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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Why didn't I earn the "Talkative" badge?
The "Badges" page states that the requirement for earning the "Talkative" badge is
Posted 10 messages, with 1 or more
starred, in chat
It seems that I fulfilled this requirement about 48 hours ...
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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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Election comments don't get linked right in "recent activity" [closed]
For example, if you were me, you could go to https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/recent/1189?StartDate=2011-02-18&EndDate=2011-02-18 and see a recent comment by Martin Tapankov on his self-...
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Image Uploader Using Random Image
I am tryin to add an image and the image I selected is not what is displayed in Typeset Only First n Items or Items after n from a List.
I have acreen shots of what I am trying to upload but of course ...
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Why do we have a link to some bizarre chat room on the main page?
On the main page right now is a link to a chat room:
In which the relative merits of Word and LaTeX are discussed.
I don't like to see that here. I think that we've stayed fairly civil on the ...
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Text flowing out of the comments area
A user flagged a post letting us know about issues with the layout of the comments area which sometimes gets broken. I was able to reproduce the problem so here it goes. A screenshot bellow which ...
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Inconsistent aspect ratio
My image appears with different aspect ratios in different locations, making it difficult to wear a hat properly. I tried replacing my old GIF image with a PNG version, but it still changes. The ...
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Seems due to syntax-highligfhting tags <sub> </sub> not working any more on the main site
I just noticed that on the main-site, TeX-LaTeX-StackExchange, the look of things shown while editing/typing to the editor-window differs from the look of things after submitting the question/answer.
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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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Syntax highlighting not working on a post
I went to Multipart nodes with multipart subparts — style issue and the questions syntax never colorized (if that is even a term to use). I then went to another post and the syntax there was fine. I ...
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Reputation stats not showing correctly in chat [duplicate]
The left most screen shows a user's reputation, the middle screen shows my reputation, and the rightmost screen shows the reputation stats displayed in the chat. The numbers seem awfully off - just ...
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Why can't I search successfully for [chronology] questions?
When I search for the chronology tag using the searchbox (by typing [chronology]) or click on the chronology tag link, it tells me there are 0 questions tagged chronology and
You are on the FAQ tab....
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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 ...
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I cannot join any chat room after my new account merged with the old one
I have a new account that has been merged with the old one. My reputation is greater than 20. But the chat room still says I must have at least 20 reps to join a room. What is wrong?
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Undesired scroll bars on new tags page
I don't think we want the scroll bars on https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags?tab=new to be there:
(I decreased the text size slightly to make the entire area fit my laptop screen, but the behavior ...
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Not possible to edit tag-wikis on Meta.
Tag wikis on Meta don't show the edit button to suggest edits. Empty tag wikis have a “Propose Tag Wiki” button, but it doesn't do anything. So only 20k users and mods can edit tag wikis on Meta. Is ...
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Is the list of tags supposed to be slanted?
I just opened up my user page on TeX.SE, and lo-and-behold, my list of tags appears in an interesting layout. Is that supposed to happen? (Can anyone reproduce?)
OS: Scientific Linux
Browser: ...
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Is the "Activity" portion of the User page malfunctioning?
Currently when I visit my user page and select Activity and then Summary, the vote count for the Answers portion appears to be the vote count for the question rather than for my answer. Was there a ...
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imgur image hosting
I noticed that there was an informational message in the past few days about imgur having issues. Now I see that that message is no longer appearing, but when I try to upload an image I get:
Failed ...
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Inconsistent spacing in quotes
I've found something that looks like a small glitch in the new design. First, I didn't know that for quotations one could use either the markdown > or the html <blockquote>. But anyway, this ...
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Watched Tags: no coloring questions
In the panel on the right I have highlighted a few tags that are my favorites. This generated a light pastel color that let me know that the question was among my favorites and referred to a tag in ...
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Text box for post flagging dialog goes outside the dialog borders
Edit box on the "flag" link for a post goes outside the "window" borders.
See below:
All similar flag dialogs in which there's an edit box are affected.
Reproducible on both main site and meta, ...
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My comments are disappearing [closed]
At least two comments I left today have disappeared. For the first, I figured I just forgot to submit the comment, but it seems extremely unlikely that I'd have forgotten to submit two.
One was a ...
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Is displaying comments disabled? [closed]
I can't seem to be able to see/display any comments on https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions
Is this a setting I can change, a feature or a bug?
--EDIT--
When looking at this question it says add ...
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Unmatching views count between question counter and badge earned
I just wanted to report the following:
1. I received this notification:
2. However, when I went to check it, I got
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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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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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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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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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New activity display pushes down the questions list
One thing that has happened to me now a couple of times, is that the same millisecond I am clicking on a link to a question, the "n messages with activity" display at the top of the list pushes down ...
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Fancy site style has vanished (iPhone/iPad)
I'm viewing the site on my mobile right now and it doesn't have any of the custom styling. It's all gray with generic fonts. I was on my desktop an hour ago and it looked fine. Is there a stylesheet ...
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Turn off syntax highlighting? / How can I have tags inside <pre><code>...</code></pre> not being ignored? / Displaying large lists of TeX-tokens?
When, while typing a question or an answer, a block of code is introduced via <pre><code>...</code></pre> one usually can have html-tags inside that block of code like <b>...
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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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Why do I never see new items under "Reputation", "Responses", etc.?
On Stack Overflow, I always see a nice update counter for my "Reputation", "Responses", etc. when I click on my nickname at the top. Example:
However, this is seemingly not happening on other Stack ...
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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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Font sizes on question preview and the question page don't match.
When composing a message, the font is like this
But on the posted question it is like this:
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Inconsistent wording on empty tag wiki pages.
On empty tag wiki pages, the following text is displayed:
All registered users may propose new
tag wikis. Click Create Tag Wiki below
to get started.
However, the actual button is “Propose Tag ...
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TeX.SE data explorer
The site's data explorer is now available:
http://data.stackexchange.com/tex/queries
Thanks for that!
It seems to me that there's a mistake: TeX meta has been chosen instead. Both
http://data....
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Closed as duplicate, but only possible duplicate linked [duplicate]
I noticed that How to fit a large figure to page is marked as duplicate, but no duplicate post is shown, only a possible duplicate:
If this is intended behaviour, the colon should be removed and ...
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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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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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Linked questions with high votes looks strange [duplicate]
Look at https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/175859/tailormade-table-of-contents-showcase at the right handside the linked questions are listed together with votes it seems. However for big numbers ...
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Uh ... 0 featured questions ...? [closed]
This can't be right. On the main TeX.SX, it says that there are "0" featured questions ... ?
Yet, I count seven (one is missing from my screenshot).
It's still saying "0" even after a hard refresh .....
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count of "posts flagged for moderator attention" seems inaccurate [duplicate]
for the past few days, whenever the little yellow status box pops up next to "review",
i've gone to take a look. invariably, it seems to show a number that is greater
(by 3 or 4) than the number of ...
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A problem with the rss feed of TeX.SX
I wanted to use ifttt.com for tracking new questions on TeX.SX, and after giving it the URL https://tex.stackexchange.com/feeds got an error "Not a valid feed url, missing feed title". What might be ...
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This SE Site Can't Identify Me [closed]
My email address is [email protected], and my SO profile here. But I am identified as user972 here at Tex SE site!! I think something went wrong with the account association when I first ...
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Winter double hats for my gr(avatar) in TeX.SE and others communities
In these days of Winter bash, I have observed that I have often two consecutive hats :-)?
It is normal or usual? Does this happen only to me or to other users as well?
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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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Advertising info link points to the current url
Not that I regard it as a particularly major bug ...
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