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My winter hats don't work "An error occurred while changing the hat" on StackOverflow.com [closed]
The error that appears in a little red box:
An error occurred while changing the hat
My winter hats broke after I added an account that had an old question linked to it. During the merge process it ...
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I did not get the Greeter hat
On biology stack exchange, I had reviewed a new first question and upvoted it. Then I edited it. The edit was definitely in the post body. After I edited it, I did not get the hat so about 20-30 ...
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Wrong image alt text on Winter Bash 2015 [closed]
I had just a network issue while loading the main page on my mobile and I was greeted with a Winter Bash 2013 text. I had to double check the url, it seems that the alt text is broken.
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Why did Winter Bash 2015 go down? [duplicate]
It appears that Winter Bash just went down. The Winter Bash site now redirects to http://stack exchange.com/promos. Additionally, the snowflake and my hats have disappeared from my view. Is this a ...
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Where did the hats go?
For some reason, I can no longer access the Winterbash 2015 page--when I try, I get redirected to the Stack Exchange promotions page instead, just like Winterbash is over. Except, we should still have ...
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Double hats on profile page [closed]
I just earned a tag badge, and the "Congratulations!" box had another copy of my hat-tally added to it:
Whaddup-wid-hat?
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Why didn't I get the Hairboat's revenge hat?
According to the secret hat trigger list:
So I left this comment:
It's been over 4 hours and I still don't have the hat. What gives?
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Why can't I see hats on my phone using the app [duplicate]
I am loving the winter bash and I love that there are things to do on your phone to get a hat. But then you can't see them on the phone.
You can't even see a list of earned hats. I am using the ...
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Zombie page when actual last page got exactly 20 items [closed]
Few minutes ago, I clicked the last page in the Stack Exchange Network Leaderboard:
Just to be greeted with an empty and sad page:
Manually going to the previous page (2186 at the time) ...
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429 Too Many Requests error on winter bash site
After looking through the top 20 pages of the leader board on the winter bash, if I go to the next page I get this error:
Too many requests. Wait 40 seconds before requesting this resource again.
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Hat on profile disappears after acknowledging an earned badge [duplicate]
On the Activity section of the profile page, there's a little blue hat in the top-right corner of the badge section. When I receive a badge, it gets partially covered by a congratulatory message. When ...
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A bug with the Hats Beanie display [duplicate]
I recently noticed this bug while visiting a new site:
Having the beanie overlapped like that is rather annoying to be honest. Not sure if it is a wrong z-index value or relative positioning issues.
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z-index on badge icon is incorrect with hats overlapping it
See that image above. The hat comes out of the gravatar and overlaps the badge count. What should happen is that the hat should cover the badges. However, it doesn't cover the badge icon. Now the ...
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Winter Bash - no Greeter hat
On this Post:
Click on link using VBA
I did edit it
I did upvote it
Its his first Post
I didn't get the Greeter hat. Did i miss something?.
Additional Information: That one upvote also triggered ...
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"Congratulations! Thanks to your efforts you have earned" box appears on top of the hat picker
Normally the hat picker is on top of the "Badges" box in your activity tab, but when there's a "Congratulations" there, the hat picker appears behind it:
Also, as @MikeMiller mentions, the hat ...
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Spanish translation for Greeter hat is incorrect
Recently, I have been having trouble getting the Greeter hat.
I live in Argentina, so therefore, Stack Exchange sites shows me spanish text when available. This is the case for hat descriptions.
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Can I lose a hat? [duplicate]
Yesterday I had the secret hat described as Hairboat's Revenge, but now I have lost this hat, is it possible?
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Hats borked in chat: Hat appears in top-right corner of user image [duplicate]
Possibly related to this question, I noticed a bit ago that occasionally there is an issue with the hats in chat. Here's a screenshot to demonstrate:
As you can see, @AidanMueller's hat is fine in ...
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Hat icon appearing in top left of chat room, not over user picture
Why is the hat for bjb568's user profile in the top left of the screen rather than over his user icon?
It seems to be attached to that line of messages. This is what happens when I scroll up:
The ...
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Cannot see someone's hat collection on their SO or meta.SO profiles [closed]
Based on a quick sampling of a dozen users over a number of sites, it appears that you cannot see someone's hat collection on their network profile (makes sense) but, out of all the other sites and ...
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Hats Load on Pages, but don't always go away
I had an interesting problem with hats loading oddly this afternoon:
When I changed the hats on a separate tab, the hats loaded in, but never left, which was awkward for all of us.
I was running ...
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What are the requirements to get the "Weed Eater" hat?
The hat's description says
answer a question qualifying for the Tumbleweed badge that gets accepted
During the winter bash, I answered a question that is a tumbleweed, and it got accepted; yet I ...
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Names can be hidden under hats in chat
If a user types a couple of lines right after each other in chat, the avatar grows to it's maximum size.
So does the hat.
Because of the size of the mask and the short length of the name, the name ...
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Winterbash page size doesn't match up with image locations
The Winterbash page using Chrome on iPad with iOS 9.2 does something weird with positioning images. That last house on the right:
This happens in portrait and landscape.
Post fix being pushed - here ...
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Hat counter has lost track
I just noticed the following on the Code Review Winterbash leaderboard:
Now, if my math is correct, TopinFrassi has 5 hats and rolfl has 4 hats.
Why doesn't the leaderboard agree with me here, is ...
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Melpomene hat has contrast problems [closed]
The Melpomene hat is nearly invisible on some avatars and site designs because it lacks any outlining to prevent disappearing into white areas:
(It similarly disappears into its own hat box on the ...
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Winter bash hat issue in mobile profile page [duplicate]
I noticed that my Winter bash hat, which is hovering over my profile picture on the profile site, has the following issue:
When scrolling down on the page, the hat scrolls with you as if it had a '...
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Magical floating hats [duplicate]
On user profile page: Hats appear correctly positioned ...
until the page is scrolled...
App Version: 1.4.1
Device: iPhone 6
OS Version: Version 9.1 (Build 13B143)
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Don't show Private Beta sites in Leaderboard
Just noticed this in the Winter Bash Leaderboard when scrolling all the way down:
Excited, I clicked to see the profiles on that site, e.g. this one, just to be greeted with...
In my opinion, ...
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Winterbash Hats: localized description
I have visited http://winterbash2015.stackexchange.com/ to see more about hats
It shows me localized description for hats (Russian). A bit strange after English-only SO.com, I'm Ok with English, but ...
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Hat position is wrong in iOS app, scrolls with page
When visiting my profile on the mobile app, my hat scrolls with the page:
It doesn't stay linked to my icon at the top.
I'm on an iPhone 6+ running iOS 9.2 and version 1.4.1 of the SE app.
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