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Decline flag option on moderator tool on the question has a wording about "incorrect answer"

The following screenshot is automatically translated from Russian by Google: Original English string: flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer ...
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Did the purple highlight just get worse?

I just refreshed a page on MusicSE, which got a nasty purple highlight after the recent colour changes - see New colors launched - to be presented with an even darker purple on a new contributor user ...
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In the inbox, "N hours ago" is underneath the envelope icon when there's a URL in the notification

In this image, see how both messages were posted 9 hours ago but in the first one that text is covered by the envelope icon: It still happens when the message is read. I think it's because of the ...
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Unable to translate tooltip text during revision redaction

There's no text to translate "Please fill out this field." that appears as a tooltip during revision redaction:
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Cannot create new account on Ask Ubuntu

I always get an error stating that I cannot create a new account on the Ask Ubuntu site. I am a member of several different Stack Exchange sites, but for some reason, I can't login to Ask Ubuntu. ...
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Many sites don't render correctly, static assets cannot be downloaded

This started about 2 days ago, roughly when I first saw Cloudflare's "human verification" confirmation. (As a side note: this confirmation is asked from me once like every hour, which I ...
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Should Windows Phone site be removed from SEDE?

I have noticed that it is possible to see Windows Phone as one of the sites where one can run SEDE queries. As an example, here is a query listing the recent posts. This query shows the date as the ...
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Translation is not used for robo-review description

Translation for robo-review on review suspension page doesn't used for some reason: Related: Unable to translate "The following tasks were handled incorrectly:" on review suspension page
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A couple of typos in the moderator questionnaire

There are some minor bugs in the 2023 Moderator Election Questionnaire: (e.g. at https://music.stackexchange.com/election) Question 1 has a grammar mistake: How would you deal with a user who ...
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In Chrome, using chrome://flags/ : #enable-force-dark causes the input textarea scrollbar to be nearly invisible

In the following GIF, when an extra line is added to the input text, it becomes too large for the input area, so the browser adds a scrollbar. Unfortunately, the scrollbar is nearly the same color as ...
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Unable to translate "The following tasks were handled incorrectly:" on review suspension page

There is no sentence to translate "The following tasks were handled incorrectly:" on the review suspension page:
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Unable to translate "Low answer quality score" sentence for processed flags with negative score

There is no translation possible for "Low answer quality score" on processed flag section. At the same time that phrase has translation for a new flag a processed flag with positive score ...
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Title not saved as part of question-draft

When drafting a question, the body and tags are saved, but the title never is- this seems like a clear bug. Can it be fixed?
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Space to first character after quote broken if full stop [period] used

If you quote a number & add a full stop after it, the formatting jumps off to the left. > 1234 > 1234. > 123456789. > 1234567891. 1234 1234567891. It seems it keeps moving left ...
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Half of my notification about earning a new privilege is in a different language

I recently earned a the privilege to "Create tag synonyms" here on meta. However, the notification in my achievements inbox is half in English and half in what I believe is Russian. I ...
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User shows different rep count between two posts on questions page

I was perusing the questions on Arqade, and while scrolling down the question list on the questions page, I noticed a discrepancy in rep count for a user between two different posts. This was on page ...
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Close vote window explanation text is too small

Close vote dialog text under each close vote option is very small and it is very hard to read. I am not sure whether I noticed this due to recent color change, which makes the text color lighter or ...
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Markdown errors in blog post about RAG

Editor note: While there's at least one other applicable tag, I'd like to leave it at four tags to allow for a status-* tag. In this blog post, there's an unusual use of a code block to quote LLM ...
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Out-of-date screenshot on "Why is the system asking me to wait a day or more before asking another question?" Help Center page

The beginning of the Help Center page "Why is the system asking me to wait a day or more before asking another question?" currently looks like this: Could that screenshot be updated? It's......
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Attempting to update my profile ends in error

I attempted to update my Title and About Me sections in my profile network-wide in order to remove the “I work at Stack Overflow” messages, but when I click “save and copy changes to all public ...
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Stack Exchange inbox messages don't work with the Tor browser [duplicate]

When I try to check out my recent messages or recent achievements using the top right buttons I can't. It simply says "Something went wrong. please try again." I guess Cloudflare is not ...
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What happened to the "tour" button? [duplicate]

This has been reposted from Worldbuilding SE, since I noticed the issue is more than just this site. This issue is also happening on this super-meta SE. I believe this picture should help understand ...
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Mistake in code in recent blog post

The recent blog post looks like this: Timing of the blogpost aside, can the post be updated to remove python at the start of the code block? I presume someone intended to set the language and instead ...
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List of places where new vote-button design hasn't been applied

Four months ago, we got a new vote-button design style. However, that new design hasn't been applied everywhere. Catija suggested that we do this to help out: While it'd be going the extra mile, if y'...
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The visual human test sometimes appears very far away from the captcha checkbox in SEDE

The visual human test sometimes appears very far away from the captcha checkbox: (click for full size) Tested on an iPhone with Chrome. This is inconvenient because one has to unzoom to find it. It’...
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Vote buttons in the election primary are different from the new vote buttons

The 'Primary' page in elections still shows the old buttons: Please update the vote buttons picture on this page.
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Parasite addition to tags during revision redaction

During the redaction of post revision (link for staff) I'm faced with that a weird tag rendering: As you can see there are two vertical red lines on the right hand side of each tag. Possible culprits ...
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Unable to translate a lot of sentences on revisions page if there was a redaction

All following strings are not in translation data base: Another revision of this post has previously been redacted (“{description}”). That redaction can be automatically applied to this revision as ...
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Overlapping text on awaiting redaction approval

There is small text overlapping on the redaction approval page on the moderator pages: This is most likely happening due to the length of the translation (comment -> комментарий).
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Tag popup is obscured on the Tour page

On the Tour page the popup for tags on demo questions is partially obscured by the frame border:
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Translations for admin buttons are not used on the Tour page

There are a few strings on the site's tour page visible to moderators only. For some reason, translations from Traducir are not used here: For buttons below the main site description (Save changes, ...
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The tour link has disappeared from the help menu in the top bar

The Tour item disappeared from top bar on all sites: What's the background for this? The Tour page itself still here. Based on the question from RuSO.meta: Куда делась ссылка на Тур в знаке вопроса (...
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Moderation tools are broken for Tor users

Related to: Top bar navigation partially lost when accessing from Tor network - unable to post answers or comments Moderators are unable to perform most moderation actions when using Tor. Network ...
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I can't edit anything on MSE or network-wide right now: HTTP 500 - "An error occurred submitting the edit."

When I try to edit anything on MSE right now (when I click the "Save edits" button), I get a red box that says: An error occurred submitting the edit. In my console, I see: Failed to load ...
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Why are some badges from the "Select your next badge" window not listed on the list of badges pointed on the tour page?

Why does the description of the list of badges on the tour of a SE site does not match the content of the "Select your next badge" information window shown to the user when they receive a ...
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"New posts" on admin panel incorrectly takes into account tag excerpt/description

On admin panel I see the "6" in the "New Posts" column for myself (per month): * screenshot has been taken on Google-translated page from Russian to English According the summary ...
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Unable to load most popups in Tor [duplicate]

This issue only recently started happening, and only happens on Tor, but not on other browsers. But I can ask and answer questions, but I cannot flag, or click the trophy to see recent rep changes or ...
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Transifex missing a string about incorrect e-mail

When I try to login in ruSO but put in an incorrect e-mail address, I get the string "No user found with matching email", untranslated. I wrote a bug-report in ruSO meta, but a moderator ...
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Word is placed on a new line even if there's enough space on the old line

Is it expected behavior that words automatically moved to the next line even when there's enough space on the old line? See animation below for clarification (no "return" key pressed during ...
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No string to translate "Expand to show all comments on this post, or add one of your own"

On ruSO we found that the source string for "Expand to show all comments on this post, or add one of your own" is absent in translation database. There's an old related post on MSE with ...
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Button visibility on not-logged-in panel [duplicate]

It took me about a week to realise this was a dismissible popup—the button is extremely well hidden. Is this the right way to raise an accessibility issue? The HTML is: <div class="flex--item ...
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Unable to translate a comment on user Rate Limit History

The autogenerated comment on user Rate Limit History (История ограничения рейтинга) like the following one is not ready to translation: User Id {id} is blocked from asking questions for {days} days ...
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I'm clicking the same message multiple times to get it to clear, is it broken, or is something else happening?

My inbox indicates that I have a message! I click it to see what that message is. My expectation is that the message would be cleared from the inbox's active queue (the red-circle number decrements ...
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Add distinct context for vote tabs for localization purpose

For translation purpose we need to different translations for the same words, in particular on user profile page on votes tab: At least the "Undelete" and "Reopen" should have ...
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Syntax highlighting of Makefiles

The syntax highlighting is bugged for Makefiles. As per https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/356459/1288919 I used: ```lang-makefile Current output for: https://stackoverflow.com/a/77223358/22510042 ...
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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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Maintenance page for per-site metas is not localized

Each non-English Stack Overflow site has its own localized page for maintenance period. E.g. the following one on ruSO: There are still some problems waiting for a fixes by the development team, but ...
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New network top-bar cuts off achievement/inbox dialogue

The new top-bar looks like this: But when I click the inbox or achievement button, it does this: Inbox Achievements I'm not super zoomed in or anything, but the box still gets cut off by the left ...
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Error: Unknown domain: stackoverflow.com

Just got an error while opening stackoverflow.com: Fastly error: unknown domain: stackoverflow.com. Please check that this domain has been added to a service. Details: cache-ams21055-AMS It seems ...
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Moderator agreement acceptance notice should be made translatable

On moderator agreement page the notice about accepting should be made translatable. This is not a part of legal agreement (that is not a subject for translation), and the date inside notice already ...
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