Questions tagged [bug]
PROGRAMMING AND DEBUGGING QUESTIONS DO NOT BELONG ON META. Use this tag for a reproducible problem ON A STACK EXCHANGE SITE that you believe is due to a mistake, malfunction, or programming error.
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When I click the "Tour"-button on English Language Learners-site the right edge of the text is partially cut off [duplicate]
When I click the "Tour"-button the right edge of the text is partially cut off. I have to guess what's meant there. How can I change this fault if at all?
If there are animations, where can ...
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Some Stack Exchanges sites intermittently failed to load CSS and favicon with error code HTTP 406 Not Acceptable
When accessing some sites, sometimes primary.css and favicon.icon failed to load with the error code HTTP 406 Not Acceptable. (Ad blocker and user scripts already disabled)
Display
Network
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Find that it fails to unfollow a question sometimes recently
I am originally following a question (Spring JPA Auto Flush) . Then I click the Following status link in the question to unfollow it. A popup then display saying that You’re no longer following this ...
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Occasionally getting "502 Bad Gateway" errors from Cloudflare when trying to view SE questions
Over the past several days, when clicking on multiple SE questions from a list in relatively rapid succession to open them in new tabs, I've occasionally (around 1 question among around every 25 on ...
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Top bar navigation partially lost when accessing from Tor network
Since a week ago or so, I've been unable to access the review queue, recent inbox, or achievements using the top bar menu, when using TorBrowser. At the network level the response to the GET (for ...
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Additional backspace needed to display multiline placeholder
On community custom close reason page you need to press extra backspace button to make the multiline placeholder fully visible:
When you are clearing the text the only first line of placeholder ...
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Edge point for a diamond used as a popover arrow in tooltips should be slightly shifted
Recently I learned that a diamond shape is used for imitation of tooltip popover arrow:
Animation was made on Suspicious voting tools page
Looks like that to make an imitation more natural the edge ...
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I can't answer a question because there's no captcha
I want to answer a question, but there's no captcha present. I tried reloading the page, and I even tried a different browser. Still no captcha.
Here's the question, in case it matters.
It's been a ...
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Hot Network Questions Feed App no longer working
The app I created to offer RSS feeds from Hot Network Questions fails since today to fetch its data from the source.
One of its main endpoints is https://stackexchange.com/hot-questions-json1. It ...
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Human Verification Broken Again
The fix implemented in response to my previous question has broken, and I'm getting requests to re-verify if I refresh after five minutes.
It happens only once (each five minutes) for any *....
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Cloudflare blocks Archive.org from saving network profiles
While saving a regular question page to Archive.org seems to work, when I try to save a network profile page, I'm either getting an error before saving the page "The capture failed because Save ...
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Popover visibility issue in the stacks editor
In the Stacks editor, the popover on top becomes invisible when hovering over the tools icon, significantly when the editor menu block extends to the end of the page.
Screenshot for reference:
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In September I am told about a badge received in December... which year? [duplicate]
What does this mean:
When did I (will I :) earn this badge? It is September, December is still ahead of us.
Is it Dec 2, 2022? Only (due to a bug?) year is omitted?
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Cloudflare CAPTCHA for Tor Browser
I'm living in a country where it is illegal to access the internet. Thanks to the Tor browser we can access the internet freely. Before today, it was possible to access this website with the Tor ...
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Why is the URL advanced search operator only finding lowercase URLs?
Consider the search url:DarthFubuMVC (even searching globally). It returns posts that have that GitHub username in lowercase (https://github.com/darthfubumvc/htmltags), but not ones like A: fubumvc - ...
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New Cloudflare protection breaking important bots [duplicate]
Something about SE's DDoS protection or human verification must have changed, which has caused several important chatbots to no longer be able to log in.
At first, curling /users/login from my home IP ...
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Attempting to ask a question on Area 51 Meta changes my profile picture
Every time I click the "Ask Question" button on Area 51 Meta, it changes any profile picture I have to a default gravatar. Further clicks of the "Ask Question" button just generate ...
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Every site requesting verification that I'm human
I keep several (many) tabs for SE sites open on a continuous basis. Over the past couple of days, every time I refresh the questions, I'm getting the intercept page that checks the security of my ...
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All links in all emails are broken
The links from Stack Exchange's inbox and SOFT inbox notifications emails go through a https://sg-links.stackoverflow.email/ link. Currently these links are hitting an "offline for maintenance&...
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Stack Exchange Meta Sites are down
A lot of meta sites have become unavailable recently (in the last few hours or so), for example Math Stack Exchange Meta and 3D Printing Meta. Here is the error message:
I am using Chrome on Windows ...
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Internal error on traducir.win
Reminder: We’re moving Traducir to our internal infrastructure
Today I faced several times with an internal error on ru.traducir.win like this:
Other times site works significantly slower than ...
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Unable to view Recent changes post in new tab on iOS Firefox
As of right now, I am unable to view Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange in a new tab.
This is on Firefox on iOS 16.6.1 on an iPhone 12 Mini.
Hovering over the link gives me a correctly rendered ...
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Changing the type of diff view on revisions that don't change the post's rendered output doesn't work, and may cause excessive load on SE's servers
On post revisions that don't change the post's rendered output, such as addition/removal/edits of HTML comments, changing inline links to footnote links, changing image descriptions, etc., the toggle ...
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Title may not fit into popup width on contact page
On contact page in some cases the popup title may not fit into width because is covered by close button, e.g.:
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Some fields on contact page contain encoded placeholders
There are encoded placeholders on some fields on contact page. For instance:
Trust and Safety
Account Issue
Reproduced on all non-English sites if non-Latin symbols are used in resulting ...
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Blog links to /category pages are broken
Related but not the same issue: Blog post redirects without the /dd/ in the URL are broken
This link: https://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/
Should correctly lead to a list of blog ...
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Popup for suspending from suggested edits contains encoded symbols
The native browser confirmation popup that appears when a moderator is attempting to suspend a user from suggest edits contains encoded symbols in the username. Moreover, if the Cancel button is ...
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Weird behavior in reputation [duplicate]
I think I found a weird behavior or maybe a bug in the reputation calculation.
I saw a roughly new user with three posts with a total of four downvotes and no upvotes. So the user reputation was still ...
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Review completion does not always show as S (simultaneous dates) with corrosponding action
When 2 or more history items occur at the same time, hovering over the timestamp should show an S next to all of the simultaneous actions. Example:
In this example, the First answers review task was ...
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Server error when trying to view revision histories of some old orphaned tag wikis (as a mod)
When looking at orphaned tag wikis via the moderator-only page (/admin/orphan-wikis), I found some that give 500 errors:
https://english.stackexchange.com/posts/4382/revisions
https://writing....
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Saved Lists sorted by Activity doesn't display when the latest activity occurred
Lists of Saves can be sorted by: Score, Activity, Views, Newest, or Added. The sorting of the posts seems to work fine, but...
For example, if sorted by Activity, the list shows when the posts were ...
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Community user's mini icon has bright background instead of transparent in dark mode
Community user has a user icon with transparency. Despite that, its mini icon (in the list of questions) still has a bright color as a background even in site's dark mode:
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A link in recent achievements goes to the wrong page/site [duplicate]
When I click the link in the image while on Stack Overflow it brings me to:
get stack trace when exception is thrown
rather than:
What is the first language to implement asterisk * as wild card ...
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Why can't I delete off topic everywhere stuff after it is migrated? [duplicate]
I have previously had questions on other sites migrated from one site to another, and neither really fit it, and I knew it, so is it a bug that after migration, including back to the origin site, I ...
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Bug with the special characters in the email on Contact page
I have an account with email like [email protected] (Not a real email).
I've visited the Contact page, selected the contact variant (for example, Account Issue > I need to merge user profiles)...
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SQL query used to calculate staff escalation statistics doesn't take into account different tag names for international sites
This is a bug report of a SQL query used at What posts should be escalated to staff using [status-review], and how do I escalate them?.
In the above post, status-review posts are counted using this ...
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Formatting in some blog posts is broken
Quoted Lists
In blog posts like The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta, some quoted material has escaped from its blockquote:
And here's the first example from C'Mon Get Meta!:
I don't know ...
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Stack Overflow blog : same post with different languages in the search result
While conducting a search on the Stack Overflow blog using the keyword "Winter Bash 2017", I observed the presence of three posts sharing an identical title. Upon examining each post, it ...
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Enhancing Stack Overflow blog search: filtering out test entries
In the Stack Overflow blog search, upon entering the keyword "Test", I was presented with a compilation of blog post titles.
However, it's worth noting that among these results, two entries ...
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Browsing for any non-recent blog post is significantly harder with the new design (and "Show more" is broken)
The new blog design looks great! But it's left behind a feature that was really useful for navigating through old content: the archive/ date-based browsing page(s).
The old blog design had date-based ...
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Different vertical position for "question owner" and "modified" badge on moderator dashboard
On moderator dashboard the badges "question owner" ("автор вопроса") and "modified" ("изменён") on flag item have different vertical position. Page content is ...
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Unfollowing a post by clicking on the [following] button does not work with WebKit browsers (all iOS browsers and Mac Safari)
Summary:
With some browsers on macOS and iOS, unfollowing a question or answer dows not work anymore by clicking on the [following] button below the post.
The test results (below) strongly indicate ...
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Achievement link takes me to the wrong page [duplicate]
An achievement URL for +2 RAID configuration on new server which is supposed to take me to RAID configuration on new server instead takes me to the URL Android: How do a display a large animated gif ...
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Blog posts by former staff members are missing attribution
Certain blog posts written by members of staff that are no longer with the company seem to be missing the attribution for posts that they wrote. For instance, JNat and animuson: workin' on ur problemz ...
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Blog post redirects without the /dd/ in the URL are broken
Links to the blog that use the format https://stackoverflow.blog/yyyy/mm/post-title instead of https://stackoverflow.blog/yyyy/mm/dd/post-title are no longer redirecting properly to the intended ...
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Pluralization issue in the blog post comments count
There is a pluralization issue in the blog post's comments count.
When there is only one comment for the blog post, it is showing as 1 comments.
It should be displayed as 1 comment.
Also the same ...
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Notifications don’t disappear after clicking on them when using Chrome on iPhone [duplicate]
Notifications don’t disappear after clicking on them when using Chrome on iPhone. Example:
I use an iPhone 12 mini with iOS 15. I don't have this issue with Chrome on Windows.
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Recently added translations don't reach the site
Several builds ago I made a couple new translations via traducir.win, all these translations are visible on transifex. So the issue is different from the last one: No sync among Traducir and Transifex....
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The blog is down
Trying to visit any link to the blog (which used to work and are still found in Google) says "Domain not found" or similar:
stackoverflow.blog
https://stackoverflow.blog
https://...
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'Edit tags' loading indicator styling bug [duplicate]
When pressing the 'Edit tags' button, most of the times the loading indicators get some absurd styling:
Other question/GIF
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