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Location, GitHub, and Twitter links do not get copied over upon creating an account on a new site [duplicate]
When creating a profile after updating your location field, Twitter, and GitHub links on all profiles, they do not get copied over to the new account, though a website link (and everything else) does.
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All elections you did not vote for have results with a dead link to OpaVote download page
This is what the election result usually looks like when you did not vote in that election (example from Islam but I can reproduce it on Solana and Board & Card Games and probably plenty others):
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Moving the cursor on a link changes the text layout in the Stacks Editor
Moving the cursor on a link changes the text layout in the Stacks Editor. Example:
Tested with Chrome + Windows 10.
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July 2024 roadmap blog post contains http (not https) links
Tl;dr - Could this blog post be updated to use https:// links for MSO/MSE in the final paragraph? Consider using the site names (not domain names) in the visible text, too (meta.stackexchange.com → ...
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Stack Overflow Jobs - FAQ help page - help article link is linked with "/link"
On the "Stack Overflow Jobs -> Frequently Asked Questions" help page, the 5th point discusses how to report a job.
However, the provided link redirects to a 404 error page. Upon ...
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Moderator message view has relative link to chat
When viewing a message sent to a user, on the right side of the page is a container with text at the top What is a moderator message?.
At the end of that container there is a link at the end to chat ...
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Markdown for links in comments sometimes breaks with angle brackets and nested square brackets
The following markdown:
[[example].com](https://www.example.com) (<https://www.example.com/abc>)
Produces this in a post:
[example].com (https://www.example.com/abc)
But this in a comment:
[[...
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Magic columns and site:// do not work for alcohol.meta.stackexchange
The site Beer, Wine & Spirits has the URL https://alcohol.stackexchange.com but in SEDE it uses beer for the main site and beerme for meta.
As far as I can tell, the shortcut site:// and the magic ...
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Per-site inauthentic usage policy links to MSE for referencing standards (as opposed to per-site pages)
I've picked two sites here - Magento and Aviation as examples.
Each site, linked from the per-site CoC, has an inauthentic usage policy. At the end of the policy, it has a link to referencing ...
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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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Link to edited question in top bar achievements dialog points to the wrong site [duplicate]
I just edited a question on Programming Language Design and Implementation. The edit was approved and I got +2 rep and a notification about it. But clicking the notification in the top bar brought me ...
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Automatic URL parser is wrong (discarding character after URL)
When using the part for https://dba.stackexchange.com/q/330357/272354: in a question, the trailing colon is discarded.
IMHO it should be obvious that the colon cannot be part of the URL (link), so it ...
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Why was a straightforward link in a comment misrendered in a notification email?
In How can I do the work of Universal USB Installer from Linux?, I received the following email notification for the first comment, with a linked URL ending three characters too early:
The link ...
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Links on some pages are displayed as subscripts on Chrome for Android
Links on some pages are displayed as subscripts on Chrome for Android. Example from https://webapps.stackexchange.com/election/6:
Environment:
Android 12; Pixel 6 Build/SQ1D.220105.007
Chrome 114.0....
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Questions migrated to sites with numbers in their names display bare URL in revision history
Question migrated to a site with a number in its name:
A bare URL is displayed in the image.
Normal migration:
The destination site is displayed as a link with no bare URL.
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URLs in double quotes are not resolved [duplicate]
There seems to be a bug inasmuch that there is a disparity between the auto-resolving of Stack Exchange URLs within double-quotes contained in posts in normal viewing mode and in edit mode.
Example (...
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Last activity link for question within watched tags has a different color
The 'last activity' link for questions within my watched tags is blue, instead of gray for all other questions:
I don't think it's intentional; gray on yellow looks OK as well (but I'm not an ...
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Clicking on a link changes the text layout in the Stacks Editor
Clicking on a link changes the text layout in the Stacks Editor. Example:
Tested with Chrome + Windows 10.
It doesn't happen in the Markdown-only or Markdown+preview views. It only happens when there ...
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Question title lost on non-relevant edit
I found the old question (which happens to be mine) with the link to the migrated post. That's how it looked 30 minutes ago:
After that I fixed a typo in a word and now it look like that:
As you can ...
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SEDE does something weird with URL parameters
Can somebody explain what happens in this SEDE query? It's a very simple one, apart from the use of a parameter:
PRINT ('%href="##url##"%')
but somehow SEDE decides to append part of its ...
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`'%` breaks hyperlinks in Markdown preview
'% breaks hyperlinks in Markdown preview. Example:
The link works once the edit is saved:
Experiment below:
https://example.com/an'%20example
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URL ending in underscore is incorrectly converted
If an URL posted in a question or answer body ends in an underscore, then this underscore is cut off from the URL, which produces a broken link when saving the text. At the same time the preview ...
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Link in comments occasionally not formatted on MathJax-enabled site
Occasionally, links in comments that use MathJax do not show normally. The problem is reproducible, and browser-agnostic. It comes and goes depending on inserting a space around the closing $ ...
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Direct links don't render when inside square-bracketed text, although the preview shows them correctly
Normally, pasting the URL of a Stack Exchange post (from the same site that you're posting on) results in it being rendered into hypertext showing the title of the post. This is a nice shortcut for ...
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Licensing text at the bottom of the page links to Stack Overflow regardless on which site you are on
At the bottom of every page, on the right side of the footer there is the text that goes like this:
Site design / logo © 2022 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions
licensed under CC BY-SA. rev 2022....
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Links in comments delimited by less-than/greater-than signs occasionally include the delimiting greater-than sign
Over at Stack Overflow, I wrote a comment that renders like this:
and links to https://wg21.link/p2128>, which at the time I wrote this question returned a 404 error. The maintainer of the wg21....
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Dead link in "Offline for maintenance" page [duplicate]
There was a brief outage today, during which I couldn't load any Stack Exchange sites. Eventually I got this webpage:
The "status blog" link goes to http://stackstatus.net, which was a ...
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Links should not look the same as plain text
This image shows three users in the comments on German Meta:
One of them is deleted and therefore lacks a link to their profile. However, all of the links look like regular text so it's impossible to ...
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Ngram Chart appears empty
A couple of hours ago I was reading an answer on EL&U, which was posted four months ago, when I noticed two Google Books Ngrams were completely empty. The two graphs are completely blank except ...
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Why do some sites in the site switcher have a long query parameter (e.g. "mathoverflow.net/?_gl=1*i2ckzl*_ga*…")?
When I am on a SE site on the stackexchange.com domain, and go to a site with its own domain such as MathOverflow, Ask Ubuntu, or Server Fault using the links in “Your Communities” or “More Stack ...
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Adding a link to formatted text in Rich Text mode causes the text to lose formatting
In Rich Text mode, type some text and add some formatting to it (bold, italic, inline code, etc.). Then, select the text and add a link to it. The text loses all its formatting.
For example, a**b**c ...
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Making part of a link text bold or italic causes the link to be repeated
The Rich Text mode causes links to be repeated whenever a part of the link text is made bold or italic.
To reproduce:
Type some text.
Add a hyperlink to it.
Select part of the text and make it either ...
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A bare meta URL was not auto-linked
As you may know, bare links within the network are converted to linked titles when they meet the requirements in What limitations does converting question links to links with titles have?. However, I ...
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Old subject still used in linked question after typo fix [duplicate]
In the question : Recommended ssl_ciphers for security, compatibility - Perfect Forward secrecy you can see that the question What are the OpenSSL standard Diffie-Hellman parameters (primes)? is ...
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Whitespaces between URLs and punctuation on stackoverflow.co pages
I couldn't help but notice some URLs have whitespaces between the punctuation that follows them in various stackoverflow.co subpages. For example, not using a   in the Media kit page, as shown ...
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Hyperlink in Stack Overflow Teams email is not mapped with any URL
I have received an email with the subject of "Welcome to Stack Overflow for Teams!". At the end of the email, there is a paragraph below:
P.S. If you’re already familiar with Stack Overflow’...
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Can we fix the link at the start of the When Is An Account “Abandoned” blog post?
The When Is An Account “Abandoned”? blog post begins:
Now, if you (like me) are reading this post for the first time, this is rather confusing: it says question deletion "works this way", ...
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"This appears to be spam. If you think we've made an error, make a post in meta." The link to "meta" isn't clickable
In doing some testing for this post, I repeated the steps in How can I solve the 'Body cannot contain ""' error when trying to post? which gave the error:
However, if I left-click ...
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What is a reliable way to search for URLs containing tilde?
Let us say that I want to search (on some Stack Exchange site) for posts linking to some website, and the URL contains the tilde ~. For the sake of example, let us try python.net/~goodger. (I ...
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Link to candidate you voted for on election page not completely working
In the "Your final votes" section of election pages, when you hover over the name of a candidate you voted for, the mouse pointer seems to suggest you can click on it, but nothing happens. ...
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Does the date field in the Timeline have a broken link?
Android v.12 Galaxy XCover Pro, with Google app version 13.12.11.23.arm64 in "full site" view...
Further to this question: Incomplete box around selected event in timeline, when I select the ...
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Old links to answer sort orders became broken after the change to answer sort tabs
I previously posted this as an answer (10k-only) to the announcement Revisiting changes to answer sorting menu: better use of space, moving menu into a dropdown, ascending/descending sort options, ...
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Links in nomination flag descriptions aren't colored unlike for Q&A's
The links ("does not disclose the author's affiliation"
and "inappropriate for respectful discourse") aren't colored for the "spam" and "rude or abusive" flag ...
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'modified ... ago' does not always link to last activity [duplicate]
Normally, when the last activity on a question is a deleted answer, like in this case:
the link under (in this case) 'modified 2 days ago' contains a lastactivity parameter:
https://meta....
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Question slug doesn't account for upper case accented characters in title
The title of a Stack Exchange question is included (for SEO purposes) in the 'canonical' URL for the question. In this process, symbols are removed and the title is lower cased, but the latter part ...
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Auto-replaced affiliate link not working
I just posted an answer on the Arts & Crafts site containing two links to products on Amazon.
One is a link to an Amazon search rather than a specific product. It displays as entered when ...
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Editor's "Insert link" gives up if you try to link text after a square bracket on a new line
I found this while writing Creating a link that comes after a square bracket confuses the editor.
It looks like the editor's "Insert link" doesn't like trying to link text on a new line ...
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Creating a link that comes after a square bracket confuses the editor
First, some related bugs:
Link button in post editor escapes square brackets in code
Please improve the auto-linking to allow square and round brackets (status completed apparently?)
Editor breaks old ...
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"Show skipped reviews" is forcibly checked every time I navigate to another page
This is most likely only reproducible by users with 10k+ rep.
If you go to the Review History of any review queue, click on "My reviews", scroll down to the pagination component, and click ...
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Why does the new editor change all the link references to inline?
I used WSIWYG mode in the new editor and it made all the links inline when I made a minor edit.
Of less concern, it also removed the optional trailing #s on headers and escaped a bunch of brackets ...
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