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Does not work on Netscape Navigator 3.0
OP must not have had Internet connection or incorrectly setup Windows 95, as the site is reachable, but Netscape uses SSLv2, which is way beyond deprecated.
In the background of the error message ...
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Why was a moved question deleted? Moderator to whom deletion is attributed claims they didn't do it
I checked the logs on this to make sure, and did a bit of experimentation to see if I could reproduce.
The moderator who deleted this was handling flags from the mod dashboard (the post you reference ...
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Experimental feature asks me to provide feedback to someone who no longer works for SE
The text in question has been removed (as has the text declaring the feature to be experimental - I think that it has been around long enough to earn defacto no-longer-an-experiment status).
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My answer got edited without attribution
It's impossible for someone else to edit the post without leaving a revision trail, and even for your own account to edit without leaving a revision behind once the 5-minute grace period has expired.
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Stack Overflow duplicated layer bug
I am able to reproduce this running Firefox 68.3.0 ESR on macOS v10.14.6 (Mojave):
It appears that it is the exact same layer duplicated over one another.
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UNIKONG goes off the edge of my screen so that I can't see its bottom
I got the same problem, with the same configuration as you. Simply press
Ctrl -
That zooms out, so you can see all of it.
To get back to regular zoom afterwards, you can either press Ctrl + to ...
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UNIKONG goes off the edge of my screen so that I can't see its bottom
Obviously you didn't read the minimum requirements...
of browsing the internet in 2016.
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Old man got Still Fresh here?
You can see a partial list of sites where you've earned the hat in your hat rack. Your screen shot does not show this site there, though in theory it could be hidden behind "10 other sites". You can ...
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I can't flag a post on Area 51 even though I have 15 reputation
Flagging on Area 51 requires 50 reputation, not 15 as on all other sites in the network. Area 51's privilege levels are very different from other sites in the network because it's an old codebase and ...
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Able to create non-existent site tags by mentioning them in chat message
No, you didn't. On Programming Puzzles & Code Golf, which used to be a beta site, but is now in Phase 1 of its graduation, the minimum amount of reputation to create a tag is 150, not 300 (which ...
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"User does not have permission to comment on this post" error
I had the same issue being unable to post a comment despite it showing I was logged in. I think the problem was I had cleared my cookies but left a stackoverflow page open which thought I was still ...
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How can it be possible that my capped reputation is higher than uncapped reputation?
You will note the SQL comment at the top of the query you posted:
-- How high would my reputation approximately be when there was no cap or CW?
Key word here is approximately.
Bounties that you ...
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Automatic flags attached to irrelevant posts
Yeah, that's annoying. What's happening is that the flag has to be attached to a post, so the system uses the latest post containing a flag-deleted rude comment. Ignore the post and the innocent ...
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Question protection should block low-rep users with existing answers on the thread
The author of that question did have a reputation of 14 until a few hours ago. You can verify this rather easily via a SEDE query.
Earlier today, they lost 4 points to downvotes on a different answer,...
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Deleted posts still show up in search results (sometimes)
As you suspected, undeleting and re-deleting the question removed it from the index. With the original deletion so far in the past, it's hard to know why it was missed - so for now, the best we can do ...
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Stack Overflow duplicated layer bug
A couple of notes I made while testing (Firefox 71 on Windows 10):
I can only make this happen if I'm zoomed in
I can only make this happen on Firefox
The artifact disappears if I switch tabs or ...
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"Save Edits" button permanently disabled on questions
As of five minutes ago, it seems this has been fixed - the issue no longer occurs, and the error message I was seeing in the developer console no longer appears.
(example from Movies.SE)
Would be ...
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/timeline for some posts returns 500 error for moderators
We had some exceptions in our logs that may have been related at the time, so I addressed those, but ultimately I couldn't reproduce the issue here.
Fingers crossed that it stays that way. :)
Thanks ...
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Able to create non-existent site tags by mentioning them in chat message
It's not 1500 everywhere, but only on Stack Overflow.
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Moderator's diamond is not displayed anywhere except post's body (android app)
Problem was solved after updating Android version to - 7.0 (1635123498b3d). Picture of user list to confirm:
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I can't flag a post on Area 51 even though I have 15 reputation
I just checked your Stack Overflow account. You have never had 15 reputation there, or if you once did, it was from something that doesn't show up in the audit (e.g. an upvote that was revoked before ...
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Clicking 'Unsubscribe' and 'Email Settings' links in "The Overflow Issue" email newsletter leads to 404 Page Not Found
I checked the email I received myself and the unsubscribe link worked just fine, we're also seeing traffic in our logs to indicate that the links are working.
Judging from the URL that you hit in our ...
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Signs of sloppy authentication across the platform; cause or where to check?
Here's my updated, comprehensive list of recent dates when I had to log in again (newest first):
Jan 30, Jan 30, Jan 30, Jan 29, Jan 29, Jan 27, Jan 27, Jan 27, Jan 27, Jan 26, Jan 26, Jan 26, Jan 26, ...
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403 Forbidden error when attempting to log into stackexchange.com
I finally determined the root-cause: the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance that filters our HTTP traffic is configured to prevent access to URLs whose length exceeds a certain threshold. On older ASA ...
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Browser's status bar showing the markdown link text instead of actual URL
I had visited the same post as you did. This is not a bug.
What happened was that the original answer did not have the correct link. When the user realized this, he made the edit. As this edit was ...
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Activity trace of rejected edit delayed 90+ minutes, except by deep digging in timeline
Ok so looking through your access history, you never visited the correct place to find the information. You clicked on the top tabs of your profile to go through a bunch of different irrelevant lists.
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Voting counts frozen
The count for the progress bar is the number of votes on questions only.
The badge is awarded for voting on 600 total questions (answers not included), with a secondary requirement of at least 25% of ...
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The browser closes by itself while uploading an image
How many times has it happened? And is it strictly in Stack Exchange sites? And how much memory does your computer have?
When you upload images, then it's actually not to the Stack Exchange site - it'...
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