Questions tagged [bug]
This tag indicates a reproducible problem on the site that you believe is due to a mistake, malfunction, or programming error.
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Rep cap today for me is 201 - is this a bug?
Look at my reputation today (+231):
I got two accept ticks, which award me 30 reps in total. Therefore, I got 231 − 30 = 201 reps for votes received.
I don't get any reputation from the upvote ...
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1answer
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Bug in markdown when having code after list [duplicate]
When I have a list like:
one
two
and immediately afterwards code
It does not render the code correctly.
Here's what the edit-view of this post looks like
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Multi-line texts overlaps in comment window
Today I was typing a comment to reply a user. However, when I was typing my comment, I saw that -- with (might be due to) the new-interface -- overlapping texts which makes it hard to read (all of a ...
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Has the size of the text in TeX.SE decreased?
For about a week I have noticed some small worsening on the visualization of the site TeX.SE.
As you can see from the rectangles that I highlighted with the color orange, the text has a smaller size ...
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2answers
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Why are the eminent contributors in such a hurry to close questions?
Here are two real facts that show that prominent contributors close questions without taking the time to read them carefully and verify that they are really a duplicate question.
First issue:
Look ...
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1answer
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Code blocks leak in user profile
I found a weird behavior in user profile. The code blocks span beyond the boundary as shown in the following screenshot.
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Bug / Problem: Chat Function | Edit Feature | Readability | Browser “Google Chrome”
If I want to edit a post in the chat then the text in the edit text box is white.
By selecting the text I can read it, but it's hard to edit.
I use Google Chrome.
User https://tex.stackexchange.com/...
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Transparency and PDF: Wrong Colors [closed]
Moved to the main site Transparency and PDF: Wrong Colors (Buf / Feature Request) because of the comments.
There are some questions regarding rendering problems (color shifts) in Adobe Acrobat Reader ...
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Doesn't reputation counter show downvotes anymore?
Today I've lost 15 points due to an unaccepted answer:
But if I click on the trophy of the menu bar I don't see the negative votes:
If I remember correctly, with the old menu, the negative votes ...
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1answer
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Spurious semicolon
The input of my comment to egreg's answer is just:
When you say "However, see also https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/329209/4427", do you just mean "thmmarks is evil!" or am I missing something?
But ...
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Notification sidebar style makes links jump on hover
Moving the course across the links in the sidebar makes them jump:
This is with FF 54.0.
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1answer
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Apparent bug when hovering over pagination items of the /users page on the main site
On the main site's /users page, if you hover over the pagination, there is a line that appears between the items:
This does not happen on the meta site:
Nor does it happen on Stack Overflow:
I ...
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What happened with `\\` on my answers [duplicate]
Suddenly, a lot of my old answers are being edited because instead of \\ in table or some other code appear \. joined with the next line.
It is impossible that I posted so many answers with this ...
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Zero-width non-joiners and and zero-width space inserted in code
Please look at my comments to https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/13716/30810:
They cannot be copied and compiled because there are zero-width non-joiners and and zero-width spaces (‌​ ...
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2answers
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has the Community mandate for bumping questions changed?
consider this question: Is it possible to make xelatex to compile just once?.
it has one self-answer, with one up-vote, and is more than a year old. yet it has reappeared with the banner
bumped ...
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4answers
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Double backslashes disappear from code
Not the first time it happens on the site, so it's time to raise the problem in Meta.
It is similar, but distinct from ‘double backslash + newline’ collapses to ‘single backslash’ when I hit ‘edit’ (...
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1answer
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Why does the list of Featured questions now appear to include questions which do not currently have available bounties?
Why does the list of Featured questions now appear to include questions which do not currently have available bounties?
For example, it now seems to include some questions which involve bounties but ...
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1answer
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In 'choose which badge to track' things spill over the bottom of the pop up window
On TeX.SX, if you look at your profile and click on the 'choose which badge to track' button, the badges spill over the bottom side of the pop up window:
This does not happen on Stack Overflow:
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1answer
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Bug on the review web page?
Recently I recognized a change of the behaviour of the review pages. Now after opening an question in the first post queue to be reviewed you see all three buttons enlighted:
For me astonishing is ...
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6answers
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Tags displayed in bold
Personally, I don't like them. But maybe this is beyond the point.
Were we consulted about this?
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Suggested edit comment width is too narrow
A suggested edit is accompanied by a comment. This comment is displayed when reviewing it from within the Suggested Edits Review Queue:
If the comment is lengthy, the line-wrapping is truncated.
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0answers
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Mouseover on questions show a horizontal rule
When hovering over questions on the front page (either on the main page or on meta), there is an underline associated with the hyperlink that extends across the entire question block (when viewed ...
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1answer
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Hovering over items in /help/privileges causes underscores to appear
On a Mac OS X 10.11.1 running Firefox 42.0, hovering over an item in https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/privileges causes an underscore to appear before the reputation number, the icon, and the ...
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Misplaced 'votes' button on profile page
The buttons for the different tabs on the Activity part of your personal profile page are aligned perfectly fine if you have no recent activity:
but as soon as you have new reputation changes, ...
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Question listing formatting bug
I think this is a formatting bug. Can be seen for instance on
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/formatting?page=2&sort=unanswered&pagesize=50
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1answer
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Why can't I start a bounty?
I would like to start a bounty for this question. Am I missing the obvious?
Why can't I start a bounty?
Screens
See by yourself:
as opposed to
What happen if I click on "bounty is available"
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0answers
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Someone has written 100 thousand (!) answers (graphic design bug)
I was really surprised to see that egreg has written 100570 answers!
I thought it's a bit too much, and indeed -- it is. The number of answers blends into the number of questions. In my opinion, this ...
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1answer
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Typing Chinese character in the main site
The question Followup to "How does one type Chinese in LaTeX?" raises an interesting problem. If one tries to paste the code by Leo Liu in this answer, pop up boxes saying
Body cannot ...
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How can I edit a post?
Is it an intended feature of the new interface that nobody can edit a post if an edit of that post is stuck in the review queue awaiting enough votes for approval or rejection?
Whether feature or bug,...
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0answers
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Does anyone else see this weird spacing on our Markdown help page?
https://tex.stackexchange.com/editing-help
Take a look at the (lack of) space between the header and the expander triangle. Doesn't seem very 'touchable' in its current state.
Using Safari.
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0answers
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Too many “Voting corrected” events
I think the serial voting check algorithm is harassing me: I got six “Voting corrected” messages in my reputation tab in the last seven days.
This had no apparent effect on my overall rep, but it's ...
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0answers
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Staying on the correct page after login
I am repeatedly faced with the same problem:
Go on a page (not logged in),
Click "Add a comment",
A pop-up appears,
Click on "Sign up using Stack Exchange",
"Sigh… I mixed "sign up" and "log in" once ...
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Adjust vertical alignment of checkmark for obtained badges
This is a view of the badge description and checkmark for a specific badge (say, Mortarboard):
Here is the same badge description from the list of badges:
Could we adjust the vertical alignment of ...
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Why are these questions not properly aligned? [duplicate]
status-deferred to egreg's post in the dupe.
The misalignment is very apparent. (Specific but post-layout-uglifying image.)
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Only two questions show on a newly launched session
When booting up a new session (presumably with an empty cache), the number of questions on the new page is exactly two. The option to increase this to 15/30/50 entries is offered (and the change, once ...
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1answer
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Reputation data vs. Reputation chart mismatch in daily > 200 rep
My reputation history clearly says, that I have 'earned' (well ;-)) at least 200 reputation on 9 days (see the data at the end of this post, please)
However, there is a mismatch with my reputation ...
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Raw https links are prettified in the actual post, but not in the preview
When editing another user's post, I noticed that raw https links to locations on the SE Network are not prettified in the previewer in the same way http links are.
When actually submitting the change ...
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‘double backslash + newline’ collapses to ‘single backslash’ when I hit ‘edit’
When I try to edit Thorsten Donig's answer to 'large braces for specifying values of variables by condition', the following happens:
Instead of:
0, & \text{if}\ a=1 \\
1, & \text{...
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1answer
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You've earned the “反対投票する” privilege! Learn more about it in the help center
Yesterday I have obtained the "vote down" privilege. Some days ago I have obtained this privilege in other site of StackExchange, too.
But today I see this. The URL is correct and send to here, but......
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1answer
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Something messed with my answers backslashes and newlines
My answer is not displayed correctly. The internet archive has a correct version of the first revision, see this screenshot from archive. The difference is that now, though I didn't do any changes to ...
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1answer
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Quoting codes in a list leaves a </li>
I found this by accident;
If I am writing a list and start quoting
\some \codes \then \there \is \an \unexpected </li>
Is it a bug or I should not do so?
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Misalignment of badges/numbers on user-profile page
The current user-profile page shows the badges/numbers looking like this:
Here is a similar view of the top-bar:
I think the vertical alignment of the badges in the user-profile view should match ...
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Bug in answerer's identity picture
I know, I have too many badges, but since I'm aiming at 1000+ silver badges, the way the number of badges is shown in answers (for questions I can't tell) is annoying:
As it stands, it shows 1625 ...
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1answer
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why does “asked yesterday” persist after more than 24 hours?
after absence for a day i returned to checking what had happened while i was gone.
a question that i knew i had seen earlier reported "asked yesterday":
the date shown, on a mouse-over, is "2014-09-...
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1answer
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Why does the chat room no longer support alpha-channel enabled images?
I don't know whether or not it is a local issue. Feel free to migrate to the global meta if necessary.
In my experience in the past, alpha-channel enabled images are displayed correctly in main site,...
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Post title font cut off under review queue
Consider the following review when viewed through Google Chrome:
Here's the same review through Firefox:
Here's the same review through IE:
Both Chrome and IE cut parts of the descenders off the ...
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Voting to Leave open, then still be able to vote for close?
This question https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/194028/export-image-as-eps-but-pi-symbol-changes-in-matlab was in my Close Review queue. I voted to leave open.
The post mentioned is just an ...
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1answer
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Looks OK vs. Looks Good
For reviewing Low Quality Posts, the "Looks Good" option recently changed to "Looks OK" (cf., Rename "Looks Good" or add a "Looks OK, just Incorrect" in Low Quality Question Review)...
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has the tex.sx banner been “simplified”?
i have recently noticed that the banner for tex.sx is missing the beautiful
background. there used to be some very well chosen examples of tex output
along with the obvious tex logo.
i've checked ...
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1answer
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Lost the ability to paste images into posts from clipboard
It could just be me or my setup, but I seem to have lost the ability to paste images from the clipboard into posts via the Add Image tool. Anyone else?
I know that Chrome recently had an update, but ...
