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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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header alignment problem on main
Just now something in the styling changed on main that has caused the header row to be aligned weirdly for me:
This does not happen on meta.
That screen shot is from Firefox (3.6, Windows XP). I ...
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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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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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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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Bug: Mobile user page on meta shows reputation gains
Despite the fact that no reputation is gained on meta, I still see +5 and +10 in the "reputation" section on the mobile user page.
Note that this does not actually add to my reputation, only that it ...
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Partial Reputation Credit
Today, with all of your help, I managed to overshoot my 200 reputation daily limit. I was under the impression that accepted answer points are not counted to the 200 limit. I had one answer accepted ...
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Undeserved Badge
I just logged into meta.J.SE and was promptly notified that I had received the "Vox Populi" badge. This seems impossible as I have only voted 9 times all week. Bug? (From my meta.J.SE user page)
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Items break container when window width is resized below ~990px
I am not an expert in CSS, but it seems that the issue is in .container and #footer. I think that since Mi Yodeya (unlike all the other SE sites I checked1) is using a repeated image as a background, ...
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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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Wrong rep in chat
Only problem is, last I checked I only have 9322 reputation (and counting!)
Why does it say I have 10.2k?
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Very Few Answered Questions
It seems that at 2012-03-09 15:20 we had -137% of our questions answered. That's a little less than I would have expected, considering I have answered at least one!
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Design bug in badge page
The date and post title overlap on the tumbleweed badge page, as well as other post-related badge pages. As Monica noted in the comments, there also seems to be a vertical offset between the two.
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Right-Left text goof in new duplicate banner
We just had this question closed as a dupe and merged. Its dupe's title contains Hebrew lettering which seems to have thrown off the banner, as shown:
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How does one person have two undelete votes?
Similar to the other question but this time the other way.
szmear somehow had two votes to undelete his post. How did that happen?
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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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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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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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Site chat rooms listed as SE-network rooms
While in our chat room, click "leave", and the page you wind up on will be the "site" page (listing site-related chat rooms), but the site they're listed as being related to will be not JL&L but ...
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Requirements for Generalist Badge
I was perusing the list of available badges on SE and noticed the Generalist silver-badge defined as Provided non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags. This seemed like a reasonable ...
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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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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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Can one person have two votes to delete?
The deleted answer to https://judaism.stackexchange.com/a/12100/732 has four delete votes, but two of them are from the same person.
How did that happen?
