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Could we make the "star" and "flag" icon bigger?

feature-request design add tag

CarLaTeX

In my opinion, the "star" and "flag" icon of chat messages are too little and too close.

It's very easy to make a mistake and click on "flag" instead of "star" (I did it).

Could we make them bigger and more distant?

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Arioch

CSS MEdia rules can be useful for tablets/phones. One more option would be some popping-up "magnifier"  if mouse cursor is hovered oversoe area for long enough. Obviously, would only work on devices which have mouse and can "hover"

Jack Douglas replying to Pax

good idea, I've added the tag

Pax

It might be helpful to tag posts like this as "design" so that if someone decides to propose a design overhaul, they can look at already existing proposals.

Adám replying to user 3.14159

Good point. I certainly wouldn't mind having to confirm. I don't flag often.

user 3.14159 replying to Adám

I think most users know this. The problem is more that if you go to chat room for a question, see a message you like, try to star it but in fact flag it, and then leave. Then nobody know who has flagged it and the flag stays.   
  
So maybe one could add a pop-up window that asks for confirmation that one really wants to flag?

Adám

@CarLaTeX, re: [your question](#question), if you make a msitake, you can just click it again to undo.

samcarter replying to Jack Douglas

Yes, only for the flag. Other than errors, there are no other popups on the site, so this should be surprising enough to read it

Jack Douglas

and also perhaps the position thing doesn't matter that much anyway — we could even put the flag in the bottom left postion on the second 'page'

Jack Douglas

@samcarter on second thoughts you probably mean only confirm for flag, which would make sense, it is very rare

Jack Douglas

@CarLaTeX I agree, and I've done the same myself quite often. The only reason why we haven't increased the size before now is that it increases the minimum height of a chat message (ie a message that does not overflow one line on your screen) — but I think perhaps that matters less than I first thought

Jack Douglas replying to samcarter

that would be another way, but they do [tend to get ignored](https://medium.com/@space.alpaca/double-confirmation-to-be-or-not-to-be-ebae44c0609a) and automatically clicked

samcarter replying to Jack Douglas

mmm, different idea then: how about a confirmation dialogue?

Jack Douglas replying to samcarter

it's possible but has one downside: when a message is flagged, the flag icon appears (along with the count), and the position corresponds with the position of the icon you use to add your own flag

samcarter

Maybe one could move the flag icon to the symbols hidden behind the `...` button? And instead move the link icon to the first layer as this one is used more often?

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