Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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Daily Limit Bug
I've noticed this morning that once I hit 190, I stopped receiving rep.
I was on 9 votes (+9/-0) in this question: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/40315/whats-the-name-for-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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2answers
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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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1answer
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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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I flagged a question twice?
When I click the "flag" link on this question, the popup claims I have already flagged it twice:
it is a duplicate... This question has been asked before and already has an answer.
you ...
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3answers
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The Ask Question link is wrapped
Check out the screen shot:
(Apparently Firefox isn't liking House Whiteboard...)
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1answer
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Got “An Error has occured” while upvoting answer
I couldn't repro this so don't have more info, but I received "An Error has Occured" while trying to upvote an answer. What I think happened was I tried to open the comments section for the answer ...
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1answer
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What happened to my bounty?
I put a 100 rep bounty on this question.
When using Redux/Redux-Saga - should JWTs be set in the action creators/sagas?
I have just received an email say it has expired - but I am unable to award ...
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1answer
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answer's “share” link goes to a different answer
When I go to the question Explaining floating point precision to customers and get a "share" link for Scott Whitlock's answer:
The link sends my browser to a different answer on the question What ...
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1answer
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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?
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1answer
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“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 ...
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1answer
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Programmers blog promo image issues
Most side panel advertisements/promotions that I recall have a non-white background. However, http://i.stack.imgur.com/Ihs34.png (Programmer blog promotion) has a white background. When compared ...
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1answer
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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 ...
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Logging out the first time causes an unintentional click on the privileges link
When I hover over the profile link, a box pops out showing links for "activity, privileges and logout".
The first time I hover, the box gets formed for the first time, so it's first a small box and ...
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2answers
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Discrepancy in daily rep score between PSE and SE weekly league
I earned 60 rep on PSE yesterday, as shown on my rep page:
However, in the weekly user league only 30 points appear:
I suspect this is a side effect of yesterday's rep recalc, where I lost exactly ...
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1answer
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Having 3 or more images in a row shows “Unformatted code”
I was trying to post a question with several images and there were a message about unformated code, although my post did not contain any code at all.
After some deleting / pasting code, I found that ...
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1answer
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Why the upvoted non-wiki answers have +0 reputation instead of +10?
It seems that there is an issue with votes/reputation on Programmers.SE (don't know if there is the same issue on other SE websites).
I've recently answered two questions and my answer had one up-...
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1answer
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Broken Markdown Formatting
I wasn't sure where else to put it, so I decided upon Meta.Programmers.StackExchange.
If you evaluate the html generated for this post, you will notice that it generates mismatched tags when making ...
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1answer
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FAQ is out of date (rep requirements still refer to private beta levels)
As in title - the site is now public beta, but the FAQ has not been updated to reflect this.
Specifically, the rep requirements mostly all say 1, but I can't (for example) vote to close.
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Highest-voted questions giving wrong results
I was browsing the highest voted questions (Questions > Votes) on programmers, but noticed something extremely weird on page seven of the results.
Going from questions with over a hundred votes ...
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1answer
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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....
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1answer
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Just one Question? [closed]
When I click the questions link, only one question shows on the list. The rest are still there if you navigate to them through other means. Is anyone else observing this problem?
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Styling problems with new theme and IE8
Kudos on the new theme; I like it. I just thought I would bring some styling problems in Internet Explorer 8 to your attention.
House font does not work on menus in header (questions/tags/users, ...
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1answer
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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 ...
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2answers
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I'm not sure if this is affecting multiple sites (and I don't know a good way to test), but it appears that flagging is broken
Flagging a post always results in a message indicating that the flag comment text must be greater than 10 characters, even when it is. This might be more suited to Meta.SO, but until I have the chance ...
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1answer
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The “similar question” sections overlaps the footer [closed]
When asking a question, the "similar questions" side bar scrolls down, which is cool, but if I go all the way down to the bottom of the page, then the side bar covers up the link to the wiki, the "...
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“No registered application for this type of extension.” displays on each page in Opera 11.10
When viewing Programmers site in Opera 11.10, I get an error message box from Opera with the following text:
No registered application for this type of extension.
I tried to track down what causes ...
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1answer
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1answer
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Search cases-sensitivity bug
I wanted to search for questions relating to F# on the site, so I went to the search box and just typed:
f#
This returned no results. Searching for F# however (note the uppercase F), does return ...
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1answer
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0answers
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Extra commas in 'Share a link to this question via email,,, or
I looked at a couple of questions this morning and noticed we have a few extra commas in the text below the question:
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0answers
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How did I get the Scholar badge when I have only just asked my first question?
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/help/badges/10/scholar?userid=82480
Scholar: Ask a question and accept an answer.
I literally just asked my first question 2 401 minutes ago. There ...
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0answers
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What's that text above the viewport?
I was scrolling back up to the top of a page when I noticed this weird red text floating above the viewport in the "rubber-band-scroll" region. It says "Stack Exchange Inbox" and "Reputation and ...
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0answers
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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 ...
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0answers
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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 ...
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0answers
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Somebody broke Programmers.StackExchange [closed]
No questions are coming up. Error, error, basically. Meta works fine, so uh, great...
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0answers
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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.
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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, ...
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2answers
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Why Can't I Add Comments
I don't see any way to add a comment. Am I just not seeing it or is there some other reason for this?
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1answer
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Programmers total points not listed properly on StackOverflow
I have 313 points listed here on Programmers, but on StackOverflow when I look at my summary it's showing 309 points for Programers.
The other stack exchange sites I'm on are updating properly, but ...
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1answer
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Wrong view count bug
I recently got a Notable Question badge for this question. My profile says it has more than 3k views, but on the question page it shows less than that.
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1answer
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During a question merge not all comments got merged into the master question
I just merged this question (10k+ link) into this question, but it looks like only my comment made it over into the master question and Vitor's comment was left behind.
Is that the expected behaviour?...
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1answer
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User summary - default date span
Click the mail icon next to your account name on the top of screen.
The default display is a summary of your recent activity. However, the time span's end date is later than the start date. (This ...
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2answers
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Why can't I favourite a question in Android?
This has been annoying me for a while and I thought it might just go away, but it hasn't so here I am bringing it to the community's attention.
When I try to click the favourite star graphic when ...
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2answers
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Why can't I upvote comments?
Two days ago I found that I could not upvote any comments. I believe I have the priviledge; at least, I can comment everywhere and vote up/down. I see other comments getting voted up, so it looks like ...
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1answer
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Misspelled tag “polymoprhism” on SE should be merged with existing tag “polymorphism”
I found a misspelled tag on SE: polymoprhism. The 'p' and 'h' are incorrectly swapped.
It really should be polymorphism.
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1answer
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FAQ has wrong value for reopen
The FAQ has conflicting values for being able to vote to close/reopen. It lists both 250 and 3000. There might be other parts that need to be updated too.
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1answer
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Is it a bug or deferred execution? -3 + 1= -1?
I have asked a question, which was put on hold for whatever reason(allegedly it's too broad).. It was also 3 x downvoted So I have also tried to improve the question to make less scope to mark the ...
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1answer
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Flag question button when “off topic” chosen as reason doesn't work
The red "Flag question" button in the flagging modal doesn't seem to work today for when "off topic" is chosen. I've tried on two questions, flagged them as not constructive instead (worked fine).
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1answer
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Can questions go into limbo when its migrated (rejected) and on hold?
I have a question that was originally in codereview and now its migrated here where its on hold.
The problem is that in programmers its too opinionated and thus on hold. However I cannot edit it ...
