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Feature request: retracting delete vote on answers
When I vote to close a question it's possible to retract close vote. When I press delete(1) to remove my vote on an answer, it only asks for confirmation if I want to vote to delete, not retract. Can ...
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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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The review menu opens and immediately springs closed if clicked when logged out
I had a tab open in Firefox from when I was logged in. Not realizing I had been logged out of the site, I clicked the review icon in the top bar. The menu that would ordinarily show me the review ...
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Unpublished questions written on mobile site not showing on desktop site
When I write questions on the mobile Ask Ubuntu site but leave them unpublished, the question is saved on the mobile site, but I can't access it from the desktop site.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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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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The Suggested Edit quota is too low
Recently I have become able to start doing First Post reviews, but while I am doing so, I have to edit a lot of posts that are of low quality.
However, when I started my 6th edit, I repeatedly click ...
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Tag Synonym Request: [armv8] [aarch64] -> [arm64]
I would like to request that the following tags:
armv8
aarch64
be made synonyms of:
arm64
The official name for the technology in question would by either ARMv8 (with the 64-bit platform being ...
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Tag Synonym Request: Dell Tags
Right now, we have dell (1643), dell-vostro (60), dell-mini-10 (17), dell-studio-xps-16 (10) and dell-mini-9 (8).
Since those tags, except for the dell tag, barely have any questions, it doesn't ...
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Review audits should NOT include questions with bug reports
I just "failed" a review audit. I saw the question and read the comments. Comments directly under it included:
add yourself to the "affected" people :) (see the "reported" link in my answer)
And ...
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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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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 ...
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Show comments to a question, when editing that question with less than 2K reputation
When I edit a question, this is often in response to a suggestion in the comments. For this reason it would be very helpful if I could see the comments at the same time in the window where I am ...
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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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Mention multiple users
I know that in comment the number of mentions (@user) is limited to one (in addition to the OP).
But in some cases, as in How do I prevent one user in particular from accessing my home directory?, I ...
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Should voting to close a correctly closed question for the right reason really be considered failure?
I encountered this review audit. To test me, the review item told me the question had received close votes as primarily opinion-based. This was obviously wrong, which I recognized quickly, but I saw a ...
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Why isn't career 2.0 available for askubuntu users, why only for stackoverflow users?
Askubuntu is wholly and solely community dedicated to Ubuntu, why doesn't it provide career options in its field to reputed users like stackoverflow. It would be great if we have website as http://...
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So, enhancement to smoke-detector suggested
I suggested something in a conversation about here.
Basically, should we just farm "hot words" from things that are flagged, then if they're in below .01 of questions just add them to smoke detector? ...
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Ask Ubuntu CSS Error: Bounty elements have margin-right offset on question view
It messes up the inline flow. See what I mean below:
Can this be fixed?
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Add launchpad quick link
For the comments we have lots of links, such as [se] and [ubuntu.se].
Here is a list of requested redirects, from me and the comments:
[launchpad] goes to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu and shows as ...
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The preformatted text/code text font in chat is not sufficiently distinct
In chat, when putting text between grave accents to ensure that it is output as code, the resulting text is not very distinguishable from the other text:
The only way it's different, right now, is ...
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Remove the link to the video tutorials from the help pages
Due recent changes to our help page I took a peek what was written there too. I found there was a link to some video tutorials, I checked out that was linked to meta.AU, and was in the disposition of ...
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Unreadable captcha
I wanted to add my answer to this post but I keep on being told to enter the text on a captcha. The problem is that the captcha text is bearly readable and no success after about five tries.
I tried ...
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Add related posts during question reviews
When reviewing First Posts questions, it would be very helpful to add the Related section which we can see in the right side bar of a question page like this one.
This can make reviewing questions ...
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Canonical question / answer for porting Ubuntu Touch
We recently discussed in the Ask Ubuntu General Room the fact that we do not have a canonical question / answer for porting Ubuntu Touch to new hardware.
This has led to a proliferation of questions ...
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Can we make the tags more visible when reviewing suggested edits?
When reviewing suggested edits, the "tags" are at the bottom, and if the post is lengthy, one can sometimes miss taking a look at them to see if they were edited. Also, the suggester might forget to ...
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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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Flagging message, for ubuntu +1 questions
I think we need a specific flagging message under offtopic because, for ubuntu +1(Saucy Salamander) questions?
Update:
Some relevant screenshots.
As we can see above, we can mark offtopic based on ...
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The dots don't line up with the background
Well, since there are looking to change some things with the design, I thought this would be a good time to bring this up.
Has anyone noticed that the dot-patterns don't line up?
If the new design ...
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"Ask question" left border visible on main site
I've been noticing this for the last few days, and it seems like a bug.
Here is what the link currently looks like:
Notice the dark purple colored left border which shouldn't be visible. Below is ...
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What is the site self-evaluation?
Today I encountered the site self-evaluation evenmt. When I clicked on it the review site opened and I had to evaluate several questions. However this thing lacked some explanation. So what is the ...
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Should the overlay or tooltip text for voting arrows be changed?
Right now, the text that pops up when you hover the pointer over the voting arrows is identical to the main site, like this:
Problem is, the text that pops up when you hover over the vote ...
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OpenWeek class for Ask Ubuntu?
It would be great if someone could volunteer to hold a class on how to use Ask Ubuntu, tips and tricks, etc. for Ubuntu Open Week. Ping me on chat if you're interested!
See:
http://www.jorgecastro....
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Broadcom tags probably need a once over, help?
This is more of a call for help but we have a bunch of duplicates and stuff in broadcom.
Our most popular questions "feel" correct to me but you can never tell with these cards. I don't own any of ...
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How to get notified about questions in specific language on askubuntu.com?
Currently, Our LoCo is receiving all questions from Ubuntu users on FB group, this has many disadvantages as it wasn't made for it mainly. We need to move it to Ask Ubuntu, but How can an individual/...
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The "command-line" tag wiki
I'm very keen on the command-line tag, so I've decided to edit it's tag wiki.
I've tried to give a gentle definition of the term, without sounding condescending to those who know about the command ...
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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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Can we reopen this question about how to install Ubuntu on a 32 bit mac with 64 bit processor?
I found this question about installing Ubuntu on a 32-bit Mac.
It seems that this Mac has a 64 bit processor, and Ubuntu should support it.
Since this question broadly falls in the range of "How ...
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Double downvote?
How does that happen?
6 views but 8 downvotes?
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Inconsistent date in close description
I am talking about this question: Software Updater is saying "You stopped the check for updates". What should I do?
The question was asked 11 months ago and the question was closed 12 ...
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Image uploader provides wrong image
I am trying to add a screenshot to a question of mine.
After I select the picture with the "browse" link, the small preview shows the correct image.
But when I click the "Add picture&...
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Provide way to link to headings from within both Questions and Answers and from comments
Use-case: Intra-Question and Intra-Answer Linking
As a user posting either Questions or Answers, I would like to be able to add a link within that Question or Answer to another heading within that, or ...
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A reviewed post not displayed again in the review queue
When I press ← Back in Firefox in the AU review queue, I can usually view the post I’ve just reviewed together with votes of other reviewers. However, sometimes, the post is not shown again.
This ...
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Badges getting cut in half
Seems like the badges are getting cut in half. Attaching the screenshot below
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Where is the any key. . .
... and other observations.
We, as a community, are asked to be nicer so how about the SE Employees help us become nicer by providing a question wizard for new users on the SE network???
No, not ...
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Ask Ubuntu site layout is wrong on Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey
I use Mozilla Firefox ESR 52.6.0 and Mozilla Seamonkey 2.49.2 on Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS x86_64 and Windows 8.1 x86_64 with installed updates.
After some updates of site design its layout is somehow broken ...
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Very confusing audit (maybe a bug?)
I just came across this review audit which really confused me a lot. My first urge was to flag it and this confronted me with the following dialog (see screen-shot):
I finally simply down-voted this ...
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Toast notifications overlap the Ubuntu top bar
Part of the Stack Exchange JS library includes functionality to create notification messages - the most common perhaps being "Thanks, we'll take a look at it" after casting a flag.
These ...
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Minor issue regarding reputation and badge
I should be on 123/150 for legendary.
Rep got to 200 and I saw the counter go to 123/150. Lost 15 due to pilot6 ( :-) ) removing an accepted answer and saw it go back to 122/150.
The 2 blank lines ...
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My badge count is probably wrong (too many gold)
I know it can sound like a stupid question but it seems that my badges count is wrong. I remember having 11 gold and today the total is 13. I've checked the badge page and counted them and... still 11....