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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Questions cut off
On the main question list (main site and meta), I see this:
The questions are cut off at some narrow width as if something is overlayed on top of them. I have seen this in Firefox 3.6.9 on a Mac 10.4 ...
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TeX in comments [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Re-render MathJax in comments
When it shows "2 more comments" (and you press the icon) for example, the TeX disappears and we are left with code between dollar signs.
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A few more graphic styling glitches
None of these are critical, just polishing stuff.
When breaking out the up/down votes on a post, the top number crashes into the separator line:
For some badges, e.g. taxonomy on the parent site,...
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New design: inconsistent rendering by preview
Attention Jin: The new design has introduced some rendering inconsistency between the preview and final post. In the beta what you saw in the preview was exactly what was rendered in the final post. ...
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Visited tags' colors should not become blue on meta.
Non-moderator tags of meta become blue when visited. In particular, this makes required tags and normal tags almost indistinguishable. It is reproducible on IE 8 and Firefox 4.
The tags' colors ...
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User page weirdness for users without questions
A look at the following user pages:
https://math.stackexchange.com/users/630
https://math.stackexchange.com/users/642
https://math.stackexchange.com/users/2820
shows that the CSS does something ...
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Design bug: scroll bar on user page
On my userpage it looks like this:
As you can see there is an extra scroll bar. I use Ubuntu 9.10 with Chrome 7.0.517.41.
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Making the ASK QUESTION more prominent &c
For a site whole purpose in life is to allow people to ask questions and answer them, the new design does not make the two corresponding 'links' prominent at all!
Moreover, I really think it is quite ...
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Math in titles on the main page
Math in titles seems not to be rendered now on the main page.
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Graceful rearrangement of the interface on a netbook?
Hi,
I do a lot of my stuff, including answering m.se questions, on a netbook with a ten-inch screen and 1024-by-768 resolution. I'm currently using Opera 10.61 build 6430 on a Fedora 8 (please spare ...
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New design: checkmarks on questions with accepted answers too hard to see
This is maybe minor, but it used to be really easy to tell if a question had an accepted answer and it's annoyingly hard now. I guess you want the checkmark to be lighter than the text, but maybe you ...
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New design: "Vote to close" box layout is broken
The "exact duplicate" etc. labels have too much vertical space, which makes them look as though they are associated with the previous description rather than the one that follows. The culprit seems to ...
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New design: "Ask question" overlaps background
When I'm looking at some post, the "ASK QUESTION" text (up-left) overlaps the other text, normally the title of the post.
In Chrome 6.0
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Rendering bug with overlapping text
Edit: whatever was done for the new design apparently also solved this problem. At least since this morning I have not been able to replicate the problem. Thanks to all who chimed in.
I sometimes ...
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Are the formulas not parsing in 64-bit Chrome or is it just me?
I don't see any formulas, just a white "placeholder" on the 64-bit version of Google Chrome. I have this problem at the university (with Chrome 64-bit as well). Is this coincidence or is there ...
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Recent replies icon lights up even when there are no replies
I sometimes have the envelope icon next to my name on the top row lighted up (rendered filled in yellow) even when clicking on it shows no recent replies. Is this a known bug?
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Locking In Unvotes
I asked a question, and someone replied with an decent answer, so I upvoted their answer. A minute later, I discovered there might be some inaccuracies with their answer, so I un-upvoted their answer. ...
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Badges do not show in Chrome.
I am using Chrome 7.0.5 dev, and the badges do not display on the main site. They do, however, display here.
I think this is a bug, something wrong with the sprites and css.
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Less-than signs and previews
If I write $m<n$ in a question, the preview sees the less-than and interprets it as the begining of an XML tag. I have to write it as an HTML entity to get ...
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Show more comments needs to update the LaTeX rendering [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
TeX formatting in other comments in the same post is lost when the comment list is updated
Just a javascript call needs added because the LaTeX rending stops when you click ...
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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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LaTeX in comments [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Editing a comment containing formulae will mangle the formulae
Ìs it by design that LaTeX gets mangled when one edits a comment? It used to work correctly, IIRC...
(This is ...
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Annoying error message
I keep getting the error message "File failed to load: http://math. ... /Main.js" from time to time. Then it takes about 30 seconds or more, and everything is fine.
Does anyone know this problem? ...
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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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How can a question have 0 views and non-zero votes?
Today in the Top Questions happened that a question (of mine) had 2 votes, 0 answers and 0 views. Why 0 views? Shouldn't it be at least 2? Perhaps there is something to be fixed.
Update: just now it ...
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Tex broken for me...
I keep getting [math processing error] in bright red, everywhere on the site all the time and, while it has been amusing trying to read the raw tex code before mathjax ruins it for me, this is ...
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Matrices not rendered correctly
See e.g. here. I tried both \begin{pmatrix}... and \begin{array}{cc}....
edit Reading the answers, the problem turns out to be ...
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Math rendering broken on iphone
The rendering of math formulas seems very broken on my iphone. On the main page, math in questions disappears during loading, and sometimes "math processing error" replaces it. On question pages, ...
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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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Title of question can change when it appears in "Related" list
Here's an example. This question had some revisions to its title:
Comparison of two convergence conditions for sequences of non-negative numbers
https://math.stackexchange.com/posts/1839/revisions
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Math in comments gets doubled up when you edit [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Editing a comment containing formulae will mangle the formulae
(This question appears subjective and is likely to be closed :-))
Steps to reproduce:
Find a post with not too ...
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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
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visit meta and visit parent buttons have broken
For some reason the 'visit meta' and 'visit parent' buttons now link to stack exchange. strange bug.
well funnily enough, after posting this they have changed images and now say stack exchange so ...
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Fresh answers hide the background
This is a really small bug, but the fade-from-orange effect that occurs when you first view a new answer fades to solid white instead of transparent. (This won't be an issue if we remove the ...
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Editing a question containing formulae will remove the formulae
Test it. Comment here with a formula. Reload the site. Edit. Note you'd have to retype the formulae.
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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 ...
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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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