Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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Words seem to be missing in “Share a link to this question…” message
Right above the Answer box, we have the Share a link to this question message. This is how I see it:
I'm using Firefox Quantom with uBlock.
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Why does the site tease me about a comment I can't view?
A deleted answer marked as spam shows a "show 1 more comment" link, but clicking the link does not show the comment. Reloading the page does not make the problem go away. The deletion itself is ...
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Unpublished questions written on mobile site not showing on desktop site
When I write questions on the mobile Ask Ubuntu site but leave them unpublished, the question is saved on the mobile site, but I can't access it from the desktop site. I can access it on another ...
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Nothing to review? What gives?
This UTC morning I looked at the reviews page and saw about 100 Close Votes to review and nothing else. Thinking this was slightly odd, I nonetheless reviewed 20 close-voted questions in the queue, ...
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The yellow “question has been deleted” bar is underneath the Ubuntu navbar when scrolling
When scrolling down, the "this question has been deleted" bar is partially hidden under the Ubuntu navigation bar:
I think the z-index ordering should be done in such a way that the yellow popup bar ...
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Underline on new reputation graph looks weird
This is what I see when hovering my reputation graph in the new profile page:
Can the underline please be removed?
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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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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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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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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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Ask Ubuntu meta page title says just “Ubuntu Meta” and another title issue
If one looks at the title of any page on AU Meta, then will see that the title is:
[Page title] - Ubuntu Meta - Stack Exchange
when IMO it should say "Ask Ubuntu Meta". Even worse, on the ask page,...
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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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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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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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matched parentheses in hyperlinks are not handled correctly
When a hyperlink contains a ( character that is matched at the end of the URL by a ) character, AskUbuntu should recognize that the final ) character is part of the URL. However, currently that is not ...
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Very Low Quality flag still appears in the review queue
I noticed that the VLQ flag seems to have been taken away, which makes a lot of sense, since it never really fit anywhere.
Flagging an answer normally shows this:
Flagging from review still shows ...
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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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Tone down the grey for formatting code/commands?
This answer is really brutal on the eyes however I think it's key to have filenames and commands with that kind of formatting.
Maybe perhaps toning it down a bit? Similar in shade to the blockquote ...
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Why does the system floor-round the time before review queues reset?
I've noticed this before, but I'm curious, so I'll ask a question.
Close vote, flag, comment vote, vote, etc counts and review queues reset at UTC 0:00. If someone runs out of any of these before the ...
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Default font “UbuntuRegular” has bad rendering on umlaut characters
The default font "UbuntuRegular" used by Ask Ubuntu is messed up on umlaut characters. Affected characters seem smaller than normal. I played around the font-size and it doesn't help with the problem.
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1answer
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“Oops! Something Bad Happened!” while opening user profile
I can't seem to get to my user profile. It was working 5 minutes ago. The rest of the web site seems fine.
Ideas?
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1answer
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Search not indexing groups of URLs
There are a couple of images used on Ask Ubuntu a lot (namely bit.ly/software-[large, small] and hostmar.co/software-[large, small]). All of the bit.ly images are outdated and need to be updated to ...
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1answer
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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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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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unsaved comment edits are lost when showing new comments
When I do the following...
post a comment
start editing the comment I recently posted
see that newer comments have been posted
click the link to show the newer comments
...my editing of my [less ...
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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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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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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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Migrated posts can be voted twice
I remember to have upvoted the question and answer https://askubuntu.com/q/97569/6969 and after migration to meta I thought, good question and answer, let's upvote it.
After that, I realized that I'...
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1answer
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Comment “edited” icon is too big…
As you can see the circle outline is bigger than the space alloted for it, which causes it be "cut off".
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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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I can't see suggested synonyms unless I'm logged out?
When I go to this page I don't see any suggested synonyms.
But when I log out, I can see several listed there
Is there any particular reason for it? I'd like to be able to see what synonyms have ...
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Formatting tools keep disappearing…
I am talking about the add image, url etc. Am I the only one? I have a post that needs an image but I can't :P
I made a screenshot and it is on my PC but can't use the upload tool. Had to use good ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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Why I do not get notified about duplication notice comments?
My question here was voted to close as duplicated of another question, but I(tm) never got notified by the drop-down inbox, nor the SE inbox. Is this expected? Because if it's like this, most of our ...
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Unable to log in to the Clean-Up site with a Google OpenID
Since the 27th May I've been unable to log in to cleanup.thepcspy.com with the Google OpenID that I was previously using, I keep getting a "500 Internal Server Error, Cherokee web server, Port 80" ...
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Bug with images?
I put this in my question to include 2 screenshots:
![MP3 Tunes v2 (v1 was much better)][1]
![The largest accurate screenshot I found of v1 >.<][2]
And this is what happened:
The first ...
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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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Rep change bug in new user overlay
The user overlay shows more rep points gained in the current week than in the current month:
Given that we are in the middle of a month, I'd say that's a bug.
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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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How do tag subscriptions work?
I know I can hover over a tag and click on subscribe. It then says I get an email. In the email it says I should confirm. When I click the link (https://stackexchange.com/filters/email-confirm/<...
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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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Why isn't the CAPTCHA code smarter?
None of my posts are even remotely spammy. No URLs, or anything close to a URL--just a normal response. Yet I keep hitting the stupid CAPTCHA. Makes me want to go away.
Why isn't the code smarter? ...
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Incorrect new user text box
Q: What is Ubuntu?
A: Apparently, Ubuntu is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for people who love Ubuntu.
I think Canonical may not approve of that assessment ;). Don't know if 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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Profile images from Facebook don't always show up
See, for example, this new user: https://askubuntu.com/users/932262/alessandro-consalvi. On both their posts and their profile, I cannot see an image. If I try to view the image directly, I get this ...
