Questions tagged [status-completed]
Indicates that the report has been resolved through the implementation of a feature or the fixing of a bug.
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Slightly more informative error messages when the title is too long
Titles are limited to 150 characters. This is a reasonable limitations, but with $\rm\LaTeX$ one can easily go beyond that. Since it is impossible to a priori judge the length of the compiled $\rm\...
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Tag badges “re-awarded”?
Yesterday I was awarded a whole bunch of tag-badges. However, I already held them all. It seems that I have been re-awarded all of my tag-badges for some reason, but, from what I can see, noone else ...
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Should we add external searches in some help pages about search?
I think that it might be useful to add somewhere advice about other possibilities how to search. (I am not sure what would be right place, but it would be nice to have it somewhere where new users who ...
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Is anyone else having trouble adding/removing tags to questions?
Normally you just start typing and after a few characters it autocompletes and you can see the suggestions. But now I can't see the drop-down bar. Anyone else experiencing this?
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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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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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Why are “my tags” different from my favorite tags?
In the right column of Unanswered | my tags sub-tab I see six tags:
But my list of favorite tags is very different: it has over 50 tags but does not include real-analysis, linear-algebra, analysis, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Why is the PDE tag abbreviated but not ODE or SDE?
Why is pde abbreviated (with its full name being a synonym) while the reverse is true for ode and sde?
The closest discussion I can find is Expanding abbreviated tag names so apologies if this is a ...
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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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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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Should we divide [tag:dimension-theory] into 2 tags, one for topology, and one for algebra?
A discussion in chatroom about tag hausdorff-dimension draw attention to tag dimension-theory again.
Here's some data about how tag dimension-theory is used questions about topology and algebra.
My ...
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We have three question pairs closed as the dupes of each other
Digging in the SEDE, I've found 3 question pairs being each other's dupe. Namely:
this and this,
this and this,
and this and this.
Today we can't close a question as a dupe, if it would create such ...
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Print to PDF too narrow
I am using Chrome (74.0.3729.169 (Official Build) (64-bit)) and trying to print a question (specifically this one Assistance with proof of $(AB)^T=B^T A^T$) to "Save as PDF".
The content is printed ...
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Can a question's colour or background be changed if I have visited it?
Is it possible to have different colours for the questions that I have already visited, and those which I haven't?
It would be better if there is some distinction because otherwise at present, I ...
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1answer
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Warning when creating a new tag on meta
When a new tag is created on the main site, you get a warning before you can continue - this prevents creation of a tag by mistake. This was implemented as a result of this feature request: Warning ...
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MathJax very slow in questions that are closed
MathJax redisplay is very slow in the preview pane while editing answers in closed questions. Redisplay that normally happens in under a second can take up to $5$ times longer.
Not too infrequently ...
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1answer
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Warning for new tags
I have a reasonable idea for a feature request.
When a user is creating a tag the system will recognize that and point out that the following tag is new, requiring the user to acknowledge the ...
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1answer
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Strange link text in a possible duplicate
I've just flagged the question Indefinite integration $\int\frac{(2x^2)}{2xcos(2x)+(x^2-1)(sin(2x))}$ as a possible duplicate of another question posted by the same user. In the link text, a strange ...
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MathJax rendering issue while looking at someone's profile
I have encountered the following issue looking at my profile, see it in the photo.
This also happens if I change the browser or log off from my account or even if I check from my phone, and it also ...
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Odd inline mode MathJax rendering problem in the MathJax basic tutorial
I'm seeing something odd with the inline MathJax rendering on the MathJax basic tutorial.
There are 15 items in a numbered list in the tutorial. For items 1 to 5 (and also the first part of item 6) ...
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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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1answer
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The error message “Unable to load popup -please try again” when I start a bounty
Recently, I tried to start a bounty for two of my questions. But the error message "Unable to load popup -please try again" appears every time I start the bounty.
I don't know whether it is a error ...
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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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Why we can't see suggested edits rendered in latex before approving? [duplicate]
I've noticed that when viewing suggested edits there is an option to show rendered output but it doesn't actually show what the edit will look like after latex has been compiled. I realize there is ...
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Reviewing Suggested Edits
As part of the mod tools, there is a tool to review and approve suggested edits. The "review suggested edits" shows something like below which is not of much help to review and approve the edit.
It ...
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(Major) editing bug
This happened a few minutes ago. When I was editing a comment, the phrase [object Object] came up, and after I write something next to it, say ...
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Reputation change doesn't appear in the “feed”
So the election for a new moderator are at the last phase and after reading what the candidates have to say I voted, and so I got Constituent.
From the moment I ...
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A feature requested for the purpose of avoiding unintentional newbie-biting
It is not unusual that a newbie posts a question that is obviously about mathematics and it is closed with a notice that says
closed as off-topic
and then down below that:
"This question is ...
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Duplicate question notice checks closed duplicate for answers instead of target
In March 2016, Exact duplicate doesn't require answer but claims one exists was implemented, which purported to show a different notice if the duplicate target has had no answers.
However, for ...
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Which is my identicon?
I’m confused about my identicon.
When I’m using iOS app, it’s a green one; however, on the website I get a blue purple one.....Could anyone tell me why? Thanks!
PS: I now can see I have that blue ...
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What happened to the [support] tag on meta?
The support used to be given in boldface, indicating that it was one of the primary tags. But now it is not boldface anymore, meaning that there was some change in the functionality of meta-sites.
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[proof] tag (again)
In the past we had a couple of discussions, and it was decided -- I thought -- that the tag proof shouldn't be used. Now we have more than 50 questions with this tag again. Could we please get it ...
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MathJax requires escaping of certain markdown symbols between single dollar signs
The braces disappear in this TeX code (${a,b}$) given by ($\{a,b\}$). This occurs whenever the parenthesis are adjacent to the dollars.
I'm not sure if it is a ...
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Let's require registration to ask a question
More than two years after http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/q/4569/, this may be the time for reconsideration. A brief update:
In July 2012, when the aforementioned discussion took place, the site ...
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Bug on the moderator election page
Disclaimer: The following screenshots are examples and may not reflect my voting decision (I purposefully played around with the votes to test the bug).
See the screenshots below coming from the ...
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Is it possible to spoiler multi-line mathjax?
I can't work out how to do it.
This:
>! $$a=b$$
>! $$b=c$$
>! $$c=d$$
Produces this:
Whereas this:
...
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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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Is the moment-generating-functns tag spelled wrong on purpose?
The moment-generating-functns-tag seems to be spelled incorrectly.
However, it could be due to a limit on the number of used characters, but since I couldn't find anything on it, I just wanted to ...
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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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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 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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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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Let's get MathOverflow's “Citation Helper” here, too!
MathOverflow recently received a brand-new toy: a citation helper that adds a new button to the post editor to allow references to journal articles (and more?) to be added to posts quicker and easier.
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Proposal: make the “interesting” tab the default on Math.SE homepage
Proposal: change the default home page tab of Math.SE from active to interesting.
Explanation and Rationale. Math.SE is the second most active SE site by the number of questions per day, behind ...
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Hot network questions incorrectly use MathJax [duplicate]
This is the converse of http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/10570/title-formatting-of-latex-in-stackexchange-hot-questions-list.
I noticed that when on Math.SE, MathJax can screw up the ...
