Server Fault new site theme is live

Question

We rolled out the new site theme for Server Fault. It is now live.

What new theme?

If you're like, "What the heck are you talking about?", then you should read the Meta Stack Exchange post entitled Rollout of new network site themes (and maybe the posts it links to for the full background).

Your help needed

You are one of the first sites to get a new, unified theme. I previously posted the designs for theme in meta. The feedback given to that post was considered prior to rolling out the theme. Please help us look for issues/bugs and post the details (including images where needed) as an answer below.

If you have concerns or issues regarding the left nav then this Meta Stack Exchange post is the right place for feedback. If you have issues with any functionality that is unrelated to the new theme, then please post a new question.

Answer 1

OK, after actually having used it now on the only site I frequent:

This new layout is absolutely no improvement in any way compared to the old version. Actually, for me it is a lot less usable than the old version and I don't understand at all how you came to the conclusion this should be going live.

What's bothering me? The new 3rd column. It serves no useful purpose at all and just uses valuable horizontal space that could be much better used for the actual question/answer text (to avoid scrolling for long code blocks...). Yes, I know I can turn it off. Only, then I loose my convenient way to access the newest question view of the start page and either have to use the bookmark in the toolbar or click twice, once on the burger menu and then on "questions". I use only this link to get back to the homepage (which for me, is the "newest question view"), and I do this many dozens of times a day.

• Old view:

  

• New view:

  

Yes, I know every change breaks someones workflow, but this change brings no improvement for anyone, so it really has no reason to exist.

Answer 2

status-bydesign We can't collapse the top bar and site header into one since we need to maintain the Stack Exchange branding and provide clear visibility regarding which site you're on.

There's a lot of apparently wasted white space on the home page, as compared to Stack Overflow's home page. Hopefully we'll get the compacted top bar someday?

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This could be compacted even a little bit, like so

Answer 3

The font/color for visited links both in comments and questions/answers is barely distinguishable from normal text:

It's especially bad for commments:

• Unvisited link:

  

• Visited link

  

but questions/answers aren't much better:

• Unvisited link:

  

• Visited link:

  

This should be changed.

Answer 4

In the live site the spacing in the top bar its empty, at the right of the serverfault logo, but in the proposed theme I see a logo in the top right space, like small cube.

Is it a error?

To add an image, this drawing is missing in the live site:

Answer 5

status-completed

SF is a lot more blue than it used to be. (I also noticed this on Ask Ubuntu, so it seems to not be just us.)

Numerous visual elements that were gray, yellow or red, such as tags and user cards, and most especially links to questions, have suddenly become blue.

It's getting a little strange. I keep thinking I'm on some other network site.

Question links are blue:

Tags and user cards are blue:

Related questions have turned blue:

Some Hot questions links are blue:

Answer 6

status-declined This is not related to theming and would require a major investment to make work on each of the network sites.

I would add the menu Interesting in the question list if not too late for that.

It's a nice feature as it filter with the watched tag's feature the question list.

As seen on StackOverflow;