Questions tagged [bug]
Something amiss or broken with how you're working with the site? Report it.
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Horizontal tabs in code blocks are a little broken
As the title says. Tabs are not 8 spaces from the beginning of the code block, but rather 8 spaces from the beginning of the line, making them 4 spaces short.
Current display:
$ lsb_release -a
LSB ...
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Favourite/ignored topics bubbles broken
It appears as though the bubbles containing the favourite/ignored topics are missing a side:
Is this a new bug in rev 2011.5.9.4?
Edit: I'm using Chrome 12.0.742.30 dev. Works in Safari.
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Cannot view revisions of this particular question
Trying to view revisions of this question:
https://superuser.com/questions/274671/can-i-use-nas-without-internet-connection
results in "Oops! Something bad has happened"
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Comments are not wrapped, continued on other side of page
How do I delete a folder which is nested quite deep and avoid "File name too long"?
The comments for the first answer aren't wrapping, and seem to be hiding behind the side bar, and ...
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Migrated question showing wrong account as asker
This question was asked on SU, then migrated to MSU. The question says that the asker is the user who actually answered the question before it was migrated. The actual asker is no longer shown, and ...
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Issue with the "migrated" marker
There is an issue with the [migrated] text being added to the end of a question title. If that question was migrated from another site, and closed on the site it was migrated to, it will show the [...
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Blog search box results are from serverfault instead of superuser
When you use the search box on the superuser blog, the Google results are from the serverfault blog.
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Why does the Super User Blog have the same styles as the Server Fault Blog?
It seems that the Super User Blog is using the same stylesheet as the Server Fault Blog. Shouldn't we have our own colors? Maybe something like so:
instead of what we have now:
Edit: After further ...
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Review - First questions - mixed answers and questions
First questions review page lists both answers and questions, mixed. That's annoying, as it's tempting to flag answers as "not question" and vice versa, until realizing that it's actually answer.
Why ...
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Superuser "Too Many Requests" shows Stackoverflow artifact
While opening all StackExchange sites at once (Opera -> Links), superuser gave me the page that told me there were too many requests.
The title of the page contained "StackOverflow", not superuser or ...
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My flag weight is an illogical value [closed]
From my understanding of how flag weights work, the flag weight should always be a multiple of 5, as you get ±10 for posts and ±5 for comments. My flag weight is currently "537.2867". How on earth did ...
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Rollback of down vote added reputation points that the user didnot have
Today I voted down a question Project specific help [closed] as I wanted it to be closed .When it was closed I tried to roll back my down vote and it worked.Now this user started at a Reputation score ...
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Rollback says “resetting any offensive votes”, but rolls back *all* votes. [closed]
The rollback button of a question says that it will reset any offensive votes, which presumably means down-votes. Yet, rolling back to an earlier revision seems to reset up-votes (and accompanying ...
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Where is the 'logout' link? [duplicate]
I was on the SuperUser homepage, and noticed that there was no logout link. Came to meta and there's still no logout link. It's now missing on the StackOverflow page too. What's going on?
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Badge details showing Model.Badgetime
Something is a little bit off. URL
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Tag Info not showing
I added a note to Tag Info about 10 minutes ago that went to review because I have insufficient rep in SU. Since then, I earned the Tag Editor badge and got the edit points, however, the Tag Info is ...
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Vote to close - off-topic descriptions are wrong
Clicking to close a question as 'off topic' gives a list of off-topic reasons but the 'belongs on...' descriptions all say "Q&A for professional and independent game developers" ...
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Moderator election vote counts aren't showing up for me
When I click a candidate's score in the moderator election primary, I see this:
This happens for every candidate on SU, but does not affect SO, regardless of whether or how I've voted on a particular ...
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How to link to URLs contaning strange unicode chars
In my question I wanted to link to
http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/blog-entry/aligning-filesystems-ssd’s-erase-block-size
and it didn't work. Note that the link as displayed here
http://ldn....
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Enable Non-Mods to edit meta questions with "protected" tags:
I was updating the Top Question of the Week 1 question for the blog and wasn't able to make any changes due to the fact that some of the tags used were "protected". Is there a way that we can enable ...
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How can I get credit for answers I wrote in a sister site that were moved to superuser?
I answered these questions in SO before they were migrated to SU:
How can I concatenate two files in Unix?
How to find the largest file in a directory?
My accounts are (or should be) linked. Why ...
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Why is the revision list empty for 225512?
Why is the revision list for Super User question 225512 empty?
Platform: Firefox 3.6. Windows XP Professional 64-bit, SP 2.
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Text colour issue when searching
When searching for questions, the colour of the text which shows the number of votes for accepted answers appears to be wrong:
Presumably the text should be the same colour as the "votes" text. This ...
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Flair reputation lower than profile rep
Why does my rep appear lower in the Super User flair than it does on my profile?
Here is my image to prove it:
I was wondering if anyone could help me as I don't know how to fix it.
I was also ...
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Markdown discrepancy between live preview and finished posts
(I'm not sure I'm right on this meta site, but since there's a bug tag...)
The following is a link to a web page with a trailing ) in its URL:
test
I know, the parentheses can be escaped, but that'...
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Bug with Badges?
The first bug I noticed was that I have a question Java (1.6.0_15) not working on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.2). Why? that has been viewed over 1000 times yet I never got the Popular Question badge? ...
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Why am I not allowed to propose a tag synonym ?
Why am I not allowed to propose a tag synonym on Super User? I have 10k+ rep, the privileges show 100% across all - what am I missing out on ?
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You can select an answer prompt shown before you really can
Let the pictures do the talking
Not necessarily a bug, but could be fixed nevertheless.
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Webapps link missing in SU
I can't see webapps link in super user screen bottom section.
Same link is present SO, API/Apps. Even serverfault doesn't have this link?
I'm not sure about bug tag, still i'm making this question ...
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Super User does not detect links which use internationalized domain names
In my answer here, I was explaining about Internationalized country code top-level domains. Unfortunately, standard links for some reason do not allow users to click on such links.
Such addresses are ...
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Remove MSU Beta badge
Meta Super User never went through a painful creation process. Like Athena, it just popped into the world fully formed and ready for business. (Yes, Jeff Atwood is basically Zeus in this analogy. No, ...
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Bugs with tagging questions
While editing a post tonight I noticed this bug with the tags. There were two of the same tag (windows-7-x64), and several tags with 0 uses but still showing up. Seems broken, unless I'm missing ...
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Migrated question missing its "source"
This question is being shown as migrated, but it doesn't display from where it was migrated.
KronoS and Me spotted this, and Diago♦ confirmed that it come from Server Fault.
Screenshot
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The suggestion to create a Tag wiki should be only there if the user can actually create one
Clicking on a tag that has no tag wiki shows the following message atop all questions (except the tag name might differ, obviously):
However, clicking on it greets one with
Tag wikis can be edited ...
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Why is the question tagged twice with the same tag and yet the question count does not match ?
This question has been tagged twice with [windows-7-x64]. Oddly, the same tag shows up twice, with different counts. Clicking on each of those tags, brings the same questions, although one less than ...
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Yet another Community Wiki oddity
https://superuser.com/questions/16972/what-single-piece-of-software-do-you-most-admire-and-why/16990#16990
If my math is correct, (and I hope it is), if there are 3 people, each with one revision, ...
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10K Tools "flag" tab issue in revision: 2010.9.5.3
In the 10k tools "flagged" posts tab: Once it is selected, no other tools tabs appear. This requires the user to use the browser back button or click tools again. No other 10k tools tabs exhibit this ...
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Wrong "taxonomist" badge received
I just received a notification on the SU site that I was awarded a "Taxonomist" badge for the "autocomplete" tag.
The problem is that I did not create the "autocomplete" tag. Actually none of the 8 ...
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Unable to edit a question because of "that content"? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What content am I being blocked from editing and why?
Was trying to edit the following question to fix the broken URL:
https://superuser.com/questions/184171/how-to-extend-...
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What content am I being blocked from editing and why?
Tonight I went to edit this post to fix the link, which the poster had entered in BBcode rather than Markdown. When I went to submit the edit, I got this error message, which I've never seen before:
...
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10K Tools Page Broken on SuperUser
Currently when using any of the links on the 10K+ users page the links are generating wrong.
When clicking on Close/Delete the url is generated as tag=Close instead of tab=Close
Just tested Rev: ...
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How does the reputation on parent and on meta site work?
The meta site shows the reputation of the parent site Super User at the top.
The activity of this meta site shows I have earned reputation, are these added to the parent site?
This would allow one ...
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Timeline broken
Trying to view the timeline for Thunderbird 3 "Reply to all", also replies to myself using the URI https://superuser.com/posts/120241/timeline fails with Oops! Something Bad Happened!. This ...
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Is there a change made in the sort order ?
Did they changed the answers sort order recently ? It seems that the "best" answer is not on the top anymore... (Or maybe is a bug ;-)
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Can't see number of answers posted with current meta.superuser colour scheme [closed]
I mean look at it! n votes say how many answer(s) posted ?
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Why is Windows XP tag showing zero questions ?
I noticed this while retagging a question, a search for questions tagged [windows-xp] returns 12 questions, so why is the tagging area indicating that there are no questions tagged [windows-xp] ?
/ot:...
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"Latest activity" with a background color on Super User
On other sites, the "latest activity" is a simple link, written the same way as the two previous informations.
On Super User, however, this link has a blue background (which makes it finally ...
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Re-Calc Lowerd Rep, Then Activity Raised it, Got Max 200, Then Today Back Down
I was somewhat shocked yesterday when the re-calc dropped my rep down ~250 or so (on SU)... OK, fine. I read the info and started doing my business. I hit the max cap of 200 yesterday, after the re-...
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Super User times out
When will Super User be accessible again?
Super User is not accessible right now. The other three sites work (Server Fault, Stack Overflow and Meta Stack Overflow). Browser error message:
The ...
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Submitting edit on Super User fails
When I try to edit my question, I get a page not found error.
The error:
Page not Found http://ep2up.com/uploads/1270635831.png
Edit:
Now it works again. But this wasn't the only error. I've tried ...