Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates a reproducible problem on the site that you believe is due to a mistake, malfunction, or programming error.
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Clicking ad Approach-0 downloads a file named “download”
Clicking ad downloads a file named "download". I think it has to do with the particular ad, Approach-o. Downloaded file looks like an HTML file, probably the site's home source. I also tried visiting ...
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Rendering of some past links to meta seems to be broken after recent changing of url of meta posts
I have noticed this problem, probably connected with recent change of url's of the posts from meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions to ...
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1answer
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Does the iOS app stop supporting horizontal scrolling?
About two years ago, I posted this question on Meta to raise the horizontal scrolling issue then existing in the iOS app. Owing a big thank to the Community, after one or two version updates this ...
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1answer
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Tabs 'Questions' and 'Answers' on user profile aren't readable when selected
On my profile page (and I'm sure yours as well), in the Top Posts section, the active tab ('Questions' or 'Answers') isn't readable because it's white-on-white:
On Meta, the selected tab is readable (...
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Why is the user search so out of date?
When I press "Users" right below the logo on the main page, I am presented with a search engine. Here I can type in the name of a user, and get a list of all users with that name.
I searched myself. ...
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1answer
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Character count for special formatting in comments: source or output?
I would expect that special symbols such as $ and \frac{abc}{def} are excluded from the character count in comments. So that <...
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1answer
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Why can't I access (view) my profile page?
When I try to access my profile page, it drops this error. I have no idea what's going on?
Edit: What could've caused this error? It appears to be fixed now.
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Spoiler and List problem
Is is possible to make a spoiler space with a numbererd list inside?
! Here is what I have tried:
! 1. The first.
! 2. The second.
or
or
! Here is what I have tried:
1. The first.
2....
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1answer
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Can't see all my edits
I am sure that I edited the following answer
How may we prove that $\int_{0}^{\infty}{\sinh^2(x)-x\over \cosh^3(x)}\cdot{4x\over e^x}\mathrm dx=2-\zeta(2)?$
at least three times but in the editing ...
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Flagging on mobile error
I am using the mobile app and tried to flag a comment on this question as obsolete (the comment has since been deleted). The app told me that an error occurred and that I should report it on meta.
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MathJax no longer respects `\newcommand` definitions from questions in other posts
In a question of mine I used e.g. $\newcommand{curl}{\operatorname{curl}}$ to define $\curl$ being rendered as $\newcommand{curl}...
2
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1answer
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Deleted/Migrated Question in Review Queue
I had this review task https://math.stackexchange.com/review/close/571044 (ugly screenshot).
There was no other option than "skip". Which seems obvious, but is this a bug in the review system?
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Question update notice not showing any more
The landing page of the math stack exchange used to have a feature that displayed how many new or updated questions had been asked since you last refreshed the page. Clicking on it 'refreshed' the ...
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1answer
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Links in spoilers aren't hidden
An answer today caught my attention: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/2185406/62967
Here's an image of what I see with Safari 10.0.3 (with Firefox 52.0 it's the same):
The link in the spoiler is not ...
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1answer
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How can I post as guest again?
At the time where I didn't have a math.stackexchange account, I could ask questions as a guest. At mathoverflow, I can still ask questions as a guest. But if I click on "Ask question" at math....
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1answer
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Flagging questions issue
I've tried to flag a question on http://www.math.stackexchange.com for being off - topic. However, when I had to relocate it mt only options were: Mathematica, Statistics and something else, yet none ...
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Question closed by myself returns in audit
Today in review queue I received a question looking very familiar. After I voted to close it, my deja vu was confirmed: I already voted to close this question, quite recently. Do such audits make any ...
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Unnecessary message above the answer-head
When you click on a question to answer it, with no answer on it, you get this message:
I, however, don't remember seeing this message before. Might be a new change.
But soon after the message ...
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1answer
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Edit summaries/revision history cannot handle MathJax properly
Sometimes if somebody edits the MathJax part of a question or answer MathJax breaks down in the revision history, creating italics and messing up formatting so that its really hard to see what changed....
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1answer
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Underline does not display in fraction. Mathjax bug?
In this answer the underline below $k$ in the exponent in the definition of $\binom nk$ cannot be seen. It took \displaystyle for it to appear.
I can reproduce the ...
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Why is this edit shown as just me?
I made this edit, and it was approved, however the final change included edits I didn't make
The edits I didn't make were the removing of a tag and noise at the end of the post. I recognize I ...
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0answers
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LaTeX rendering in incorrect locations [duplicate]
When browsing the site I notices that in the hot question section of the sidebar there was a link to this post on SuperUser. The link looked a little strange, as shown in the image:
If I'm not ...
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1answer
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“\right\rceil” sized incorrectly (in Firefox 50 on Mac OS X, maybe elsewhere)
In a comment to an answer I wrote, I noticed the following problem with the size of \right\rceil:
$$
n=\left\lceil e^{W\left(\frac{\log \left(\frac{n!}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\...
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1answer
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Reputation increase not visible.
I have accounts on different sites of stackexchange. But on my math.stackexchange account instead of its reputation and comments. Reputation and comments of stackoverflow are visible. How to stop this?...
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Strange MathJax quirk, and why it happened
I just encountered the following when editing a question:
This is how I ended up with what I had:
Start with $sin(t), 0<=t<=pi$ (without the quotes that I ...
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1answer
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Fixing the newly created “geometric-invariant-theor” tag
A tag for geometric invariant theory has been created today, but it comes with a problem: the final "y" is missing, therefore its current name is geometric-invariant-theor.
Is there an upper limit ...
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1answer
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McAfee doesn't like Stack Overflow Podcast #94 - We Don't Care If Bret Is Famous [closed]
When I click on the link to
Stack Overflow Podcast #94 - We Don't Care If Bret Is Famous
McAfee says
"Whoa!
Are you sure you want to go there?
http://stackoverflow.blog/2016/11/Stack-Overflow-P.....
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Ugly MathJax alignment on Zoomed pages (possibly Chrome specific)
I just noticed in passing that MathJax alignment in this answer has become very ugly - see the excerpt below. The string of $x$'s is wavering up and down. I don't recall seeing this when the answer ...
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Double mathjax when asking
I have been getting double mathjax recently when asking questions, and only when asking questions. It renders correctly on the preview but just makes my input box look weird. I use the latest version ...
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1answer
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\tag mathjax spills to the right of main text body
I've known about this bug for a while. Weird that it still hasn't been fixed. If the \tag mathjax is not intended to be used, then why is it included as a valid ...
2
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0answers
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My gravatar has changed and I would like to get it back [duplicate]
Something has gone wrong with my gravatar. It has changed into the icon of user "Vera".
"Vera" is actually another account once made by me (with another e-mailadress) when I had no disposal of my own ...
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The links in “Hot Network Question” interpretes dollar as MathJax [duplicate]
This afternoon I came upon a link that produces a red "Math processing error" : I will upload a screenshot.
Here is the link
to the question
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My comments got stretched across the screen, and it won't allow me to edit or delete the comment either.
I must have added something in MathJax that caused my comment and subsequently caused previous comments to stretch across the page. I tried to hit "edit" or just delete the last comment but it doesn'...
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1answer
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Math Processing Error pops out when line is too long.
When I write long computation I break the line with \\ symbol like in this answer. However something has changed and now Math Processing Error pops out with such syntax. I see that between double ...
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Logo change automatically, why? [duplicate]
The color of my logo changed automatically, why ? At the beginning it was green, and now it's blue. But the incredible thing it's when I post a message, it comes back in green (well, not now, but In a ...
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Repeated (x 24) achievement notification
Today I got a notification for a single achievement ("Nice answer" badge) repeated, about 24 times - the screenshot shows the first ones. Never happened to me before.
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MathJax is breaking in short expressions frequently today.
Formerly MathJax in comments broke if you had too many consecutive non-blank spaces, and too many was a moderately large number. When it breaks, you see MathJax code in red letters rather than the ...
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Voting to close on the question vs. in the review queue [duplicate]
Thinking this is a bug unless I missed something in the guidelines.
If I click on "review" and vote to close items from there, my badge progress counter increases as expected, and the vote is in my ...
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1answer
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Comment “spreaded” all over the webpage - unable to edit, unable to delete [duplicate]
I wrote a comment to this question on math-stack-exchange.
The browser (both Chrome and Firefox) didn't take it very well, and "spreaded" it all over the webpage, such that both the 'edit' option and ...
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Preview unusably slow recently
Until recently I was quite pleased with the responsiveness of the MSE editor field: preview (and thus typing) seemed to be proportional to the number of formulae input, but something happened and now ...
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2answers
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User Percentile computations appear to be wrong
Forgive me if this has been brought up either here or meta.se before, but I could not find it in either.
On a user's activity page, beneath their reputation, there is a label that says "top x% ...
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Is there a reputation cap per day, or is it a bug? [duplicate]
I posted a few answers yesterday on Math.SE, and for some reason one of them picked up steam: it currently has been upvoted 22 times, which is... quite pleasing, even if it sounds vain.
Now, what ...
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bug when asking for my responses [duplicate]
In my profile on Main, I have a choice of many items, such as "all actions" or "responses." For a few days, when I click on "responses" it times out. However, it works with "all actions."
I should ...
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Responses tab on activity page doesn't work
Recently (the last couple days) the "responses" tab* on my activity page is dead.
*Link will (try to) take you to your responses tab.
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Incomplete deletion of user account?
While recently browsing old questions in Mathematics Meta, I came across a user with an undeleted meta user account but with a (seemingly) non-existent main user account. I was under the impression ...
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2answers
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TeX equations not rendering the not-equal symbol correctly
My answer uses \neq but it doesn't work. I tried other ways but it didn't help. Am I doing something wrong or is it a bug, i.e. does it work in questions and in ...
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“Math Processing Errors” on empty \overset and differences between preview and answer
This answer revision has an expression which displayed correctly in a prior Mathjax version, and also displays correctly in the edit window, but displays as [Math Processing Error] in the answer.
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MathJax formulas appearing twice
I am having a similar problem as in this previous post. Just recently, ALL MathJax formulas started appearing twice in my browser. However, unlike in the linked post, it happens every time I load ...
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A probable bug in the “people impacted” of my profile
I'm not sure if META is the right place to ask such a question. If it's not suitable for here please let me know and I'll just delete it.
My problem is with the "xxx people reached" thing in my Math....
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Review audits should not include deleted migrated posts
I was just trying to procrastinate a bit of work, so I figured I'll check the review queue. This came up:
https://math.stackexchange.com/review/close/571044
It is a closing vote review of a question ...
