Questions tagged [status-bydesign]
Indicates that the reported behavior is intentional and not subject to change
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Duplicate deletion (same time) in question timeline
Impressed by how quickly a post on Academia SE was correctly flagged as spam, I looked at the timeline for Academia post 142860 (10k on Academia required) — it was deleted 58 seconds after posting, ...
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Trailing hyphens are ignored in tag suggestions
Trailing hyphens are ignored in tag suggestions.
Example from https://travel.stackexchange.com, tested in Chrome for Android:
Typing la- should have brought up la-paz instead of the five suggestions ...
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Sponsored tags no longer show appropriate icon
Sponsored tags no longer show appropriate icon next to tag name.
For instance, Android tag had green Android logo, that is no longer there:
While it is always possible that some tag is no longer ...
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Is there a bug in the Mother of Dragons trigger?
The secret hat 'Mother of Dragons'
has the following trigger:
More specifically:
I have asked a question a week ago on Earth Science: Does the geothermal activity influence the climate in Iceland? ...
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Names of close-voters are not visible in the post notice but in the revision history and timeline
I am not a user with close/reopen votes privileges on Travel Stack Exchange, therefore I can't see the names of the close voters in this question:
However, they are visible when going to the revision ...
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Where does that border come from?
Since today, post notices do have a blue border:
As you can see in the images in the post notices rollout Q&A that these used to have a gray-ish border.
Either the colors have been updated ...
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I am wearing a hat which I am not supposed to have
Most of us got "Glasses With A Number On Top" hat by mistake and by default I was wearing it from start but that hat was put back in the suitcase by SE but I am still wearing it:
It should have been ...
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Why wasn't I notified of new privileges I gained as a result of the recent reputation recalculation?
FYI: In the rep recalculation for questions, privileges didn't follow.
Today, a single upvote on this question, which constitutes all my activity on that site since recalculation, triggered the ...
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Snippets can be formatted in monospace
Example answer with bug.
By indenting the snippet generating comments, you can make a pretty odd snippet style, where the button titles are shown in a monospaced font.
let test = "Hello, world!";...
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Weird boxes in question title and body
I've just noticed these weird boxes in this specific question. Is this normal or does this look like a bug?
It even appears in this link-generated sentence:
Javascript line-height Property with █████...
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New Post Notices are reverted to old ones
As of today I not longer see new Post Notices across SE sites. They are all reverted to old ones.
Question with old notice on Stack Overflow
Question with old notice on Code Review
Question with ...
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Negative downvote count is not showing properly [duplicate]
In stackoverflow question How do I clone a specific Git branch?, more specifically in the answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/1911126/4021802, the negative vote count -162 is being shown as positive ...
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Self-learner badge has been incorrectly awarded
In the famous Why is SE removing links and community ads about legal issues? question by Juan M. he has been awarded the Self-Learner badge with his infamous answer.
But:
The question is not his.
...
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Single use tags are not deleted after six months if they were recreated via a rollback
The question Understanding risks of logging into Stack Exchange sites from a shared computer or network has two tags which have only been used once and have no tag excerpt or wiki: shared-devices and ...
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Answers/comments were not copied during migration to another site
My question What are the correct pronouns for referring to someone whom I have never met in person when the gender is apparent? has a banner
migrated from english.stackexchange.com Oct 25 at 0:...
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Clicking welcome notification on international Stack Overflow sites incorrectly opens English Stack Overflow tour page
For example, on ruSO.
Pressing on link opens: https://stackoverflow.com/tour.
But should be: https://ru.stackoverflow.com/tour.
I've found string bcad6de6449f923d84b7d6ed4bffe4b8:
Welcome to ...
asked Oct 28 '19 at 17:30
Suvitruf says Reinstate Monica
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Drop shadows on avatars eligible for expanded usercard has disappeared
According to the privilege page for established user rights, there is supposed to be a drop shadow next to avatars that expand upon mouse over into expanded usercards.
However, as of today, that drop ...
asked Oct 25 '19 at 2:10
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
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Why does the following Markdown (blockquote, code block, #) render the way it does?
Why does the following Markdown:
> ```
# test
render as it does?
<h1>test</h1>
Yes, you see that right: the # is converted even though it's inside a code block. Furthermore, it's ...
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Transcript has time in UTC
Just got invited to a chat and received the notification on Stack's INBOX
Once clicking on it in, i can the transcript with time in UTC which is one hour before my time zone
Then i click ...
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How did I just receive a tag badge if there were no recent upvotes on that tag and no edits to add that tag to prior answers?
Yesterday (14 October) in Music: Practice and Theory I received the bronze modulation tag badge. Yet a look at my reputation shows that I haven't received any upvotes on answers for modulation-tagged ...
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Bulletin board doesn't show 3 featured questions at a time [duplicate]
We know that questions with featured are visible throughout the network in the bulletin board i.e., The Yellow Box. Currently there are 3 featured questions out of which only two are visible on the ...
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Is there a maximum height of sidebar ads?
Today I saw a big ad with width 300, height 600, a sidebar ad on Cross Validated. This is quite annoying because I frequently visit Cross Validated at work.
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Next Tag Badge Selector doesn't show all available choices [duplicate]
There is no way to choose some tag badges even though ones with equal or fewer votes are choosable some are simply missing.
Notice that I can choose to track philosophy but not explainable-ai or ...
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You can propose six Tag Wiki edits
According to How do suggested edits work? you can propose five edits at one time:
When can I not suggest an edit?
You have 5 suggested edits pending (20 on beta sites). Wait for one of them to ...
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“Ask question” takes too much vertical space on questions with responsive mobile, looks bad
Almost all of this text comes from this previously closed and deleted bug report. That bug was fixed, but now it’s come back!
Looking at a question, I noticed that the “Ask Question” button by the ...
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Lists of questions sometimes don't show how many answers
Sometimes lists of questions don't indicate how many answers they have received:
Yes this particular question has not only received an answer, that answer has been selected:
Why doesn't the list ...
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Rep cap reached but not counted towards Legendary badge
Yesterday, I rep-capped on Meta Stack Exchange, but this instance wasn't counted towards the Legendary badge. Here is the situation on August 16th, three days ago, with the counter on 112, and this ...
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Markdown in chat fails sometimes for single line messages too
I found many questions similar to chat formatting issues but unfortunately none of them addresses my issue related to chat formatting and I am making it clear that I am not talking about multiline ...
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Add link styling to the latest activity link in the question stats
With the new design of putting the question stats under the post title, it's not obvious at all the latest activity time is a clickable link. The current style blends in with the non-link labels on ...
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Cannot flag as “should be closed…” after removing a “duplicate” flag
After removing a duplicate flag, I am unable to flag the question as "should be closed...". I am guessing this is because the duplicate flag is under "should be closed...". Is this intended? If so, ...
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Display issue of three-backticks formatted code
I came across an answer on Stack Overflow whose code is formatted with triple backticks (AKA CommonMark / GitHub style / ```), that layouts weirdly:
When I edit the question, the preview looks ...
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Cannot vote to close a question as a duplicate because it would lead to a circle, except it wouldn't
I'm trying to vote to close this question as a duplicate of this one. The former question had just been asked 20 minutes ago, whereas the latter one was closed as a duplicate back in 2010 and hasn't ...
asked May 6 '19 at 23:47
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
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Hidden communities not working in mobile?
I have the SE app on iOS. When I signed out and looked on my profile, I saw that the communities that I have hidden (Stack Overflow and Tor) are shown. Why does this occur, and will it be fixed? The ...
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Unable to rollback to previous revision
I edited my answer because the information was no longer accurate.
However, after editing I found that the formatting was broken, so I rolled it back to the previous version.
Unfortunately after the ...
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User's suspension period has expired, but they're still suspended?
I came across a user with a notification that states:
This account is temporarily suspended network-wide. The suspension period ends on Dec 2 '18 at 2:35.
Screencap for posterity:
Unless this ...
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Custom ordering of duplicate targets is not necessarily honored on mobile apps
The order of duplicates is different between apps and web. E.g.:
iOS
App Version: 1.6.6.2
Device: Unknown (iPad7,3)
OS Version: Version 12.2 (Build 16E227)
Android
App Version: 1.0.95
...
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Network profile name different from per se name
The user amWhy used to be an active participant on Math.SE. Here's their network profile.
I clicked on his/her per-site profiles, and each of them showed their new user name Namaste.
You may click ...
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“Go get it” for sportsmanship lists questions where mine is the only answer
The Sportsmanship badge is about upvoting other people's answers where you yourself also have an answer.
Now, I think "Go get it" on this kind of badge is questionable to begin with (i.e. it ...
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The default period for the users page is different on Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange sites
The default period for the /users page is different on Stack Overflow and all other Stack Exchange sites.
Previously for the /users page, the default period is set as "week". Now except Stack ...
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Avatars won't load in Firefox if very restrictive content blocking is enabled
This is quite a trivial bug. On https://math.stackexchange.com/tour if content blocking is enabled, avatars won't load:
Content blocking is set up to custom, trackers are blocked in all windows, ...
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New contributor has more than 1000 rep [duplicate]
This user has 1568 reputation yet is still a new contributor:
It's probably that this is the first time they post on meta.
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Reputation Retained After Deleting Answer on Migrated Question?
A couple of years ago, I answered a question (*) on EE.SE that was subsequently migrated to Home Improvement. Prior to migration my answer had IIRC about 5 upvotes.
I didn't have an account on Home ...
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Problem clicking on title of question to link
Consider the title of this question -- it's very long, multiple lines regardless of the size of the browser window..
If I wish to connect to the question, if the cursor is positioned between the ...
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Syntax coloring not working on the syntax highlighting FAQ page
The syntax highlighting FAQ page shows code samples in all black text. Is something broken with the syntax coloring feature?
Here's what I see on What is syntax highlighting and how does it work? ...
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Can't access favorite rooms from Meta Stack Exchange's chat
If I access chat from Meta Stack Exchange then tap on the "favorite" tab I just get a blank screen.
This is not the case for Chemistry Stack Exchange or a couple of other daughter sites.
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Incorrect number of questions shown on tag mouseover
I recently answered this question. I also edited the question's tags from exact-duplicates to duplicate-questions as the former is now synonymized to the latter.
However, when mousing over the latter ...
asked Feb 10 '19 at 20:03
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
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Issue with the search term in the stackexchange.com moderator page search
In the stackexchange.com - moderators page, there is a strange issue with the search text.
When I try with "ask" in the search box, it is displaying the matched entries such as Ask Different, Ask ...
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Defect on profile page: vertical line consisting of zeros
I have no idea what this is nor how to describe it but it looks like a bug to me.
Funny thing is, I tried visiting other users' profile pages but this "error" only appears on iBug's profile page. No ...
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Bug with rendering <code>`TEST`</code>?
There seems to be a bug with rendering the following snippet.
<code>`TEST`</code>
It is shown as TEST and should be visible with quotes.
Suprisingly the following works fine
<code&...
