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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Problem un-downvoting question [duplicate]
[This is different from this question: Cancelling an Upvote (Downvote), as this question here does not relate to which UI element to use, but relates to the conditions that must hold to change or ...
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How to remove the pink edit box?
When editing answers and questions on Math Stack Exchange, I always see a pink box in which it is written 'How to Edit'. Now the problem with this box is that it hides the "Save edits" ...
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Bug in mobile version of the site.
Today, when I was going through the feeds, there was no option to go to the next page like it usually has. However, earlier I was suggested to use full site version instead, where all features work ...
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Do newly added answers wipe out comments in progress?
I've recently had a few comments I was in the process of typing out wiped out when a new answer was posted to the question. I don't remember this happening before, but I don't recall if the ...
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Why I can't see the “related” questions? [duplicate]
For the last two weeks (at least) I am unable to view the "related" questions. I can see the linked questions but not the related. Why this happens?
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The command \tilde messes up with subscripts.
Have you encountered a spacing problem with the command \tilde? To show what I mean, let's take a look at $\tilde{f}_{k}$ and $f_k$. Do you notice that the ...
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Edits on tag wikis counted for Copy Editor?
I was cleaning up and expanding the blurbs on several tag wikis when I noticed that the edits I'm performing on them seem to count towards my progress on the Copy Editor badge, which explicitly ...
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Aligning own operator with limits in MathJax (bug or not?)
I want to create an own operator with limits which would be analogous to
$$\sum_{i=1}^k\, \text{or}\, \prod_{i=1}^k$$
in the sense that the limits should be in the exact same position, but there ...
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No related questions are displayed
Currently no related questions are displayed at the right hand bar.
Is it just a technical problem or does it have another reason?
An example has been attached.
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mathjax not rendering anywhere in firefox
Some days ago I just started to see dollar signs instead of any latex equation what should I do now
I use a windows 7 pc and I have switched my browser many times and cleared cache none of them seemed ...
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Mistake done by MSE in calculating score.
In my profile of Mathematics SE, it shows that I've score of $7$ in algebra-precalculus tag.
However, if you manually count the scores of all the questions ...
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“Improve this question” button on deleted posts goes to a page which says “This post is deleted and cannot be edited.”
I went into my "recently deleted answers" tab and found this question (which is now deleted, so you cannot see it if you have <10k rep) which I answered. I can't normally see deleted ...
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Math numbers rendered as FaceTime phone number
In a recent answer of mine, I noticed that a chain of equations renders correctly on my laptop but incorrectly on iPad and iPhone. The iPad/iPhone treats a particular number as if it is a phone number....
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$\rm\LaTeX$ align code is not working properly.
Recently I had answered a question.
I had used the $\rm\LaTeX$ command \begin{align}...\end{align} but the equations are not perfectly aligned. This is the code I ...
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Searching for questions with a tag only gives bountied questions
Whan I search for a tag on the main site, the list produced seems to have the added proviso that there is a bounty attached to the post.
For example:
It works properly on math.meta, and also works on ...
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Why do some questions look in lighter color? [duplicate]
What I mean appears in the following screenshot:
Why does the first question look lighter than the second? Any reason for this? (I haven't clicked on it yet)
I put the tag "bug" since I don'...
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Progress “towards” review badges is reported after the badge is awarded
When one looks at the "Stats" page associated to a review task, one can see the number of additional review tasks required in order to earn a badge for that review task. The silver and gold badges ...
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Can't see formatted output when reviewing edit
Recently, I've found that when I go to review an edit by a new user, I can only see the markdown, and not the formatted output. Here a screenshot of the top left corner of the page:
I'm sure ...
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What review audit is this?
The review
This is a review audit. But the system shouldn't trick me to say this is a possible spam. I almost fell for it. Luckily, I pressed the vote count and found that this is an audit. Is this a ...
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Latex not rendering regardless of browser
As the title says the math formatting doesn't show regardless of the browser or device I'm using. However changing the network with Vpn or mobile network solves the problem for some browsers so I the ...
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Possible bug with the edit command while reviewing first posts
Today when I was reviewing first posts, I noticed that if I edit a post, then once I press the "save edit" button, I'm not taken back to the review page. Instead I'm taking to the page of the post I ...
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Link to duplicate target does not show up
I voted to close this post as a duplicate of this other post recently, and the OP agreed with the close vote about an hour ago. Unfortunately, for some reason, the duplicate target header just reads "...
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Double notification when pinged on a followed post
StackExchange recently implemented a feature that allows users to "follow" a post in the sense that they get notified on every edit/comment below that post, as if they were the post owners.
I find ...
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Does MathJax really not recognize cosec?
I tried to get the trig function cosec in MathJax, but it comes out as $\cosec$. In contrast, it works perfectly well for sec: $\sec$. Of course, one can always use \operatorname{cosec} as a ...
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LaTex underbrace not displaying correctly
For some reason, this is what I'm seeing whenever an underbrace is supposed to be displayed on a post on this website:
It looks like some sort of cropped out icon. It's weird because it doesn't ...
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How can a question marked as a favourite not appear in my list of favourites?
I marked this question as a favourite, and indeed the question shows a yellow star when I access it, but it doesn't appear in my list of favourites. How can this happen?
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Missing Notifications for Comments on a Question.
My problem is similar to the one given as problem 1 here. The responses it got did not resolve the matter.
I have not received a notification in my inbox for either this comment nor this comment on ...
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spurious slash causes \, to be misinterpreted
Note: In the submitted version of the question, the comma is no longer being displayed – but when I edit the question, it’s displayed again in the preview.
I encountered a strange bug (at least ...
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MathJax: Bottom entries in a matrix cut off
Has there been any sort of MathJax update? In this answer I see the denominators in the bottom two entries of this matrix are partially cut off. I do not remember seeing this behavior before.
I just ...
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I am experiencing difficulty in the rendering of posts in the “review first posts queue.”
For the last three hours or so, when I see a post in the first post review queue, and click on it, I get the standard left top column menu "Home, questions, ..., appearing immediately above a post up ...
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Button for citation helper in the editor
The icon for citation helper in the editor Window used to be hyperlink in a speech bubble, see here: Let's get MathOverflow's “Citation Helper” here, too!
At the moment the icon is a letter B - very ...
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A link doesn't show up in Linked pages
This answer has a link to another answer, but neither page has a Linked section. Why?
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Simultaneous editing
Sometimes I see a question on the main site which I feel could be improved on and when I click the edit button it says something along the lines of "this question is already being edited by someone ...
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PNG images on stack.imgur rendered incorrectly on Chrome
In this post on main, when the PNG file is shown implicitly (one has to open a new tab to see it), the color scheme seems to be reversed (bright $\leftrightarrow$ ...
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Strange behavior of counters in review queues
As it seems currently there is an issue with the review queues that the counter for the number of accomplished reviews does not updates immediately $-$ as it used to be $-$ but only when refreshing or ...
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Columns in Response tab are strange widths
The user column of the Revisions tabs of the Responses tab of the profile is way narrow. (The rest of the tabs of Responses aren't much better.)
This was taken with Google Chrome - Version 80.0.3987....
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Weird UI glitches?
I've been experiencing a lot of UI glitches today (see attached image).
Is there any reason why I'm seeing these glitches?
I'm using the most recent version of Chrome on MacOS
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Period in a wrong position when Mathjax is viewed on iPhone
Consider Explicit upper bound on the number of irreflexive binary relations on {1,…,𝑛} up to isomorphism
In the last sentence, after the last aSb, I see a period when viewed on the standard ...
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Escaped braces do not render in post preview
I am having troubles in mathjax escaping braces with backslash while on math stack exchange using firefox version 72.0.1. Although it the escaped braces render when the question is posted, they do not ...
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Association bonus bug
Is there a known bug about updating the rep-score after receiving the association bonus? (If the first picture is not clear it says 412 at the top of the graph about rep.)
On the other sites (...
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App keeps telling me to join the Meta
Every time I open the iOS app and go to the Meta site, it won’t initially let me vote or comment and instead show this pop-up.
If I click “Join Site”, everything goes back to normal. However, it’s ...
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$\rm\LaTeX$ Preview While Editing Tag Wikis from Chromium-Based Browsers
I've edited a few tag wikis, and I have found that the $\rm\LaTeX$ preview is quite spotty in Chromium-based browsers such as Chrome and Vivaldi. Most of the time, the equations in the tag wiki don't ...
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MathJax not working on Mobile application
On Stack Exchange Mobile Application, MathJax is not working.
As we see here, MathJax is shown as pure text.
Since that the article renders the MathJax properly, the mobile application has the ...
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Comments containing MathJax are not being displayed fully
Yesterday evening there were two posts in Meta - here, and here - concerning display problems. Simultaneously, on the main MSE site, I was noticing that comments containing MathJax could no longer be ...
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Could someone check the edit processing code ? I think there's a bug in it?
this post gave me trouble, I edited it, tapped the +2 for editing after page refreshing (I do that too much), played around putting my mobile browser into desktop site mode (another thing I do too ...
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Display issue on question without any changes being made
This answer previously displayed properly, and hasn't been edited since. I.e. it looked fine yesterday when I provided the bounty. Also, compare how it appears in the revisions, this is what it looked ...
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Earning a badge [duplicate]
Is it normal that I've completed the requirements (MSE acknowledges it) of a badge but didn't receive it? Or this is just a bug?
Here is how it looks like in my profile:
The thing is the number of ...
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MathJax bugs out after edit
While I was reading an answer, the poster decided to edit it. I clicked on the button to refresh the question, but afterwards, MathJax didn't update. I had to refresh the page in order to see the ...
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MathJax software bug
Note the blank space after the word "Show", where some MathJax code appears.
Clearly this is a software bug.
Proof verification: Show $f_n\ to f$ in measure given $\int f_n \to \int \limsup f_n$ on $...
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Problem rendering symbols
In an answer to my question there is a problem with the rendering of the math in Bill Dubuque's answer on chrome
while on microsoft edge we have
I have the latest update for chrome and have erased ...
