Questions tagged [bug]
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Twitter field on user profiles doesn't recognize new domain for service
While editing the profile and saving the Twitter link, we encountered an issue. The domain for Twitter has changed, and the current domain is now https://x.com/. However, the system still expects the ...
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Cannot create new tag wiki [duplicate]
I was creating tag wikis for Physical Fitness SE today and suddenly it stopped working. When I click the "help us create it" link I get redirected to the tag info page. It's happening for ...
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Short description of "trusted user" privilege lacks an Oxford comma, violating SE's own style guidelines
Company guidance says to "Use the oxford [sic] comma in sentences." However, the short description of the "trusted user" privilege says "Expanded editing, deletion and ...
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Issues with the “Question Wizard” [closed]
I’ve started a new question on StackOverflow and the wizard form was shown for me.(I never saw it before)
I’ve noticed 3 issues.
When I used code icon to format block on code, it added single back-...
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Getting "Comments on locked questions not eligible for voting" when deleting comment [duplicate]
If I click delete and then OK on a comment I made on a now deleted question, I get a strange message not related to the action I try to perform.
The usecase is this: I suggested a poster to visit help ...
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I keep getting errors while trying to add a tag description on MoviesSE
I was adding tag descriptions to those without description today on Movies&TV, and for every tag I got an error when I pressed Submit.
An error occurred submitting the post.
If I reload the page ...
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Uploading a WebP file ends up with error: "Not a valid file type: please upload a bmp, gif, jpeg, png, or webp file." [duplicate]
On meta.stackexchange.com, like I'm posting this now, uploading a WebP file seems to work.
But on blender.stackexchange.com, posting the same WebP file results in an error with the following message.:
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"Newest Questions" tab showing last active user instead of the asker
Since recently (7 Dec 2024?), the "Newest Questions" tab (/questions?tab=Newest) now showing the last active user instead of the asker.
This applies to every site.
I'm not sure if this is ...
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I am unable to upload images with size around 1MB or larger in chat rooms
I guess the official limit is 3MB. But I can't upload them unless they are less than around 1MB. I tested multiple images in different browsers. Same result.
There is no error message in the UI (it ...
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Bolded number "1" next to chat room when visiting chat.stackexchange.com on mobile
When browsing https://chat.stackexchange.com/ on mobile (Safari in my particular case), I see a bolded "1" next to the Teacher's Lounge room:
The bold "1" does not appear when ...
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Extra whitespace in Help Center titles
The titles in the Help Center articles have both leading and trailing whitespace. For example, here's the HTML from How to Ask:
<h1 class="s-page-title--header">
How do ...
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Right-column "featured on Meta" section formatting is broken [duplicate]
Here's what it looks like (Brave latest, Ubuntu 22.04) for me:
And on MSE (so this isn't SO-only problem):
The section headers look obviously misplaced vertically, almost overlapping with section ...
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The whois feature in TL is currently broken
There's a feature that lists and summons mods for a specific site on the teacher's lounge. Currently, it also lists staff with diamonds, which breaks inter site moderator collaboration. Here's an ...
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Right sidebar box missing padding under headers
There should probably be padding under the headers - can it be re-added? I'm using Firefox on Windows 11, and I can reproduce this both signed in and when signed out (with userscripts & uBlock ...
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No questions found. perhaps you'd like to select a different tab? - On the Questions tab
Refreshing the page on Worldbuilding a few minutes ago, I was surprised to encounter this:
I'd no filters engaged, nor was I changing tabs, just refreshing as stated.
This resolved on another refresh ...
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Indented Stack Snippets don’t render well
This Markdown:
- foo
if (Math.random() < 0.5) {
console.log("hello, world!");
} else {
console.log("goodbye, cruel world!");
}
Renders as:
foo
>
> ...
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Stack Snippets console message formatting fails at interpreting a doubled percent sign
Both of the lines below, using the console message formatting syntax, are supposed to print "%" to the console twice, and they indeed do in the native developer consoles of Chromium, Firefox ...
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When cancelling the "Move messages" popup in chat the select feature doesn't go away
When you open the "move messages" popup, then open the "create new bookmark" popup (or in reverse, doesn't matter), then cancel both of them starting from "create new bookmark&...
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Cannot remove a post from saves from the Q&A page [duplicate]
Steps to reproduce:
Visit any question. Hint: you are currently looking at one.
Add it to your Saves by clicking the icon under the post score.
Refresh the page.
Click the same icon again.
Expected: ...
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The text of the previewed body is clickable while the body edition place exists itself
The body activates and keyboard pops up when you accidentally click on the white background or the text of the previewd body, which is unnecessary I think:
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Difference between clicking the words "Title*", "Body*", and "Rev" on the edit page
If you click on the word "Title*" on the edit page (Chrome for Android) you can type in your desired title to edit the previous one. If you click on the white background to its right nothing ...
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Unable to unsave posts when showing them again, or even just after being refreshed, using the left side icon
With posts being shown again after being saved, or even just after a browser Web page refresh, I'm now unable to unsave them (with Microsoft Edge, version 131.0.2903.63, on Windows 10) by clicking the ...
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The last activity timestamp (if answered) in visited questions doesn't differ from a non-visited link
I just observed the last activity timestamp on question list for visited links doesn't differ from the non-visited links if the activity is answering.
As you can see in the picture, both links are ...
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The chat filter by "relevance" or "stars" gets reset to "newest" upon changing the query
When you sort chat search by relevance or stars from those buttons:
And then change the query to something else (just one change is enough), it gets reset to the "newest" filter.
I would ...
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The "Create a custom filter" link does not work when you are viewing filtered questions
When you're viewing custom filtered questions (for example, I have used this) you can't create a new filter.
Steps to reproduce:
Create a new filter. Anything would suffice.
Go to the page with new ...
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Location, GitHub, and Twitter links do not get copied over upon creating an account on a new site [duplicate]
When creating a profile after updating your location field, Twitter, and GitHub links on all profiles, they do not get copied over to the new account, though a website link (and everything else) does.
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Incorrect documentation of cookies in "consent" banner
The information in the Cookie Consent popup does not satisfy your legal obligation of informed consent, because it is completely unreadable. That is not, however, the point of this bug report; only an ...
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"Top Answer" on network profile shows incorrect vote total (off-by-three)
My top answer on the StackExchange network shows on my Network Profile as having a vote total of 1835:
However, the same post has a total score of 1832 (+1833/-1) on Stack Overflow:
The post has ...
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Inbox notification count does not update for chat [duplicate]
The inbox notification count does not update when I get a new unread chat ping.
For example, before:
After:
However, if I get a new notification on StackExchange sites (for example, via a comment), ...
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Two hard to count the inbox notifications from chat
A decade ago, in 2014 some guy named Jeff Tweeted1:
There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
Well, somehow this seems applicable here:...
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The preview link on the community digests page is broken
Clicking on one of the preview links on the network community digests page results in a blank white box filling the screen and an error being logged to the console.
This is from clicking the preview ...
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All elections you did not vote for have results with a dead link to OpaVote download page
This is what the election result usually looks like when you did not vote in that election (example from Islam but I can reproduce it on Solana and Board & Card Games and probably plenty others):
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Election result might be broken
Recently an election happened on a network site https://islam.stackexchange.com/election it ended on 13 November but the result is still incomplete.
Is that a bug?
Do results now take longer to ...
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Automatic markdown translation in convert-to-comment went awry
Hmm. Over on MathOverflow I automatically converted an answer to a comment, and the result was (at first) this (given in source markdown to show the mess):
This may be (vaguely) related to fractional ...
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Syntax highlighting works in the preview only, not in the rendered post
I have manually specified the lang-cmake syntax highlighting for the code blocks in my question:
How to instruct the CMake to use a specific CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET?
The syntax highligting works ...
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Footer on chatroom info pages isn't sticky to the bottom of the viewport
The footer element for the info tabs (and some other tabs) in chat rooms that don't have a lot of content height floats above the bottom of the viewport, creating a white rectangle at the bottom of ...
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Answers with positive score can now be deleted by non-mods?
The way things usually work is that if an answer has a positive score, it can't be deleted by non-mods - neither by manual delete votes (which aren't even available until the score is negative) nor ...
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Answer that was deleted by a moderator was undeleted by normal users; why was it allowed and can it be fixed?
Since 2011, normal users have been prevented from voting to undelete posts that were deleted by moderators.
However, today, this answer was undeleted by votes from normal users after having been ...
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My comment wasn't posted when voting to close as "Other" as the final vote. Is this a bug?
This might be a duplicate of No comment posted when question is closed as off-topic because ... > other
Reference question: Ballistic Coefficients in a Zero G and Perfect Vacuum
I was the final ...
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Bounty removed days ago, but it still shows on the homepage
On SFF, I see a bountied question:
But in reality, the bounty was removed by a moderator 2 days ago. Why does it still show on the homepage and under "Bountied"?
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Clicking on "Run Query" for a cached query before the cached results appear on the screen returns a json object instead of the query results
Clicking on "run query" for a cached query before the cached results appear on the screen returns a JSON object instead of the query results. Example:
{
"running": true,
"...
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Unfollow on edit? Please revert [duplicate]
Over the last few weeks I've noticed that when I follow a post, it can automatically be unfollowed upon an edit of that post - at least that applies to questions as per my recent experience with this ...
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Typo: blog post date is listed as "October 31, 2025" (a year in the future)
Just reporting a typo on this blog post:
It's also in the URL:
https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/10/31/a-brief-summary-of-language-model-finetuning/
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Sites.xml is not present anymore in StackExchange data dumps
In recent changes more or less linked to Shifting the data dump schedule: A proposal, I notice that we do not have anymore the Sites.xml file in Stack Exchange data dumps.
The file was still present ...
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Settings "When you flip this switch" language problem
There is a "Settings" page available in your profile page. Some of the setting descriptions start with "When you flip this switch". Maybe "flip" means "enable" ...
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The textbox for chat suspension length has odd functionality, making it difficult to issue a chat suspension
The chat suspension tool has a textbox that allows you to input a number of hours in before hitting the "suspend this user for..." button. At present, though, clicking directly on the hours ...
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Chat search fails to return more than 10000 messages [duplicate]
Chat search is currently unable to return any more than approximately 10000 messages, instead returning "0 messages found". I'm pretty sure it didn't do that before.
The limit seems to be ...
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The Tragedy of the Episode 749 transcript
The latest (at the time of writing) podcast episode "Tragedy of the (data) commons" seems to have episode notes and no transcripts. For folks who don't do well with audio podcasts, ...
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Since when do Late Answers reviews require multiple users to complete?
I think this link speaks for itself. Review items in the Late Answers queue always used to require only one user to be completed, and the only way you'd see more than one reviewer on the same review ...
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Cannot Move Comments to Chat
At the request of Spevacus, I am posting this here. Earlier today, I attempted to move the comments below Proof that a finite field isn't ordered. chat, and encountered the following error:
Now, ...
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