Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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Wrong shortcut key information in Help Center
The Markdown help page of the Help Center contains a misleading piece of information about a shortcut key. It says in the Images section:
You can also press CTRL+I to insert an image.
However, in ...
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Markdown issue with # in PostgreSQL code
In formatted SQL code, the Postgres operator #> is currently misinterpreted as comment sign, which results in confusing display. Happened here:
Dynamically update JSONB rows - POSTGRESQL
I can ...
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Community has 5 rep?
I just noticed that the Community user has 5 rep instead of their normal 1 rep. Is this some weird bug or normal/expected behavior? If it is normal then what is the reason to give Community more rep ...
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Some badge pages truncate users' badges
Certain badge pages only allow a maximum width for a username + badges, and since we have some users who choose to use ridiculously long and impossible to spell usernames, this causes truncation of ...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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How was this edit approved?
This edit suggestion appears to have been approved single-handedly by a regular user:
This is the expected effect of using the Improve button. What seems less expected is that the user did not make ...
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Why Do Images Sometimes Pop-up and Other Times Not?
Chat Exchange
When images are uploaded to The Heap™ – Consultancy ©® they will be loaded via API to Imgur. The link then gets sent back to the room and inserted into the chat feed. Depending on its ...
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Corrupted migration?
The following question was migrated from Stack Overflow:
iTunesConnect Error: “Unknown app version”
The source of the migration is a revision of an answer.
What gives?
Paul WhiteMod
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The help center does not reflect the new top bar
I'm not sure if we should wait a bit longer until we are absolutely sure that the new top bar is staying in it's current form (such as the dots in the review drop down) but currently the help center ...
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Trivial off-site link answer converted to comment but answer not deleted
According to Answer appears automatically converted as a comment on meta.se:
Trivial answers containing a link to another question in the network are automatically converted to comments on the ...
Paul WhiteMod
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Bronze Badge Not Awarded
I have 100 votes for 43 questions (37 upvoted) which are tagged with innodb.
The last upvote I received on an innodb-tagged question was 2011-11-11 20:34:27Z.
My last badge was awarded Oct 20, 2011.
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Tags are invisible when oneboxed
Tags for meta posts are practically invisible when oneboxed on chat:
To see this bug, click here.
Posts from the main site work fine.
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Rendering/markdown bug with bullet and code formatting
This answer https://dba.stackexchange.com/a/274813 originally contained formatting like:
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LOG: could not receive data from client:
which renders (as intended) in preview as:
but when posted ...
Paul WhiteMod
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Post edited by others but OP not notified
When posts are edited by others, the OP gets a notification in the Inbox.
This post was edited about an hour ago (20:50:02Z): revision 3 but the latest notification in my Inbox is from 12 hours ago.
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Action line spreads across two lines when too much going on
Pretty simple, mods see disruptive line breaks when we view a question that has been edited, has a pending suggested edit, and has at least one vote to close. The result is the vote to close count is ...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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First post not in review list?
Here is a question from Joey, which is his first post on DBA.SE (his user profile shows exactly one question and no answers so far). However, the first posts review list is empty (and today's listing ...
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Why is there an extra bronze badge in opposite SE accounts?
I have 5 silvers and 19 bronzes in Stack Overflow. I have 13 bronzes on DBA. I've synchronized my SE accounts between all sites I am a member of. However when I visit SO, it says I have 14 bronzes in ...
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Moderator Election Page comments overflow on Mobile version
I know that the Moderator Election pages do not have a mobile version by design but when viewing the DBA.SE election page the comments overflow beyond the column for each nominee which does not happen ...
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What can I do to get my deserved badge on a closed question?
I have a question that has been closed due to being too narrow, or too specific.
I believe many people will benefit from that question when having to deal with arithmetic overflow in SQL Server, and ...
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Display bug on moderation dashboard
Why is the text offset left and right? Sathya says it doesn't happen on SU
Because some mods say that they don't quite see what I'm referring to, I enhanced it a tad bit.
jcolebrandMod
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Reduced Advertising privilege on DBA.SE
This site currently carries ads for SolarWinds, both full-width banners (shown below) and sidebar ads. According to Shog9, full-width ads should be disabled for users with 200+ reputation, like it ...
user51407
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"Move to Stack Overflow" not visible on this particular question
As you can see from the screenshot below, there is no option to move this question to Stack Overflow. Is that a bug, or is there some reason this option is unavailable?
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Spurious double grant of "Steward" badge
I noticed that I have just been granted "Steward" badges a second time:
I guess that is a bug that should be fixed.
Edit: for the record – this has been fixed.
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Featured Text links highjacked
In this answer, I attempt to add a link with a "scroll-to-text" anchor
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/release-13.html#:~:text=Allow%20ROW%20expressions%20to%20have%20their%20members%...
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Unupvote + (re)upvote isn't cancelled out for daily reputation cap calculation
I have seen the notice about "Daily rep limit = 200; accepted answer and bounties do not count against this limit" notice for a while. November 17th was the first time I reached that 200 limit (for ...
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Question asked but it isn't showing up under "Questions"
I asked a question about 1 minute ago and it isn't showing up under "Questions" with no filters on. It does show in my profile as being asked. Is this a cache issue on a server?
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Badge tracker stuck?
I still have some work to do before reaching the PostgreSQL gold badge, so I chose it as the one for tracking. Unfortunately, it seems to be stuck. See the screenshot below:
I am not posting about ...
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Minor clipping on expanded vote counts
The answer to (How to make trigger code execute only for a specific application?) demonstrate some clipping that is occurring when you expand vote counts. The following shows two shots at actual size, ...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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The Ask Question Button expands awkwardly on hover
The very bottom of the Ask Question button expands a few pixels down on hover after a short delay. Happens on Main and Meta, in Chrome latest, FF 9 and IE8. Looks worse in modern browsers as the ...
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Minor styling issue on edit preview for H3 headings
There's a discrepancy between how third-level headers (### Heading) are displayed in actual posts versus in the preview. (Normal display being IMO better, the other heading levels look consistent.)
I'...
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z-index(?) problem while reviewing
Some elements of the underlying page are visible inside the "review box" at the top of the page while reviewing.
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Loading dba.stackexchange.com in Google Chrome causes WebGL error
When I load the https://dba.stackexchange.com site I get an error message in Google Chrome stating:
It doesn't always happen. By using a trial and error approach I found out that an error occurs only ...
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UI Bug During Review
When reviewing close votes, the pop up that shows reasons to close will sometimes mangle text.
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Inconsistent styling of tabs?
I'm new to this SE site, but I noticed some inconsistency in the way that 'tabs' are styled on this site.
Here's a screenshot from the questions list:
And most other areas of the site look very much ...
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Question posted an hour *after* the *most recent visit* by the OP
This question was created 1 hour ago:
However, the user's profile shows the "last visit" by the user was 2 hours ago:
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Is there a redirect bug on migrated questions?
I have spotted a strange behaviour and I think it is a bug. I have found this question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50836364/what-is-the-solution-of-these-errors
I have made it not clickable,...
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The Ads display screen still restricts the ads to 220px
Out of curiosity I clicked on the link to view the ads: https://dba.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/2436
The first thing I noticed was they all looked squished. I confirmed in my browser that they ...
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Error while submitting the answer
I get the error message below while posting an answer-
Not sure if this is the correct place to post this question.
Update:
I was able to post the answer fine when I removed 15 lines of text. Is ...
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Styling (colors) for XML code snippets on DBA.SE (vs SO)
While answering a question I noted the styling for XML code blocks on DBA.SE is significantly less readable than the one from SO. For a comparison see this rendering of the same fragment:
On the SO ...
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Questions not appearing in network profile
The network profile for a user shows no questions ever asked. However, he did ask a question two months ago, as his dba.se profile shows.
Could this be a bug?
The question was migrated from SO - ...
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CSS bug in new design - profile triangle
There appears to be a small display bug with the "profile triangle" next to the user's name in the navigation bar.
There's a random smudge to the left of the triangle that changes size and shape as ...
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Possible bug in Close Queue?
A while ago, I nominated a question for closure. At that time, no one else VtC'd the question. Today, someone else has VtC'd the question, so it is now showing up in the Close Queue. However, I am ...
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Intermittent error while adding comment and voting questions on Stackexchange
This is basicaly something I am facing for couple of months. Sometimes when I try to add comment to a question or answer or try to vote question I get error
An Error Occurred-Please Retry your ...
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Can we still Twitter our answers out?
I just noticed that the link to Twitter is no longer under the Favorite star of any Question across all my StackExchange accounts.
Was this an oversight ?
Is Twitter being removed ?
Is there another ...
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Chat is notifying me incorrectly
I got several notifications from The Heap that should have targeted another user.
The notification link to chat is:
http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/15284325?noredirect=1#15284325
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Visit from iPhone browser not counted
Does SE not count visits from your mobile browser? I logged in from my iPhone yesterday after a few consecutive days of visits from my PC. I noticed today that SE had reset my number of consecutive ...
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I have earned a badge but it is not showing anywhere
I have earned the socratic badged, I formally received a message this morning about this, however, after I clicked track next badge I expected to see it showing on my profile, but it hasn't.
This is ...
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Votes discrepancy between profile summary page and detail page.
I've just noticed that my list of votes cast shows 601 votes, whereas my summary page shows 618.
Summary: https://dba.stackexchange.com/users/10832/max-vernon
Details: https://dba.stackexchange....
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A search for columnstore index yields no results
A search for columnstore index yields no results.
However, the first suggestion returned by the search engine is to instead search for columnstore. That search clearly shows several hits that ...
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Why does the search function not work as advertised?
When you click in the search bar it shows you these hints:
I take to understand the highlighted one as this: the phrase in double quotes will search for the exact quoted literal.
Not so, as the ...
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Why did my reputation be decreased by 8 points and 4 points and increased on other site on 14
I cannot see any downvotes but my reputation was decreased by 8 points on UI site: from 752 to 744. The same situation on http://dba.stackexchange.com site: from 852 to 848 (4 points). At the same ...
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