Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
178
questions
6
votes
1
answer
110
views
Bottom bar floating in middle of the page
The bottom bar (that black almost a straight line thing) is floating in the middle of the page on reviews.
This may be a regression of:
Footer line floats up too high in the main review page
Line in ...
user40980
3
votes
1
answer
30
views
Top bar shows large number of suggested edits, but the review queue is empty
When logging in today, I saw a notification that there were 31 suggested edits to be reviewed (which is an unusually large number), but when going to the review page, the queue was empty.
Even after ...
- 74.7k
3
votes
1
answer
120
views
Cannot Answer Protected Question with 101 Rep
I was browsing and I noticed this somewhat old question: here. I just got an association bonus from my other accounts, so now my reputation is at 101. However, I still get:
protected by GlenH7 Dec ...
- 103
0
votes
1
answer
72
views
Why do I get questionblock after just two deleted questions?
I would like to know, how the questionblocks come.
I asked on programmers exactly three questions. One I deleted myself, another one was deleted by community and the third got one upvote, two ...
- 624
5
votes
1
answer
103
views
Pop up for Low Quality comment options behind links
The popup for the 'leave a comment' is showing up behind the links at the top of the page:
All of the following screen shots are from a mac.
Original report in Safari:
Fresh install of Firefox:
...
user40980
1
vote
1
answer
58
views
Link "title" attribute lost in HTML except when editing
Hovering the mouse pointer over a link having a title attribute should display the title, but currently this works only when you are looking at an editing preview of the post.
There is something ...
- 574
4
votes
0
answers
25
views
Edit form duplicates when editing a reviewed post
Recently I reviewed some first posts. One post's formatting was pretty bad, so I choose "Edit", to improve it. On Stackoverflow I do not have to add a summary, because I've got enought reputation. ...
- 254
4
votes
2
answers
116
views
Confusing Closing -> Off Topic dialog
The dialog for closing questions as being off topic lists the following reasons:
Questions about specific programming problems encountered while writing code are off-topic, but can be asked on ...
- 74.7k
2
votes
1
answer
56
views
How long will migration candidates be held [on hold] until migration takes place
Today, I noticed a question that was placed [on hold] (as the new pre-cursor to being closed), with as reason
put on hold as off-topic by Oded♦ 1 hour ago
This question appears to be off-topic....
- 74.7k
4
votes
1
answer
59
views
Review Audit quality?
Related question - Where to ask for advice regarding a review audit?
I just ran into a review Audit:
The question for which the first post occured was: Are certifications worth it?
I checked the ...
- 553
2
votes
0
answers
79
views
Site style: bold text is not distinguishable from normal text
I'm trying to replicate (this was supposed to be bold) the problem here.
Browser: Firefox 17.0.6 ESR.
bold (doesn't work)
normal
italic (works)
That's how bold shows up on Unix SE:
Update: turns ...
- 917
6
votes
1
answer
150
views
That's not really an ampersand, is it?
From our "what's reputation" help page:
Can we get a good old ampersand please? The ligature has been around for almost 2000 years (early instances can be seen in Pompeian graffiti), I'm kinda used ...
- 39.6k
5
votes
1
answer
92
views
Footer lines inconveniently positioned when editing from the first posts review queue
The footer line is misbehaving again and overlapping the edit preview when editing a post from the "First Posts" review queue (possibly others?)
This is from Chrome 28 on Linux:
This from ...
- 2,066
5
votes
0
answers
75
views
Programmers.SE Theme partially covers rev/copyright notice [closed]
An extremely minor complaint/observation.
The rev notice is partially obscured by the theme. I checked and no other SE sites seem to use images in that part of the footer so the "problem" is isolated ...
- 3,556
2
votes
0
answers
45
views
Newest question(s) not visible
When a new question is asked, a message appears at the top of the questions feed, saying
x new questions
When I click it, the newly asked questions are visible. After refreshing the page, these new ...
- 7,383
2
votes
1
answer
146
views
Some cat ate The Whiteboard; Chat has broke
It would appear as though The Whiteboard has been swallowed whole like an egg roll by this cat:
Help?
- 16.1k
2
votes
0
answers
89
views
Somebody broke Programmers.StackExchange [closed]
No questions are coming up. Error, error, basically. Meta works fine, so uh, great...
- 16.1k
3
votes
1
answer
45
views
Bug in new reopen Q display - Chrome
Browser: Chrome Version 25.0.1364.152 m
I see when I reopen a Q now, it shows (votes/5), and when I add my vote it tries to increment to (votes+1/5) this is new, and has a bug because it doesn't ...
- 16.1k
3
votes
0
answers
48
views
bug with horizontal scrolling
I don't know if this really qualifies as a bug, since the repoduction steps are a bit silly, but here it is:
log on programmers (with chrome 25 in my case)
reduce the browser window to get an ...
- 7,980
8
votes
1
answer
128
views
Search brings up deleted questions in results
Couple of days ago I started noticing deleted questions appearing in search results. At first I thought it was mod vision (moderators can search for deleted posts) but today when I happened to search ...
- 39.6k
1
vote
2
answers
102
views
Something very strange going on in a closed question
Can someone have a look at this question? Some newbie who apparently doesn't understand the idea of abstraction came along and asked a question that, admittedly, is a bit ranty. Several people, ...
- 82.8k
6
votes
1
answer
83
views
1
vote
1
answer
77
views
"In the election phase, 10 candidates advance..." really 10?
Note at 2013 Moderator Election page states:
In the election phase, 10 candidates advance to final community voting...
But there are three candidates, not 10, as indicated by another note at this ...
- 21.2k
3
votes
1
answer
101
views
Buggy "Announcer" badge?
I received an announcer badge for a question. Supposedly, the badge is for sharing a question such that it attracts visitors from 25 unique IP addresses. Problem is, I've never shared a question, and ...
- 3,612
2
votes
2
answers
41
views
Possible bug in "unanswered" filter
Possible bug in "unanswered" filter: As shown in the screen capture below, the url says "unanswered", but the page content disagrees.
I don't think this is a browser problem, as I replicated this ...
- 143
2
votes
0
answers
24
views
Bug: The 'View More' link underneath 'Reputation' is missing from the mobile view
I'd like to report a bug.
The 'View More' link underneath 'Reputation' is missing from the mobile view.
- 8,005
6
votes
1
answer
64
views
Close Dialog Display Bug
Whenever I open the close question dialog on my laptop's 13" display, the upper portion of the popup winds up on top of the "Questions Tags Users..." navigation bar, but due to an issue with the ...
user7007
2
votes
1
answer
50
views
Incorrect Time Calculation
I think there may be a problem with the time on the StackExchange servers. I checked my profile today and noticed that I had received the "And I Feel Fine" hat, which states that it is for having ...
user7007
2
votes
1
answer
80
views
Programmers blog promo image issues
Most side panel advertisements/promotions that I recall have a non-white background. However, https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ihs34.png (Programmer blog promotion) has a white background. When compared ...
user40980
4
votes
0
answers
36
views
Image covers the review page [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Footer line floats up too high in the main review page
Looking the review page, I notice the list of the review queue is covered by the image I normally see at the bottom of ...
- 4,004
1
vote
0
answers
38
views
Line in UI goes under review tasks [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Footer line floats up too high in the main review page
See the screenshot below. I don't know whether this is because I only have 249 rep, but it's there, all right.
Note: I ...
- 452
16
votes
0
answers
346
views
kerning issues - click reads like dick, letter spacing
Using Firefox 16.0.2 22 on Windows 8, I've had a hard time reading certain sentences. Browser is normal zoom.
clean looks like dean.
click looks like dick.
Screenshot if you cannot see it:
And ...
- 1,948
10
votes
1
answer
149
views
Footer line floats up too high in the main review page
I'm seeing this on Chromium 22 (Windows & Linux) & Firefox 15 (Windows):
The footer line is a bit in the way. Tried the usual clearing of caches/hard refresh but that doesn't seem to help....
- 2,066
2
votes
1
answer
55
views
Programmers SE Menu - Whitespace Doesn't Link
On the Programmers SE site, the menu (with links to Questions, Tags, ect) has a line drawn and text changed to red (or gray in meta) when hovering over that menu item. However, the user must hover ...
- 101
5
votes
1
answer
70
views
Footer line isn't where it's supposed to be in review stats and history
This is how the stats for the low quality posts queue looks like:
Same thing happens in the history tab, for example check out the first posts history.
Just in case this is browser specific, I'm on ...
- 39.6k
5
votes
0
answers
60
views
Very Annoying Chat Defect
If you are using Chrome and:
your resolution is 1366x768
Your window is maximized
A link is the last word of the last line of the message
Then, if you attempt to click on the the link is covered by ...
- 14.7k
7
votes
3
answers
159
views
No notification for custodian badge
I've just discovered review and got two Custodian badges for it, sweet! But I never got a notification for them, as I did for every other badge, and only discovered them when I noticed my bronze badge ...
- 783
8
votes
1
answer
105
views
Mod dialog in review doesn't show up properly (and a bonus feature request)
Let's start with the feature request.
When reviewing answers we have two mod links, when reviewing questions we only have the one. Having the mod link under the post feels a bit more natural, as ...
- 39.6k
2
votes
1
answer
40
views
Hyperlinks for deleted questions are not being removed in Reputation list
This question will most likely close as as-designed!!
Look at a snapshot of my current reputation
Note the removed event, the question title does not have a hyperlink, because the question was ...
- 635
7
votes
1
answer
67
views
Locked posts shouldn't show up for review
This post came up while using the new "Review Low Quality Posts" tool, but it wouldn't let me vote because the post is locked. If you can't vote on it, it shouldn't pop up for review in the first ...
- 147k
4
votes
0
answers
44
views
Post history markdown diffs overlapping [closed]
When I look at the history of some post and switch to markdown diff, the left half of the diff overlaps the right part and both continue outside the screen.
For example, this history looks like this ...
- 10.1k
3
votes
0
answers
40
views
Special Character in StackExchange Notification --Inbox
I encountered a special character notification in Stackexchange Notification --Inbox which is displayed due to presence of apostrophe punctuation mark in a word "it's" below is the screen shot.
...
- 195
7
votes
3
answers
146
views
What's the upper character limit for a post's size? (and implement a warning system for it)
I seem to have reached this limit while editing my answer to:
I've inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code -- what now?
This is a bit frustrating, as the editor didn't warn me, so I typed away and ...
- 29k
3
votes
0
answers
83
views
99 notifications? [closed]
Suddenly I'm getting '99 notifications', though only 4 are shown, 3 of these stale.
This was only seen on programmers.SO; other sites show no new notifications, as they should.
This was a freshly ...
- 24.3k
2
votes
1
answer
150
views
0 users have archaeologist badge
I was scrolling through my badges today and noticed that beside the "Archaeologist" badge, it said x0. I checked SO and there was a plausible number beside the same badge but not on Programmers.
Bug?
- 374
21
votes
1
answer
571
views
What's this cohhunity bulletin?
I thought it was some sort of joke I'd missed out on because I'd pursuing glory in other SE's, but no... It's just community bulletin... So, is anyone going to do anything about the fact that the font ...
- 6,905
-1
votes
1
answer
51
views
Require a link to the question it is a duplicate of
When people vote to close a question, and more importantly when it is closed, a link to the duplicate question should be displayed in all cases.
This should one, reduce the number of claims of "exact ...
- 349
7
votes
1
answer
186
views
The "&" in the title font doesn't look anything like an ampserand
This is supposed to read:
Admin > Upcoming & Current Community Events.
I don't know what the symbol is in there, but it certainly doesn't look like "&".
ChrisFMod
- 38.9k
3
votes
1
answer
56
views
Why Can't I Edit Tag Wikis?
I have edited a couple tag wikis today, and was trying to edit some more, but now, when I try to edit them, the same screen that usually comes up comes up, but without the box to edit the tag wiki…Why ...
- 1,249
4
votes
0
answers
311
views
Pages rendering as source code in Chrome [closed]
I tried repeatedly to answer a question today and 3 times in a row got the source code for the CAPTCHA page redirection instead of actually being redirected there. Today I hit similar issues on a ...
- 281