how-do-i-change-the-innerhtml-of-a-newly-created-element-watched-by-a-mutual-obs?noredirect=1#comment140439379_79626920">How do I change the innerHTML of a newly created element watched by a Mutual Observer, WITHOUT causing memory leaks and freezes?</a> or <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79627025/in-standard-ml-are-datatype-constructors-considered-values?noredirect=1#comment140443850_79627025">In Standard ML, are datatype constructors considered values?</a>)</p> <p>It might be caused by the mix between old-style and new-style comment sections on the same page?</p> <p><em>Edit</em>: this was reported already at <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433795/all-activity-links-to-my-comments-seem-to-result-in-comment-not-found">All Activity Links to (my) Comments seem to result in &quot;Comment not found.&quot;</a>, which is marked as completed, but the issue is still occurring in recent notifications.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433920#433920 17 Thom A https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2029983 2025-08-07T18:03:37Z 2025-08-07T18:59:53Z

<p>Flagging on mobile is an <em>awful</em> experience. The flag icon isn't there, and it doesn't appear in the ellipsis either. I had to open and close the menu multiple times and worked out that touching in the right place, just to the left of the ellipsis, to dismiss the menu made the flag icon appear in a position that was covered by the menu when it was displayed.</p> <p>I then had to give a reason for why a &quot;Thanks, this worked.&quot; comment needed removing.</p> <p>You can see a video of the experience <a href="//larnu.uk/v/screen-20250520-190033.mp4" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> (apologies, no animated gif, as I can't record those on a phone).</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433935#433935 6 Thom A https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2029983 2025-08-07T08:03:40Z 2025-08-07T15:58:12Z

<p><a href="/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required required-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p>Flags on comments cannot be retracted. Clicking the (red) flag on a comment you have flagged does nothing. I had to turn the experiment off to retract the flag.</p> <p><a href="/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required required-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p>When viewing on mobile, if a user has a longer user name and/or a lot of badges displayed, the time of the comment is truncated. It is not scroll-able if you drag.</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/M6NkDIZp.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/M6NkDIZp.png" alt="An image showing the time at which a comment posted was &quot;22 hours a&quot;, with less than half of the &quot;a&quot; displayed." /></a></p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433938#433938 16 Stephen Ostermiller https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1145388 2025-08-07T10:17:00Z 2025-08-07T10:17:00Z

<p><a href="/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required required-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p>As a moderator, when deleting a comment from the flag handling footer on the page itself, the comment does not appear to get deleted until you refresh the page.</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/6H0lTP0B.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/6H0lTP0B.png" alt="flag handling footer with delete link circled in red" /></a></p> <h3>Expected results</h3> <p>Using the delete link in the flag handling footer causes the comment to change to look deleted as soon as the link is used. It would get a red background, just as if &quot;Delete&quot; were used from the three dots menu on the comment.</p> <h3>Actual results</h3> <p>The comment appears unchanged until you refresh the page, at which point you can see that it is gone.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433941#433941 45 StuperUser https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/117507 2025-08-07T10:55:53Z 2025-08-07T10:55:53Z

<p>This was the experiment that forced me to turn off experiments: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/help/experiment-opt-out">https://stackoverflow.com/help/experiment-opt-out</a></p> <p>Please consider measuring this as a metric.</p> <p>I see no benefits and so many drawbacks. The new format fundamentally ruins the signal-to-noise ratio of the way to visually parse the material on the page. I don't need to see the user's picture and medal count.</p> <p>Beyond parsing the content, the metric:</p> <ul> <li>Engaging in constructive, technical discussion sparked by a question or answer, even if it explores associated concepts.</li> </ul> <p>Will add so much noise to the content.</p> <p>COMMENTS ARE NOT MEANT FOR EXTENDED DISCUSSION. This is a Question and Answer site.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433953#433953 21 gregsdennis https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/878701 2025-08-07T20:25:52Z 2025-08-07T20:25:52Z

<p>I came here expecting to leave an answer expressing my complaints about the new UX only to find that I was just upvoting many answers that aligned with my thoughts.</p> <p>Interestingly, I've been skipping over the comments. I think the most prevalent impression is that I'm not here for comments and engagement. I'm here for answers. I want my answer, and then I leave. I leave an answer, and then I leave. That's what this site is for. It's not a discussion site. In fact, discussions in comments are actively discouraged and have been for the lifetime of this site.</p> <p>I don't understand the want/need for this change. Yes, I read the opening post: &quot;engagement&quot;. But why? This site's focus should be providing answers and solutions, spreading knowledge, not being another social cesspool whose focus is just keeping users glued to their screens.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433961#433961 9 chivracq https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/3799241 2025-08-07T01:35:19Z 2025-08-07T04:08:38Z

<h3>Consider hiring a <strong>professional Tester</strong> before you try to introduce some new Feature(s)...?</h3> <p>... Now (probably too late with already more than <strong>35 Bug Reports</strong>) and in &quot;the future&quot;...?</p> <p>From all Bugs that have been reported up-to-now (2025-08-07), <strong>I would probably have caught ABSOLUTELY them all-all-all before Release</strong>, except the <code>===</code> one reported by <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/433853/3799241">VLAZ</a> (link to the Post), I guess I would have missed this one...</p> <p>If involved in the Test Process, I (or any professional Tester) would of course(!) have <strong>asked</strong> about &quot;Sanitization currently in use in Comments&quot;, and the XSS Vulnerability reported by 'starball' would have been avoided, + 5 days to fix that...</p> <p>=&gt; Current Dev-Team/Implementation/Testing Process, that all feels very amateurish to me, sorry to say...<br> (Sorry, I've always only worked for Banks or Ministries where <strong>one</strong> slightest &quot;mistake&quot; = &quot;not good enough for the job&quot; = &quot;fired&quot;...!)<br> (And I never got fired, ah-ah...!)</p> <hr> <p>I'm still excluded from the &quot;Testing&quot; group, so I cannot do any Testing myself, although I see a few &quot;potentially problematic points&quot; I had in mind coming &quot;slowly&quot; to the Thread as Bugs in Answers...<br> And I still have more than 20 &quot;things&quot; to check, that haven't been reported yet... (and that I cannot test myself (yet!) of course!)</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433966#433966 11 redoc https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/14862885 2025-08-07T09:32:30Z 2025-08-07T09:32:30Z

<p>I think you still believe in this ideology:</p> <blockquote> <p>Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like &quot;+1&quot; or &quot;thanks&quot;.</p> </blockquote> <p>The enable experiments is by default on for new users and without this hint in the new comment box, new users may be directed to more thanks or +1 like comments guided with the comfortable layout instead of the compact one.</p> <p>Seems it was missed in the rework of comments experiment.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433970#433970 12 Bergi https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1048572 2025-08-07T13:43:38Z 2025-08-07T15:56:35Z

<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-completed" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__moderator" title="show questions tagged &#39;status-completed&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;status-completed&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-status-completed-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">status-completed</a></p> <p>The &quot;Add comment&quot; button is broken now. I click it, nothing happens.</p> <p>I would expect this issue to show in the engagement numbers, finally marking the experiment as clearly failed.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433973#433973 16 DBear https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/8353152 2025-08-07T17:57:41Z 2025-08-07T13:23:58Z

<p><a href="/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required required-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p>Clicking the arrow/chevron next to the &quot;Comments&quot; header looks like it should collapse the list of comments, but it does...nothing.</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/cWHDisGg.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/cWHDisGg.png" alt="screenshot indicating the arrow/chevron in question" /></a></p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/433998#433998 8 Mark Ransom https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/5987 2025-08-07T13:53:03Z 2025-08-07T11:25:55Z

<p>I have noticed two bugs:</p> <ol> <li><a href="/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required required-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a> The <code>@</code> reply character no longer brings up a list of suggested names. For people with non-ASCII characters, this is nearly the only way to respond to them.</li> <li><a href="/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required required-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a> Sometimes the &quot;Show more comments&quot; link doesn't do anything. It's not very often, I haven't been able to determine what triggers it. Refreshing the page doesn't help.</li> </ol> <p>I would also like to go on record saying the existing comment system was just fine, the new experiment is worse in every way. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434071#434071 15 David Robie https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/8206716 2025-08-07T00:50:57Z 2025-08-07T00:50:57Z

<p>I'm not adding anything new, but I feel the same as many others. The new commenting system takes up too much space, is distracting, and doesn't appear to add anything of value. I cannot see the advantage this has over the old system. This change seems like someone was consulted to &quot;freshen up the UI&quot;, but wasn't required to keep it functional or tidy. Please do not do this.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434073#434073 -6 Nakilon https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/322020 2025-08-07T04:44:41Z 2025-08-07T13:28:36Z

<blockquote> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/GPt8cXzQ.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/GPt8cXzQ.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p> </blockquote> <p>This whole section is just wasting the page space. You just put two blocks saying literally &quot;there is nothing here&quot;.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434114#434114 3 Ahamad https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/29770107 2025-08-07T02:50:38Z 2025-08-07T03:15:30Z

<p>I think</p> <blockquote> <p>click the comment button to open one popup/(?drawer) to show all comments</p> </blockquote> <p>is better. (like <a href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/24228283" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Zhihu</a>, a Chinese Q&amp;A site)</p> <hr> <p>Besides, I think below features are more desirable.</p> <ul> <li>Expand code region to fullscreen. Syntax highlight for more languages.</li> <li>Support LaTeX (using MathJax, KaTeX, MathML, AsciiMath, Wiris MathType, etc.). (I don't think it's unnecessary, can you assure you never need some simple or complex fomulae to enrich your answer/question?)</li> </ul> <hr> <p>Before desired experimental improvements take effect, I decide to opt out the experimental feature, see <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/help/experiment-opt-out">stackoverflow.com/help/experiment-opt-out</a></p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434164#434164 21 Vaccano https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/16241 2025-08-07T18:45:29Z 2025-08-07T18:45:29Z

<p>The UI change fouls up the overall experiment. You made changes to the spacing (which most hate) and other changes, which may or may not be good. You will not be able to know if some of your other changes are good because you changed too much in one attempt.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434227#434227 4 Mike M. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2850651 2025-08-07T00:23:37Z 2025-08-07T00:23:37Z

<p><a href="/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required required-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p>Deleted users' names in the new comment headers show as links to <code>https://stackoverflow.com/users/0/[acount-name]</code>.</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/652O60XB.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/652O60XBm.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/31755684">Example 1</a></li> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/77521972">Example 2</a></li> </ul> <p>Those are both (about to be) deleted, so 10K+.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434291#434291 4 RedStoneMatt https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/9399492 2025-08-07T07:35:17Z 2025-08-07T07:35:17Z

<p><a href="/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required required-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p>I posted a comment. Someone replied to it, and I was writing my reply to this person's reply. But while I was writing, they deleted their reply, resulting in the following display once I validated my comment:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/65ks4KWB.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/65ks4KWB.png" alt="Screenshot of the previously described situation" /></a></p> </blockquote> <p>(Do note, it persists on refresh of the page)</p> <p><code>[deleted]</code> is written twice, both where the comment's content should be <em>and</em> where the username should be.</p> <p>It should only be written once. Afterall, the comment was deleted, not its author.</p> <p>That display is also confusing because it kind of look like my comment was replying to a <code>[deleted]</code> comment that was itself replying to a <code>[deleted]</code> comment (due to how the two <code>[deleted]</code>s are padded), even though a single comment was really deleted.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434330#434330 16 Roddy of the Frozen Peas https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/419705 2025-08-07T15:38:17Z 2025-08-07T13:28:20Z

<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p>When an answer has 3 or more comments, you end up with both an 'add a comment' button and a 'add a comment' link. The 'add a comment' button has a border and (for whatever reason) a tiny mostly-illegible copy of my user icon, and is located at the top of the comment thread. The 'add a comment' link is a traditional blue link that appears at the bottom of the comment section when there are 3+ comments, sometimes accompanied by a 'See X more comments' link.</p> <p>^{(I've folded the comment section in the below screenshots to save room due to the excessive wasted vertical space in the new layout.)}</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/4aHjFwoL.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/4aHjFwoL.png" alt="Two ways to add a comment as described in the previous paragraph"></a></p> </blockquote> <p>When you click the add a comment button, you get a comment box and the button disappears. If you click the 'add a comment' link, you get a <em>second</em> comment box! The link doesn't disappear, but clicking it again unfortunately does not add a third comment box; it just sets the browser focus to the second comment box.</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/M6Kc6N9p.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/M6Kc6N9p.png" alt="Look, ma! Two comments!"></a></p> </blockquote> <p>I didn't have anything constructive to say so I haven't tested adding comments using these boxes, so I can't comment about how they function. The two comment boxes though appear to be independent in terms of the comment counter, enabling of the comment button, functionality of the cancel button, etc.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434404#434404 10 Volo https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/648313 2025-08-07T16:45:32Z 2025-08-07T13:28:07Z

<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p>Inline code block in the comments section uses larger font size then the inlined code in the answer itself (15px vs 13px). Take a look at the screenshot below and notice how huge the <code>&lt;script&gt;</code> in the comment is.</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/oTLzPOiA.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/oTLzPOiA.png" alt="Screenshot"></a></p> </blockquote>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434461#434461 20 Luc https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1201863 2025-08-07T10:47:53Z 2025-08-07T10:29:51Z

<p>I noticed the feature for the first time while scrolling down to this answer: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/4959616/1201863">https://stackoverflow.com/a/4959616/1201863</a></p> <p>It is now entirely unobvious that, among the various comments (each one taking up as much space as the answer), <strong>one</strong> comment has generally useful information: &quot;this will still execute all three scripts, and not stop the pipe on first error&quot;. This comment has 19 upvotes, the rest zero or one</p> <p><strong>Previously:</strong> it was highlighted, drew your attention intuitively</p> <p><strong>Now:</strong> sucks, you need to make an effort to read all the numeric values and decide as of what vote count you want to read the text</p> <hr> <p>Just noticed:</p> <blockquote> <p>We will be keeping tabs on feedback left here till June 9th, 2025</p> </blockquote> <p>Oh, is that how it is. Why is this thread still open if you're not interested in feedback?</p> <p>Even more annoyed that it's already cemented (evidently everyone else's feedback was ignored as well) and I've apparently been wasting time here </p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434465#434465 20 LWChris https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1843468 2025-08-07T13:30:31Z 2025-08-07T14:23:26Z

<p>As many others, I'm really not happy with the comments taking up so much space. I very clearly remember a saying &quot;Comments are of ephemeral nature&quot;, and that stuck with me. Comments are there to talk about shortcomings of the commented piece, stuff that should become irrelevant once addressed. In my understanding and meanwhile firm opinion as well, comments should be things like &quot;There is no overload that accepts only one argument&quot; or &quot;I can't find class X, can you add the imports?&quot; or &quot;This only works for versions newer than V19.&quot; In all three cases, an edit to the answer fixing the code, adding the imports, or adding an opening statement &quot;In version 19 and newer, ...&quot; that would mean the comment can be deleted.</p> <p>Therefore, I feel there's not much value in making the UI bigger and more prominent for something that should eventually be obsolete to look at. I think it was always very clever of Stack Overflow UI to make comments &quot;tiny&quot;/less prominent to discourage their use. So the old UI was perfectly fine.</p> <p>The only thing I would wish for is that the comment editor gets a small topbar helping out with formatting of links, inline code, bold/italic, because I keep forgetting the markup for it.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434466#434466 22 bad_coder https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/10794031 2025-08-07T13:48:29Z 2025-08-07T13:48:29Z

<p><strong>I think the change has made the SO product nearly unreadable.</strong> I can't contrast successive answers when scrolling because too much vertical real estate is taken up by comments. I think you've made the product worst for actual technical readers.</p> <p>I cognitively need to take several answers into account simultaneously when thinking about a problem (as answers to difficult questions often work as a whole) the additional need to scroll distracts from that memory exercise and makes it considerably more difficult to keep focus.</p> <p>From what we've read this might be an effort to increase new user participation by enticing them to spam comments, however it comes at a usability cost that in my view just can't be justified.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434468#434468 20 Tigerrrrr https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/11224924 2025-08-07T17:41:35Z 2025-08-07T12:49:51Z

<p>I feel the &quot;need&quot; to share my voice on this too - in short: this experiment / update is not a good one.</p> <p>I also want to provide some more useful information, that isn't exactly just a repeat as everyone else:</p> <p>This experiment only appeared for me today, 7th of July. And, when I noticed it, I immediately disliked it. Immediate response: Comments should not have &quot;this much&quot; real estate.</p> <p>I later found out, that I'm actually viewing an updated version of the experiment, where the team listening people's opinions and reduce the padding and white-spaces and stuff, so I'd like to make it clear: you did not reduce enough.</p> <p>I'm not against change. I think the threads idea isn't a bad one at all, and I appreciate that attempts are being made. But at the same time, the current/old version of StackOverflow's comments UI was good enough. This update makes it &quot;bad&quot;, if in doubt, fallback to whatever works.</p> <p>FWIW, I don't have access to the threads comments, so I won't comment on it. But, it sounds like a good idea. As I know others have mentioned, I'd also like to advocate for the implementation of downvotes on comments.</p> <p>Finally: Yes, I can disable experiments... but I don't want to, I only want to revert the new comments UI. I like gaining access to experimental features, and there could be other experiments going on right now which I actually really like.</p> <p>And I'm not a fan of 'only' have the option to &quot;disable all&quot; or &quot;enable all&quot; experimental features. Not sure how easy it would be to implement a feature where we can select which experiments we'd like to opt out of, but it'd be much appreciated.</p> <p>For what it's worth, I dislike the new Comments UI enough for me to disable all experimental features, regardless of what other experiments may be going on right now (seemingly none).</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434470#434470 11 Thomas Weller https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/480982 2025-08-07T20:55:17Z 2025-08-07T20:55:17Z

<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/usability" class="s-tag post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;usability&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;usability&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-usability-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">usability</a></p> <p><strong>Editing</strong> a comment is much harder than before.</p> <p>New behavior:</p> <ol> <li>Click <kbd>...</kbd></li> <li>Move the mouse to <kbd>Edit</kbd></li> <li>Click</li> </ol> <p>Expected behavior:</p> <ol> <li>Click the <kbd>Edit</kbd> link</li> </ol> <p><strong>Deleting</strong> a comment is much harder than before.</p> <p>New behavior:</p> <ol> <li>Click <kbd>...</kbd></li> <li>Move the mouse to <kbd>Delete</kbd></li> <li>Click</li> </ol> <p>Expected behavior:</p> <ol> <li>Click the <kbd>Delete</kbd> link</li> </ol> <p>There is so much horizontal space. Why not have the actions immediately available and visible, so that people are aware what they can do? As an existing user I was upset that I could no longer edit comments. After figuring out how to do it, I am now upset how much effort it is. This is avoidable.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434472#434472 18 luator https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2095383 2025-08-07T09:41:45Z 2025-08-07T13:12:18Z

<p>I just ran into a variation of the experiment:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/nuyBOKAP.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/nuyBOKAP.png" alt="screenshot of an answer on SO with comments" /></a></p> </blockquote> <p>For me, the buttons below each comment take way too much vertical space and with their outline are so distracting, that I find it quite difficult to actually read the comments.</p> <p>I would very much prefer those buttons to be inline with the comment and less salient. As it is now, it degrades readability of the comments a lot for me.</p> <p>Another thing I just noticed: There is now a huge &quot;Add a comment&quot; button at the top and the old &quot;Add a comment&quot; link at the bottom. This is redundant and quite confusing. Do they behave differently? Generally, I think the position below the comments is better as it encourages reading the existing comments before writing something.</p> <p>Personally, I prefer the links over the buttons in the comment section. They are much smaller and less obtrusive while serving the same functionality.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434473#434473 33 ahmed-el-awad https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/19655877 2025-08-07T12:49:38Z 2025-08-07T12:49:38Z

<p>One thing I see people didn't bring up and I didn't like was that the comments' dates that are older than a year have all been changed to &quot;over a year ago&quot;, without a way of knowing <em>when</em> this comment was written unless you hover over it (which imo could lead to bad UX).</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/HQIywjOy.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/HQIywjOy.png" alt="Comparison between the old comments date display to the new one" /></a></p> <p>It is important to me to know the date on a glance as I can know how relevant the comments are to a certain timeframe. Think of a framework hitting a new version that breaks old versions, and the old comments given are a mix between the framework's old and new versions.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434482#434482 9 Cerbrus https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1835379 2025-08-07T13:20:01Z 2025-08-07T13:31:30Z

<p>This is just, for a lack of a better word, <strong>messy</strong>.</p> <ul> <li>Comment font size is just as large as the font size in the answer, demanding equal focus.</li> <li>Comment usernames are tiny compared to the comment text</li> <li>Comment text aligns with the edge of the user's profile picture, which looks weird in alignment with the username.</li> <li>Significant wasted space between the answer and the <em>&quot;&lt;X&gt; Comment(s)&quot;</em> collapsible title.</li> <li>The collapsible title is absolutely <em>massive</em>.</li> <li>&quot;Add a comment&quot; bordered box feels out of place, aside from the answer input box and some panels, it's the only bordered element. This border also means the element requires more padding and spacing, increasing useless whitespace.</li> <li>Buttons below each comment once again take up significant space.</li> <li>Comment vote counts are difficult to see on a glance.</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/TMIzMAXJ.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/TMIzMAXJ.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p> <p>This can be compacted a lot:</p> <ul> <li>Move the action buttons to the top-right of each comment.</li> <li>Reduce font sizes on secondary content.</li> <li>Reduce excessive padding.</li> <li>Remove border on the comment action buttons.</li> </ul> <p>Here is a quick and dirty example:</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/pBb5d3fg.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/pBb5d3fg.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434487#434487 10 Maarten Bodewes https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/589259 2025-08-07T12:22:45Z 2025-08-07T15:01:46Z

<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required" title="show questions tagged &#39;feature-request&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;feature-request&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-feature-request-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">feature-request</a><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/usability" class="s-tag post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;usability&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;usability&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-usability-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">usability</a> What I don't like is that I cannot answer comments that are 3 deep already within a thread. I can understand that visually having these big trees can be very annoying. However, that doesn't mean that <em>internally</em> the DB cannot have more than 3 levels.</p> <p>The reply button <strong>should</strong> be visible for items that are nested 3 deep. However, when clicking / posting the comment, you'd post could still be put on level 3 (i.e. anything of 3 and above on the same level). You can have a look at the Dutch tweakers.net site where this kind of nesting has been taking place for quite a long time (click on the comments below a news article for instance).</p> <p>So I would strongly argue that more than 3 levels should be supported <em>internally</em>, and that possibly this could mean a different experience e.g. when the conversation is moved to chat, or displayed in any other way.</p> <hr> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required" title="show questions tagged &#39;feature-request&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;feature-request&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-feature-request-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">feature-request</a><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/usability" class="s-tag post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;usability&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;usability&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-usability-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">usability</a> In addition, maybe it would be possible to highlight the comment that is replied on when hovering on a comment (other than the initial one) on level3, similar to what happens to chat where you can jump to a highlighted post earlier on. This could also be used if threading is disabled entirely by a user so that responses can be easily linked to the parent.</p> <hr> <p>In the end, the current design is very confusing for me; I should be able to respond to comments at level 3 and not have to search for an option to do so (i.e. clicking reply on the parent of that comment which I do <strong>not</strong> want to reply to).</p> <p>The site the Register also had flat comments, until they suddenly turned on threading, after which everything was displayed that way. So the original developer had always stored it semantically and did distinguish between content and UI. That is the way to design systems.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434528#434528 10 Nick ODell https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/530160 2025-08-07T16:22:18Z 2025-08-07T16:22:18Z

<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a></p> <p>Please visually distinguish the asker's comment replies in the same way in both the comments under the question and the comments under the answer.</p> <p>In the following example, the asker's username has a blue background to distinguish it.</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/51nlrlaH.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/51nlrlaH.png" alt="screenshot of comment with background highlight"></a></p> <p>In the following example, the asker's comment looks just like every other user's comment.</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/82X77KNT.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/82X77KNT.png" alt="screenshot of comment without highlighting"></a></p> <p>When I first saw the above comment, I was confused, because it was worded like it was written by the asker, but had no background to indicate that it was written by the asker.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434531#434531 17 starball https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/11107541 2025-08-07T21:41:27Z 2025-08-07T21:41:27Z

<blockquote> <p>the flag option has been moved to the three-dot overflow menu, instead of showing on hover.</p> </blockquote> <p>While it might not be the biggest deal in the grand scheme of things, I'm not a fan of making comment flagging less discoverable and requiring more user input actions to do.</p> <p>Helpful comment flags are desirable (removing comments that are no longer needed prevents noise-dilution of useful information, saving the reader time, and removing unfriendly/unkind/rude/abusive comments is pretty uncontroversially good). And (at least in my experience so far), most comment flags are helpful.</p> <p>Do we agree about that? Can you provide your reasoning for making comment flagging less discoverable and more input-heavy? Can we talk about the design to see if there's an option we collectively find more agreeable?</p> <p>This is even more relevant in light of the fact that you're experimenting with lowering the reputation bar to comment, which I expect means upward change in the frequency of comments that are no longer needed (at least compared to the prior trendline).</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434539#434539 13 luator https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2095383 2025-08-07T07:18:35Z 2025-08-07T07:18:35Z

<p>I just noticed another issue with the current design. When comments are threaded, I somewhat expect those threads to be collapsible. This does not seem to be the case at the moment (?) but the triangle upvote button of the root comment looks a bit like it might be a collapse toggle button (where the triangle would flip its orientation after collapsing). It would be good to change the design in a way that avoids this potential confusion.</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/At6Clo8J.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/At6Clo8J.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434546#434546 7 idbrii https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/79125 2025-08-07T16:26:33Z 2025-08-07T16:26:33Z

<p>At first I wasn't too bothered by the new comments design. It takes up more space which is annoying, but not deal breaking. But after using it for awhile, I've found that it's hard to find Answers on the page. My comments are all expanded by default (I do want to see them), but they look so much like answer text (font size, weight, family) that it's hard to see the Answers in the sea of comments.</p> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38276341/jenkins-ci-pipeline-scripts-not-permitted-to-use-method-groovy-lang-groovyobject">This answer</a> is what drove me to post here.</p>

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433817/-/434589#434589 4 user4157124 https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/4157124 2025-08-07T02:18:40Z 2025-08-07T02:34:31Z

<p>With <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/help/experiment-opt-out">&quot;Enable experiments&quot; off</a>, authors that post comments by pressing &quot;Reply&quot; on a comment of their own are shown <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/editing-help#comment-formatting">mentioning themselves (<code>@</code>)</a>. I didn't expect to see effects from this experiment with that setting turned off. Ironically the author itself does not see this, even though they have that setting turned on.</p> <p>Having never seen this before, not finding it documented nor announced anywhere and suddenly witnessing multiple unrelated occurrences, I was wondering:</p> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/18049120/4157124"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/ml2nfWDs.png" alt="Comment exchange with an author who mentioned itself."></a></p> <p>To this screenshot <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/18049120/4157124">the author responded</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>@user4157124 Haha - I'd call that a bug... its just down to clicking the reply button. But I don't see it, nor do I get notified about it... so its clever enough to prevent that.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="/questions/tagged/bug" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__required required-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;bug&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-bug-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">bug</a><a href="/questions/tagged/status-review" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__moderator moderator-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;status-review&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;status-review&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-status-review-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">status-review</a></p>

百度