Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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Certain characters formatted with ### seem messed up under 100% zoom
I recently came across this post and noticed some issues with the heading text.
For instance, the first one (with ###):
main(arg)
That third letter is supposed to ...
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Can we enhance the favicon on a dark background?
In Chrome on Max osx, at least, the favicon in the tab title kind of disappears when having a dark main background on the window. Can this be enhanced somehow?
The image shows top part of window with ...
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Fenced code blocks don't close properly at the end of a post
The new feature, GitHub (tilde) code blocks, from Implement ```-style (fenced) Markdown code blocks is a great addition, but there is a small bug which bizarrely only appears on Code Review & Code ...
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MathJax breaks my indentation
Seems like there is a bug, that breaks my indentation.
See
In third code section of
Create New C++ Class
In first code section of
Code Generator Generator
multiple times in the code section of ...
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Off-topic because… There are strange radio buttons
I was going through the review queue and came across a question that I thought may be off-topic.
I was deciding which topic it would be off-topic for, if any. And noticed that the radio buttons are ...
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Capitalization Bug in Title Prompt
The title prompt has a capitalization bug:
That should be "State the ...", with a capital "S".
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Flag summary layout broken
As you see on the picture, flag summary layout is broken. The right column should be on the right, instead of below the left column.
This doesn't happen on the other SE sites.
Tested on latest ...
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f# hashtag on Twitter is not valid
My question was tweeted with the automatic Code Review Twitter account.
The tweet in question is using #f#, which isn't valid. It should use #fsharp, like #csharp in this tweet.
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1answer
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Code Review missing from Stack Exchange footer
Graduated sites are listed on the footer pages of all other Stack Exchange sites. Consider this list from Stack Overflow:
(similarly on Meta.Stack Exchange )
I notice that other recently "designed" ...
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1answer
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Vote to Reopen Prompt Bug
If any help, I'm using Google Chrome Version 78.0.3904.108 (Official Build) (64-bit) on a Mac.
When I nominate a question to be reopened, the prompt window is still present after I click "Reopen". ...
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The color (or contrast) of visited links is too light to be readable
status-completed This has been fixed and will be live after next build on production.
After visiting a link, one can't clearly distinguish between this link and surrounding text.
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Grammar problem in close reason
Our "off topic" close reason has a problem:
It should read either "generally relate to a code review request" or "generally relate to code review requests." Can we get it fixed before anyone from ELU ...
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Font style doesn't work with new font
We seem to have gotten a new font in the last couple of days. This new font family for me is for the most part the below. As most other font-family's use ...
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1answer
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Why does the top bar say “3 total posts awaiting review” when there's only one?
When I mouse over the "3" it says "3 total posts awaiting review". I click on it... there's 1 post awaiting review. No other posts.
The "3" disappears if the review queue is empty, but it always ...
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Flagging history appears at the bottom of page
status-completed It's now fixed and will be live after our next production build.
On my flag page the sidebar at the right containing a summary of my flagging history has recently been pushed right ...
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1answer
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Stack Snippets broken — Insert Into Post doesn't work?
Does the snippet tool no longer works? "Insert into Post" seems to do absolutely nothing, and I could not find a stack-trace in the console either.
Observed on
Chrome version 40.0.2174.0 canary
...
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1answer
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New Answers to Old Questions layout is broken
The "New Answers to Old Questions"-View in the 10k Tools layout is broken:
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1answer
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Are community ads ever served?
So community-ads are now activated, and at the time of this writing we have 4 ads meeting the criteria for being served on the sidebar:
The stats page is showing each ad's score, creation date and ...
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Selection state of upvote/downvote buttons on Meta isn't obvious
On Meta, the upvote/downvote buttons are gray. It's not obvious whether dark gray indicates that the button is selected or light gray indicates that the button is selected. It's complicated by the ...
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For actions in a user profile more than a year ago the year should be visible
When viewing a user profile for a mostly inactive user (For example, akmad), the activity displayed goes back multiple years, but there is no year value for "ancient" activities and it does not make ...
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Sign Up / Log In page header looks funny
The page header for the Sign Up / Log In page looks a little funny:
The white Background on the header doesn't match the text. Also it may be debatable whether it's intended to break the background ...
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FAQ “Product Support” needs some TLC
Related Meta.SE Question:: The “product support” page in Help Center does not make much sense network-wide
The Product Support "Can I support my product on this site?" FAQ page seems to be stating ...
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1answer
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Delayed awarding of Tumbleweed badge
I just went through the awarded Tumbleweed badges to check for any possible weed eater hat and stumbled over this question: jQuery resizable plugin
The badge had been awarded 17 hours ago but the ...
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Does \renewcommand in MathJax affect other user's posts?
In MathJax, does
\$\renewcommand\LaTeX{\textbf{u got hax'd}}\$
affect other people's posts?
This is it being used in this post. Definition:
\$\renewcommand\...
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1answer
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Tags are too low-contrast to be readable
status-completed It's now fixed.
What if I want to do code reviews on a laptop at the beach? How am I supposed to read this in bright sunlight?
In seriousness, this is problematic for users with ...
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Follow the name change of “Programmers” to “Software Engineering”
In "our" help center there are links to programmers.stackexchange.com. I guess this should be changed to reflect the recent renaming of that site to "Software Engineering".
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The C# tag clips just a tad
The picture is pretty self explanatory. It seems that the # sign on the c# clips when formatted into a tag. C# and C# don't do ...
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Can we get a consistent green, please?
I just checked my profile page and found this:
Can we please have the accepted-answer score background and the reputation indicator (and privilege bar) in the same shade of green?
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1answer
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April Fools' Joke background is bugged
If you check a website, like, Ask Ubuntu, you have the following background:
However, on Code Review, you have the following:
Would be nice if the background was the same, nice, tiled version :(
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The MathJax newline \\ is broken in tag wikis
In an attempt to edit the tag wiki of collatz-sequence I noticed the following strange behaviour.
The conjecture is often stated as a definition by cases and even serves as an example for that ...
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External resources make keyboard-nav unusable
Recently (as in, since ads have been enabled), I have intermittently been having trouble with the site.
I'm using the keyboard navigation (and moderation) for a significant portion of my activities ...
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Revision page now fails the x-overflow
I was looking at the revisions for one of the questions, and noticed that the horizontal clipping is broken.
To verify that it wasn't one of my extensions doing so, I opened in an incognito window as ...
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Error about improperly formatted code appears when attempting to format LaTeX as math
In an answer, I tried to post the following math:
...
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1answer
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Even after I deleted an answer on my own question, the bounty required is still 100
I recently posted this question about a brainfuck interpreter in ANSI C.
I answered my own question, but then realized that my answer was invalid, so I removed it.
I then wanted to add a bounty to ...
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1answer
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How has an on-hold question been answered?
I am curious to know how come this question was answered 8 minutes after it has been put on hold... normally, you cannot answer such questions.
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Bad security certificate for meta.codereview.stackexchange.com
When I browse to https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/ using Firefox, I get a message that the security certificate is bad because it's for ...
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The percentage of answered questions is wrong
I tend to look at the percentage of answered questions since we're always near the 90% threshold. There are 310 unsanwered questions right now, which is precisely 90% answered. Today, here's what I ...
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Insecure links in custom close reasons should be HTTPS
In the comments on this meta answer, a person said:
When I click on your link, Chrome says "Attackers might be trying to steal your information".
The link in question was from this quote:
...
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1answer
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How did downvotes suddenly put these old answers into the Low Quality queue?
This answer and this answer (both are now-deleted "looks good" answers with no detail), posted some years ago, were recently put into the Low Quality queue after receiving downvotes.
According to the ...
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Wrong message when a question is closed as off topic on meta
This question was just closed as off topic because it should have been asked on the main site, not meta. The message below the question reads:
Questions on Meta Code Review are expected to ...
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Mathjax formatting missing in rendered output of suggested edit
While reviewing a suggested edit, I observed that the Mathjax formatting was not respected in the rendered output view (see screenshot below). Shouldn't the Mathjax formatting be displayed like it ...
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Buttons in the profile page have underlined links
Most of the button-like elements have white text displayed on a coloured background (blue on Main; dark grey on Meta):
But there are some buttons on the profile that have an underline in the button. ...
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Never received notification that an answer to my question was posted
I just happened to look at a question I asked a month ago and noticed that an answer was posted a week after I asked the question. I was surprised to see an answer since I didn't recall ever receiving ...
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UI falsely attributes migration to users who merely voted for closure
I voted to close a question today. Nothing new, except the closure turned into an unwanted migration. The question should NOT have been migrated, but all of a sudden my name was on it:
I voted to ...
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Tag count partially obstructed for longer tags when adding to question
When attempting to add a tag with a long name such as producer-consumer, the "learn more" link obstructs the count (for this tag, it should read 26, not 2). I suppose this has to do with the display ...
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Site rooms button hover color hides the logo
When I hover the site rooms buttons, the hover color is the same as the logo color which make it invisible. Maybe we should find an alternative color for it ?
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Relative positioning of badge icon relative to badge count
The relative spacing between the badge icon, and the badge-count gives a visual impression that the badges are associated to numbers on the left, which is the wrong number ... let me explain by ...
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Problem with meta favicon
This site (meta.codereview.stackexchange.com) seems to be missing a favicon. This affects not only browsers but also the inbox of the StackExchange dropdown:
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Receiving badge before the requirements are met
Just a few hours back I received the nice answer badge for this answer of mine which I posted few months back.
The nice answer page says that (to receive the badge) :
Answer score of 10 or more. ...
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Default code-prettify highlighting for C# is incorrect
Recently I had quite a few edits to include the correct syntax-highlighting for C# questions:
<!-- language: lang-csharp -->
That's needless editing for a ...
