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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The scope of \newcommand is the entire page
LaTeX on this site supports \newcommand and \renewcommand. This is very nice, but I noticed that the scope of these definitions ...
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Searching for accented characters is too strict
A search for "lindelof"
and
a search for "lindelöf"
produce different results. In some sense the results are correct, since the first search finds only those posts that mention "lindelof" and the ...
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“Don't shout” warning without capitals
I started working on an answer and first just typed three lines of arithmetic expressions with numbers into the edit box. When I later returned to the page and the content of the edit box was auto-...
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The return key in comments
I have noticed recently that when composing comments, pressing the return key
submits the comment as is. This behaviour differs from that when composing
replies. I am using Firefox. As I frequently ...
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2answers
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Try to comment: Fail review audit
I know the review audits aren't without their flaws, but with this review:
https://math.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/109542
it should be clear that something is not right. As usual, the vote ...
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Race condition in editing question
I have noticed this problem. Let's say when I first see a question, it is in version $A$. It is badly formatted, so I click edit. However, it takes a long time for me to edit. Before I finish, someone ...
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Whoa! 1300 items in the “Late answer” review queue
Am I the only one seeing this? What happened? An updated algorithm? Or did we just have an army of zombie answer(er)s that I didn't notice?
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Removing upvote in first five minutes eliminates possibility of restoring upvote later
Something like the following scenario has happened to me two or three times since I've been active on this site (and happened again today).
I read through an answer, like it, and upvote it. Then I ...
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MathJax not rendering in previews
As of today, when I type an answer, things in MathJax don't get rendered in the preview. What's going on?
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MathJax doesn't display in the new profile page
This seems suboptimal:
I'm running Mac OS 10.10.3. This happens for me in Safari (8.0.5), Firefox (38.0) and Chrome (41.0.2272.118), although in Chrome I do get a brief flash of equations during ...
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1answer
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Can we take famous questions out of the “review audit” system?
Earlier I saw a first post come through the review system titled "Are mathematical articles on Wikipedia reliable?" Now, since I'm genuinely reviewing and not thinking that the system is throwing fake ...
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Mathjax stops rendering after clicking “An edit has been made to this post”
I have noticed in the last two weeks or so that after clicking the "An edit has been made ..." banner, the mathjax is not rendered.
Example (before):
(and after):
Refreshing the page renders the ...
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Please fix captcha - it hampers math sites much more than others
I intended to elaborate on the captcha problems in the original thread, but since it has been locked, I have no choice but to create a new thread. I think it is very important that the SE designers ...
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1answer
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Deletion votes retroactively become irreversible when a user becomes a moderator
While browsing the 10K tools undeletion queue I just noticed that a handful of questions with two undeletion votes are now stuck in limbo, impossible to get the final undeletion vote, because they ...
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1answer
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Sudden jump in the number of unanswered questions by 2000 in a day
On July 21, there were 92572 unanswered questions on Math.SE according to the unanswered questions statistic (and not the ...
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5answers
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Question's body is not abbreviated in search view
I searched for questions on perfect numbers. Most of the questions are abbreviated, but it looks like Tharsis found a workaround:
What's going on here?
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Why is the website suddenly weird? How can I permanently change it?
The forum layout now looks like this:
and I'm not sure why. How do I permanently change this back? I can disable it for a specific page by clicking the top 'clock' button - but whenever I navigate, ...
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1answer
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Too long LaTex formulae not shown in comments?
If you try to show this formula in comments, it fails.
$$M:\left[\begin{array}{cc}x&y\end{array}\right]\mapsto\left[\begin{array}{ccc}x&y&1\end{array}\right]M=\left[\begin{array}{ccc}u&...
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1answer
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How did a candidate nominate themselves after the deadline?
User Way to infinity nominated themselves at 20:11:59 UTC:
And yet the nomination period ended 20:00:00 UTC:
This isn't really normal, I believe. If I had to guess, the user opened the nomination ...
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1answer
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Amusing bug involving Arabic usernames
In a question which was put on hold, the last user named in the reviewers list of five has an Arabic username. Because of this (as far as I can tell), the number of hours ago that the post was closed ...
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Editing a comment containing formulae will mangle the formulae
Somewhat of a duplicate of http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/419/editing-a-question-containing-formulae-will-remove-the-formulae.
I reposted the question because the previous one
- had a ...
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1answer
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I'm not shouting, I'm just easily distracted
This site has a warning about all-uppercase posts, which works for both question titles and post bodies. The problem is that on the body of a post it is triggered prematurely, even by the first ...
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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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Chrome Page Crashing when Viewing or Typing Answers
Over the past few days, the Chrome browser page with Questions is crashing.
It has crashed while typing answers twice and several other times when just viewing and updating the questions listing.
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1answer
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Math typesetting bug when a question is closed.
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/22815/pi-4-how-to-disprove
I have noticed this before as well. When a question is marked duplicate and closed, the possible duplicate question appears at the ...
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Redirect issue for Meta
I understand that mathematics.stackexchange.com
redirects to
math.stackexchange.com to include non-Americans (such as me), but
mathematics.meta.stackexchange.com does not redirect to the Meta and ...
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Firefox 4: MathML vs MathJaX
I recently started using Firefox 4. It seems that the browser understands MathML. However, the output is not as pleasing as the old MathJaX. Will this improve when Firefox 4 gets out of the Beta phase?...
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Links / URLs containing special characters are not recognized by markdown
In this answer, I linked to some page within the Wolfram alpha site, and the links did not appear. For example, I will try to link the last word in this sentence. Here is the URL I was trying to link ...
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2answers
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Can we have the suggested questions' titles parsed by default?
The suggested questions' titles here are not parsed:
I find this a bit odd, because they are indeed parsed in other scenarios, like this:
Why aren't the titles parsed when suggesting questions? I ...
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2answers
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Should we already give up using Chrome in MSE?
Not exactly news: Chrome crashes frequently when editing math in MSE. And the crash often loses all the work (change the last often to ...
15
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3answers
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TeX formatting in other comments in the same post is lost when the comment list is updated
If there's any TeX formatting in comments of a post, after you add a comment to that post, or click "add / show n more comments", all formulae are reverted to $...$....
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1answer
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“Answers to non-wiki questions” on user profile page are actually “non-wiki answers”
The tags page of user profile displays additional statistics on mouse-over. For example, hovering over number $3$ in 3 linear-algebra × 29 brings up the following:
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Color of the names of deleted accounts
It seems that the color of the names of deleted users is now blue (used to be grey or black I think; example: user210003 in the comments to this question).
I don't seem to be able to find the ...
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1answer
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What makes me legendary?
I was surprised to see me being awarded the legendary badge for I just checked at https://math.stackexchange.com/reputation that I had "earned at least 200 reputation on 143 days". What is counted ...
14
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1answer
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five-minute limit message should take precedence over five-second limit message
This is a somewhat trivial bug, but a bug nonetheless. It sometimes happens that one starts editing a comment, and then upon submitting the edit one gets an error message that the comment can only be ...
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1answer
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Groundhog Day bug
In the past, when I got a message, the message box lit up, and after I read the message, the box remained unlit until the next message.
Now the light reappears after a while, same already read ...
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1answer
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MathJax broken in “Related” section
The MathJax/LaTeX rendering seems to be broken for question titles in the "Related" section. Example from Show that 1 + $\lambda$ is an eigenvalue of $I + A$:
(Observed with Safari and Chrome on OS ...
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MathJax Color fights Hidden Text and Wins!
It appears that using MathJax color in a hidden text block "pokes through" the hidden environment. I don't believe this is desired behavior, so I'm reporting as a bug.
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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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Circumventing displayed equation ban in titles
Using block equations in titles is dissallowed and will be automatically caught. But one can circumvent this ban by using
...
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1answer
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Awarded extra 'fanatic' badges
I am just curious to know as to why I have been awarded three 'fanatic' badges, all at the same time? I am aware that I have earned one, but I am curious if the other two are the result of some sort ...
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broken Amazon links
I tried to include two links to Amazon in this answer, one to the amazon.com page of a book and one to the amazon.de page of the same book. (This made perfect sense, since the two pages contain ...
13
votes
1answer
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Two flairs for Qiaochu Yuan
Heads up: on the $2010$ moderator election page and the main elections page, there are two flairs for Qiaochu Yuan present.
Am I the only seeing this or is it intentional?
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TeX is bunching up in Chrome
I used to get this problem on and off, but now it's mostly on. The TeX that I see doesn't have spaces in the right place, or something; it is getting really hard to read. I'm using Chrome 7.0.503.0 ...
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Links in comments do not work if they contain space before dollar and also square brackets inside MathJax
The format [text](url) is the standard format for using links in the comments. And it works just fine even if the text contains MathJax.
Normally, adding spaces ...
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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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Why give me something in the review queue where the only option is “skip”?
While reviewing I came across .
My only option was to "skip". Why did this show up?
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Visited Links No Longer Distinguishable
Apparently, visited links are no longer distinguishable from the rest. They used to be in a slightly different shade than non-visited ones. Personally, I found the feature to be very helpful, and I'm ...
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Writing answers - slow rendering + CPU load
This is the same issue like the one presented here, only now with a more powerfull machine. The fact that preview is generated instantaneously makes it hard to write longer answers. Sometimes, even my ...
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TeXification is too aggressive, or “How to enter a dollar sign?”
The current TeXification function is too aggressive. The current behavior is that,
any text between two dollar signs in a single element will be formatted as a TeX formula.
this excludes any ...
