Questions tagged [status-bydesign]
Indicates that the reported behavior is intentional and not subject to change
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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 at 19:51
Sonic the Stay-Home 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 ...
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What can't I see the bounty on the answer?
I awarded a bounty for my question about keys in vim on Feb 13th, to reward an existing answer. I delayed the final "OK" to get more views. Help said
If you do not award your bounty within 7 days (...
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I click upvote, the score becomes negative one (from zero) [closed]
I was trying to upvote an answer, but the score became negative rather than positive.
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Some posts from users who are not “new” users (e.g., one with over 620 answers & about 18,000 rep.) ending up in the First Posts queue
The Math SE post Do most numbers have exactly $3$ prime factors? currently has 2 answers. The top of the timeline for the question is
Note the question's user SmallestUncomputableNumber has over 1,...
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Pressing enter in the edit reason field can inadvertently submit an edit suggestion
When writing an edit reason, I hit the Enter key by accident, and it submitted the edit. Could this behaviour be removed?
I did not have edit privileges. The edit was submitted to the review queue, ...
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Question deleted under RemoveDeadQuestions does not show negative score at deletion time
A question deleted under RemoveDeadQuestions does not show negative vote at deletion time. From the question timeline (link needs mod access on Earth Science SE):
At score 0, it should be removed ...
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Did the colors of the vote counts become lighter just now?
I just noticed that the colors of the split vote counts have become lighter than they used to:
(ignore the "(6.1%)", that's a user script)
Is this intentional?
asked Feb 6 at 23:12
Sonic the Stay-Home Hedgehog
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Incorrect Tag Scores in Profile Activity Summary [duplicate]
Issue:
My profile summary on SO Meta shows that I have one answer and all of that answer's current tags show in the Tag section, however the points of the answer do not align with the points of (all) ...
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Tiny communities list block on the Edit Profile Page
https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/hidecommunities/current
Has something been changed recently? On the communities page the whole block was narrowed.
Cause of this css rule:
.wmx5 {
max-...
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Stack Exchange sometimes fails to @-tab-complete a username
When we comment about others' answers or questions, we may want to notify the other user. As far as I known, we can type @username_you_want to mention the user you want get in touch with.
Most times ...
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Did the kerning/leading just change on SE?
It's very slight, but I just ran through all my SE tabs in Safari refreshing one after the other, as I do a hundred times a day [when I'm bored] & everything on each page just spaced a tiny bit ...
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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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1answer
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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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Duplicate post notice missing the duplicate
Just browsing and came across a question marked as duplicate, but the post notice doesn't have a link to the duplicate:
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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 - Andrei Apanasik
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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 Stay-Home 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, ...
