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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Changing a chatroom's details doesn't reload the page
If the owner of a chatroom renames the room, changes its tags or description, or switches it to Gallery mode, the clients of users who are currently in the room will not reload (possibly due to the ...
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Chat's site minilist widget is broken
All of the widgets which are used to select a network site, such as on the room creation page and parent site selector, only show undefined when a search query is typed in; clearing the query shows a ...
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The robots.txt file on chat.stackexchange.com does not work, likely because it returns HTTP status code 418 ("I'm a Teapot")
It apparently used to be the case that the robots.txt file on chat.stackexchange.com allowed search engines to index some parts of that domain; this robots.txt file was apparently intended to allow ...
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Spam/offensive chat flag bubbles appearing upon opening chat, but there are no flags
These spam/offensive flag bubbles have been appearing upon opening chat a few times to me today, but there aren't any flags, even if I click immediately after I open the page.
This has happened to me ...
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Chat FAQ section-specific links don't expand, essentially hiding information [duplicate]
Just now I was searching for official information on the criteria for chatrooms to be frozen or deleted, in order to help a user who was asking about it.
The auto-message notifying that a room has ...
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The SE Chat WebSocket is down, returning status 520 (NS_ERROR_WEBSOCKET_CONNECTION_REFUSED)
On normal chat room pages on https://chat.stackexchange.com, the stock code in master-chat.js tries to establish a WebSocket connection to wss://chat.sockets.stackexchange.com/, which is currently ...
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Username in chat now has wrong color as a visited link
This seems similar to this bug report: Visited chat info page buttons now have a dark background color, making them hard to read. It is now marked status-completed. Maybe fixing the issue in that ...
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Username in chat room info title bar may be partially, or completely, hard to see depending on the window width, chat room and browser
In most cases, the username is shown as white text on a black background in the chat room info title bar, so if the window width is wide enough, it's easy to read. For example, with a maximized window ...
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The link is broken when I click “Enter this room” in “Chat Event Reminder” in my inbox
When I click the enter this room link in the “chat.meta.stackexchange.com - Chat Event Reminder” inbox (in Gmail, not the Stack Exchange inbox),
it leads me to an error page: (the link)
Why that ...
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Visited chat info page buttons now have a dark background color, making them hard to read
I recall that the background color used to be white, but the visited chat info page buttons now have a fairly dark blue or purple type background color that makes them hard for me to read, as shown ...
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Incomplete support for webp images on chat
Recently support was added for webp images across all the network.
Yet, chat was left out. As a result, webp images used in chat do not get oneboxed like other images.
I don't know if this is a small ...
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Feeds do not seem to post updates in chat
The last feed activity in The Meta Room on Stack Overflow is from 2024-06-14. The bot has not posted about new questions in the room since then, even though there have been at least 13 more. Some from ...
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No pong for the ping! No inbox notifications for chat pings [duplicate]
Well, I may have moved my main-site activity elsewhere, but I still talk to people in chat here, so I very much prefer receiving notifications when they ping for me. I mean, how else will I pong them?
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You Shall Stay Here Forever! (aka chat auto leave isn't working anymore) [duplicate]
Normally, after joining a chat room in Stack Exchange, if you close the browser tab (or window) the chat will trigger auto leave after a short while, think it was up to 15 minutes.
However, this ...
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Chat search does not bring up new results [duplicate]
Searching in chat returns results but the newest ones it brings back stop somewhere between 2024-06-14 03:00 UTC and 2024-06-14 04:00 UTC. I did not find the exact point but it should be in this ...
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Some images uploaded in chat cannot be visited via the link
This is an intermittent failure and I cannot find a good way to reliably reproduce it.
Some times when uploading an image in chat it shows up but the link leads to a page that says "oh no, that ...
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To find old images in chat, you still have to search with the Imgur URL
I was recently looking for a graph I had posted to a private chat room several months ago. In order to find it, I went to search for messages posted by me containing i.sstatic.net in the room I knew I ...
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Cloudflare is causing i.sstatic.net images to return 429s
After loading a chat transcript with a large number of images, requests to i.sstatic.net have started returning 429s and a Cloudflare CAPTCHA check, which... seems to defeat the point of a dedicated ...
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Chat.stackexchange.com chatrooms are broken/flaky
Chat.stackexchange.com seems broken. When entering a chatroom, the loading page stalls, e.g.
And transcripts don't load, instead I get a server error.
Some hints:
this only happens on chat.SE, not ...
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Chat flag counter on "Main" Chat.SE appears to be stuck
There appears to be a stuck chat flag counter
To replicate: As a moderator go to chat.se, and you see a chat flag counter. Click on it and there aren't any flags, and it vanishes. Refresh or go to ...
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User names wrapped too early in chat transcript (mobile chat version)
On the chat transcript page, usernames are split to several lines for unknown reasons, despite there being enough space on the single line:
After joining the chat, all names fit in line:
Interesting ...
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Space before reply causes reply to not render
While typing a chat message that was a reply, I accidentally put a space before the colon marking the reply. I didn’t bother to delete it, as I figured chat would trim the message for me. Instead, the ...
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New Cloudflare protection breaking important bots [duplicate]
Something about SE's DDoS protection or human verification must have changed, which has caused several important chatbots to no longer be able to log in.
At first, curling /users/login from my home IP ...
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A room owner can put chat in timeout while being suspended
I got suspended on chat.SE, while being an room owner for the Sandbox.
I tried to put the room in timeout from the menu and it succeeded:
Should this feature be disabled for suspended users (...
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Chat entries from deleted users shouldn't be attributed to feeds
Apparently one of the users on a chatroom I was in was deleted. He might have requested. It might be something else, it dosen't matter. What does matter is - well how it is handled is remarkably ...
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Chat inbox icon with number of unread messages should be a pixel wider
It seems that chat page inbox item is not wide enough to overlap empty inbox icon. So the odd gray pixels break through the top:
Zoomed in:
And animated version when number goes away:
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According to chat, Meta Stack Exchange was born today!
I noticed today this chat room here on Meta Stack Exchange chat domain.
The room has been automatically created yesterday. This is the standard protocol for new sites, e.g. see this transcript, it's ...
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No error message is shown when trying to send a chat message that is too long using the mobile design on Chrome for Android [duplicate]
In the example below, the chat message is too long but clicking on the arrow does nothing. No error message is shown. Tested on Chrome on Android with a Google Pixel 6 with the mobile design.
Note ...
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Why is there a pink line in the chat textbox?
Sometimes I notice this:
There is a pink line, in the top of the textbox. I don't remember if always in same position, I think it's always on top, but horizontal position changes.
It might be the ...
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In a bookmarked conversation, quoted text is displayed incorrectly [duplicate]
When I use quote (i.e., a message starting with ">") in chat, it displays fine both in chat and in transcript. But if the same message is rendered differently if it is a part of a ...
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Confusion between data and links pertaining to ASE chat rooms, and those pertaining to Stack Exchange chat rooms
I just entered an ASE (Aviation Stack Exchange) room (after not being in any chat room for about 10 minutes)1, and I saw a message on the right-hand side of my (computer) screen saying "There are ...
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Chat bots are dead, looks like being blocked by something on the server side
For over an hour now, Smoke Detector and other bots in MSE chat are dead and can't post in that chat anymore.
The problem appears to be some breaking change on SE side, though I don't have access to ...
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"0 second ago" should be "0 seconds ago" in the chatroom info page
When you post a message in a chatroom and then refresh the info page immediately afterwards, you'll get this, which says 0 second ago. It should say 0 seconds ago instead.
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Chat is redirecting to Area 51 (2023 edition)
Any https://chat.stackexchange.com URL redirects to https://area51.stackexchange.com.
This started a few minutes ago (as of this posting).
This occurs for all three chat servers (chat.stackoverflow, ...
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Area 51 Discuss Link Goes to Old Chat Parent
If you go to Area 51 and click on the "chat" link, it redirects to a list of rooms that seems to be parented to discuss.area51.stackexchange.com, while the parent site that is used for new ...
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Gregorio Y. Zara hat covers up username in chat [duplicate]
The user Panda currently wears the Gregorio Y. Zara hat. But, now in chat, his username is covered up:
When a user has multiple messages in a row, their username is aligned under the profile image.
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Chat RSS feed for tagged/xxx broken
When you use the tagged/ prefix for a search term in chat, you (are supposed to) get all messages with a specific tag. 1
However, the generated RSS link in the lower right corner of the results is ...
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Blog onebox always showing the same author, even when the post is written by someone else
For a while now, all the blog posts oneboxed in chat (which is a 50/50 chance, but that's a different issue) appear to be written by Ryan Donovan. However, that's not always true.
The latest case was ...
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A number of things seem to have broken simultaneously
Things that appear to have suddenly stopped working:
Posts not appearing on the front page of Meta Stack Overflow or the "Active" tab for the post's tags + RSS feeds not updating.
(As of ...
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