Questions tagged [status-completed]
Indicates that the request has been satisfied through the implementation of a feature or the fixing of a bug.
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2022 Q2 Celebrating 10 years blog is untagged
The quarterly 10 years anniversary blog is up, but it doesn't have any tags at the bottom:
unlike the previous one, which is tagged [community].
Interestingly, the tag is shown at the top:
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I'm no longer able to log in to stackoverflow.com from Login link on that site
When I click the Login link on stackoverflow.com, I get redirected to this URL:
https://stackoverflow.com/users/login?ssrc=head&returnurl=https://stackoverflow.com/
This will give me an error for ...
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On StackApps.com the /admin route ends in a server error
I just tried to visit the Stack Apps Mod dashboard but that ends in an
Oops! Something Bad Happened!
and it is all your fault. At least that is what it says in the next paragraph.
I checked with a ...
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Inbox and reputation overlays don't open for Teams users
On Stack Overflow and other network sites, when I attempt to open the inbox or reputation window, something opens very briefly but immediately closes.
This occurs on Chrome and Safari. Other users in ...
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No audio in Ep. 455 and discrepancy in episode numbers
Today's episode "An Engineer’s Field Guide to Great Technical Writing (Ep. 455)" doesn't have audio (this seems fixed now). Error message is:
404
Audio Not Found
The episode numbers in the ...
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Change status blog address to https://www.stackstatus.net/ in the offline for maintenance page
When the site if offline for maintenance, we see this:
The status blog currently links to https://stackstatus.net which is down for some people (myself included) for reasons described in this comment....
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Error Message when downvoting then recommending deletion in Low Quality Answers/Posts is misleading
I was served a review in Low Quality Answers on Stack Overflow.
The post had a score of +1. This makes it ineligible for deletion, so the review options that were served to me were "Looks OK"...
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Creating tag synonym throws an error ..in an erroneous way
I was trying to create a synonym on Arts & Crafts. Clicking the 'Create Synonym' button threw this error:
It seems the 'Create tag synonym' pop-up got replaced by the code of the (error) page I ...
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Achievements button broken on topbar
Since yesterday evening it seems that the achievements button is broken for me.
Clicking it just gives me an empty box (with a perpetual loading indicator):
and looking in Chrome's devtools it ...
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This tag is hurting my [workflow]
The workflow tag has no tag wiki or excerpt, 11 questions, and is used for various kinds of workflows: those of users on Stack Exchange for many different scenarios, and even those of staff members. ...
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Weird profile icon on topbar on Insights
This is very similar to this bug, but on a different domain. The top bar on insights.stackoverflow.com has a weird profile icon. Unlike the previous bug, this one actually kinda works. Here's what you ...
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Typo in today's podcast - Github should be GitHub
If you notice How an average programmer became Github’s CTO, both the title and the body of the post have Github written with only one capital letter while the usual styling of the name should be ...
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Many API requests to /questions with filter parameters are failing with status code 400 errors
For some questions, using a filter parameter appears to break the API, causing it to return a "400 Bad Request" status code with the following payload:
{"error_id":404,"...
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Long site names shown in the visible communities in the Profile tab are not truncated, resulting in inconsistent left-column widths
When users have accounts on sites with long names (for example, History of Science and Mathematics) and have them displayed in the visible communities list in the Profile tab, the width of the left ...
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"You don't have the permission to use this type of flag" when casting a spam flag
Today I attempted to flag a question as spam on Stack Overflow; however, it was deleted the same moment as I cast the flag. The UI shows a popup
You don't have the permission to use this type of flag
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The new icon on the topbar on stackexchange.com doesn't have a dropdown menu
On stackexchange.com, there seems to be a new icon on the topbar:
From the image above, you can see that I've clicked on the (rightmost) icon, but there doesn't appear to be any dropdown menu ...
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Markdown rendering anomaly in the Help Center on SO
On Stack Overflow the privileges for a trusted user page in the Help Center currently shows the following minor rendering anomaly:
##Deleting answers ###When should I vote to delete an answer?
As ...
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Syntax highlighting changes in the middle of a token; resolved in a later version of Highlight.js
The code in my answer over at Stack Overflow highlights very strangely:
I discovered this at Stack Overflow, but it affects just as much all other Stack Exchange sites with highlighting enabled (I ...
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Can you please close the "Stackexchange.Arduino" database? It has been open long enough for now
I was running a query this morning similar to:
create table #validaccounts(accountid int primary key)
declare @sql nvarchar(max)
select @sql = concat(N'insert into #validaccounts
select distinct ...
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Distinguish between deleted and non-deleted posts in bookmarks and followed posts
Here is a screenshot of what I see of the first few bookmarks I have on Stack Overflow:
Bookmarks tab:
Summary Page:
Since I have more than 10k reputation on Stack Overflow, I have the ability to ...
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Sporadic bursts of extreme slowness across all pages on all sites
I (and several other users at the same time) have been periodically experiencing extremely slow page loads (including, at times, pages erroring out after trying to load for a while).
It appears to ...
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Images in "Agility starts with trust" blog post have no alt text, making it less accessible
If we have any hope of making technology more diverse and inclusive, we have to make technical learning resources accessible to all.
That's a direct quote from "Agility starts with trust", ...
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Math error in blog post on web3
From yesterday's blog post on web3:
Of the 595 developers surveyed, a sizable portion had no idea what we were talking about: 36% responded with “What’s Web3?” Of those in the know, 25% think Web3 is ...
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Outdated screenshot of set bounty dialogue in Help Center
The screenshot of the set bounty dialogue in the set bounties privilege page of the Help Center is outdated. The order of the buttons has been reversed:
Now the Next button precedes the Cancel link ...
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Alignment issue in the toggle for tracking a tag badge/next privilege
There's an alignment issue in the toggle for tracking a tag badge/next privilege:
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Should this site have a tag for "default tags"?
When a new Stack Exchange site is created, some tags are automatically created on its corresponding meta site. (I don't think there are any such tags on the main/regular Stack Exchange site itself.) ...
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Already-approved pending edit goes <br>
Clicking the "Edit" link on a post when a pending suggested edit has already been approved results in this toast:
The HTML should not be escaped.
Prior art:
HTML is showing up in the pop-...
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What's the difference between "Company Alerts" and "Company Alerts"?
(Note: The title is intentional)
On the "Edit profile" page, in the "Edit email settings" tab, there are two settings for turning on/off "Company Alerts":
One is just a ...
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Every site just turned blue
Probably not intentional, but every site's theme just turned a(n admittedly nice) shade of blue.
CGCC:
Infosec:
Cooking:
]
Worldbuilding:
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Stop tracking users without their consent
Right now, if you visit an SE site the following things happen:
two cookies _ga and _gid are saved, those contain unique IDs used for Google Analytics
a request is made to www.google-analytics.com ...
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Reference to Developer Story when Editing User Profiles on all Sites except Stack Overflow
When editing your user profile on any site except Stack Overflow, there is still a mention to the developer story in the Private Information section, next to the Full Name text box:
Since Developer ...
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Badly escaped HTML results in plain text instead of markup in toast notifications (e.g. "You can't vote for your own post".)
There's an HTML escape bug that's reproducible network-wide.
Also mentioned on Super User, this is not just "ugly", but also causes prevents the link from being clicked, which is more ...
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Toast notifications are not being shown; a TypeError in `StackExchange.helpers.showToast` is thrown instead
Some toast notifications (i.e. those banners as shown in this screenshot) are not being shown; an error is visible in the console instead.
This bug applies to Meta Stack Overflow and Meta Stack ...
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Response email from Stack Exchange contains link to https://portal.stackexchange.com which I can't access
On 27 February 2022, 02:20 PM (Indian Standard Time), I received an email from Stack Exchange (refer this post for details about the email) containing this link: https://s.tk/ooo (which ...
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Unable to customize cookie settings on stackoverflow.co
I wanted to look something up about the company and the About link took me to the new marketing site for Stack Overflow. I got the cookie privacy notice and it initially appeared as it's supposed to. ...
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In the new top bar, the moderator diamond no longer changes color to indicate new inbox messages
The title says it all—this is yet another regression with the unannounced, untested, unwanted launch of the redesigned top navigation bar. Moderators have a diamond icon in their top bar, which is ...
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Can I dim the top bar?
The color changes to the top bar now make it SCREAM AT THE USER .. as if it contained neon icons. All the icons are an eye magnet with the dark background.
It's not so bad on Stack Exchange sites ...
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The top bar's Stack Exchange logo is permanently max-width and squeezes out the site switcher on mobile, requiring scrolling to access
The newly updated top bar has come with a change that's kind of inconvenient on mobile: the “Stack Exchange” logo is full width always, and this squeezes out the site switcher, requiring people to ...
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Option to remove fuzzy outline and restore clarity to the counts on new top bar
I don't normally care much about these things, but the new fuzzy outlines (and related changes) on the numbers of unread messages / rep delta really hit my eyes wrong (and my eyes are already ...
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Chat top bar styling is broken
The most recent rollout of the new top bar design broke the styling for the chat top bar - can this be fixed, please?
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What is the idea behind the new top header icon color?
Before
After
If this was intended, what's the idea behind this?
More 'readable'?
The change seems to be platform wide, but due to the white background color on SO it does not seem to have any ...
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Change the way log in and sign up buttons (in header) appear in mobile
This is how the log in and sign up buttons appear in mobile (when I am logged out):
I noticed this change today. It was looking fine yesterday.
The buttons look ugly. Please fix them.
This is how ...
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Is it intentional that the question titles on per-site metas are now orange?
Looks like this again Some per-site-metas are orange - again? except it is the link styling and not the other parts of the page.
Sites I visited with the issue: ELL, EL&U, The Workplace.
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Regular moderators can still purge the history of messages in moderated private rooms
The Teachers' Lounge is a "moderated private room", in which regular moderators like me have limited powers:
They won't be able to
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purge the history of messages
I can see that the ...
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It's possible to retract and re-cast a delete vote on answers, contrary to the tooltip's advice
When retracting a delete vote, the following popup is displayed:
To quote the text directly:
rpg.stackexchange.com says
Retract your vote to delete? You won't be able to vote again on this post.
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"Thanks for participating" email is in unparsed Markdown
I just received a "Thanks for participating" email for the Proof Assistants site. I assume these are sent automatically by a script, but it seems to have missed the Markdown-to-HTML parser ...
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The new answer sorting menu appears in English even on language specific sites
It appears that the new sorting menu has been rolled out network-wide, but no exception was made for our language specific sites:
Stack Overflow на русском (Question from screen capture)
Stack ...
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Text sorting layout on “answers” is broken on mobile
Just notice how the formatting is off in the middle where you can choose to sort by tab group.
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Capitalization issue in the answer sorting menu
In the answer sorting menu, "Highest Score" is in title case, whereas the other two options are in sentence case:
The screenshot provided in Revisiting changes to answer sorting menu: ...
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Answer sorting menu is cutting off the bottom part of letters
When sorting things by the default sorting, the 'g' from the word 'Highest' is cut off.
I'm using Chrome, at the most recent version (99.0.4844.82), and my zoom level is at 100%. If I zoom out to 90% ...
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