Questions tagged [bug]
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Fake alert in Review Queues [duplicate]
That's probably a bug, but I still don't see what could be causing it.
I'm mostly active on Ask Different (Apple Stack Exchange site) and I often check the Review Queues for new posts/suggested edits ...
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Translation for "N/A" is not used on admin page
Available translation for "N/A" is not used on moderator admin page:
It's not really critical, but could please be fixed.
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Is Stack Exchange indexing with Google broken? [duplicate]
Today I tried to google an exact phrase from a question on SciFi SE and received very interesting search results. I provide a screenshot of two googled suggestions below. Here are the links to those ...
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Lots of empty space in inbox
When I scroll to the bottom of my inbox, there is a ton of empty space. It's not that I don't have a lot of notifications; my full inbox has plenty of stuff. Is it supposed to look like this? In any ...
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Logout link appears duplicated on narrow screens
On narrow screens (typically mobile devices), two logout links are displayed.
Screenshot:
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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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How is the "percent answered" rate calculated for a site on the StackExchange.com site list?
The "%answered rate" of all Stack Exchange sites are mentioned on https://stackexchange.com/sites#traffic:
Can someone please explain how is the exact percentage is calculated for any ...
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Escaping bug in the Blog
The raw HTML is visible - can this be fixed to have it actually be italics?
It renders as
Not 4-bit but 4 <em>n</em> bit.
It should be
Not 4-bit but 4n-bit.
Blog link: https://...
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When trying to specify a question on another site as a duplicate target, the error message displays incorrectly on sites with ampersands in their name
When flagging/VTCing a question as a dupe, and the link pasted into the box is from a different site, the error message looks like this:
But on the 17 sites with ampersands in their titles (as well ...
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Account (un)merge glitch
Two days ago, a particular user was causing a lot of trouble on Meta and Mathematics. They were merged with Eggs McLaren probably due to a mistake, then merged with another account, before being ...
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Featured questions in FAQ list [duplicate]
I just noticed on the sidebar of Meta that featured questions are displayed twice - once in the "Featured" block and again in the "Frequently Asked" block. The featured questions ...
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Reputation graph labels become misaligned [duplicate]
I managed to reproduce this several times, but each time it looks slightly different:
Reproduction:
Go to https://stackexchange.com/users/8322029/bbrk24?tab=reputation
Click on "Stack Overflow&...
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Why does long tapping a link appear to upvote the question?
On this question (please don't cast test votes on it), I used a long tap (approximately where the red is) to see where the link led. However, it caused the upvote button to become highlighted, as if I ...
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Saves icon not loading with new answers
When on a question page, if answers are posted after loading that page, a button appears (for example):
1 new answer to this question
Clicking this loads the new answer(s), but they don't show the ...
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Podcast Episode Ep. 586 doesn't have a transcript
The transcript for this podcast seems to be the episode notes - and while the title "Developers use AI tools, they just don’t trust them" is interesting, I don't do great with audio only ...
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Why is there one remaining page on Windows Phone Meta SE?
Note: while theoretically this question "Only relates to one network site", the per-site Meta is gone (or not!), so I can't really post there, so I picked MSE.
On November 17th, 2022 Windows ...
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Cannot log in to Area 51 (so cannot ask this in its Discussion Zone)
I have an Area 51 account1:
But I cannot log in:
The option to sign up does not work either:
The option to join this community starts off okay and picks up my email (which I have not screen-shot) ...
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Don't let me do fake downvote in LQP queue history's review task [duplicate]
I was going through my review history and clicked on a recent review task link: https://meta.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/86500
Though I had previously downvoted this post, the downvote ...
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Switched favicons for certain sites in inbox, achievements, and community tabs
When I click on my inbox or on the achievements button, it appears that the icon for Meta.SE has been switched with the one for Stack Apps; it's basically displaying the Stack Apps favicon even for ...
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Code background can overflow comments [duplicate]
Look at this:
I think that overflow is due to the following CSS rule:
code {
white-space: pre-wrap;
}
Changing it to the following seems to fix the issue:
code {
white-space: break-spaces;
}
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Private moderator message translation issues
Private moderator message contains several fields, in particular:
from
to
bcc
"from" is used in a lot of situations, and should be replaced here to "от" instead of "из"....
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Suggested edit made by unprivileged editor not shown to editor in Review Queues
When reviewing first questions or answers sometimes there's a edit that is necessary.
When you don't have enough reputation your edit gets reviewed, but there's a message that you can see your edit; ...
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Unable to translate "abusive or unkind comments" from the user flagged post page
On the moderator page for user posts, the flag monitoring string "{N} abusive or unkind comments in past {M} days, {username}" is not ready to translation:
Please add this string to ...
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Markdown preview rendering difference when linking the file protocol
Code:
From the [weakref documentation](file:///usr/share/doc/python3/html/library/weakref.html):
Expected result: link may or may not be active, but the markdown should parse. This works in the ...
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Sites' icons appear shifted / wrong sites' icons are appearing
Just noticed that some sites' icons, both on home page and in "Hot Network Questions" sidebar are shifted and mixed with icons of different sites.
For example, here, the Server Fault icon ...
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Automatically upvote an existing review queue canned comment instead of duplicating it [duplicate]
I’ve noticed that if multiple users select the same canned comment in the review queues, this results in duplicate comments. This might come across as rude and annoying to the recipient, who will get ...
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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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Moderator absence reason part should not be visible if there's no reason
Recently fixed issue with translation on moderator dashboard introduced a new behavior. Now the "Absence reason:" title is always visible even in case when there's no reason filled by ...
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The Stack Overflow Labs page on Developer Sentiment on AI/ML uses non-unique HTML element IDs
This is the page: https://stackoverflow.co/labs/developer-sentiment-ai-ml
For example, the ID h3-professional-developers-and-country is used three times. Now I can't link to sections properly. ...
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No ID for CS50 or Programming Language Design and Implementation on the Stack Exchange Website
I'm trying to fetch card-data as it is fetched on https://stackexchange.com/sites (request example below as a Node.js fetch), but can't find cards (or, hence, card IDs) for CS50 or Programming ...
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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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New vote-button font hasn't been applied everywhere
A while ago, the vote buttons were changed across the network. There were a bunch of design issues and bugs that came along with the change, and though a few of them have been fixed, some still remain....
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Does the unlinked 'show users by participation' page still work?
Per this answer,
On per-site-metas, there is a tab for showing users by participation. According to the tooltip, it shows: Users most active in the last 60 days (combined number of posts, votes, ...
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I still have to use my old e-mail address to sign-in, despite my new e-mail address showing up in "Your logins" page [duplicate]
Whenever I try to log-in using my new e-mail address (that is listed in "Your logins" page), I get "No user found with matching email" message.
Update: I have solved the issue on ...
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Upvote / downvote indicator lost after edit
When I edit a post, and return to the updated page when saving the edit, the upvote indicator to show that I had previously upvoted the post is lost.
This seems to be related to the recent and ...
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I can't search for my Saves in stackexchange.com
I can't find how to access all my saves (saved across all Stack Exchange communities).
Before the migration from Bookmarks to Saves in 2022, all my bookmarks from all communities (sites) used to be ...
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When positive and negative rep changes add up to 0, I am unable to see the details on the rep list
When my answer was accepted on Math Stack Exchange, I got +15 rep.
The next day (18 June 2023), the OP changed the accepted answer, which gave me -15 rep.
The same day, I got +15 when some other ...
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MathJax bugs "Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted" [duplicate]
V1: complains
$$
\frac{x}{y}
$$
V2: doesn't
$$\frac{x}{y}$$
V3: complains
$$\begin{align}
& \frac{x}{y} + \frac{y}{x} \\
& \frac{y}{x} + \frac{x}{y} \\
\end{align}$$
I favor working ...
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The delete button doesn’t wait for confirmation on iOS
On iOS (Safari iOS 16.5), when I vote to delete a question or answer, an alert appears asking if I’m sure. However, the page refreshes out from under the alert, and the vote is recorded — in some ...
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Network profile still shows original identicon
According to this post, all identicons have been regenerated. However, on the Network Profile page it still has the original identicon.
Compare here and here. In the former you can see my new dark ...
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What, if any, is the purpose of duplicate [maintenance] tags in the search results linked from the banner indicating the site is in read-only mode? [duplicate]
The page from the link inviting one to search our recent meta posts on the topic has two maintenance tags.
Is this a bug, or deliberately status-by-design? If the latter, what is the purpose of ...
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Deleted questions don't show as deleted on the home page
Repeatedly in the recent past, when I reloaded the home page and clicked on something, I was taken to a deleted post. Here is one example, from just now:
In this image, I have selected the title of a ...
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"Voting corrected" number seems to be incorrect at first
A few days ago I got hit by a serial voting reversal. When I first visited by reputation tab, it said -230:
However, when I now visit my reputation tab, it shows -120:
The correct number is -120. So,...
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No highlighting on tabs in review queue
Initially here the Revision tab is select and highlighted:
Since I clicked the tab (even the current one) highlighting is disappeared:
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Vote button remains highlighted after retracting the vote
The recently changed vote buttons remain highlighted after retracting the vote:
When you retract your vote the button remains highlighted (with lighter colors), highlighting disappears after tapping ...
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Inbox only shows one message if two replies are received close together
I've noticed this a few times now with the new "sticky" inbox. I'll get two comment reply notifications close together, which will show a 2 badge over my inbox icon in the top bar.
When I ...
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Eliminate space characters before commas in case of multiple users flags on the same post
On mod dashboard when there are multiple flags on the same post I noticed the undesirable space characters before commas (after timestamps):
I was able to find only generic templates for such case:
$...
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Vote buttons in the tour page are different from the actual vote buttons
Essentially the same as this question, Vote buttons in the banner are different from the actual vote buttons, except that this is about the example vote buttons in the tour page; the depicted buttons ...
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Can't join Area 51 discussions
I want to join the Area 51 (Stack Exchange site) Discussion Zone community. But when I click the "join this community", the page displays a message:
Completing log in to Area 51.
You will ...
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