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Hard to click on links for featured meta posts

I often find it extremely difficult to open a featured meta post: Take for example the "Why are we getting so many off topic ..." link. That one spans multiple lines. So I moused over and clicked. ...
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Answers with score of -3 or lower (on normal sites) and -8 or lower (on meta sites) are no longer greyed out after the series of redesigns

Just look at this list on SO, this list on MSE, this list on M&TV, this list on UX, etc. In short all the sites which had a recent redesign or relatively recently graduated sites with those new ...
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Superpings don't show user name in sidebar

Doorknob just superpinged someone in our chat. The message got starred and ended up in the sidebar. However, the superping syntax and user ID weren't replaced with the normal ping and user name there (...
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Nearly impossible late answer audit

So, I got this late answer audit (link). It is based on this deleted answer. Note that it can't be flagged, voted on, or commented on. This is likely because the question it is part of is also a ...
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Raising a moderator attention flag in addition to a spam/offensive flag

If I flag a post as offensive or spam, the UI tells me that I can raise an other (needs ♦ moderator attention) flag. I can type a message: But after submitting the flag, I get a pop-up telling me ...
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Can’t change username to an all-alphabetic word

TLDR: The alphabetic check is erroneously checking UTF-16 code units not Unicode code points! I attempted to change my username to the Gothic version, and I received the rather rudely rubicund retort ...
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Bad robot! I just logged in, I didn't create the post in 0.35 seconds!

Problem The robot dialogue (captcha) presents itself if you Compose a post on a site you haven't logged into without submitting the post Log in Submit the post (it's already filled out since Stack ...
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Destroying a spammer account is not considered a recent activity

When a moderator destroys a spammer account, that is not considered a recent activity. For example, in this screenshot, the last activity of a moderator is reported to be 8 hours ago, while that same ...
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Low Quality Posts reviews add comments more than once on behalf of reviewer

This answer came in Low Quality Posts review which was reviewed as "This is commentary on another post, not an answer" by this user*. But the comment was added 5 times automatically on behalf of that ...
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I think I may have broken the rep cap

I just noticed a drop in my reputation. It turns out that a rather unconstructive post was deleted and took a fair amount of reputation I earned with it. Given the amount of reputation I thought to ...
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Mod message header notification is missing

I've send four mod messages earlier today (busy morning) and I've just discovered that my fellow Programmers mods didn't get the usual "Yannis released the Kraken again" header notification for any of ...
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Certain links get broken when automatically converting trivial answers into comments

When a trivial answer contains links in the form: [link][1] info info [1]:http://example.com When they are converted to a comment, the links get mangled to something like: [link][2] info info [1]:...
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Bad Request - Invalid URL with Unicode in URL

There is a question on the Ru.SO that can't be opened (at least for me under Chrome and Edge) with HTTP 400 error: I have made a dumb question on Meta.SE to reproduce this. Question Bad Request - ...
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SE API: Recent OAuth 2.0 implicit flow breaking change

Changed behavior: Unexpected values returned with the access_token when using the implicit OAuth 2.0 flow We are, now, seeing additional scope data included in the hash for the URL used as the ...
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Review suspensions are not carried over with account merges

The user who is the subject of this CM escalation (link only visible to Stack Overflow moderators and Stack Exchange staff members) was suspended from reviewing for 365 days on Aug 10, 2022: Later, ...
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SE API forgot how to order badges lexicographically

As of recently, the Stack Exchange API endpoint for listing named badges started to error out when choosing to sort the result set by name. Can this be fixed as soon as possible, please? Switching to ...
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Ghost (nonexistent) votes in reputation tab

Unfortunately I have recently received some upvotes, which means that new bugz are uncovered... TL;DR: if there's a day, on which you receive upvotes on post, then you check reputation tab and after ...
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Broken pagination in the Winter Bash leaderboard

The pagination of the Winter Bash leaderboard is broken: It looks like there's an extra s to the class attribute (classs): Using class= works:
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Extra user card and two "log out" links in the Stack Exchange menu

Update Feb 19, 2022: This was partially fixed a while ago (i.e., on desktop mode) but just reappeared on all pages of Meta Stack Exchange, specifically (I can't repro on other sites): Original post: ...
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A Theory of Moderation page not found in Stack Apps tour page

In the Stack Apps tour page, the A Theory of Moderation link leads to a 404 error: Red marked line in picture: Reason is that the URL is not rendered, and is showing the raw https://stackapps.com/...
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I filled out a survey and now the system is thanking me all the time

I've just finished answering this survey, and now every time I go to some page at SOpt, it shows me this banner: It happens for every single page I visit on SOpt (main and meta). It doesn't happen ...
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Stack Exchange is intermittently failing at random areas

Stack Exchange is intermittently failing at random areas. Some issues experienced by me and others: I got logged out and couldn't log in Stack Overflow intermittently goes down saying it's ...
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It should be “large number” of off-topic comments, not “high amount”

See this, one of the notices for why a post is locked (emphasis mine): This post has been locked due to the high amount of off-topic comments generated. A link to a chat room will be posted in the ...
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Enabled/disabled mod menu options should be more visibly distinguished

Moderators get a menu of things we can do to questions. Some that aren't applicable will be disabled. There's a problem: depending on one's browser and OS it's nearly impossible to tell what's enabled ...
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Mobile allows triple-pinning

Once again, The Nineteenth byte has uncovered an strange and unusual obscure chat bug Normally, if you attempt to pin a message that has already been pinned by another user, you get the following: ...
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Main site suspensions to refresh chat profiles

Currently, for actively chatting users, if a moderator suspends on main, they have to manually refresh the chat profile of the offending user. Until they do, said user still has chat privileges. ...
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Why was I awarded the revival badge twice for one answer?

I am just awarded the revival badge twice for the same answer. I checked the Help Center and the FAQ question but can't figure out why. I also checked this question and I think I understand that it ...
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Failed audit adding to my Stats - Is it a Bug or a Feature?

Earlier today, I failed a review audit on Stack Overflow (yes, that does happen occasionally). Now, I'm not here to dispute that audit – my action (voting to reopen) was controversial, at best, and ...
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Markdown table preview does not detect missing blank line before table header

When I edited an answer to add a second markdown table, both the first and second tables rendered correctly in preview, but the second table does not render. I've waited about 10 minutes in case there ...
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Don't replace + with %20 in URLs inserted via Insert Hyperlink

If you use "Insert hyperlink" (Ctrl+L or the link toolbar button), it modifies the URL you provide by replacing + with %20 if there's a query part, including in the fragment identifier. This ...
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"You have starred and pinned this message"—no I haven't

Once more, The Nineteenth Byte has uncovered an exceptionally obscure chat bug. When I click the dropdown arrow from the transcript next to this message, I see: However, I've only starred it, and ...
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"Daily vote limit reached. Please go vote more!"

I just voted on an answer and got this: Daily vote limit reached; vote again in 8 hours. You haven't voted on questions in a while; questions need votes too! The idea of the message itself ...
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Trapped – you can join a chat room, but you can never leave

If memory serves correctly, once a user could click on the little upper button and leave a chatroom. That button is shown below: But recently, I started noticing that this is no longer the case – ...
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When is the violation of OpenID 11.5.2 going to be fixed?

The Open ID spec requires that relying parties differentiate between HTTP and HTTPS URLs: 11.5.2. HTTP and HTTPS URL Identifiers Relying Parties MUST differentiate between URL Identifiers that ...
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Editing comments steals my mouse!

IE 10.0.9200.16660 Windows 8 Steps to reproduce: Open Internet Explorer Navigate to http://serverfault.com (and possibly any other SE site) Create a comment Edit that comment Finalize the edit by ...
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Community ♦ flagging freeform closed posts for comment

On beta sites, when a post gets closed without comment, Community ♦ flags it for moderator attention. Apparently, a comment entered through the freeform close reason doesn't count: As you can ...
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CSS alignment issues on close reasons with pending votes

"Should" word in italics is shifted down in the vote-to-close popup when there is at least one pending close vote. Just have a look at this: Now without close votes: So the issue occurs ...
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Starring a message in chat that has a tag late in the message causes an empty tag box in the star list

Well, that's a decent title. Now what the heck am I talking about? Caused by starring this chat message. Seems to me like the box shouldn't be there at all since the tag is not part of the shortened ...
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Popup for suspending from suggested edits contains encoded symbols

The native browser confirmation popup that appears when a moderator is attempting to suspend a user from suggest edits contains encoded symbols in the username. Moreover, if the Cancel button is ...
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Vote buttons in the banner are different from the actual vote buttons

When you visit a site you haven't joined yet, it shows this banner: The current vote buttons don't match with the ones in the banner. Is there a redesign in progress for the banner? Note: From my ...
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RSS feeds returning wrong tags

I have a couple of tag RSS feeds set up across multiple sites, and apparently starting on January 2nd, occasionally the feeds are fetching data for a completely different tag. For example, on January ...
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In the top answers list on my network profile, an answer deleted five years ago shows up

When displaying my own top network questions and answers on place 7 a deleted answer shows up. I tested that this behaviour is the same when I am not logged in, so it has nothing to do with some ...
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Cookie dialog popup flashes for a moment even when I've already accepted all cookies

At the moment I frequently switch between SE websites, as I see different interesting questions. Every time I switch to a new SE site I see a single frame flash of the cookie popup (I'm not sure if ...
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Markdown preview doesn't match post

What I wrote: | Road class | [Syntax explanation](https://sites.google.com/site/roadnumberingsystems/home/general-information/legend) | | ----------------------------------...
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No notification when somebody edits the title of your question

I didn't get an inbox notification for this edit, even though title edits are substantive and you should get an inbox notification for substantive edits by other users to your posts. I've retested ...
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“X questions with new activity” showing incorrect information in windows with multiple tag filters

Recently (in the past week or so) I have noticed that windows in which I have multiple tag filters in effect -- say serialization + c# -- the X questions with new activity banner will give wrong ...
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What do the shield icons on custom question list pages specify?

I was just browsing through the Questions pages on Meta Stack Exchange, and noticed all questions have a shield icon in front of them. It reminds me of the icon sometimes used in Stack Overflow for ...
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Keyboard-only users cannot flag questions or answers

One of the baseline principles of web accessibility is that all functionality of a site should be available via keyboard navigation alone. It's an important baseline to accommodate those with muscular ...
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Make tooltip for migrated posts on localized sites human readable

Tooltip for migrated post on localized sites, e.g. on Stack Overflow in Russian* contains URL encoding and completely unreadable: Could it please be fixed to display not only Latin symbols? Same for ...
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The Feeds bot’s translate command is no longer working for moderators

Up till a few days ago, moderators in a chatroom were able to get the Feeds chatbot to translate things for us using the translate: blah or translate xx: unblah commands. This was disabled for regular ...
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