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 have two of my questions and their answers had a series of unupvotes? [duplicate]
Yesterday all my answers to two questions I posted had many votes "unupvoted", including one question.
My reputation history and the two questions:
ASCII screensaver for the command-line or a TUI?
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I can't access the Election Page
The link
http://askubuntu.com/election
from the Comments Inbox is going to
http://askubuntu.com/error?aspxerrorpath=/election
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What's the so called maliceous-voting-detection worth if this is happening? [duplicate]
I just got an interesting message that there had been maliceous voting on my account. Minus almost 6000 reputation.
Interesting question was if I perhaps created an additional account to vote for ...
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Noticed something about audits
I noticed something about review audits:
When it's going to give me an audit, the page says, "Loading next item" for a long time (>4 seconds).
Otherwise, the wait time is <1 second.
UPDATE: This ...
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Menu bar is covering the Deletion pop-up
The "Recommend Deletion" pop-up is not fully visible.
Yes, this is a minor bug, but it looks clean it this is fixed.
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Bug in the audit system?
I believe I've discovered a bug in the audit system.
I was reviewing this answer, which obviously needed some serious work:
So I clicked on the edit link, and it showed me this:
Which immediately ...
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How are post [merge]s supposed to work?
How exactly do post merges work, and what would be the reason for two questions being merged?
I happen to come across this post, which is marked as being a duplicate, and links to this post, which is ...
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Image insert overlay broken Chrome for Android
I'm tagging this as a bug report.
In Chrome for Android, the popup box for inserting images is broken. It jumps all over the screen; if you zoom out then you can see it, but as soon as you start ...
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Topbar design is out of date
Ubuntu redesigned their website, meaning Ask Ubuntu's top bar is out of date.
Note how the top bar "jumps" about:
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Cannot submit a question with the software-installation tag
Umm...
The tags are backup, re-installation, software-installation, and settings.
I should be allowed to submit this.
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I am not able to reset my password on Stack Exchange [duplicate]
I've forgotten my password and never receive a password resetting link with the associated email ACCOUNT and anything,I don't want to log in via face-book what should I do to reset my login?I've seen ...
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User with 1 rep approved edit?
So I just suggested an edit, which got approved by a user with 1 rep.
How can he approve a suggested edit with 1 rep, while I cannot with 486 rep?
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Advertising review queues to unqualified users?
I just got this advertisement next to my AskUbuntu feed:
Which linked to the review queue for AskUbuntu.
Since I'm below 500 rep, I can't do anything in the review queue yet.
Why are unqualified ...
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Ad crap is causing browser errors, is this acceptable?
This sort of ad stuff that tries to execute gifs and pull do all sorts of shady stuff is a big red flag for me and is making me feel uneasy using this platform. What can be done and/or how to reassure ...
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Upload Profile Photo
I am trying to change my Profile Photo in AskUbuntu, but I cannot. Everytime I go to the Edit Profile tag > click Change Picture > Click Upload new Picture > Upload a new Picture(.jpeg file) , still ...
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Cannot change email in Profile
I'm getting this error when I try to change my email. The email I'm trying to change to has previously been registered to SE, but I removed that login recently. That email is no longer (or shouldn't ...
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Firstrun "How it works" #herobox is misaligned
I like to think the Ask Ubuntu is lawful good but we've got a box on the homepage that is clearly chaotic evil. What, no AD&D fans in tonight? *sighs* Tough crowd.
Awful jokes aside, ...
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"Sort by newest"'s labeling is confusing
(https://askubuntu.com/users/389450/script-kitten?tab=questions&sort=newest).
The labeling on the right is confusing, and in my humble opinion should rather report "edited jan 01 at 00:00 [...]", ...
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Redesigned disabled buttons in review are hard to distinguish
After recent redesign, the buttons in review queue [No Action Needed] and [I'm Done] look almost the same. I would start competition if you can distinguish which one is disabled on the below image (...
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Do you like this nothingness?
I noticed there is no ad showing on askubuntu just now, but I can still upvote it. Is this even a bug? I don't know! But I'm letting you know anyway.
Here is a screenshot:
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Not receiving Stack Exchange mail
I am not able to receive a password setting e-mail in my registered mail account not even in junk folder or in-box and anywhere using forget password option in stack-exchange login, I can only login ...
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MS Azure ads not showing correctly in the sidebar
I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I've noticed something strange. Every ad for Azure that comes up in the sidebar on Ask Ubuntu is cut off on the right side, taking some text ...
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User profile tabs are double-underlined on hover
When one hovers over a tab name on user profile / activity page, the name gets underlined twice, in addition to changing color to red. I suspect this may be a CSS bug, because having three effects on ...
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Main site's sidebar and Meta site's sidebar don't match anymore
I've been noticing this for a few days, the Main site's sidebar and the Meta site's sidebar don't match anymore:
In particular I've been noticing the difference between the "Hot Meta Posts" ...
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The checkmark is too large compared to the voting buttons
Judge yourself.
Compared to the size of the voting buttons and score, it's unusually (unlike the checkmark on other Stack Exchange sites) large.
I'd consider this to be a bug. If it's not a bug, then ...
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"You have made too many incorrect reviews" What?
I have been banned from reviewing for having too many incorrect reviews. What? Most of my "attention" reviews I passed, and I was about to edit an answer. It said the question didn't exist? I just go ...
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Why no extra downvote with spam flag any more? [closed]
When I flag an answer as spam, it simply flags it up and doesn't add an extra downvote, previously though I would downvote the question/answer, and then upon the spam flag the system would give it ...
user364819
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Should Ubuntu Questions on U&L be smarter about deleted questions?
As those who regularily attend the chat may know, new questions posted on Unix & Linux tagged ubuntu are "featured" in the room by Ubuntu Questions on U&L shortly after they've been posted.
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What 's up with the Jobs section?
I just noticed a Jobs section:
As it says, I get a page not found. I'm reasonably certain I have a Stack Overflow Careers profile. So, what is Jobs for, and how can I access it?
The feature request ...
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strange review - "skip" as only option
Has anyone been presented with such a review?
The review link: https://askubuntu.com/review/reopen/489387
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who is http://viyals.com/, and why did I get routed through them to askubuntu.com?
I searched for a ubuntu question, and came to what appeared to be askubuntu.com. I was going to comment and tried to log in. It never worked. I looked at the url and it was viyals.com.
They are ...
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Unable to access "90d" tab on "question-close-stats" page
When I try to go to this page I get this error:
user364819
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The Canonical navigation bar has diverged from the canon
Possibly due to the recent CSS refactoring, the pseudo-Canonical navigation bar no longer matches the top bar of ubuntu.com sites. Here is how they compare in my Chrome (Windows):
AU bar
Canonical ...
user336085
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Spam answer as Low-Quality-review test?
I just had to review this test in the LQ queue, which was a spam answer.
However, my thought was that spam should never had appeared in the LQ queue and therefore I was a bit confused about this. I ...
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Hover state colour for the "Ask a Question" button in the tour is broken
This happens on Chrome 46:
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Meaning of orange number left to the "review" button for 10k+ users [duplicate]
We all know that the orange bubble with the white number (here: 330) represents the number of Suggested edits for users with 3k+ reputation.
But I have recently (today) reached 10k reputation and now ...
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CAPTCHA bypass issue
For a while now I have been noticing this, and not just on the SE network, but all the sites that use the new re-CAPTCHA system, and I have tested this on many different OSs and also many different ...
user364819
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What's up with the late answers queue?
It looks like we currently have 4400+ late answers awaiting review:
Obviously that's not possible, so what's up with that review queue?
Looks like a server-side issue, however using Google Chrome 45....
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Missing full stop in privileges area
I have just noticed that there is a missing full stop at the end of this sentence (the last one):
And as it is really bugging me (because I am a Grammar Nazi), I thought that I would report it.
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Socratic badge amount gone down unfairly with off-topic I cast on my own post
I feel that something rather unfair has just happened, so I would like to complain about it, my next gold badge that I will get is the Socratic, and just a few minutes ago it said:
Now however it has ...
user364819
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Question time period limit
I sometimes have more than 6 problems in a 24-hour period, or more than 50 in a 30-day period, so I think that it would be really good if the limit could be raised, or if you could add to your limit ...
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Meta AU says I have one suggested edit to review, but I have none, how come?
Meta AU (even after refreshing the page) says that I have 1 suggested edit to review:
However there is no suggested edit to be seen if I click on the 1, and the 1 still does not go away, even after I ...
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Unable to upload gif image in question
I have recently found that I get this error when attempting to upload a gif image to a question (well, I actually didn't upload, but instead provided a link to a gif image which has worked with the ...
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Yesterday it said that there were 200 thousand questions, now back to 199 thousand, how come?
Yesterday I looked at that thing on the main AskUbuntu site which tells you how many questions there are on the site, and it said 200 thousand and something, but today it says that there are currently ...
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Where is the "Log in with Stack Exchange" option?
How to login for AskUbuntu, there is a new login-screen.
But the Log in with Stack Exchange disappeared, that's the way I always did it. I don't have a seperate AskUbunut account.
I don't see it.
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AskUbuntu can only log in via GMAIL LINK, but not by typing in email-pwd combo
So I am trying to log into AskUbuntu with my email/pwd combo, and if I click GMAIL and then click on my email it logs me in, but if I type the same email, it says there is no account associated with ...
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I get a post which I flagged before in review audit
I faced this already a couple of times.
In Late Answers or First Posts appears some stupid post that is not an answer.
I try to flag it, but it does not let me, because it seems that some time ago ...
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Is it possible to change a close reason?
The automatic comment left by the duplicate close reason doesn't start with a capital P and being the old, compulsory disorder Grammar Nazi I am, I tend to correct it all the time...
If one of the ...
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The "accepted" word is not visible under the "all actions" tab in the profile page
This bug exists on both sites, on meta and on main.
The word is there, but its text color is in the same as the background (technically, the background on the span is black, but has an opacity of 0, ...
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Why are there hyperlinks when you scroll up a bunch
On Safari 8.0.6, scrolling up above the ubuntu bar causes links to show up. Is this a bug?
EDIT
By scroll up I mean scroll beyond the top limit which is only possible (I think) with the trackpad. ...
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