Meta: Suggestions to improve GATE Overflow

Question

Mention your dislikes about the site and suggest improvements if any

Answer 1

Apart from "My Favourites", there should be a bookmark to keep all the questions we wish to answer later.

Answer 2

Search Bars,There are three search bars on the site, which confuses the end user where to search what. They are :


 

We do not need this, it occupies screen space and increases page load time:

 

Members at the site should be just below the Chat:
    

+It will be great to see if some minimal version of text editor is used, instead of this current version

it takes too much time to load, and hardly anyone uses all of its features.
We just need to input text and latex.
Colors, bullets, font sizes, indentation, html code editing, DIV, find and replace functionality are superfluous.

All Categories area is extra, as hardly anyone jumps categories often, and if someone really wants, nav-bar has that option.

+Image Upload Speed to the server has increased.! :D
 

Comments

Search bar: The top 1 is only for gateoverflow, but I guess it is not very useful. I'll remove it.

Site stats, members display: shall do.

Category: Actually the side bar is the only way to choose "Unanswered questions" from a subject like "algorithms". Not a clean way, but that's how Q2A is. If there is an alternative I'll do this.

Text Editor: Was always on consideration. I'll minimize it or add user specific editors.

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• +1 for Search bar.
   
• -1 for Stats. It is standard across all forums, and for a good reason. Any user experienced with forums will first look at the stats before deciding to join.
  It seems to have been changed and placed at the bottom, which is perfect!
   
• -1 for text editor. I do think they are very much needed. Infact, an upgraded editor would be better.
   
• +0 for Categories. It is handy for new users. Also, leaving that space blank will not look good. Extending the main content's width is an option, but that raises issues with the android app. A better solution for this is much desired.

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My suggestion is about Text Editor.

I think it is Ok and good when I use it on laptop. Not so heavy and I feel that all given options  are useful.

But while I am using in Mobile browser I feel that it is heavy.  I would like some lighter version for mobile browser if possible.

Note: I am not using on App. So I can't say about that.

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yes. Actually just for image upload feature this editor is being used on mobile. Next month it will be replaced with something better.

Answer 3

For the editor:

• Ability to simply paste the image instead of having to save it on your local drive and then upload it. Saving on drive is a huge turnoff.
• Fix image alignment issues. (can't center align images).
• Fix image hyperlink issues. (hyperlinking images breaks the site)
• Remove Font, Size, color and highlight buttons, or make them harder to reach. People often abuse them.
• Fix text justification issues. Inline LaTeX somehow makes the whole line justified and inserts ugly spaces.
• Fix code highlighting. The editor shows highlighting, but once submitted all the syntax highlighting is gone and only comments get highlighted. Also, the list of supported languages is poor.

Comments

Paste is a good option- shall try that. Also, shall try to fix other issues.

Justify is being done on all posts in CSS. It is easy to remove, if that looks better.

Code highlight: which other language is missing? I just enabled the most common ones- its easy to enable others. Also, can you give a post link where there is hightlight issue?

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keep the db, but share the site's code(on git). Many others will help making it better.

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it is an opensource one and already on git. Happy to use any plugins- currently it lacks many features as the main developer left the project..

https://github.com/q2a/question2answer

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@Arjun sir: Great! :)

About syntax highlighting: It doesn't work anywhere.

https://gateoverflow.in/26759/what-is-the-output-of-the-following-c-program
https://gateoverflow.in/26757/find-the-value-of-z
https://gateoverflow.in/3594/gate2006-it_51

No highlighting whatsoever. Does it work on your side? o.O

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yes but that's not GATE Overflow, which has gone far from the basic model;

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@Pragy Yes, I guess it was due to you using https. I have changed the URL, now it should work on https too. 

@Amar Not really- just tag search and Gate specific options. Also the theme is another open source project

https://github.com/amiyasahu/Donut

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Google Custom Search creates a huge gap b/w the question title and the question body.
Also, it makes the entire page bounce coz it appears on the page in the end.

can both of these be fixed?

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fine now?

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Yes, now its better

Answer 4

@arjun Sir i am not able to find many question

it shows like

in google it shows like

and i am not able to ask the question for same

This is not the only one question i face same for many questions.

what is the reason for this?

Comments

Do you have any filter enabled? You can try opening the link in another browser or in private mode without login.

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Okay!
Got it
I removed the filter :)