Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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Clicking on green reputation button does not make it go away
Clicking on green reputation button does not make it go away for example mine reads +15 in green at the top of the page and it will not reset. Is there a bug at the moment? is there a way to make it ...
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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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Changing reputation; somtimes it goes up, then down again
Maybe related to the recent bug, mentioned here, but I noticed my reputation sometimes unexpectedly increases (you never know what you did :), but then goes back to what you actually should have at ...
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Edit link Missing
I was going to edit a post and I just found out that "edit" Is missing from all questions
Although the edit link works
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Can we make the "ask question" button stand out more? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Please make the “Ask Question” button on AskUbuntu more prominent
I'm new to askubuntu.com and when I first wanted to ask a question it took me a while to find ...
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Adding a comment = audit failed?
I just failed my first audit on this question.
I got the question in first post review where it was displayed without any comment, I began writing a comment suggesting to add a screenshot to clearify ...
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Can't edit due to mention of The Walking Dead
I was going to edit this question but I appear to be running into some kind of spam catcher.
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Broken review test
Moments ago a late answer popped up in the review queue with a link to a bash script debugger hosted at SourceForge. I started by editing the answer (which was not well formatted), but whenever I ...
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Behavior of Site when Marking Test Questions as Duplicates / Commenting on Test Questions
I just wanted to review first posts and got this one. A few days ago, I already came across that quesiton by normally browsing AskUbuntu.
I knew that the wording of the question was exactly the same ...
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imgur.com is deleting images
I've seen a few questions and answers with images like:
The image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available.
Obviously, that's not good for the use of this website.
What's wrong ...
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g's look like q's font oddity [duplicate]
It seems that when there are one line comments, g's look like q's.
here is an example:
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I have less than 50 reputation but I recieved achievement that I can comment although I actually can't
I can't comment because lack of reputation but it showed the achievement. I've tried to comment but of course I failed.
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Part of the question & answers are now hidden by blog & other details on the right
I'm not used to writing questions; but the site is offering me Similar questions above where I'm typing, but I cannot read much of the text as the right side of it is covered by the "How to format" ...
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White page (no HTML) when trying to edit a question
I think I've found a possible bug on AskUbuntu. Earlier, I was trying to edit this question.
Here is a screenshot of it:
As you can see, the webpage looks fine and normal. But when I click on the ...
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Is the ubuntu-desktop tag immortal ?
As of 2011-01-18, Jeff Atwood deleted the ubuntu-desktop tag.
One day later there are already new ubuntu-desktop questions.
Considering all askers are relatively new to askubuntu, I suppose they were ...
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Bug: UbuntuRegular Font (used on this site) messed up at 12 & 13px
This site, AskUbuntu.com, uses the "UbuntuRegular" font. Sometimes the font size is 14px, which displays fine, but in the "comments" (& perhaps other places), the font size is 13px, which cuts off ...
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Visited links on Meta are hard to see
Maybe it is just my vision but I can't distinguish visited links in question/answer text from the surrounding text on Ubuntu Meta. I can see the links on the parent fine and I can see unvisited links ...
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The top menu has moved to the left
The top menu has moved to the left. I checked in two different browsers.
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Why did my reputation decrease 20 points with a 'User was removed' summary?
You can see in the next picture that my reputation has decreased 20 points, and the summary says "User was removed".
I cannot understand nothing of what happened here.
Can someone explain to me ...
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Sidebar is all messed up.
Either something isn't being escaped properly or there's been some new HTML that bodges the site. I'm seeing this behaviour on both the main site and meta.
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Misleading review test
While going through the review queue I was shown the first answer of a new user, correct, well explained and perfectly formatted. I thought this was strange, so I opened the original question page and ...
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Questions with pending close votes in an audit
I got caught by an audit on Can I recover a deleted file?. The question, while upvoted, high-quality, etc., was actually flagged duplicate, and had three votes in support when the audit happened. Now ...
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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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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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Mixed apostrophes in “unclear what you’re asking” description
I stumbled across the following sentence in the description of “unclear what you’re asking” close reason:
As it's currently written, it’s hard to tell exactly what you're asking.
The first it's as ...
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Plenty of broken image links
This bug was detected in 2011: the original policy was to use software centre images from bit. ly/ software-small, but that mysteriously broke for some reason that doesn't really matter at this point. ...
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Top black bar of the site is glitched
Well as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words:
To use Android terminology, the black bar's width is set to match_parent rather than wrap_content....
Note: This happens with both Chrome and ...
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Why have I just received another two Marshal badges?
Why have I just now received another two Marshal badges? I got my first a few months ago. Surely you should only ever get it the once.
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Login in option for launchpad no longer autoexpands, confusing
I don't remember when this changed but before when you clicked "log in with launchpad" the little options thing would autoexpand and let you put your username in a field so that you can use it to log ...
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Suggested edits count includes a user's own tag wiki edits
In review, I'm told there are 3 suggested edits for me to approve/reject/improve:
(These images are from the old review system; the new system's interface is different but this still seems to occur.)
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2 year old user is a new contributor?
Just saw this:
a 1400 rep new user? Wow! He's learning fast until I clicked his profile and he's a 2 YO user?
Bug?
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According to Area51, askubuntu.com is in public beta/private beta
The proposal page shows Ubuntu in a mix of states ("Public beta"/"Public beta begins soon!").
The site, however, has fully launched, becoming the first Area51 site with its own real domain. ...
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Preformatted text is insufficiently distinct?
The background used for answers on askubuntu.com is slightly grey; this makes preformatted text such as this stand out significantly less than on, say stackoverflow.com.
I think this requires a ...
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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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Can't Accept Answers or enter review queue
Whenever I try to enter the review queue or accept an answer, I get an error message. I also now cannot post comments.
Also, while writing this post, both "Title is Missing" and "Body is missing" is ...
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Achievements rep indicator glitching
The rep indicator lit up saying I gained 141 points, but I only gained 4. This has happened twice in the past 10 minutes.
See the below screenshot...
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Review edit interface is misleading
I was reviewing an edit here, but even though it turns out the suggested edit was made on the original post, it was compared to a later edit (a nice one by the way). So much so, that the edit being ...
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Review queue false negatives on the new top bar
I've reviewed several posts regarding the new top bar such as:
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/357621/review-queue-updates-icon-poll
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/355236/the-new-...
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Style issue: font alignment with certain styling
While doing some editing today, I've noticed the following issue with the style used on Ask Ubuntu:
This issue occurs when using either italic or bold italic text, ie: ***group***. It is not evident ...
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Line spacing cosmetics
Awesome work on the new site design!
I'd like to note a couple CSS issues related to line spacing, in this answer as an expample:
The scroll bars in the code block probably shouldn't be there. They ...
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Incorrect Consecutive days visit count
I always check out Askubuntu and WordPress Answers several times a day. I have been a consecutive visitor of both for 59 days now. MY profile over at WPA shows it right but AskUbuntu is not. How can ...
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Unable to log in to chat
When I try to enter the General chat room, the message "You must be logged in to talk" is displayed.
Clicking "logged in" takes me to a page titled "Change OpenID" which lists OpenID providers. When ...
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I can Review close votes, but I don't have more votes to cast!
This post is interesting to Seth, since he has been in a similar situation.
Well, I have no more close votes for the day. But I only reviewed 19 questions, hence I have still access to the review ...
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Why are there different styling in Meta from AskUbuntu?
I have noticed this a while, but it is just a bit weird.
Styling differences occur between different StackExchange sites. The most notable is the <kbd> tag, most of which render the contents of ...
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Add a space to "Google description"
If I Google "Ask Ubuntu" the sites description says:
AskUbuntu is a collaboratively edited
question and answer site for people
who love Ubuntu. It's 100% free, no
registration required.
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Why are some old questions not being automatically deleted?
I read this: Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered zero-score questions after a year?
If the question is more than 365 days old, and ...
has a score of 0 *or* a score of 1 with a deleted ...
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I didn't receive the notification that I'd gained a badge
So in my notification list, I have "You have earned the Curious badge'. But I received the Benefactor badge yesterday and I didn't get a notification for it. Why is this? Is it not meant to or is it a ...
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Edit "at least 6 characters" restriction prevents useful edit
I got the error
Edits must be at least 6 characters; is there something else to improve in this post?
while editing a post (I was not sure about writing the link to avoid meta effect)
My edit was ...
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Is it "Ask Ubuntu Meta" or "Meta Ask Ubuntu"?
I sometimes have a doubt if the meta site of Ask Ubuntu is Ask Ubuntu Meta or Meta Ask Ubuntu.
Let's look into some details (to understand why I'm confused).
If we click on the Stack Exchange icon at ...
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Should gaining 200+ reputation, on one site (askubuntu) give me +100 associated site reputation bonus, on the same site. [duplicate]
Today I passed 200 reputation on this site, only to then in quick succession, without doing anything, pass 300. I looked at my reputation log and it looks like I gained 100 for "passing 200 on an ...
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