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Capitalization of post action links is causing multiple rows of links
Just now, all the post action links at the bottom of a post suddenly are capitalized and slightly bigger. Which in general is nice, but sometimes they're now in double rows, and inconsistently too:
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Winter Bash has ended, but the hats metadata still seems to be available
Winter Bash 2020 has ended, but I discovered an old Stack Overflow tab from a few days earlier which still had the snowflake hats icon on top. To my surprise, when I clicked it, I still got my list ...
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My Hat Dash record scores don't show only until I play one round - winter bash
I sometimes play Hat Dash, but I also want to see my record scores. But I realize that when you click the Hat Dash button, your top scores do not show, it's is just a big blank space below the unicorn....
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Another potential problem with the Edward hat
I think I meet the criteria for the Edward hat:
Each day during a 5-day period, ask a positively scored question and have no negatively scored, closed or deleted questions.
Date
Question(s)
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GlorfindelMod
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How do the Hat Dash points work?
I know this seems like a simple question - I had just assumed that your points were directly related to the amount of time spent in the game. But my top scores table definitely shows situations where ...
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Tripped on a speck of dust in Hat Dash
I was waiting for my code to compile, but suddenly while playing I died for no apparent reason!
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Hat dash stats not matching the leaderboard
When I finish a game in Hat Dash, it says:
Games played: 239 over 152.3 minutes
When I look on the all-time leaderboard, it says:
User
Minutes
Total Games
kylejrp
130.92
133
I'm aware that games ...
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Winter Bash Rep Hunter hat not delivering
I was checking my answers and I counted that I have ten answers with positive score, but I wonder why I am not getting the Rep Hunter hat? Isn't the trigger to have 10 answers all upvoted in one day?
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Where can I report scoring bugs?
I found a scoring bug in the Hat Dash Game! Where can I report step by step to reach this bug? I had read this page and thought I would create a bug report with the steps to reproduce it here, but I ...
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Why didn't I get a "Jump for Joy" notification this morning?
To earn the right to play the Hat Dash game, you need to first get the "Jump for Joy" notification:
I didn't get this notification in my inbox or Winter-bash drop-down (first notification I ...
user960635
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No Hat Dash Button
I just realized I should see a "Hat Dash" button on winterbash home page when logged in:
However, no such button for me:
Can I please get the button too?
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"Flashlight" hat not awarded with theme set to "System setting" when dark mode engages
Not sure if this is intentional or not; however, given the description is "Try Dark Mode" and not "Set the theme to Dark Mode", I figured I'd bring it up.
At least under Safari 14....
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CommonMark regression: image embed exclamation sign syntax broken after <p> tag
I ran into a regression change in the post formatting engine CommonMark.
If you try to embed an image using the exclamation sign syntax ![foo][bar] and the paragraph starts with a <p> or <hr&...
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For what it's worth, 'four' is missing transparency
On the Winter Bash 2020 countdown page (which is awesome, by the way!), I couldn't help spotting this:
All digits except four have transparency in their internal parts. Poor four doesn't. Can it ...
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Close vote retraction confirmation prompt incorrectly says re-voting is never allowed
There is an existing feature-request, Allow another close vote after retraction, that is marked as completed. Per that request, it is now possible to vote to close a question again after retracting a ...
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Ads should not cause a content shift
I recently joined a few Stack Exchange sites on which I don't have the reduce ads privilege yet.
The issue I experienced happens with the two "leaderboard" style ads that are displayed to ...
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Question bookmarks are not removed if my account is deleted
I can add an indefinite number of bookmarks to a question by bookmarking the question, deleting my account, and repeating. Bookmarks are not removed on account deletion. Is this behavior intentional? ...
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Cannot view all inbox items without creating a Meta Stack Exchange account
When I click "View all inbox items," if I hadn't joined the Meta community, it will redirect my to "Confirm new account" for Meta. For some reason, I need to have a profile on Meta ...
user820743
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HTML comments break formatting from that point
I was writing up a signpost support question on our site meta. That post included a link which would need to be updated to another such question once asked. I therefore wanted to include an HTML ...
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Profile preview does not work for all posts
If you know, there is something like popover in all posts' authors area. So when I hover the author's avatar, I get some information about him. So, this does not work for all posts.
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Received inbox message about election that is underway, but there is no active election on the site
Just saw this:
In words:
The Stack Overflow 2020 community moderator election is underway — nominations now being accepted.
However, when clicking the message, I was greeted with:
Or in words:
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Deleted comments on followed posts persist in the global inbox
I think the title says most of it, but when you follow a post you get notifications in your inbox about comments made on those posts. These notifications persist even after the comment is deleted even ...
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"Go get it" button on editing badges has been removed on all other sites; should it be removed on this site too?
On Meta Stack Exchange, when tracking any of the editing badges (Editor, Strunk & White, or Copy Editor), opening the progress dialog shows a button to "Go get it". Upon clicking, you're ...
SpevacusMod
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Line after blockquote in spoiler not a spoiler?
When putting a blockquote in a spoiler, the line(s) after the blockquote are not hidden; this does not seem to be the behaviour I would expect? Hovering over the spoiler reveals the hidden text as ...
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Fenced code markdowns in posts before 2019 doesn't render correctly
This answer on Ask Ubuntu was posted in October 2016. The last revision was made then only and there answerer used fenced code markdown (```) which at that moment wasn't introduced on Stack Exchange. ...
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Line between number of answers and answers has vanished
I just saw now that the line between the number of answers on a question, and the answers to that question, has vanished:
There used to be a gray line between those two parts (where the red ...
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Grammatical error in consent banner
I found a grammatical error in the consent banner (the banner at the bottom): "understand" should be changed to "understood".
So the banner content would become:
By using our site, you acknowledge ...
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congratulations for wrong badge [duplicate]
I got a notification “You’ve earned the "modular-arithmetic" tag badge”. However, when I clicked on it, I got congratulations for the last tag (card-games), for which I’d ...
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Can't comment on blog article
Tried to comment on this article for the first time but it said "Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!" (which is a Wordpress message). Why? Is this a bug? What am I ...
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I click upvote, the score becomes negative one (from zero) [closed]
I was trying to upvote an answer, but the score became negative rather than positive.
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Some posts from users who are not "new" users (e.g., one with over 620 answers & about 18,000 rep.) ending up in the First Posts queue
The Math SE post Do most numbers have exactly $3$ prime factors? currently has 2 answers. The top of the timeline for the question is
Note the question's user SmallestUncomputableNumber has over 1,...
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Question deleted under RemoveDeadQuestions does not show negative score at deletion time
A question deleted under RemoveDeadQuestions does not show negative vote at deletion time. From the question timeline (link needs mod access on Earth Science SE):
At score 0, it should be removed ...
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Incorrect Tag Scores in Profile Activity Summary [duplicate]
Issue:
My profile summary on SO Meta shows that I have one answer and all of that answer's current tags show in the Tag section, however the points of the answer do not align with the points of (all) ...
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Tiny communities list block on the Edit Profile Page
https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/hidecommunities/current
Has something been changed recently? On the communities page the whole block was narrowed.
Cause of this css rule:
.wmx5 {
max-...
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"Posts as guests" are logged as different users using the same email address
SO.ja allows "Post as a guest" and in some cases using the same email address, but it's recorded as a different account.
We need to repeatedly comment on how to merge accounts. Is this behavior ...
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Autocomplete (@-tab-complete) of a username sometimes fails
When we comment about others' answers or questions, we may want to notify the other user. As far as I known, we can type @username_you_want to mention the user you want get in touch with.
Most times ...
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Did the kerning/leading just change on SE?
It's very slight, but I just ran through all my SE tabs in Safari refreshing one after the other, as I do a hundred times a day [when I'm bored] & everything on each page just spaced a tiny bit ...
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Duplicate deletion (same time) in question timeline
Impressed by how quickly a post on Academia SE was correctly flagged as spam, I looked at the timeline for Academia post 142860 (10k on Academia required) — it was deleted 58 seconds after posting, ...
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Trailing hyphens are ignored in tag suggestions
Trailing hyphens are ignored in tag suggestions.
Example from https://travel.stackexchange.com, tested in Chrome for Android:
Typing la- should have brought up la-paz instead of the five suggestions ...
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Sponsored tags no longer show appropriate icon
Sponsored tags no longer show appropriate icon next to tag name.
For instance, Android tag had green Android logo, that is no longer there:
While it is always possible that some tag is no longer ...
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Is there a bug in the Mother of Dragons trigger?
The secret hat 'Mother of Dragons'
has the following trigger:
More specifically:
I have asked a question a week ago on Earth Science: Does the geothermal activity influence the climate in Iceland? ...
GlorfindelMod
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Names of close-voters are not visible in the post notice but in the revision history and timeline
I am not a user with close/reopen votes privileges on Travel Stack Exchange, therefore I can't see the names of the close voters in this question:
However, they are visible when going to the revision ...
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Where does that border come from?
Since today, post notices do have a blue border:
As you can see in the images in the post notices rollout Q&A that these used to have a gray-ish border.
Either the colors have been updated ...
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I am wearing a hat which I am not supposed to have
Most of us got "Glasses With A Number On Top" hat by mistake and by default I was wearing it from start but that hat was put back in the suitcase by SE but I am still wearing it:
It should have been ...
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Why wasn't I notified of new privileges I gained as a result of the recent reputation recalculation?
FYI: In the rep recalculation for questions, privileges didn't follow.
Today, a single upvote on this question, which constitutes all my activity on that site since recalculation, triggered the ...
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Snippets can be formatted in monospace
Example answer with bug.
By indenting the snippet generating comments, you can make a pretty odd snippet style, where the button titles are shown in a monospaced font.
let test = "Hello, world!";...
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Weird boxes in question title and body
I've just noticed these weird boxes in this specific question. Is this normal or does this look like a bug?
It even appears in this link-generated sentence:
Javascript line-height Property with █████...
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New Post Notices are reverted to old ones
As of today I not longer see new Post Notices across SE sites. They are all reverted to old ones.
Question with old notice on Stack Overflow
Question with old notice on Code Review
Question with ...
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Self-learner badge has been incorrectly awarded
In the famous Why is SE removing links and community ads about legal issues? question by Juan M. he has been awarded the Self-Learner badge with his infamous answer.
But:
The question is not his.
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Single use tags are not deleted after six months if they were recreated via a rollback
The question Understanding risks of logging into Stack Exchange sites from a shared computer or network has two tags which have only been used once and have no tag excerpt or wiki: shared-devices and ...
GlorfindelMod
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