Questions tagged [bug]
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Triple HNQ entry (2022 edition)
This question appears to have entered the HNQ list three times with the same timestamp:
Seemingly related to Very hot network questions found, but not a duplicate because that was marked as status-...
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Gregorio Y. Zara hat covers up username in chat [duplicate]
The user Panda currently wears the Gregorio Y. Zara hat. But, now in chat, his username is covered up:
When a user has multiple messages in a row, their username is aligned under the profile image.
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The rendering of some combined UTF-8 emoji characters seems to be messed up on Super User when using Safari
I am using macOS 13 (Ventura). Preface to this is I am not a big fan of the use of emojis on SE sites, but this seems like a bug to me.
Please look at this Super User question. Note that in an area ...
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Wrong phrasing in "Can you help guide Sparkles back home? " page [duplicate]
Once you find Sparkles, the instructions page tells us:
There she is! You have are almost there!
As I already mentioned last year, this should be either changed to:
There she is! You are almost ...
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Review tab indicator disappears
A review item often has tabs, like "other answers" and "question". There is a background on the selected tab at first, but clicking on another tab removes that. Here's an example:
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Winter/Summer Bash snowflake is not appearing on the top bar of the main site (Stack Exchange) [duplicate]
I am not sure if this is intended, but I don't see the Winter/Summer Bash snowflake notification on the top bar of the main site (https://stackexchange.com).
It shows me the same inbox as on the other ...
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Grammar mistake in Sparkles the Unicorn Game [duplicate]
Page 3 of the Sparkles the Uniform Game has a grammar mistake in the second sentence of the page header:
There she is! You have are almost there!
Presumably the word "have" was ...
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Unable to scroll down to see all my hats in the Winter Bash hats pop-up
I'm unable to scroll down my list of hats in the Winter Bash hats pop-up as it scrolls the background (my activity page) instead.
This seems to be a very recent occurrence, perhaps due to a recent ...
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Meta questions have been unfeatured without creating revisions, causing problems when editing [duplicate]
This started out as a Stack Apps question, because my script was trying to repair the image in the DBA.Meta post So what's with the hats thing?, and encountered the following error while trying to ...
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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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Phrasing of "Squared Away" hat not clear
The Squared Away hat's description is (without clicking on it):
Post 4 answers on 4 separate sites during Winter Bash
Which is unclear for many users, I came across 3 users asking in chat that why ...
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When rendering posts, a blockquote line followed by a blockquoted psuedo-setext heading underline ending with any character becomes a setext heading
When rendering posts, a blockquote line followed by a blockquoted pseudo-setext heading underline ending with any character turns those lines into a setext heading.
Here's what the CommonMark spec ...
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Sidebar widget overlaps moderator message thread
When viewing a moderator message thread, the sidebar widget may overlap the messages. Here is an example screenshot:
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Inbox icon indicates an unread message, but no messages are shown under "unread"
I've noticed a case where my inbox icon indicated an unread message (1 in red), but no messages were shown under "unread":
I don't know how to reproduce. Maybe it's because I was already on ...
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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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The "You can accept your own answer in <period>" alert is missing a period․
When trying to accept your own answer too early, you get an alert like
You can accept your own answer in 11 hours
According to the Stacks design guidelines, it is missing a period; it's a full ...
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User feed URL text has insufficient contrast
I tried the User feed link in the profile page (leading to <site>/feeds/user/<userid>) and I think the background shouldn't be greyed out because if you unselect the URL its text becomes ...
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Chat RSS feed for tagged/xxx broken
When you use the tagged/ prefix for a search term in chat, you (are supposed to) get all messages with a specific tag. 1
However, the generated RSS link in the lower right corner of the results is ...
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Error after saving and unsaving several times
On some SE question, after several save's/unsave's, I arrived at some state where I couldn't save the question anymore, until refreshing the page.
Here is what happens:
My network was fine. Chrome ...
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Earned Heads Up! hat on MSE without any helpful flags for a year
I just got the Heads Up! secret hat on Meta Stack Exchange without flagging anything for a year.
As mentioned on the hat list, the trigger for the Heads Up! hat is:
Yet, the last time I raised a ...
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Cannot wear selected hat, nor can I see its name, which site I earned it on, etc, [closed]
I just came across a problem where you cannot wear a hat, nor see its name and which site you earned it on.
I am currently wearing a hat, but once I want to select a new hat, nothing happens. Image:
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In the re-open votes queue, I cannot close as a community specific reason because "You must select a reason before submitting." [duplicate]
I'm reviewing the close votes. If I re-close as any other reason it works fine, but if I close as a "community specific reason" I can't, no matter what option I select.
I'm on Firefox 108, ...
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Cannot cancel out of account creation from Winter Bash "Log in or Sign up" link
At the top of the Winter Bash 2022 page there's a link to "Log in or Sign up". I don't have an SO account, so if I click on it I'm prompted to create one, linked to my SE profile. Clicking ...
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Incomplete localization of the Winter Bash hat popup text translation
The translation of the Winter Bash popup is incomplete on foreign language Stack Overflow sites:
https://es.stackoverflow.com/
https://pt.stackoverflow.com/
https://ja.stackoverflow.com/
https://...
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Leaderboard (presumably) displaying users who opted-out of Winter Bash
Over the past few days, I have come across several users who are in the Network-wide Leaderboard but have no hats shown in their activity page (i.e. no beanie on their activity page on a site where I ...
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Long question titles break the reputation page [duplicate]
Well, "break" might be a tad dramatic, but they definitely disrupt the formatting instead of being wrapped into two lines without overflowing into the reputation or date columns.
Seen on my ...
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I think there is a Mathjax bug for mathcal typesetting on some platforms
The Mathjax rendering for mathcal is not working correctly on my computer. Instead of a cursive-style letter for \mathcal, Mathjax renders a square. However, other Mathjax rendering is unaffected.
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Will the "Defender of the Unicorn" hat lead to lots of pointless noise in meta? [closed]
Obviously I’m asking this because as I’m seeking the "Defender of the Unicorn" hat but it also raises the question, are hats like this just going to end up causing extra noise in the meta ...
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The "Your Hats" view hides whether or not you have the hat on the current site, if you are wearing it
If you are wearing a hat, the dark blue label obscures whether or not you have the hat on the site you are currently using.
Can we find a way to label both?
Could we possibly have the light blue ...
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For days I've marveled at the silhouettes, until I realized they had color (Winter/Summer Bash 2022)
Using Firefox 108.0 since the start of the Bash, my Winter/Summer Bash site looked like this:
I pondered why they were just silhouettes, but I didn't investigate. I assumed this was by design. While ...
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Chatterbox and Verified hats considering the same room as if belonging to different SE sites
I participated in 2022 Winter\Summer Bash Starring room in order to attain the Chatterbox and Verified secret hats (their triggers are already confirmed).
I received both the hats as expected. But ...
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CS50 Badge count not updated on main Stack Exchange Network site [duplicate]
On CS50, Harvard's "Introduction to Computer Science", free online course I have 4 badges:
On our Stack Exchange Network site it says that I have 0 badges:
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Leaderboard misaligned on different digit ranks
When I search somebody up, this happens:
As you can see, the profile images are misaligned vertically.
Also the hat count. This is a bug, and should be fixed to make it look better.
When you're ...
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White thick border on profile image while trying to wear hats
The title pretty much says it all, and here is the screenshot:
Why is there the white border on the hats tab? It kind of looks weird.
The fix: Just get rid of the white border.
Also, it doesn't limit ...
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Dropdown within mobile navigation menu on stackoverflow.co doesn't open
On Stack Overflow's marketing website stackoverflow.co, nothing happens when I click on the dropdown in mobile responsive view. The same goes for every page on that website, such as /teams.
With this ...
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Hats that escape a user's profile picture are inconsistently above/below other UI elements
Pretty much self-explanatory. The "hat" is above some UI elements (links, bio), but below some others (tab titles), which looks weird.
Same thing when hovering over items:
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X to exit hat modal blends into banner
This is the hat modal on Community's profile in dark mode. As you can see (or can you?), the X in the corner blends into the banner, potentially because of my screen size:
(Also happens in light mode....
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Misleading legend description in the hats modal
The bottom of the modal showing a user's hats has the following text:
Yet, doesn't show the hat my account is wearing, but the one the user whose profile I'm viewing is wearing. Similarly, shows ...
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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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Why does the Search icon look weird on small screen widths? [duplicate]
On a small screen width, the search icon looks like this:
In my opinion, the search button should look like all the other icons and not stand out as if it is 3D. I don't recall seeing this before, so ...
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FAQ for Winter Summer Bash says there are no site-specific hats, but the 2cool4skool description says "(Stack Overflow only)"
The FAQ page says:
Do any sites have custom hats?
No. All hats can be earned on any participating Stack Exchange site. There are also a few hats that can only be earned through meta site ...
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User Preferences - Slack Integrations gives a 404
There are several earlier posts tagged status-completed reflecting on this problem, like:
"Slack integrations" and "Microsoft Teams integrations" in Settings lead to 404
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Winter Summer Bash Hat list is not displayed on a user's profile if you don't have a profile on the site
I'm not a member of the politics stack. An awesome user has some hats I was hoping to browse, but I'm not prepared to join the Politics site at this time.
Why do they show like this:
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Hiding your left sidebar leaves some left
The user profile setting to hide the left sidebar doesn't completely hide it:
Settings:
"Hide left navigation -
When you flip this switch, the left navigation will no longer be pinned to the ...
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Search has an extra border in the topbar
As seen in the screenshot, there is an extra border over the search icon on the topbar. This started today, coincedentally with the start of Winter Bash, but not caused by it as confirmed by staff.
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Hats not appearing in top bar
I can only guess this is a bug.
No matter which hat I wear in the profile page, it is not showing in the top menu. I just changed my profile picture, which is reflected correctly on first refresh of ...
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Unable to adjust my hat as hat control is hidden
I can't adjust the position of my hat as the hat control overflow is hidden.
I'm using Safari v16.1 running on macOS.
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The Tourist hat trigger description is incomplete
The Tourist hat description states:
Yet apparently reading the Tour badge is not enough to get the Tourist hat if you already have the Informed badge. This was confirmed by staff member Catija in a ...
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Hat description to be updated as "Winter Bash" instead of "WinterBash"
As per this answer, the Winter Bash event is called "Winter Bash", with a space.
In plain text:
The official name of the event has always been Winter Bash, with a space, and that's how it's ...
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A post is not rendering properly
I don't have the knowledge to use the correct terminology, but the post I earned 2cool4skool on a site I have not visited is greyed out on the "home" and "questions" pages with ...
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