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Something amiss or broken with how you're working with the site? Report it.

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Text colour issue when searching

The number will be white after the next build; that's indeed a tiny bit more readable :) Thanks!
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Horizontal tabs in code blocks are a little broken

Tabs are converted to four, not eight spaces.
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Strange behavior on the FAQ... (hidden link?)

As Daniel Beck comments, If a section is not displayed completely, the area you indicate is clickable, and will show the additional explanation below if clicked. When the section is expanded lik …
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Pinged usernames are not highlighted when followed by a comma

This was caused by this rather huge change to chat's handling of @replies. Fixed now, thanks for the report.
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Reputation bug? (101+15+10=111?)

My best guess here, based on some log data, is a race condition where the upvote and the accept vote were registered almost exactly at the same time, causing one update to be swallowed. Such a race is …
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Why is the revision list empty for 225512?

You're right, it wasn't rendered correctly in Firefox. That's mainly because it was never intended to deal with long titles (it was supposed to just say "Return to Question" -- the [changing!] title i …
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Post editors are not suggested recipients for @-addressing

Quoting myself from here: The autocompleter only autocompletes actual commentors. We decided to not autocomplete editors, because a) it's a very rarely used feature, b) it'd be quite some work to ma …
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Why is code highlighted in preview, but not in the actual post?

I don't remember ever having seen code blocks highlighted on SU, as is being done on SO. I'm pretty sure they were, way in the beginning. But they haven't been for a while now. And after the nex …
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Empty editing description of post's first revision

Easy enough to fix; next build, as usual. Thanks.
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Unable to edit the body of a particular answer

The initial version had a bug that caused the migrated post to have the cooked HTML of the migration source's current revision, but the Markdown source of the post's first revision. … This bug was fixed on July 19, but that's of course after this particular migration happened. …
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can't post answer on community blocked question, have enough points

For the "can answer a protected question" check, the account association bonus of 100 rep is deduced from your reputation, hence the on this site part of the message. Granted, you're somewhat of an ed …
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Unable to talk in chat despite enough reputation

Fixed now (as you already noticed); more info on Meta Stack Overflow.
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4 votes
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Why are tags sometimes lost when quick-editing them?

This is just a guess, but it seems plausible: My bet is that this is related to this accident in which all windows-xp tags were destroyed. Note that this happened after quack edited the question for t …
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Differences between plain-text diff and formatted diff

To you and me, it's obvious that the diff engine didn't find the optimal solution here; however, to the computer it's not. Let's break this down to the simplest example. Consider you wrote this: A …
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Wrong suggested edit markdown comparison; no visual line-to-line matching

Your example was one the cases I used test my diff engine improvements, and as you can see, it looks much better now:
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