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What's the flying saucer image on the Skeptics.SE error page?

I don't know the story of how it was chosen for Skeptics.SE, but the scene is from a couple's over-the-top Halloween decorations. The "Halloween Lawn" is in North Syracuse, New York, and is ...
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Skeptics updated site theme is ready for testing!

So, what's the idea behind the new design? I don't like to be that negative, but the experience with our very first design has shown that holding back criticism of a new design only delays the ...
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Skeptics updated site theme is ready for testing!

I'm sorry to say this is far from production quality. Did your designers actually look at it this before releasing? The new theme on mobile is broken. Firstly, stuff is misaligned and spaces are all ...
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A z-index layering issue with the numbers in this site's theme

This is now fixed, it'll be live in one of the next production builds.
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What is this site's design theme?

The background image represents bits of a scientific paper. The title "[skeptics]" is a play on the name of the site and wikipedia's "[citation-needed]" marker. We've had many iterations of our ...
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It's too unclear which vote arrows are selected here on Meta

This was fixed some time ago (and beyond that, now all vote buttons look the same across child metas). When you vote now, the arrow changes to black from grey (the same color used for the unselected ...
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Skeptics updated site theme is ready for testing!

Going meta-meta for a second: In previous theme changes, some of the other mods and regulars have been quite vehement and specific in their dislike, and I have been more chilled. To their credit, they ...
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Remove numbers above navlink titles in upper right corner?

This is marked status-completed, but I can still see this on both meta and main: On macOS, with Chrome, Firefox 57, Safari.
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