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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Jon Skeet now #2 in Reputation Leagues!
Title speaks for itself. An obvious bug.
Jokes aside, there's a lot of other users showing up in the list twice at the moment.
P.S. If anyone was wondering, this appears to be the case for every ...
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Please revert the line-height change!
Just checking how many people feel similar. At least for me, the increased space between lines makes it a nightmare to read. My eyes lack guidance and just feel somehow lost with so much white space.
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Resizing an image in a post?
Is it possible to resize an image in an answer? For example, How important is PhD research topic to getting a job? has an answer that should have the image in the answer, but it's too big.
Is there a ...
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<kbd> elements are way too intrusive [closed]
<kbd> is a great way to mark up text to be entered. But when you use it on Stack Exchange sites, it's really difficult to read. For instance, say I typed this sentence by starting with a Shift+F,...
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Why are date-based hats awarded too early? [duplicate]
I just got the And I Feel Fine hat which states "post or vote on December 21".
Does SE have a time machine now?
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Stop with the Sex Ads on SE sites, ESPECIALLY sites like "The Workplace"
I mean come on guys... this post should not even need a body. Are you asleep at the wheel? You tried show me "targeted ads"? Wow, way to fail. That must be a joke. You are showing me completely ...
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I am not a robot!
Some days ago, the spam protection was turned up a notch.
Unfortunately, it overshot the target by far. Now, as soon as I make two edits in close succession (which happens often – I’m sloppy), I am ...
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Please revert the new question list style change [duplicate]
For many years, the question list view was such that you could easily move your eyes up and down along a column of numbers with the same meaning. Now the numbers are not aligned, the text is small and ...
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Code block is not properly formatted when placed immediately after a list item [duplicate]
Consider the following piece of Markdown code:
This is some regular text.
>>> def factorial(n):
... return 1 if n < 2 else n * factorial(n - 1)
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* This is a list ...
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Delete votes from users who later become moderators shouldn't prevent community undeletion
If you vote to undelete a post that was deleted by a moderator, you will get the message
A moderator has deleted this post and it cannot be undeleted
Interestingly, this extends to posts that a user ...
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Tag scores have not updated; script did not run
The tag scores script has not ran at the scheduled time of 03:00 UTC for a number of days.
Here are some other reports of this:
Is there a problem with tag score calculation?
Tag counts on my profile ...
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Improvements to a suggested edit cannot be submitted when the suggestion is approved during editing
I was reviewing a suggested edit and decided that while the edit was incorrect, there were things to improve about the post. So I clicked “Improve” and set about my business.
When I tried to submit my ...
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Answer appears automatically converted as a comment
I posted an answer (pointing to another question already asked) but when I hit submit, I saw my answer appear as a comment to the question instead.
I tried it a couple of times and still the same ...
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The vote fraud script breaks legitimate polling questions - A serial downvoter's lament
I've downvoted several of the answers on these Meta discussions:
The Workplace self-evaluation: let's get critical!
The Workplace self-evaluation: let's get critical!
Both questions are typical self ...
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Don't delete comments with link to duplicate if they are modified
A user just posted his question a second time here on meta after the first was closed as a duplicate. I wrote a comment on the second post, explaining that the answer to his question is in the linked ...
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"viewed 1 times"
When a post is first created, it says "viewed
1 times" in the sidebar. This should say "viewed 1 time".
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Please revert the quote background from white to yellow
At some point during the day, quoted background, in I assume CSS, has been switched from yellow to white.
This is harder to find within an existing text, since the background color is the same for the ...
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Deleting a comment (mine) shouldn't count as a comment vote
I had an old question that I revisited in order to link it in a new answer. I noticed that in the comments Steven A Lowe had a funny comment that I -- at the time -- had responded to with "why can't I ...
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Does not work on Netscape Navigator 3.0
FROM: tigerjieer <[email protected]>
SUBJECT: Does not work on Netscape Navigator 3.0
NEWSGROUPS: alt.stackexchange.meta
Finally, after 20 years of suffering, StackOverflow now claims
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How was this answer posted after this question was closed?
Question: lot of .exe folders are created on my windows7
Answer: try that...
The question was closed at 11:57:57 (according to the hover-over-"x-mins-ago" bar) and the answer was posted at 12:16:35. ...
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Vote too old to be changed, unless post is edited
Anyone seen this one yet?
Vote too old to be changed, unless post is edited
My vote was only a few hours old. Then I realized the answer was wrong. Updated my question and went to remove the vote. ...
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The Terms of Service prohibit editing other users' content
The second paragraph of section 4 of the Stack Exchange Terms of Service, "Restrictions," reads:
Under no circumstances will Subscriber use the Network or the Service to ... (d) post any ...
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It's possible to create empty content fields - particularly question titles and bodies - on sites
Prior to an edit, this question was posted with no content in it, both in the title and the question body.
The explanation to reproduce is provided in Temani Afif's ...
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Security hole: password change dialog doesn't ask for a user's current password
NB: Not asking for a current password allows an attacker who has somehow hijacked current session's cookies to hijack the account as well, in direct contravention of OWASP Guideline AT-011
What ...
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New users can't create new tags: show a singular or plural message?
The same error message is shown if a user (without sufficient rep) tries to add one tag or several:
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Mysterious Butt
I was attempting to answer a question today on SO and include some screenshots to help illustrate what I was talking about. Everything was fine until I went to upload my fourth image. Here is what ...
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Excavator and Marshal badges are being awarded over and over
The excavator has been awarded to... many users just some time ago. What a... bug? Certainly it is, too many unavailable posts :D
Seems to affect Marshal and Excavator.
Also looks like it's ...
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Did You Know... that 10k users can see deleted comments?
I realized something curious recently: that the AJAX backend feature that lets moderators view deleted comments also works for any users with the "access to moderator tools" privilege (10k+ rep on ...
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The cookie consent dialog (coming from cookielaw.org) keeps popping up
Recently, every time I hit a new page in Stack Exchange, whether it be the list of questions in a given forum, or a specific question, I get a pop-up like this:
Your privacy
By clicking “Accept all ...
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The cardiologist can't tell if my heart is beating!
I have found a... strange, to say the least, error on Stack Overflow. I was just browsing normally and I decided to open the error console, and I saw this:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method '...
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Posts reaching 1000 downvotes don't get rounded down to 'k' on mobile version of site [closed]
On mobile web (Chrome 75.0 for Android), a post reaching a score of -1,097 sees its score overlapping the vote arrow:
This should probably read -1.1k, like the post above (positively upvoted).
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Allowing images from external sources opens doors to serious security exploits and privacy risks
Note: Please see this answer for more info on how this poses a security risk.
I'm sure you guys already know this, but allowing users to put images from any source in questions means that askers can ...
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Tag scores are not updated and the issue is getting worse
Tag scores update is supposed to happen at 03:00 UTC every day. Tag scores are updated by a scheduled job that is time consuming and often times out (see for example the answers for Tag info not ...
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Tag-badges exploit [closed]
Like everyone else I've been reading bobince's outbreak about parsing html with regex with great amusement. When I read in the comments that bobince had been awarded two gold badges (html and regex) ...
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Cannot vote on question although 40 votes limit not reached
I've hit the 40 daily vote limit wall and yet can see on my profile I have 7 votes yet to give to actually reach that ceiling. The votes remain and I am unable to cast them.
According to a recent blog ...
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Too many Shogs when viewing the close reason in the iOS app
This question appears to have been closed by three Shogs:
Does this happen when a mod closes a question as a dupe of multiple questions?
App Version: 1.6.3 (TestFlight)
Device: iPhone 6
OS ...
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Moderator diamond is too large relative to other text on Android
This is very painful to look at. We understand appearances are everything, but there's no need to exaggerate. Could you please bring them back down to regular size?
It also throws off the formatting ...
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Why is my profile image different?
When I first signed up on a Stack Exchange site and got a profile image, it was this one (see my current user card I'm actually not sure what I look like any more):
Later, I got Area 51 and SEDE ...
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How to disable "time travel" entirely?
Every time I open a question I get this oh so funny 90s feel with scrollers and whatnots. In every question I need to click it off. The button seems to only work for the specific page I load; loading ...
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Yet another inappropriate, scammy and NSFW ad
Here is an image of an ad I just got on the Biology SE site:
The ad is for a potency treatment like Viagra, though it really looks like a run-of-the-mill medical scam to me. There are lots of ...
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I'm seeing stars! (I can see who starred a message and so can you)
So I was making a chatbot in Ruby for SE chat, and I discovered that I could find out the starrer of a message.
I'm pretty sure stars, like votes, are supposed to be anonymous. Although this ...
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On beta sites, the monospace formatting in a spoiler quote is evil.
It doesn't reproduce on Meta, but it will on any beta site. To see an example, check out this meta.chess post:
Edit:
I noticed that on SciFi, English, Area 51, and Electrical Engineering (at ...
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The auto-comment “Does this answer your question?” generated when voting to close as a duplicate is sometimes confusing
I noticed an old question similar to another existing question and voted to close as duplicate.
After this, the system added a comment:
Does this answer your question? Dotnet Windows service ...
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Showing comments for a question should not fail a "first answer, known to be good" audit
So this audit came up. It was clearly not a crap answer, and I could tell it was probably an audit because no username was being displayed, but I wanted to read the question before deciding whether to ...
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Missing publicist badge?
I've had a link on my webpage to one of my Stack Overflow answers for a long time now. For fun, I track it with Google Analytic events, so I know for sure that I've received more than 1000 clicks. Yet ...
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Profile picture cannot have transparent background
I never liked that SO/SE relied on the external gravatar service, so I was glad to read that it doesn't any more. However, it turns out that one cannot use as profile picture a PNG file with ...
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LOL debugging are we? - Stack Overflow homepage alerts false [closed]
Refreshing the Stack Overflow home page is giving me an alert('false');.
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My real name was used in a beta invite email
I've been participating in the engineering private beta this week and filled in the form in the sidebar to invite a friend.
I was very surprised to find out that my real name was sent to that person ...
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Vox Populi, Civic Duty, and Electorate badges being awarded en masse
I've just been awarded the Vox Populi badge on Meta Stack Overflow, Stack Overflow, Gaming & WordPress. I don't think I've voted once today, let alone 40 times on each site.
Reports indicate that ...
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He who must not be named? (aka Anyone can ping everyone in chat)
For some or other reason, typing @ᔕᖺᘎᕊ in a chat room pings everyone who's been in that chat room for the last 7 days...
Seems to work in all chat rooms (I only tested 2 as I don't want to upset ...
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