Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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The cup of coffee has gone cold
The steam coming from the coffee cup in the favicon blends in with the background on an inactive Chrome tab (OS X). Although it's still barely visible, there should be more contrast between the steam ...
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When your question is flagged as a duplicate, the edit link appears to not render correctly
I posted a question that has since been flagged as a duplicate of an already existing question.
The panel at the top of the question is as you'd expect, apart from the 'edit' link which hasn't ...
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“Disciplined” achievement badge awarded for migrated answer
This just happened:
INBOX
(Programmers SE item)
answer migrated 2 hours ago
Your answer to "Testing a method that reads from standard input and outputs to standard output" was migrated to Stack ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The post notice font size has shrunk
I just added a post notice to a question and saw the font had dropped down a size:
I haven't added a post notice in several days so I don't know when it started doing this, but could it be ...
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What's my real rep?
I answered a question, got 4 upvotes, yet my rep is only 103. Here's a screenshot of what I see on my profile page:
It says it's 103 on the bar above, yet 149 just below my profile image. What's ...
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The word “beta” still appears in the app offline html
Programmers kicked me to the app offline screen today and I couldn't help but notice it still had the beta tag on it.
http://sstatic.net/skins/sketchy/app_offline.htm
The url and content looks ...
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Should I have a Guru Badge?
It's been several days now - should I have earned a Guru badge for: Co-worker renamed all of my queries
?
It's not the answer with the highest vote count, but I didn't see that as a requirement.
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Requirements for the Deputy badge
Just wondering if I've misunderstood the requirements for the Deputy badge. (I haven't received it.)
Achieved maximum flag weight by
reviewing and flagging appropriately.
Have I misinterpreted ...
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Nitpick - 1 consecutive day
What does "1 consecutive" mean? Seriously, you can have 2 consecutive days, but how can a singleton of anything "follow one after the other in order", when there is no "other"?
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Closed meta questions tell me I don't have enough rep
I just noticed that at the bottom of closed questions here on meta.programmers.stackexchange.com, it tells me:
You must have at least 5 reputation on Programmers to answer a question.
I have over ...
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Question I asked dissappeared
I asked a question(on meta) last night about my reputation, "Why Isn't My Reputation Updating?", but today I can't find it. It's not listed with my questions(on meta). A search doesn't find it. Was ...
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Missing and extra spaces in comments
I've seen this glitch a few times with Safari (7.1) on the Mac (10.9.5). It manifests as either no spacing between text and the link in a comment, or irregular location of the hyphen.
Notice the ...
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Why does the new style user page not show gravatars properly? [closed]
I'm finding that the new style Users page does not seem to be showing gravatars properly. Mine shows fine in questions and in my profile, but is some weird brown geometry on the users pages.
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Grammar error in new user banner message
The banner message for new/not-logged-in users reads
Welcome to Q&A site for expert programmers interested...
There should be an article in there:
Welcome to a Q&A site for...
Or, if ...
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Deleted question as a known good audit in close vote review?
Hitting the close vote reviews, I came across this one.
I'm really not sure what the proper action on it is. It's been deleted. I'm not sure if I should leave it open (it's deleted), close it (...
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Level 1 headers in profile description appear cluttered
I recently updated my Stack Exchange profile to include a link to my newly created Area 51 proposal Scientific Imagination. I included a sample question from the proposal as a level 1 header. It looks ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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?
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1answer
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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1answer
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no 'edit' option for Q&A at Programmers meta
I noticed there's no 'edit' option for questions and answers posted at Programmers meta - as opposed to eg Programmers, SO and So meta.
Is that intentional? a missing feature? something else?
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1answer
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Is the ALL CAPS question filter broken?
We recently had a very poor quality question seemingly bypass the filter for all caps in a title. And about a month ago, there was another poor quality question that made it through the quality ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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I get redirected to stackoverflow.com when I click on a migrated question
I click on this question (see the link is correct):
But I got redirected here:
I've also recorded a video if it can helps.
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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 ...
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There seems to be a float problem on the search page
This is what the search page looks like for me right now (I'm on Mac, with Firefox 3.6.13 )...
Comparing that to https://stackoverflow.com/search, it seems that the search box has pushed the main ...
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Odd wrapping of pending flags
With this latest maintenance outage came a new UI around the helpful flags that one can see on the profile.
On MSE the pending flags looks like:
On Photography (a particularly challenging site ...
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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 ...
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Rendering glitch, navigation links overlap new answers notification
Currently using Firefox 3.6.3 and I haven't tried this on other browsers, but it might be a bit hard to catch. However, as per the screen shot, the navigation links are overlapping the notification ...
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Sort answers by oldest
Maybe I am going senile, but I had answers sorted by "oldest" and now it says "newest". Was this ever an option, or did I just dream it one night?
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Comment editor breaks some URLs
I posted this comment
Here's my contribution: http://www.drdobbs.com/web-development/restful-web-services-a-tutorial/240169069. It seems to go into sufficient detail to provide a satisfactory answer ...
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'Help us create it' link in empty tag overview suddenly broken
Today I have written two tag descriptions. The way I have done this was by clicking the 'help us create it' link in the tag overview.
A few minutes ago I wanted to describe the 'maven' tag, but now ...
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Navigation buttons appear over the close box
The Questions/Tags/Users/Badges/Unanswered navigation buttons appear over the close box. I am using Firefox 3.6, Mac OS.
Because the close box is vertically centered, you need to make your viewport ...
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Consecutive Visits Calendar Possibly Broken In Meta PM SE?
I noticed that for the last 2 days the Consecutive streak calendar in my Meta PM SE profile won't load. I can view this on PM SE.
Is this a bug? I also noticed that the consecutive days dropped ...
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Unwanted horizontal scroll bar in all the pages in Firefox browser
There is a horizontal scroll bar in the bottom of this site in all the pages in Firefox browser.
There is no use of the horizontal scroll bar in the pages.
Configurations:
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Mozilla ...
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Network icons are broken
Any idea why the Hot Network Questions suddenly look like this on P.SE? (But not here on Meta.P.SE, for whatever reason...)
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I can't track the random badge
I am the all time top answerer in random (89 points on 11 answers). I keep looking forward to getting a tag badge in it.
I can track C, version-control, database, math, git, history, open-source, ...
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Misleading “protected” message on closed question shown to users who are not logged in or have less than 10 on-site rep
Should I choose Doctrine 2 or Propel 1.5/1.6, and why?
Is this the intended behavior?
I was searching for the "answer" button because I read that I need at least 10 reputation because the question ...
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UI Bug During Review [duplicate]
(all annotations in red are mine)
While reviewing, a random black bar appears across the question that I'm viewing. This appears on every post I review, only in the Close Votes category.
Anyone ...
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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.
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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 ...
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Different font sizes used in question titles on “badge details” pages [closed]
The "badge details" pages are showing lists of posts that awarded the badge in different font sizes:
This is affecting only some of the badges. Others use the same size for all posts on their page, ...
