Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behavior in the system that needs to be fixed.
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Typo or incorrect logic on protected questions?
I could be mistaken, but on this page I see I need 10 rep to answer:
I have 25 rep and can't answer. I'm not sure why?
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Escaped \` works in comment, but not answer
In the question & answer editor, the input:
`\``
produces the output:
```
Whereas in the comments, the same string correctly renders a code block containing a back-tick.
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Why was archive.is question deleted?
Why was the archive.is (cached) question deleted without a trace? (Apparently, " deleted by Sathyajith Bhat♦ 6 hours ago ".)
It's been heavily upvoted (75+ for question and top answer each), only a ...
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Main and meta favicon are indistinguishable
There is no difference between the favicon / small logo (the one which is used e.g. in the Achievements dialog) of Web Applications and Web Applications Meta:
(click to enlarge; the top one is meta, ...
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Minimum reputation message shouldn't display with "Join this community" message
The "Join this community" step should pop up without the required reputation message:
PS: I was trying to upvote.
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Profile page layout bug
phwd’s profile page layout has a bug, as seen below:
Tested in Safari, Chrome and Firefox, on Mac.
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Why isn't the +2 reputation from accepting an answer on your own question negated when that question (as well as the answer) is deleted?
Unless a post has a score > 3 and was visible on the site for > 60 days, the reputation gained and/or lost from it is reverted if it gets deleted.
Except it doesn't revert the +2 reputation for ...
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Different labels on main page
There's two questions on main page, both mention authors, but only one of them has label "asked", why?
Links to questions:
Birthday notifications on Google Calendar
How to configure Google Calendar ...
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Bottom border is not displaying in the profile page
There are few bottom border issue in the user profile page.
In the Profile tab - Top Posts section, the bottom border is not displaying.
In the Activity tab - Questions, Answers, Badges and Active ...
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Search index is way out of date
I think there's something wrong with this site's search reindexing job.
For instance, a search for [google-chrome] closed:0 (sorted by relevance) lists this question having been asked in April, 2014 ...
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Oops, something bad happened
I have been trying for the last half an hour to post a question about wordpress and privacy on Web Applications. All goes smoothly till it comes to time of submitting the question to the site. Once I ...
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No-longer-ignored tag displays as ignored
I have a tag that is displaying in question lists in faded form as if it is one of my ignored tags, but it isn't.
I had it as one of my ignored tags for quite a while, but as I started using the app ...
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Search operators not working correctly
I like to search for questions that aren't closed, that has at least one answer but which doesn't have an accepted or upvoted answer, so that I can surface hidden gems that deserve votes.
closed:no ...
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Inserting an image inserts extra bracketed numbers
I don't know if this is a bug or what so I'm reporting it as a bug.
Insert an image using:
Then see what seems to be an extra pair of brackets wrapped around a "1":
This doesn't seem to affect ...
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No completion of the name after @ in comments in Meta for Web Applications
There seems to be no completion popup when adding a comment to a particular answer. Steps to reproduce are:
Navigate to Clicking on tag link on a question does not list other questions with that same ...
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Tooltip flows under header
The tooltip for the impact widget on the profile page flows under the header.
(I have checked only on Ask Different and it behaves correctly there.)
Affected browsers:
Safari (Mac OS)
Google Chrome ...
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Phantom triangles on downvote warning
There are phantom triangles on top of the warning bubble when low-rep users downvote a post:
I'm running Chrome 40.0.2214.115 m on Windows 7 x64.
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Only featured questions being shown
Why are only featured questions being shown at this URL?
https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/facebook
Before, this URL would show all questions tagged with 'facebook'.
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Old answer (nov 2010) shown as new
An answer from late 2010 has just became available in the review section as a new user’s answer to an old question.
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"Title" label isn't aligned with the rest of Meta's ask question page [closed]
I noticed that on Web Apps meta, the "Title" label isn't aligned correctly on the ask question page. Compare the meta page:
To the page on the main site:
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On webapps.stackexchange.com, the protected question banner overlaps the “Not the answer you're looking for'?” banner [duplicate]
This is the same on all protected questions:
The top of all tall letters (N,t,h,',l,k,f,B,d - in order) are overlapping the yellow box.
This is a zoomed in image.
Page Examples here and here, in ...
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Number of Featured Questions Not Corresponding
I just answered one of the featured (bounty) questions. Checking the other questions, made me realize that only 4 questions were shown:
After clicking the complete list link, it showed me this list:
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Reputation updated globally, but not for comments?
Friend, new to SE, contributing to WebApps just sent me a screenshot, that shows, that reputation updates are reflected on general counter (user bar at top) but not in comments mechanism:
Is this a ...
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"You don't have the permission to use this type of flag"
In the Flagged Posts queue, I choose the "it has invalid flags" option. I receive this message:
I most certainly should have this permission. Certainly I have before now. The flagging dialog also ...
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Tags on the Users page get truncated when they are too long
When the tags are too long, they overflow and the result is as in the image below.
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Render Difference vs. Mobile
The table, created by Tom, renders a bit awkward on my Nexus 4.
On my desktop it renders OK: Answer on Web Applications
On my phone:
Model: Nexus 4, OS:4.3, Browser: Chrome Beta
OS: Win7, Chrome (...
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Can't include wildcards when creating a tag link
I wanted to create a tag link including a wild card:
[tag:google*]
but when I typed it I got:
[tag:google*]
i.e. Nothing.
It wasn't converted into a tag link.
ChrisFMod
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Tag missing from wildcard search
I did a search for all tags starting with "google":
[google*]
And it returned this url:
https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/google+or+google-spreadsheets+or+google-drive+or+google-...
ChrisFMod
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Edit suggestion rejected and approved at the same time
Some hours ago I have fixed multiple issues a post. This edit was rejected by the community user without any reason, a long standing bug on our network.
Strange enough, but now I see my edit was ...
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Excerpt Not Starting Correctly
The excerpt for the excel tag is not showing all of it's information. This is how it should start:
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application.
but it starts with:
a spreadsheet application.
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CSS bleed-thru on tags
I'm seeing an issue with CSS on Firefox (22, Windows) where the little triangles in the new tag icons are bleeding through popups.
Here's a screenie:
I have not checked it in other browsers.
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New Tag Not Properly Set to Cope With Text
I tried to update my profile and found the following with the newly styled tag:
Before and after is just one white space. It seems the spacing isn't properly set to cope with text.
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Render Error on Main Site
I noticed this (Chrome 26, Windows 7) on the main site of Web Applications:
As seen above the info image is too close to the unanswered image on the sprite
rev 2013.4.8.61
Firefox 19.0.2 - Windows ...
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Reputation in the user profile is not vertically aligned
The numbers that show the reputation in my profile are not vertically aligned. See the following screenshot:
Also see the following zoomed screenshot which shows that 3 is one pixel taller than the ...
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Add Buttons render differently in IE to Chrome
During a stay at my parents in-law (I don't use IE), I noticed that the buttons render differently in IE 10(version 10.0.9200.16466) and IE 9. See added snapshots:
IE10 (main)
IE9 (meta)
Should ...
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Reputation difference chat vs. normal
I had a chat session with @badp just the other day. Afterwards I noticed the following difference:
Chat
Normal
Does a mathematical relation exist between the two ((2*normal)+10...haha)? Is it a bug?...
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Percent-encoding of asterisks (*) in links
In this answer I linked a URL that contains a * character:
http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.alexa.com/topsites
The * char seems to be converted to %2a. When I click this link, I get the ...
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Inbox message for a question I have nothing to do with
I just received an inbox message regarding a question on StackExchange Meta that I never had anything to do with.
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<kbd> doesn't work in comments to answers/questions
Adding <kbd> tags into comments on questions & answers doesn't work. It just displays the HTML.
SHIFT
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Strange timestamp bug
Why is nickyt’s answer to this question dated in november 2010, while the question itself is dated in december 2011?
The question:
And the answer:
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Review page filter bug
I found the following error on the question review page. To reproduce it, click on the filter link. This happens on every type of review.
Edit: Idem for meta.
This occurs when the explanation of the ...
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Clicking repeatedly on the flag button repeats the “waiting” animation
When clicking repeatedly on the “flag” button, the “waiting” animation gets displayed as many times as there were clicks.
(To reproduce this, the AJAX response should take longer than expected.)
I ...
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Why Favorite and Ignored tags add button text is not visible on Web Applications site?
Just I have noticed on the Web Applications site that there is no text on the Add button for Favorite and Ignored tags text box.
See the screenshot below.
EDIT:
The same thing happens on Meta too.
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New activity is broken [closed]
The activity that displays new posts is broken, unless this is how it's supposed to be:
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Sidebar Box to the left of questions on meta highly unreadable
There is not enough contrast here, I feel as though this change was recent as I have not noticed this before.
All the notes have white text on light backgrounds.
Chrome 18.0.1025.163 Mac
Safari 5....
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Posts handled outside of /review do not count within review
I just handled How to use markdown in card description?, and edited it. Now going to /review it seems that I did not review the question as it shows up there (which I didn't if one thinks of review as ...
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Leftover posts in /review first answers not being reviewed
There are five posts currently in the /review section under the first answers tab that refuse to acknowledge I looked at them.
For example reviewing Facebook like button without iframe will show as
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Question title spacing
The space between the question's title and its content is not right and the up-vote arrow is overlapping the respective space. This happens in all major browsers on Mac OS.
See the screenshots below.
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