Questions tagged [status-bydesign]
Indicates that the reported behavior is intentional and not subject to change
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Links in Stack Exchange security website
I recently found this website: https://stackexchange.com/about/security
I noticed this:
I don't think that's how the link is supposed to be shown. Please fix it.
Also, I noticed some HTTP links. ...
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Is it intentional that nomination posts can be edited by the candidates even after the nomination phase has ended?
In the ongoing election on Mathematics, one of the candidates noticed that they are able to edit their nomination post even after the nomination phase has ended.
The nomination posts otherwise seem to ...
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Community user missing the "All" subtab under "All actions"
The Community user's All Actions tab ("Activity" page → "All actions") is missing the "All" subtab that normally is a record of all its actions.
Trying to force the ...
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200% of posts with this tag?
I was browsing users on Stack Overflow who had earned the Peer Pressure badge, and I randomly visited this user, when I noticed that
Though only one post was visible, the tag-score summaries reported ...
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The "elected in 20XX" link on the moderators tab does not show the most recent election for moderators that have been elected more than once
RPG just concluded their election, and one of our new moderators is actually an old moderator, nitsua60. The Moderators page in the users tab says nitsua60 was elected in 2017, and links to the 2017 ...
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OpaVote finds 3 more votes than the election page BLT
In the recent SO moderator election, OpaVote says that there were 28331 ballots. Downloading the .blt file from OpaVote and summing the vote weight also results in a total vote weight of 28331 as ...
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Dark application toolbar in Safari on Stack Exchange sites while in "light mode"
I updated to macOS v11.6 (Big Sur) and Safari 15.0 yesterday, and now Stack Exchange websites are defaulting to a "dark" toolbar on my machine. "Light" mode is set the system ...
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Why has a user's second question appeared in the "first question" review queue?
This question over at LawSE has just popped up as a First Question review, but it's the user's second question (this is the first) which doesn't seem right to me.
Am I missing something or is it a ...
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Wildcard tag search gives only first 3 matching tags to anonymous users [duplicate]
When I search [*dnd*] on RPG.SE I get nowhere near the correct amount of tags:
Now, I lack an RPG.SE account. When a logged-in user attempted the same search, they said they got:
[dnd-5e] or [dnd-3....
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Comments that end with inline code display a trailing dash
When a comment ends with foo, it will display with a trailing "–".
While it is easy to work around this bug by adding more text at the end, it would be great if it were fixed as this is very ...
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Is post edit rate-limiting broken? Or: how did this low-rep user vandalize all 9 of their posts today?
According to The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide, you can only
edit at most 5 of one's own posts per day, more for high-rep users (scales with reputation), does not apply to ♦ mods (multiple edits of ...
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Triple backticks code formatting doesn't show up in the suggested-edits queue on side-by-side mode
I just noticed that answers (I don't know about the questions), that used triple backticks codes in the body, don't show up in the suggested-edits review queue on side-by-side mode. Instead it shows ...
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Design bug on the user rank page: permalink displayed on hover
On the User Reputation Leagues pages, on hovering over our own entry at the top of the list, we see a permalink which is by default hidden. It also does not need to be displayed.
I think it's a design ...
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Incorrect redirect when removing language subdomain from a Stack Overflow URL
I arrived at this question from Google: CakePHP no me carca los estilos (https://es.stackoverflow.com/questions/172117/cakephp-no-me-carca-los-estilos)
I noticed it was in Spanish, so I attempted to ...
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Some posts of mine weren't re-associated to my new account after it was mistakenly deleted
Long story short, my old account was mistakenly deleted when I was 14 for being underage because I created my SO account when I was 12. This isn't allowed, because the minimum age is 13, but my ...
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Upvotes on passed review audits disappear
I upvoted a review audit that I passed, but after I was told that I passed, the upvote I cast disappeared. Shouldn't upvotes on passed review audits like this remain?
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Non-serial voting corrected
Yes, it's good that we have scripts to reverse serial voting and when they don't work, I usually flag one of my own posts for moderator attention so that they can escalate. But just now, I got a ...
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Capitalization of post action links is causing multiple rows of links
Just now, all the post action links at the bottom of a post suddenly are capitalized and slightly bigger. Which in general is nice, but sometimes they're now in double rows, and inconsistently too:
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Winter Bash has ended, but the hats metadata still seems to be available
Winter Bash 2020 has ended, but I discovered an old Stack Overflow tab from a few days earlier which still had the snowflake hats icon on top. To my surprise, when I clicked it, I still got my list ...
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My Hat Dash record scores don't show only until I play one round - winter bash
I sometimes play Hat Dash, but I also want to see my record scores. But I realize that when you click the Hat Dash button, your top scores do not show, it's is just a big blank space below the unicorn....
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Another potential problem with the Edward hat
I think I meet the criteria for the Edward hat:
Each day during a 5-day period, ask a positively scored question and have no negatively scored, closed or deleted questions.
Date
Question(s)
...
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How do the Hat Dash points work?
I know this seems like a simple question - I had just assumed that your points were directly related to the amount of time spent in the game. But my top scores table definitely shows situations where ...
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Tripped on a speck of dust in Hat Dash
I was waiting for my code to compile, but suddenly while playing I died for no apparent reason!
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Hat dash stats not matching the leaderboard
When I finish a game in Hat Dash, it says:
Games played: 239 over 152.3 minutes
When I look on the all-time leaderboard, it says:
User
Minutes
Total Games
kylejrp
130.92
133
I'm aware that games ...
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Winter Bash Rep Hunter hat not delivering
I was checking my answers and I counted that I have ten answers with positive score, but I wonder why I am not getting the Rep Hunter hat? Isn't the trigger to have 10 answers all upvoted in one day?
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Where can I report scoring bugs?
I found a scoring bug in the Hat Dash Game! Where can I report step by step to reach this bug? I had read this page and thought I would create a bug report with the steps to reproduce it here, but I ...
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Why didn't I get a "Jump for Joy" notification this morning?
To earn the right to play the Hat Dash game, you need to first get the "Jump for Joy" notification:
I didn't get this notification in my inbox or Winter-bash drop-down (first notification I ...
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No Hat Dash Button
I just realized I should see a "Hat Dash" button on winterbash home page when logged in:
However, no such button for me:
Can I please get the button too?
asked Dec 16 '20 at 10:22
Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3
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"Flashlight" hat not awarded with theme set to "System setting" when dark mode engages
Not sure if this is intentional or not; however, given the description is "Try Dark Mode" and not "Set the theme to Dark Mode", I figured I'd bring it up.
At least under Safari 14....
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No Winter Bash Knitting this year (2020)?
Is there no Winter Bash knitting this year, like in 2019? How about other seasons?
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CommonMark regression: image embed exclamation sign syntax broken after <p> tag
I ran into a regression change in the post formatting engine CommonMark.
If you try to embed an image using the exclamation sign syntax ![foo][bar] and the paragraph starts with a <p> or <hr&...
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For what it's worth, 'four' is missing transparency
On the Winter Bash 2020 countdown page (which is awesome, by the way!), I couldn't help spotting this:
All digits except four have transparency in their internal parts. Poor four doesn't. Can it ...
asked Nov 25 '20 at 14:12
Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3
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Show votes cast table content in one line if possible
There is the table on the votes tab:
As you see the dates displayed in two lines despite enough horizontal place to show them in one line.
It looks ever more weird for non-English sites, like on ruSO:...
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Hide communities page is too narrow
In the user profile site settings section all subsections except "Hide communities" use full width of regular content area. E.g.:
Preferences:
Flair:
Hide communities:
Can we please ...
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Ads should not cause a content shift
I recently joined a few Stack Exchange sites on which I don't have the reduce ads privilege yet.
The issue I experienced happens with the two "leaderboard" style ads that are displayed to ...
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Question bookmarks are not removed if my account is deleted
I can add an indefinite number of bookmarks to a question by bookmarking the question, deleting my account, and repeating. Bookmarks are not removed on account deletion. Is this behavior intentional? ...
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Cannot view all inbox items without creating a Meta Stack Exchange account
When I click "View all inbox items," if I hadn't joined the Meta community, it will redirect my to "Confirm new account" for Meta. For some reason, I need to have a profile on Meta ...
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Discovering the order of [product-discovery]
This is the front page of Meta Stack Exchange as I'm writing this post:
Even though status-review is used less often than the other three tags on that question, it's still listed before it. ...
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HTML comments break formatting from that point
I was writing up a signpost support question on our site meta. That post included a link which would need to be updated to another such question once asked. I therefore wanted to include an HTML ...
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Profile preview does not work for all posts
If you know, there is something like popover in all posts' authors area. So when I hover the author's avatar, I get some information about him. So, this does not work for all posts.
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Received inbox message about election that is underway, but there is no active election on the site
Just saw this:
In words:
The Stack Overflow 2020 community moderator election is underway — nominations now being accepted.
However, when clicking the message, I was greeted with:
Or in words:
...
asked Jul 6 '20 at 20:20
Shadow Wizard Is Vaccinated V3
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Deleted comments on followed posts persist in the global inbox
I think the title says most of it, but when you follow a post you get notifications in your inbox about comments made on those posts. These notifications persist even after the comment is deleted even ...
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"Go get it" button on editing badges has been removed on all other sites; should it be removed on this site too?
On Meta Stack Exchange, when tracking any of the editing badges (Editor, Strunk & White, or Copy Editor), opening the progress dialog shows a button to "Go get it". Upon clicking, you're ...
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Line after blockquote in spoiler not a spoiler?
When putting a blockquote in a spoiler, the line(s) after the blockquote are not hidden; this does not seem to be the behaviour I would expect? Hovering over the spoiler reveals the hidden text as ...
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Fenced code markdowns in posts before 2019 doesn't render correctly
This answer on Ask Ubuntu was posted in October 2016. The last revision was made then only and there answerer used fenced code markdown (```) which at that moment wasn't introduced on Stack Exchange. ...
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Line between number of answers and answers has vanished
I just saw now that the line between the number of answers on a question, and the answers to that question, has vanished:
There used to be a gray line between those two parts (where the red ...
asked Mar 19 '20 at 19:51
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
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Grammatical error in consent banner
I found a grammatical error in the consent banner (the banner at the bottom): "understand" should be changed to "understood".
So the banner content would become:
By using our site, you acknowledge ...
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congratulations for wrong badge [duplicate]
I got a notification “You’ve earned the "modular-arithmetic" tag badge”. However, when I clicked on it, I got congratulations for the last tag (card-games), for which I’d ...
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Can't comment on blog article
Tried to comment on this article for the first time but it said "Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!" (which is a Wordpress message). Why? Is this a bug? What am I ...
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Code highlighting colors were changed. Intentional or not?
Apparently the code highlighting colors were recently changed.
Given that we've had a few coloring bugs recently, I wonder if the change is intentional or not.
If it not intentional, I suggest ...
