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Not enough whitespace in starred chat message due to tags
Starred messages in chat don't have enough whitespace between lines, the problem is most visible if there are tags in the message. In the screenshot it can be seen that there isn't one pixel of space ...
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RSS feed for starred chats does not include starred chat posts
As an example, this chatroom displays the following list of starred chat posts on the right column:
However the RSS does not include links to the starred chat posts:
<?xml version="1.0" ...
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Wrong number of stars in chatroom information page
According to the badge on this page, the Trashcan chatroom has 7 stars:
but if you count the number of stars under Starred posts, you'll only get to 2. What happened to the remaining 5?
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Bug allows anyone to pin any message in any room! [duplicate]
I found a small bug that allows any user to pin a message even if they are not a Room Owner. If a message is pinned and then moved, it remains pinned in the room it is moved to even if the user who ...
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Cropping top starred lines in chat, responsive
I was at a chat room and noticed starred lines cropping:
If I check responsiveness by shaking the thing, it pops in and out:
I saw this in one of my browsers, and checked that happens in all of ...
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Can not unstar own message in chat [duplicate]
I accidently pinned my own message. I managed to unpin it, but it still remained as starred.
When I try to unstar the message I get a message saying that I can not star my own message, and the ...
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Did starred message ordering change?
I looked at the starred message list in the Python chat room today, and it looks like the algorithm that decides what to show there has changed. There are a lot more high-starred old messages and a ...
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Make the error message when I attempt to re-star a chat message where my star was cleared more understandable
I recently starred a message, but my star was cleared by a room owner. I attempted to star it again, but the system (rightfully) prevented me from doing so. However, the error message I got when I ...
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Star as interesting via transcript says about pinning too [duplicate]
If you'll star message in chat transcipt as interesting via drop down menu by selecting an item "star as interesting" in the result you'll see the following:
You have starred and pinned this ...
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Chat message posted "24h ago"?
Does anyone know what went wrong??? Why isn't it 1d ago but 24h ago? Look, there's another message above it that reads 1d ago which is correct.
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Starred chat message with a comment is not parsed well
This chat message contains a link to the comment of the post. Chat message is starred, and in the starboard link not correctly parsed:
In particular clickable part of the link refers to the ...
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If you star then pin then unstar the message will not show up in the starboard
I found a bug, it is if you star a message then pin and then unstar the message it will look pinned by the little pin icon by the message but will not be pinned in the starboard. You can see the bug ...
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Why doesn't this chat message show up as me having starred it?
Over in Charcoal HQ, I starred this message a while ago. However, now it is not showing up as me having starred it. Here's what I see on the board:
So I clicked on it, and got the 'It is too late to ...
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Why does this starred message not show up on the list of all starred messages?
On the room info of Tavern on the Meta, this is the last page of the overview of all starred messages:
Here is the latest starred message (from that list) on the transcript:
But if you look even ...
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Chat starwall is cropped
Chat rooms don't show all the messages of star wall, if chatroom is opened from a low-resolution and/or small screen.
For example, below is the screenshot taken from my Macbook pro, 13 inch screen at ...
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Starring a chat message through dropdown while suspended says it is starred, when it's not
While under a chat suspension, clicking on the star to star a message results in a notification saying that a user cannot vote while suspended.
But while attempting to star via the dropdown, it says ...
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My God, it's full of stars
The 20-star-per-chatroom-per-day limit appears to have disappeared.
Tested with 2 different chatrooms over on CodeReview. Got up to about 70 stars before coming here to write this report.
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Markdown in chat works on multi-line messages on the star board [duplicate]
Markdown in chat is broken disabled on purpose for multi-line messages, which has been discussed more than once already on Meta.SE and appears to be status-bydesign.
However, if you star a multi-...
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Trying to unstar a chat message starred more than ten minutes ago from the transcript fails silently
In a chat transcript, if I open the dropdown menu for a message I starred more than ten minutes ago (the grace period for unstarring a message) and try to unstar it, the operation fails with no error ...
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Attempting to star a chat message from the star wall while not logged in causes "An error occurred performing this action"
Steps to reproduce:
Open any chat room while not logged in or in Incognito Mode.
Attempt to star a message in the star wall.
Observe that the "An error occurred performing this action" overlay is ...
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Links posted as code become actual links when starred
When one posts a link in chat which is preceded by four spaces, it is formatted as code and isn't displayed as a link. Example.
However, when starred, in the star wall it appears as an ordinary link:
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I didn't pin that [duplicate]
I was looking through a chat transcript, and wanted to see a message's revision history. So, I clicked the arrow, and saw something interesting:
I did star the message, but I did not pin it (I am ...
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Issue re-starring or pinning a chat item after removing stars, plus a 'star cheat'
I went to pin a message in a room I own, and was puzzled that I couldn't. Another moderator could though. So I tested on another message, and found this is what happens:
Star or pin an item, then ...
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Posting times do not agree in chat rooms
I recently saw this in wordbuilders general chat:
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Basically, a message posted and stared more than 9 hours ago shows up as posted 8 hours ago in the sidebar. I suspect it is an issue about the list ...
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"You have starred and pinned this message"—no I haven't
Once more, The Nineteenth Byte has uncovered an exceptionally obscure chat bug.
When I click the dropdown arrow from the transcript next to this message, I see:
However, I've only starred it, and ...
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Chat stars not appearing next to my own starred messages
Since sometime earlier today (that I noticed, anyway), when someone stars a comment I make in chat, it's not displaying the star next to the comment in the main chat window.
The stars are appearing ...
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Markdown in multiline messages does get rendered when starred
We all know that multiline messages in chat don't support Markdown (except for fixed-width and quote formatting). But if such a message gets starred the Markdown will be rendered after all:
That is ...
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Can't scroll through the starred messages in the chatrooms [duplicate]
When I hit on the show 9 more (or with whatever number), the container expands but goes behind the footer.
Here's a snapshot (from the JavaScript room):
This screenshot is taken on a 1440x900 ...
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Starring post in starred list does not make star yellow on message [duplicate]
I have recently noticed that if one stars a message such as this one in the starred posts list:
That although you get the little number go up by one next to the message, the star next to the message ...
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Chat Transcript claims I pinned a message I cannot have pinned when I star it
Whenever I star a message in chat via the transcript, the chat transcript gets very confused. These are snippets of the Transcript and Live Feed for the same message:
Transcript
Live Feed
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If a chat message contains a link and is truncated in the star list, the ellipsis points to the link
If a message is truncated at the point of a link in a chat message, the ellipsis becomes that link.
Although normally the truncation ellipsis does not become a link, it's a common design pattern that ...
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Why am I able to star old chat messages but unable to then unstar them?
If you are viewing a chatroom's transcript, click the little arrow while you're hovering over a chat message. You will see "Star as interesting". This works for any date/time, regardless of how old ...
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Starring messages bug [duplicate]
When starring messages at the side, the actual message does not star:
We can see that the message by jadarnel27 is starred at the side but not the actual message itself.
(Don't suspend GnomeSlice, ...
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Star/unstar/pin/unpin via transcript is broken for room owners
This includes As a room owner, starring a message on the transcript marks both pin and star as set, pin doesn't work plus some.
Something is very, very wrong with star/pin/unstar/unpin in the ...
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Superpings don't show user name in sidebar
Doorknob just superpinged someone in our chat. The message got starred and ended up in the sidebar. However, the superping syntax and user ID weren't replaced with the normal ping and user name there (...
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Disallow starring / pinning of messages that are too old / are in rooms you aren't in
Currently one can star / pin messages, even those which are off the transcript board, extremely old, or are in another room (including frozen ones)
This is possibly a bug, where such messages can be ...
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Stars and pins are retained when chat messages are moved!
In the chat system, stars and pins are retained when moved to another room. This is probably a bug. Here a picture:
When a room owner pins a message, they can move it to another room, and they cannot ...
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Starred list in chat isn't scrollable
Before clicking on "show 7 more":
After:
I know this is probably really minor, but as you can tell, the scrollbar is set down to the very bottom, yet there's no option to view down the other 7 ...
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If a message I starred gets edited, the star state is forgotten [duplicate]
Steps to reproduce
Star any recent message
Have the OP to edit it
Star count remains, but now it appears as though you haven't starred it (star is black)
Star it again for it to receive star state ...
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I can't star chat messages as a new Stack Exchange employee
I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but as a new employee I can't star things in team chat.
I've created this question to highlight my problem, but to also resolve it. (hoping that by ...
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Pinned message appears pinned, but is not actually pinned
I stumbled across what I think is a bug:
This is after refreshing the page. Here's the sequence of events:
Message posted, and starred by a few people (including me)
Stars cleared (not by me)
Pinned ...
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Starred message from ignored users should not show up
When you ignore a user, you don't want to read their posts.
However, if messages by such users get starred, they do show up in the sidebar list of starred messages even though you ignore them.
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Impossible to un-star/un-pin messages for long list [duplicate]
I think there is a lack of tools to un-star messages. Currently, there is a way to do this: to select the corresponding link in the list of recently starred messages:
But the problem is: if the list ...
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I'm seeing stars! (I can see who starred a message and so can you)
So I was making a chatbot in Ruby for SE chat, and I discovered that I could find out the starrer of a message.
I'm pretty sure stars, like votes, are supposed to be anonymous. Although this ...
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Chat bug with displaying starred message in Hebrew
I've noticed that there is a bug in displaying Hebrew symbols when a message is starred. Here we go:
The message sample:
Message is starred:
As you can see, it's displayed wrong (I guess because of ...
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Starred fixed-width messages break in the starboard
FHRC#1 indicates a backquote in a chat message using fixed-width formatting, which is (correctly) output literally. FHRC#2 shows that the same backquote is misinterpreted by the sidebar starboard as a ...
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Starring or Pinning a message that got cleared by a room owner gives off a wrong error message
Imagine the following situation:
Message gets posted in room
User A (room owner) pins the message (or for that matter, user a which is not a room owner, stars it).
User B (another room owner) clears ...
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Message option popup disappears when any message is starred
Steps to reproduce:
Have someone star a message
Click the little arrow next to the message on the star list
Have the same person star a different message while the popup is still up
The popup ...
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Starred messages aren't showing their stars in the transcript if you use their permalink [closed]
In Firefox 29.02a, if a message is starred, and you visit it via its permalink, you won't see its stars in the transcript. This includes the messages in the starred message list on the right hand side ...
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Incorrect "Starred" count on chat room overviews [duplicate]
I've recently noticed an inconsistency in starred message counts on chat room overviews. I have verified that this bug exists across multiple sites, but will be using WordPress SE's The Loop for ...
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