Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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The "Ask Question" link opens up previous question in "Edit" mode.
Clicking on "Ask Question" takes me to expected URL:, but the displayed page is primed with the tags, title, and contents of my previous question:
What is going on here? I have tried two different ...
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Markdown isn't parsed after a question rollback.
I just rolled back this question and now the Markdown hyperlink appears unprocessed:
When I click Edit, the preview displays correctly, so I know there isn't a syntax mistake:
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Can we add a little more space on the User Activity page? (Graphical glitch)
After doing an edit, where the entry shows up on the activity page, the underline from the link is partly hidden by the highlighted section which says what the edit was. Screenshot:
Could we add a ...
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Two visual annoyances in the header [closed]
Not really bugs, but:
Can we please get the same arrow to expand SE and user menus?
Please vertically center the links left to the search field.
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"Review completed": why isn't the fate of that post decided?
I am talking about https://askubuntu.com/questions/338436/i-cannot-get-vpn-to-prompt-me-for-userid-and-password-when-the-always-ask-opti
At the same time the review screen shows
while the question ...
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Glitch in the review queue?
While revisiting my review votes I found:
(review)
To me this looks like a glitch - either the review is completed or not - the message at the top says no, the bottom line says yes.
Is my ...
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Usercard Formatting Sometimes Clipped
I noticed in a AU post today that a usercard was clipped on the right, cutting off the user's bronze-badges count:
Of course this clipping does not affect all usercards; most I have seen look fine.
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Launchpad logins broken on linux browsers?
One of my coworkers noticed that Launchpad logins are broken. If you log out, then go to login, click the launchpad button, and nothing happens.
Normally a text widget shows up so you can type in ...
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May we please have another font for the body text?
The new design is great, but the font is really killing me. Here's why:
Uneven kerning and spacing
Have a look at this title. The space between n and e in uneven, r and n in kerning, a and c in ...
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Little Bug with layer order on askubuntu
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post, but i recently found a little rendering bug on this site. It's a problem of the z-index and the order of layers. Note: the red notification box was ...
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Bounty allocated amount looks odd
When a bounty is allocated to an answer, the bounty amount is shown against it. This kind of looks weird in Ask Ubuntu
In contrast, the bounty allocated amount in Super User is much.. better
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Vertically misaligned tags
The vertical alignment of the tags is incorrect on Firefox.
.post-tag {
vertical-align: middle;
}
Should fix this
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If "About Me" is blank we have a grey square on the user page that mean nothing
It has took me time to understand why there is a strange grey square on my user page and to figure out what it is. I think there should be a text like "No description" or maybe we can just remove it ...
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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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Visited links cannot be distinguished from normal text [duplicate]
Visited links are not underlined and black, just like text is.
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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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Ask Ubuntu ads appear only as "Stack Android App" ads, not showing community ads
It seems that in the change to display the ads for the android app, I am now only seeing ads for the android app on Ask Ubuntu.
This has the unfortunate side effect that none of the community ads are ...
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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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Why does this question have 4 votes to migrate to Meta?
Why is this being shown on a review?
It has 4 close votes to migrate to Meta.
Why does it have 4 migration votes (unrelated to Meta)?
That option isn't even available for me on most questions (...
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Edit approved by no-one?
Consider this approved edit (edit by me): https://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/170518
Why is reviewer field blank? Who really approved the edit? This only occurs on that particular review and ...
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The little tab things don't look right
On my main profile page, I noticed this:
Is it just me, or are the tab backgrounds backwards for the left & right ones? Shouldn't the rounded corners be pointed out?
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Can the line-height in <li>s be a bit taller?
I was joking with somebody earlier about the line-spacing in their post. There's nothing wrong with the content, it's just hard to read. This is very easy to reproduce; just compare:
Lorem ipsum ...
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Why Is Main site not giving appropriate badge for reading FAQ?
Have mentioned this in chat a few weeks ago and as others have referred to SE system in other answers here in meta thought would ask for advice regarding the reasons or possibilities to why i have not ...
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"Peer pressure" badge doesn't appear in my profile page
I was notified that I had gotten the "peer pressure" badge, and was told to see my profile. I did and that badge doesn't appear there. I think maybe I've experienced that before with another badge.
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Problem with the "Announcer" badge page...
https://askubuntu.com/badges/57/announcer
As you can see in the above screenshot, if the question is too long, the information about the user who received the Announcer badge is cut off.
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This guy has a 101 rep with after only asking 2 questions and getting no up votes: Bug in Ask Ubuntu?
I really don't want to be a dick, but I ran across the following question:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/386327/how-to-learn-ubuntu-after-installing-it
from the following user:
https://askubuntu....
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Tag based syntax highlighting isn't working in all the questions
For those who don't know, SE uses Google Prettify to automatically add syntax highlighting to any code posted based on the tags applied in the question.
If we specify <!-- language : lang-...
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Ubuntu bold font not imported
The Issue
Recently I noticed something odd: when booting into OS X and visiting Ask Ubuntu, bold fonts render oddly. I've only noticed this in Chrome; in Firefox and Safari, the bold font renders ...
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Why can't I chat? I have 33 rep; is this an error? How do I fix it?
I have 33 rep and cannot chat; why? You have to have 20 to do so; is this an error? How do I fix it?
Thanks.
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I cannot change my hat on any of the SE sites!
Since 22nd December I cannot change or remove my hats. I get an error (screenshot below):
An error occurred while changing the hat - please try again.
I have tried several operating systems and ...
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Retagging question by 500+ user makes the Community reject an edit suggested earlier by another user [closed]
Time: 2013-01-31 11:03:29 UTC
I had suggested this edit. Me having less than 2000 Reputation sends this edit in Review Queue for approval of members with more than 2000 Repuatation.
Time: 2013-01-31 ...
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Enter in context menu posts comment
I tend to use the context menu key to correct typos. Context key, select word, enter. The normally I will press down to get to the end of the row. Enter in the context menu posts (with about a 0.5 ...
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StackExchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™ colour issue
Opening up the StackExchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™ after the recolouring on Ask Ubuntu main and hovering over the Stack Exchange logo results in dark grey on purple:
This is somewhat ...
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"Unanswered" questions tab shows answered questions
Why does the "Unanswered" tab in the main orange bar produce a result different than "Unanswered" in the "Questions" sub-tab?
Is there a way to make this less ambiguous?
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Link to "view reputation changes" from user page (under user image) has incorrect underline position
Simple bug: You go to your user profile, under the image there is your reputation which links to reputation changes (something like this:
http://askubuntu.com/users/*****/*******?tab=reputation
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Search for duplicates - result missing
Wanting to close vote a question for being a duplicate of the well-known My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?
I searched in the closure dialog for "boots to a black ...
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Bug, utf8 char trimmed away from user profile webpage url
Discovered that utf8 chars are trimmed away from users StackExchange profiles usersupplied webpage url under bio.
E.g. for my case, the æ from my last name is getting trimmed, rendering the google+ ...
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duplicate question review management
When you click on the close button on a question and select duplicate you can then search for a question and get a result list. If you select a question that is on hold/closed for being a duplicate ...
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Close voters in the wrong voters' bucket?
I voted to close/hold a question as "off topic", others voted for "unclear, what you are asking". Apparently I was the 5th and now I supposedly voted for "unclear" too. It's no big issue but it feels ...
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The share link box is oversized
I've been able to reproduce this in both Firefox and Chromium.
I click the share button then this box appears with a abnormal horizontal compared with the main site
Apparently, the comment field/...
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Double posting of comments (Not intended)
I was picked up yesterday because I appear to have double commented on some questions
This was not intentional and appears to be a result of my wifi disappearing momentarily due to local interference ...
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Dotted line persists after deleting comments
After deleting all comments on a post, the line which separates comments from the main post remains.
See this screenshot (from this question) and note the dotted line after the post which shouldn't ...
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Descenders in comments chopped off in Windows Chrome
In my browser (Chrome 29 on Windows 7), descenders are chopped off in comments, which makes it fairly annoying to read, as g's look like q's (most other letters with descenders are fairly unambiguous, ...
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Why am I not able to login here with my Launchpad username?
I am not able to sign in here, with my Launchpad username? What could be the main reason for that?
I am able to sign in with any of those my emails account or even with Facebook normally!
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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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This edit would have to be a suggested edit
I was reviewing a question which a new user had just posted on the site, by clicking on the Review link.
After editing the title (typos) and the main question body, with spelling, layout and English ...
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Suggested Edit notifications not being sent in a timely manner?
I posted an answer and there was a suggested edit shortly after. However I was not notified of the suggested edit via the message system until after it was approved.
The notification I got said that ...
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Not that criteria
In https://askubuntu.com/help/bounty, there's this:
"If there's no answer meeting that criteria, the bounty is not awarded to anyone."
One criterion, two criteria or "those criteria" but not "that ...
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The "contact us" link in the User Merge help page links to itself
It seems that https://askubuntu.com/contact/user-merge now redirects to https://askubuntu.com/help/merging-accounts (since a recent build of the site). Fine. However, the link on the page for further ...
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Login flow has bad link
Repro steps:
Open incognito window / clear cookies
McAfee Site Advisor indicates that this site is risky to visit?
Press upvote button
In login dialog, click "sign up using google"
Result:
404 page ...
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