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Triple backticks code formatting doesn't showup 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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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 it doesn't, I usually flag one of my own posts for moderator attention so that they can escalate. But just now, I got a rather ...
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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?
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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 ...
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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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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: ...
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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 ...
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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?
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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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