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Across the network, including meta sites, there are opening and closing curly braces above question titles:

screenshot of braces above post title

Looking at the HTML source, it can be observed that those surround a few tags including <div id="redirect-action-modal-container"></div> and multiple <script> tags:

          <div id="content" class="snippet-hidden">

{
    <div id="redirect-action-modal-container"></div>
    <script type="application/json" data-role="module-args" data-module-name=" islands/redi... 
    <script defer src="https://cdn.sstatic.net/Js/webpack-chunks/svelte.en.js?v=aef9580d5c...
}

<div itemprop="mainEntity" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Question">

HTML source showing brackets

Those braces should be removed.

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    seems missed some condition in code, or comment for code block. On RU.SO also reproduces
    – Grundy
    Commented Apr 7 at 16:21
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    \begin{joke} That's just tex.se taking over all other network sites \end{joke} (the tex.se logo is { })
    – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz
    Commented Apr 7 at 16:21
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    It seems to be there in all browsers, desktop and mobile. Either a condition/comment as Grundy says, or an accidental output of some JSON. (Also, 13 upvotes in five minutes… that’s a first for me!)
    – Janus Bahs Jacquet
    Commented Apr 7 at 16:22
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    There are some elements between the { and } that refer to "redirect modals" so I imagine this is a result of the redirection experimentation.
    – Spevacus Mod
    Commented Apr 7 at 16:24
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    What @Spevacus says looks right, there's a modal hidden in there: i.sstatic.net/AJK1X7N8.png (don't mind the non-standard colours that's just my userscript.)
    – miken32
    Commented Apr 7 at 16:28
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    If relevant, this is occurring for me on FF v 137.0
    – Pyrotechnical
    Commented Apr 7 at 16:34
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    At least the tension is resolved somewhat
    – Journeyman Geek
    Commented Apr 7 at 16:38
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    Yeah, that's one way to get a better score on the new P80 metric ... (just kidding of course :D)
    – Glorfindel Mod
    Commented Apr 7 at 16:51
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    Just reproduced on desktop Chrome, on Philosophy, Physics, Worldbuilding, Writing, and virtually every other site I could find.
    – controlgroup
    Commented Apr 7 at 16:52
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    April Fools was late this year. The Dev team apologizes
    – Machavity
    Commented Apr 7 at 16:58
  • 3
    Well, at least this time there's no smiley!
    – Arulkumar
    Commented Apr 7 at 17:13
  • Please do not upload images of code/data/errors.
    – TheMaster
    Commented Apr 11 at 2:21

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We're just making sure you are paying attention. ;) All jokes aside, thanks for reporting this. It was a result of a pesky bug with our page markup template. This bug should be fixed across the SE network.

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    Spoiler - It was not fixed.
    – Richard
    Commented Apr 7 at 18:18
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    @Richard I think you can blame caching for that.
    – Andrew Morton
    Commented Apr 7 at 18:37
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    @Richard I missed the original report, but I'm not seeing any braces now. Maybe in your case it's just a caching issue.
    – Karl Knechtel
    Commented Apr 7 at 18:37
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    @Richard shouldiblamecaching.com
    – Starship Remembers Shadow
    Commented Apr 7 at 19:06
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    “This was review audit to check if you’re paying attention. You passed!”
    – nicael -misses Sha-
    Commented Apr 8 at 1:52
  • It seems that the same bug was reported on several per-site-metas. Perhaps it would be reasonable to leave some message there, too.
    – Martin
    Commented 2 days ago

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