Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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Why is this old, historically locked question without the featured tag showing up in the community bulletin?
This question was featured one year ago, and was unfeatured and historically locked in October 2019.
However, it is showing up in the community bulletin sidebar today:
Why is this non-featured ...
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CYLOR sticky contains a broken link
When the meta sites were changed over from meta.site.stackexchange.com to site.meta.stackexchange.com, some links were broken – and, for some reason, this has yet to be fixed nearly three years later.
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Weird bug in answer text displayed
I noticed the following weird discrepancy between the answer text shown in my inbox and the actual post. The answer, as it appears in my inbox, begins "I read once that it stems...". However, when I ...
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unvoted-on comments look voted-on
Upvoted and non-upvoted comments on Mi Yodeya Meta look the same to me on mobile. For example, the following screenshot shows three comments: one by the person who took the screenshot, one he had ...
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Bounty progression bug
In the past I have offered a bounty for my question about Talmudic maps.
I started with 500. Recently I offered another bounty [i think it was 50 or 100]. I’d like to offer another bounty, but I am ...
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Long question titles have words broken up by the 'Ask Question' button
Notice that the word "violation" in the title of the question is split into two by the 'Ask Question' button.
I only just noticed this. Has it always been like this? Or is it something new?
Either ...
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On-screen Hebrew keyboard pops up for no reason
Even as I'm typing this it has done it again. Every time I click into the text box to form an answer, ask a question, or edit a post, the on-screen Hebrew keyboard pops up for no reason, and remains ...
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Why are some profile pictures not showing up?
I've noticed that some pictures here on the site have not been showing up (example: my profile picture). What is the reason for this?
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Can some out-of-date text on some help pages be fixed?
On the help page for Access Review Queues, there’s the following snippet:
These and all other review queues are are accessible from the “review” link that appears at the top of every page next to ...
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Disclaimer box still has http:// and old meta link [duplicate]
Mi Yodeya has a disclaimer box on the side of the page, saying that
Like any library, Mi Yodeya offers tons of great information, but does not offer personalized, professional advice, and does not ...
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Another CSS issue with the save button?
This post indicated a CSS issue with the save button on the "edit profile" page. It seems that this issue (or a related one) has cropped up again. This is what the page looks like by me:
And here is ...
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Some buttons are illegible (probably a CSS issue)
There seems to be a design (CSS?) bug on the main site. Look at this button in the "edit profile" settings:
Here is the corresponding page on a different site:
It's not just that button; I ...
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Box counting list of posts for review doesn't seem to be true
The little orange box at the top of the webpage indicates that there are ten total posts awaiting review. But the list shows no posts awaiting review. Why is that? (There are no posts for review ...
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Beginning a post with a number + period causes weird spacing
On this question, the answer text is out of alignment with the rest of the page and is pushed into the voting buttons:
Every other question I've seen on this site lines up more neatly, like this:
I ...
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Old links to Mi Yodeya Meta are broken-ish (https)
I clicked on the link to Mi Yodeya Meta in this comment earlier today, but Chrome wouldn't take me to https://meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/, because "Your connection is not private."
I assume this ...
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Bidi bug in comments
Comments that end with a right-to-left character and are posted by someone whose username starts with a right-to-left character mess up the display: the two characters mentioned are combined into one ...
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Why was the question about Judaism's “evil” approach to women deleted?
On Feb 20, 2017 there was a question by someone asking about Judaism's "evil" treatment of women. Someone had even given a long, quality answer.
But now the question is gone - what happened to it?
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yodeya.com/* links are not working
When I browse to http://yodeya.com/q/1 or http://mi.yodeya.com/q/1, I get a blank page. These URLs ought to (and used to) resolve to http://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/1, and in general, yodeya.com/* ...
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25k site analytics are off by a day
Users with 25k rep can see site analytics. Moderators also have a (more-detailed) view of site analytics.
Today I was looking at the moderator traffic graphs and saw some interesting spikes that I ...
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Hebrew Text has a lot of boxes. Is it only me?
From this question: How should we understand the Torah’s comparison of a tree to a “man”? What message is the Torah trying to convey?
Is this a system-wide issue, or just one that I have? There are a ...
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Multiple Marshal badges?
As far as I can tell, I was awarded the Marshal badge just once, a few months ago. When I logged in to MY tonight, I was told that I had received it another two times on Mi Yodeya:
I'm pretty ...
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The bottom of the Favorite button is cut off
I just noticed that the bottom of the circular "favorite this question" button is cut off, both on Mi Yodeya and Mi Yodeya Meta:
This issue also applies to the Favorites section of the user ...
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Review history is incomplete
I just saw this today for the first time. After reviewing a post in the "Close Votes" queue, I wanted to see how others had voted on it. When I viewed the queue history, I saw that multiple people had ...
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Could we increase contrast for links on meta?
Some recent style updates changed the link color on meta:
Did you spot both visited links there? I had trouble doing so. Even the two unvisited ones are a little hard for me to see. (I grant that ...
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Why does mi.yodeya.com add an extra slash when redrecting to judaism.stackexchange.com?
I recently followed a link from Twitter. This followed a long chain of redirects:
http://t.co/S9SpkJsknH
http://mi.yodeya.com/q/22791/1362
http://judaism.stackexchange.com//q/22791/1362
http://...
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What just happened to our design? Visited links are now blue
Regression This was fixed (per the answer below0 and has broken again, on main and meta (August 2015). And then was fixed again and is now broken again (October 2015).
Our nice, soft, shades-of-...
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Front page is allergic to numbers
Some things seem to be missing at the moment:
I confirmed this in private/incognito windows in Firefox and Chrome, and in plain old Safari (no customizations and, apparently, no prior visits to this ...
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miyodeya.com/users/login doesn't work anymore
When logging in to MY, I usually used miyodeya.com/users/login, just because it's easier to type than judaism.stackexchange.com/users/login, and faster than going to miyodeya.com and clicking my way ...
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How did my consecutive days get restarted?
Over shabbos my consecutive days counter got restarted. How did that happen? I was on the site right before shabbos and back on right afterwards.
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Someone answered a duplicate question
I was surprised when I saw a question rise to the top of Mi Yodeya's stack, that said "answered," while the question title said duplicate.
Is this a bug?
Here's a link to the question; here's a link ...
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Strange tag synonym behavior [duplicate]
I have seen some strange behavior with tagging this week's parasha. I started typing
parashat-s and was surprised to not see parashat-shemot come up as an auto-complete suggestion. What I saw was:
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Why no On The Road hat?
I asked https://judaism.stackexchange.com/q/50539 using the iOS app but didn't receive the On The Road hat. Why not? (I edited the question within the edit window from a desktop computer. Perhaps that ...
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Posting a similar question
I am trying to post a new question that differs only in five words (the only significant ones) from a pre-existing one. I get a warning, but if I press "submit" again, the system gets stuck loading.
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Why is there a suggested edits review queue for Meta?
When I clicked review on the top of meta.judaism, I noticed that exists a Suggested Edits Review queue.
This makes no sense, because (IIRC) users with <2K rep can't suggest edits on Meta, and users ...
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Bug in the site navigation links
The main site looks like this on my system:
Meta looks like:
Presumably, the Unanswered link should not be under Badges. I tested on Firefox (32.0) and Chrome (30.0.1599.114) both running on 64bit ...
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Answer lock says it's a question lock
This answer is locked https://judaism.stackexchange.com/a/1997/3350. However, the lock says it's a question lock:
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Missing tag score
By my count, I have a score of exactly 100 in the halacha tag. But my user profile says I have 96, and I didn't get the halacha badge. It's possible I miscounted, but I'm also pretty sure I had 96 ...
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New questions disappearing momentarily
If I have two windows open, one to Recently Active Questions, and in the other I ask a new question, the Recently Asked Question window has a message appear that there is one question with new ...
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I seem to have some phantom reputation
This is pretty innocuous, and I'm more asking out of curiosity, but I seem to have more reputation for the year than I have reputation total. Specifically at the time of this posting, 6012 total and ...
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Possible reputation bug from bounty award
I was awarded a 100 point bounty for this answer. The user who offered/awarded the bounty got 100 reputation points deducted. While the answer has a +100 indicator next to it, I received 200 points ...
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Second answer labeled as modification
Only problem is, I didn't modify that top question; I answered it. FTR it was a second answer and I subsequently deleted my first answer, but still no modification to be heard of.
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autocomplete tag synonyms
When retagging (or asking) a question on the main site, you can type in tag names, and they will autocomplete for you. That used to work with synonyms also (for example, I'd type in diaspor, and chutz-...
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yodeya.com down
Although I can access the main site by its URL http://judaism.stackexchange.com, I can't, since yesterday, access it by its URLs http://yodeya.com, http://mi.yodeya.com, or http://miyodeya.com: the ...
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Undeleted comments of deleted posts
I made a comment to an answer, which resulted in a follow up comment after which I edited my question and the answer on which I commented became obsolete and was deleted. The answerer undeleted his ...
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Misleading tool tips on Meta
Votes on Meta often signify agreement/disagreement on content and not research-usefulness-clarity. Shouldn't the tool tips match that, so newbies like me won't get confused? I suggest "I support the ...
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Very early edit doesn't allow a vote change
It seems that when things move quickly enough, I can incorrectly lose the ability to change my vote on an answer.
Here's what happened (on this answer), all within ~15 minutes:
Answer posted
I ...
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Automatic duplicate-post notice shouldn't count as a revision to reopen-queue a question
Question 16050 is on the reopen queue because it "was edited after it was closed" (quoting from that page, emphasis in the original). In fact, the only revision after closure-as-duplicate was revision ...
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Tag search should match middle of synonyms
Go to https://judaism.stackexchange.com/tags and, in the "Type to find tags" search box, type in a string. The page will auto-update with tags that match that string. However, it seems based on a few ...
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Help Center doesn't play well with text zoom
The spiffy new Help Center presents an attractive, easy-to-use layout, but the page doesn't adapt to text zoom as well as the rest of the site does. This is the page with three levels of zoom (my ...
