Questions tagged [bug]
PROGRAMMING AND DEBUGGING QUESTIONS DO NOT BELONG ON META. Use this tag for a reproducible problem ON A STACK EXCHANGE SITE that you believe is due to a mistake, malfunction, or programming error. Questions with this tag are NOT automatically brought to the attention of employees. To create a ticket internal to the company, a [status-review] tag needs to be added by a moderator or employee.
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Homework question [closed]
I feel like I’ve misinterpreted “stack exchange” as “information exchange”.
There are no physics problems that aren’t contrived “homework like problems” at some level. I suppose you are only able to “...
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Site icons in achievements dialog on stackexchange.com are not well-aligned
There's a small difference in the alignment of site icons in the achievements dialog between https://stackexchange.com and the Q&A sites. On the latter (left screenshot), they are well aligned ...
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Displaying Zero as new reputation ticker - bug?
I think displaying this zero as a rep ticker is a bug? It was 9 a few minutes ago, as it should have been (10 minus 1). After I looked at the details, the rep ticker should disappear, as it ...
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Networkwide search seems to be ignoring the recent questions
I wanted to find whether some specific recent issue was discussed also on some per-site-metas.
So I tried to search with the restriction using creation date. To my surprise, the search did not return ...
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Some former Community Managers' posts are missing former staff & mod labels
On this site, since 2022, posts by former employees posted while they were employed, are indicated by gray [Staff] (and where applicable, [Mod]) labels in their user card.
For some reason, this didn't ...
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SPAM in a review audit visible when not logged in
On the Super User review queue came across a blatant support phone number SPAM post, with the phone number in the question title and body.
Flagged as SPAM and passed the review audit.
However, the ...
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Stack Snippet console.warn can’t log Error objects (or other non-string, non-array objects passed as the first argument)
This Snippet should log two warnings:
(async () => {
console.warn(new Error("blah"));
})();
console.warn(new Error("blah"));
but it actually logs one error:
Error: {
"message": &...
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Animated avatars are back
I noticed an old account where the avatar (from their Google account) is now shown as animated pretty much anywhere I've looked (Q&A page, profile, badge page).
For the intended behavior, see ...
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The arrows in the image of "reduce ads" privilege help article is confusing
As of April 2025, the image shown on "reduce ads" privilege help article looks like this.
What will my view look like when these ads are disabled?
After achieving this privilege, the two &...
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Combined flair rep keeps changing (± ~15k rep) for months
I've noticed that my profile's combined flair reputation has been fluctuating in jumps of around 15k rep over the past few months, even setting aside the repeated absurd account suspensions. I don't ...
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Alignment issue in the Stack Exchange button on Chat sites
There is an alignment issue with the Stack Exchange button on Chat sites - the right hand side of the text is truncated.
The same issue is also present in the Inbox and Achievements dialog boxes.
For ...
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Translation for bounty popup title isn't used
The title of the bounty popup was translated a long time ago, but is not used currently for some reason:
It was probably affected by the recent changes to that popup - In the bounty primary window, &...
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"Not possible to perform this tag search" error [duplicate]
I've been seeing the error "not possible to perform this tag search" on the Mathematica Stack Exchange front page quite a lot recently, although it doesn't always happen. Does anyone know ...
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Amazon links converted to SO referral links appear to be broken [duplicate]
There's an example in one of my answers here. I referred to a book, so I offered a link to Amazon to offer a place to purchase the book (or get other details, like the ISBN, to buy at their favorite ...
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Chat search seems to be broken
I don't know when exactly it started, but I noticed this morning that the search function in chat seems to be broken, returning 0 results found every time. I have tried with many different rooms and ...
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