Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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Titles of questions are too large on a mobile device
There seem to be a regression with font size on softwareengineering.stackexchange, when displayed on a mobile device. Here's a side by side comparison between SE.SE and SO. In the first screenshot, ...
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Please remove this question from my "failed review" list
As I'm into reviewing some questions, the following appeared, which looks like "I want to design some software, and I would like to use some buttons in the GUI. I have two ideas but I don't know ...
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Post notice for duplicating question does not show the duplicated question
Question: Why do we still use JavaScript?
Do you have any idea?
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A question was closed as duplicate even though the supposed duplicate was younger
I answered a question some years ago that was widely accepted to be the canonical answer to the very common question-- I think I had over a 200 upvotes and the answer alone added 2000 rep to my ...
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Why was my question deleted which was closed within the past 48 hours
I'm reading Why and how are some questions deleted.
Questions that have been closed within the past 48 hours cannot be
deleted, so as to allow for editing and possible reopening.
My question was ...
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This question already has answers... where?
For this question: if/else statements or exceptions
I feel like the "Possible Duplicate" text should not be there, and the "Defensive Programming vs Exception Handling?" question ...
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21k rep but "Not enough reputation to answer or unprotect"
I got a notice that an answer I gave a while ago got upvoted. Looks like there's been some activity on the question. I saw a notice saying that I don't have enough rep to vote or unprotect the ...
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Closed as dupe. Can't see duplicate link
I know the stack crew is messing with the close experience but I haven't heard anything about closing as dupe no longer offering a link to the dupe. Please let me know what's going on when I see this:
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What is the purpose of making the question a link which redirects back to the same question
Reproduce:
Go to Why would you store an enum in DB?
Click on the title of the question
The browser is redirected to the same question.
Whenever I try copying the text of the question I accidentally ...
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What happened to my bounty?
I put a 100 rep bounty on this question.
When using Redux/Redux-Saga - should JWTs be set in the action creators/sagas?
I have just received an email say it has expired - but I am unable to award ...
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Having 3 or more images in a row shows "Unformatted code"
I was trying to post a question with several images and there were a message about unformated code, although my post did not contain any code at all.
After some deleting / pasting code, I found that ...
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Is it a bug or deferred execution? -3 + 1= -1?
I have asked a question, which was put on hold for whatever reason(allegedly it's too broad).. It was also 3 x downvoted So I have also tried to improve the question to make less scope to mark the ...
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a tale of two Stack Exchange groups
compare how two different SE groups deal with the same question:
Software Engineering
Electrical Engineering
i stand by my observation (that was deleted): "Whatta bunch of pricks." (the exception ...
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The very first question if deleted cannot be retrieved until 2nd question is added
I have noticed one issue that very first question if deleted cannot be retrieved. The steps were:
I asked 1 question today, which was down-voted. I realized that it should have not been asked in ...
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The cup of coffee has gone cold
The steam coming from the coffee cup in the favicon blends in with the background on an inactive Chrome tab (OS X). Although it's still barely visible, there should be more contrast between the steam ...
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Unwanted horizontal scroll bar in all the pages in Firefox browser
There is a horizontal scroll bar in the bottom of this site in all the pages in Firefox browser.
There is no use of the horizontal scroll bar in the pages.
Configurations:
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Mozilla ...
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"more" link in footer is hardly viewable
In the footer, the more link is hardly view-able due to the free handed image in the background, when select the Technology sites.
Screenshot for reference:
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Bug: incorrect links in 'What topics can I ask about here?'
I've just noticed that all links in the help section What topics can I ask about here? point to programmers.stackexchange.com. Links to the main parts of the site do resolve to softwareengineering....
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Where does one ask questions about a specific programming problem?
I'm working on refactoring some legacy c++ code. I ran into a problem moving from a linked-list to using a vector. Even though it seems straight forward (list is created once, and looped through ...
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Editing an answer - fixed sidebar flows behind footer
Editing an answer and scrolling down causes the "sidebar" to flow behind the footer:
Appears on my system (Windows 7 Professional) on all browsers I can test
FF 45.8 (ESR)
IE 11
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Extra commas in 'Share a link to this question via email,,, or
I looked at a couple of questions this morning and noticed we have a few extra commas in the text below the question:
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Badges and tag "X" buttons misplaced
While I only have one badge, it is appearing incorrectly on meta:
While I was reporting this bug, I noticed that the "X" button that appears in the tag field is misplaced as well:
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How did I get the Scholar badge when I have only just asked my first question?
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/help/badges/10/scholar?userid=82480
Scholar: Ask a question and accept an answer.
I literally just asked my first question 2 401 minutes ago. There ...
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What's that text above the viewport?
I was scrolling back up to the top of a page when I noticed this weird red text floating above the viewport in the "rubber-band-scroll" region. It says "Stack Exchange Inbox" and "Reputation and ...
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When your question is flagged as a duplicate, the edit link appears to not render correctly
I posted a question that has since been flagged as a duplicate of an already existing question.
The panel at the top of the question is as you'd expect, apart from the 'edit' link which hasn't ...
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Network icons are broken
Any idea why the Hot Network Questions suddenly look like this on P.SE? (But not here on Meta.P.SE, for whatever reason...)
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Flickering primary tags on meta
Chrome on OSX here.
No better way to explain this than steps to recreate:
Start the ask question form on Meta
Go to add a tag (focus the tag box). The primary tags will appear without any input.
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Network engineering's background on Programmers adverts is less than ideal
On the sidebar, this is what it looks like:
Related from MSE from awhile back: Confusing placement of popular network question above related questions in the sidebar
Please look at the other ...
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Odd wrapping of pending flags
With this latest maintenance outage came a new UI around the helpful flags that one can see on the profile.
On MSE the pending flags looks like:
On Photography (a particularly challenging site ...
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Highest-voted questions giving wrong results
I was browsing the highest voted questions (Questions > Votes) on programmers, but noticed something extremely weird on page seven of the results.
Going from questions with over a hundred votes ...
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Text from the side overlaps to the footer when I scroll to the bottom most part of the page
Take a look at this screenshot.
Then if you scroll at the bottom most part of the page you can see this. I think the text from the side overlaps to the footer of the page.
It says here that it is ...
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I can't track the random badge
I am the all time top answerer in random (89 points on 11 answers). I keep looking forward to getting a tag badge in it.
I can track C, version-control, database, math, git, history, open-source, ...
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answer's "share" link goes to a different answer
When I go to the question Explaining floating point precision to customers and get a "share" link for Scott Whitlock's answer:
The link sends my browser to a different answer on the question What ...
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Is the ALL CAPS question filter broken?
We recently had a very poor quality question seemingly bypass the filter for all caps in a title. And about a month ago, there was another poor quality question that made it through the quality ...
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"Disciplined" achievement badge awarded for migrated answer
This just happened:
INBOX
(Programmers SE item)
answer migrated 2 hours ago
Your answer to "Testing a method that reads from standard input and outputs to standard output" was migrated to Stack ...
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Comment editor breaks some URLs
I posted this comment
Here's my contribution: http://www.drdobbs.com/web-development/restful-web-services-a-tutorial/240169069. It seems to go into sufficient detail to provide a satisfactory answer ...
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Misleading "protected" message on closed question shown to users who are not logged in or have less than 10 on-site rep
Should I choose Doctrine 2 or Propel 1.5/1.6, and why?
Is this the intended behavior?
I was searching for the "answer" button because I read that I need at least 10 reputation because the question ...
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Can questions go into limbo when its migrated (rejected) and on hold?
I have a question that was originally in codereview and now its migrated here where its on hold.
The problem is that in programmers its too opinionated and thus on hold. However I cannot edit it ...
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Deleted question as a known good audit in close vote review?
Hitting the close vote reviews, I came across this one.
I'm really not sure what the proper action on it is. It's been deleted. I'm not sure if I should leave it open (it's deleted), close it (...
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Missing and extra spaces in comments
I've seen this glitch a few times with Safari (7.1) on the Mac (10.9.5). It manifests as either no spacing between text and the link in a comment, or irregular location of the hyphen.
Notice the ...
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Misspelled tag "polymoprhism" on SE should be merged with existing tag "polymorphism"
I found a misspelled tag on SE: polymoprhism. The 'p' and 'h' are incorrectly swapped.
It really should be polymorphism.
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I shouldn't be review audited on my own posts
Was given a post to review I made myself about 2 weeks ago.
Was "only a test" but I wonder if that's not something that should be filtered out...
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can it be made easier to insert code w/o edits to each line?
If I have a block of code and try to insert it, and press the code button, it indents the 1st line. and that's it. It seems that alone is a bug by itself.
But the reason it comes up is that one ...
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How effective is the quality filter against this question with all-caps brief title and text?
The question DETERMINISTIC FINITE STATE MACHINE (10k link) had the content of:
DESIGNING A SIMPLE DETERMINISTIC FINITE STATE MACHINE TO RECOGNISE A VALID DUT PASSWORD NUMBER. IT ,MUST FIRST INCLUDE ...
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Level 1 headers in profile description appear cluttered
I recently updated my Stack Exchange profile to include a link to my newly created Area 51 proposal Scientific Imagination. I included a sample question from the proposal as a level 1 header. It looks ...
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Why did the feed ban me from chat?
I was just banned from chat over this comment, which, to my eye looks fairly innocuous.
Comment history before someone blew it away
Clicking on the Feeds profile brought me to here
Can anyone shed ...
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Badge count experiencing cropping at 7 digits
If you have 7 digits of badges on Programmers.SE, you start to experience truncation:
With 8 digits of badges, you really get chopped off:
This isn't a problem on other Stack Exchange sites:
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Nav buttons floating over review dialog box [duplicate]
I was in the LQP review queue this morning and clicked the 'recommend deletion' dialog box. I dragged the dialog box away to look again at the question and noticed this:
The nav buttons are floating ...
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UI Bug During Review [duplicate]
(all annotations in red are mine)
While reviewing, a random black bar appears across the question that I'm viewing. This appears on every post I review, only in the Close Votes category.
Anyone ...
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I flagged a question twice?
When I click the "flag" link on this question, the popup claims I have already flagged it twice:
it is a duplicate... This question has been asked before and already has an answer.
you ...
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