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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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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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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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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3answers
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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How many people voted in the 2021 Moderator Election?
In 2021 Moderator Election the participation at the recent election is reported as
52,685 voters were eligible, 12,611 visited the site during the election, 5,834 visited the election page, and 1,905 ...
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1answer
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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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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 ...
20
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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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2answers
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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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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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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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Voting to delete a Question after it has been reopened and reclosed
Scenario
A post is closed.
A user votes to delete that closed post.
The post is reopened without ever having been deleted.
The post is reclosed.
In this situation, the user who originally voted to ...
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Asymmetry in Mathematics Stack Exchange Logo
I zoomed into the logo in the top left on my iPhone and noticed an asymmetry. Now you will see it too:
Here it is on my macbook (and also demonstrating the same issue on Math Meta)
The improperly ...
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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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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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1answer
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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 ...
16
votes
1answer
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Why have these "unfriendly or unkind" comment flags been declined?
I recently flagges three comments on an answer to be "unfriendly or unkind" - The reason was that the comments said "you are so boring" (direct quote, addressing the OP of the ...
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2answers
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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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No related questions are displayed (Updated)
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.
Updated: The problem has recurred again....
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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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1answer
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Are you sure you want to leave this page?
This has never happened before on SE, not even earlier today in a different stack.
I wrote a question and clicked "post." Immediate pop-up "Are you sure you want to leave this page?&...
15
votes
1answer
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scaling root problem
Background [TL;DR]
In my previous meta question Vertical space between superscript and square root sign, I attempted (not so successfully) to illustrate a display problem about the square root sign by ...
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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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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 ...
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1answer
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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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"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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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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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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1answer
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How to put math equations in a "spoiler" block?
I wanted to do something like
>! \begin{align}
>! x &= 42
>! \end{align}
(Unfortunately even this code block is badly formated! Why is it ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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 (...
