Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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Error on some deleted questions that have been migrated away [migrated]
I am unable to view some questions that have been migrated away and subsequently deleted. I'm talking about the stub left behind by migration, which is automatically deleted after 30 days. I do have ...
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Are top links broken for everyone
When I get here from SO by folliwing a new comment link, and sometimes from the all sites list -
The set of links at the top that should show My Name | review | chat | meta | about | faq have been ...
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'Deleted By' missing in mobile site
The screenshot below is from within Safari on iOS 6.1.3. The "Deleted by" text is missing from the post. The post is shaded differently, but it is not immediately obvious (to me, at least) that it is ...
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Font “OrbitronMedium” loads but not displays on Firefox 19 Ubuntu
In my Firefox on Ubuntu 12.10 "OrbitronMedium" font does not apply to menu and other elements. In Chrome Version 25.0.1364.97 on Ubuntu it does display ok.
Firefox 19 on Ubuntu
Chrome 25.0.1364.97 ...
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Why is my bold text not quite bold in Chrome, OSX?
Mac OSX, 10.7.4. Running Chrome.
As you can see, my bold text is... not very bold. There is a little difference though.
Happens to me in SciFi.SE only. SO is fine.
I tested with Safari, and it ...
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Inbox shows more answers than were posted
In my inbox, it says there are 2 answers to this question, but when I go to the question, there's only one answer:
I'd guess this is a quirk of the 5 minute grace period, where instead of a user ...
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Same color text/background still ocassionally on Meta
I've seen a few examples of things where there is white text on white backgrounds on Meta, and just thought I'd show a few screenshots.
Under a user page, the Favorites tab. Any ...
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Side-by-side Markdown edit compare is unreadable
On the revisions page for a post here on the Meta site, if you select the 'side-by-side markdown' option to see the markdown of the changes, you get extremely low-contrast text for the changed ...
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When's the Town Hall chat?
There's an election that just started. Part of it will be a Town Hall chat. That page helpfully announces:
A Town Hall Chat with the candidates will take place Tuesday the 31st at 02:00 UTC.
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1answer
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Why do I only have 76 rep?
I have thousands of rep elsewhere, so I ought to get the standard 101 rep of an established SE user. Instead, I only have the 75 from a question I asked, plus 1 by default.
Is this a bug?
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Close question reasons overflow the box
This occurs in FF18,Chrome 24.0.1312.57, and IE8 to a lesser extent.
The reasons in the Close Question box overflow the window and cannot be read. It also makes it difficult to click the vote button.
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Invisible link on Low Quality Review Queue
While taking a look at an item in the Low Quality Posts queue, I noticed an oddity. There's an invisible link to delete the post:
When I mouseover the link, it changes color, which is how I ...
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Inline URL markup does not accept accented characters in the URL
Example:
This person. (Edit post to see that "This person" should be a link)
The non-accented form does work, though. (Luckily, Wikipedia does a redirect)
Using the long form from the popup does ...
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web page colors render review question unreadable
I tried reviewing on meta for the first time today and was faced with this:
Nearly white text on a nearly white background seems a poor choice.
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What incantations do I need for the hats to work? [closed]
It appears to me that the hats are not working on SFF. I did register for the hatdash and I do have already received a hat on SO, but I made an edit earlier which should reward my dear watson but ...
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Why aren't my high voted questions showing up when I sort the questions page by votes?
I have a question that I was trying to see what its ranking was with respect to vote count, but when I sort the site by votes on the questions page, it skips over my question (as well as all my other ...
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An exception occured trying to display an exception [closed]
Got the following trying to refreshing the main questions page. Occured around 3:34 PM CST (+- 1 minute). Just thought I would pass this along, although I have to admit, I've never seen an exception ...
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Offline page has bad background image
The offline page for this site points to an image on "cdm.sstactic.net" for its background, but it should be "cdn.sstatic.net":
background: transparent ...
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Need more contrast on the close screen
See the text right in the middle, above the "[14] Is wikia.com general reference? (2)"? Can you read it? Because I can't. The highlighted text below the same line is the same color, for reference.
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1answer
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Why aren't the edit stats incrementing?
I've been updating some empty tags, but my edit stats aren't showing an increase. Happily, I'm getting rep credit, but my edit numbers are frozen at 201. Is this a known issue, or am I just being ...
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Close reason not visible in review pages on Meta.SciFi.SE
This picture pretty much shows the problem.
The text is there, and visible when selected, it's just hidden by being on a same-color background.
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Clearing a flag by purging comments leaves flag footer visible
Steps to reproduce:
Make a comment.
Someone flags that comment.
Moderator clears flag by purging all comments on that post.
Moderator then navigates away from that page.
Any moderator navigates to ...
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Can we change the font of the “new responses” in meta.scifi so that it is readable?
This isn't necessarily a "feature request", but concerns more of an inconvenience. I just noticed that when you have a "new response", i.e. one that you haven't looked at before, in the meta site in ...
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Spoiler-Box styling inconsistency of links
Compare:
Correct styling in quote boxes
Text Link Text
Broken styling in spoiler boxes
When displayed the link styling appears not to use the site-specific theme.
In Opera 12, hovering over ...
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Spoiler markdown issue with multiple paragraphs?
In an answer I recently posted I tried to use spoiler markdown on multiple consecutive paragraphs. It took a while and some help to get it to work right. In short, the issue seems to be with the white ...
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1answer
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Spoiler markup broken when used with pictures
When you throw a picture into the
Like this:
>! ![The nicest tux ever.][1]
Then you notice that, surprise, surprise,
It doesn't work. I.e. the picture is not hidden when the spoiler box is ...
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Overlapping text on user drop-down
I've noticed that the "recent badges" can run out of the user drop-down. This may be an IE8 issue.
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1answer
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Question feeds into chat
See this example. A few days ago the formatting for the question feeds into chat were broken. They were posting, but the layout was missing the avatar, vote count, etc. just like that linked example ...
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1answer
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User message page has broken text box
In the 'contact user' diamond mod tool, the textbox where we enter the message to the user is shifted way over to the right (this is in Firefox 13):
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1answer
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Layout bug in profile pages
A few days ago, I noticed a change to the layout of profile pages on the site:
The blue box used to be higher up, with the elements up top further to the left. Unless I'm missing something, the ...
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1answer
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When I add a comment, Internet Explorer drops into compatibility mode
When I add a comment on the main site, something breaks such that IE8 drops into compatibility mode for the site. This has unfortunate side-effects like removing the bar across the top containing ...
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2answers
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Chat background changed today
Earlier today, the background in chat changed. At least it did for a large band on the bottom of the chat box:
As you can see, this makes reading the text extremely difficult. The chat transcript ...
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Title for updated favorited question unreadable
On the Favorites tab of the User Profile screen, the title of an updated question becomes unreadable as it blends in with the background.
Once clicked through, the Title and background colors ...
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1answer
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“An edit has been made to this post” bar has same text color and bg color
When there's a change made to a question or answer that you're viewing, a handy bar pops up saying so, with a link to refresh the page to show the updated content. On meta, this bar has the text ...
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Linking directly to post on this meta causes an orange-white fade, followed by dark grey snap [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can the answer highlighting animation be changed?
Like other SE sites, directly linking to a post causes the post to be highlited in orange before fading away.
However, ...
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Low contrast on many Meta design elements makes it hard to read
I think this was brought up in one of the posts on the new design, but I'll throw it up here as an explicit problem.
I don't know if it's my monitor/gamma settings, but I still have trouble reading ...
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Tag merge results are #eaeaea on #eaeaea on Meta
This is what I see after merging two tags on Meta:
Please review the CSS on Meta and make sure all text is properly contrasted with its background.
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1answer
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Users have more rep for the week of the 2012-03-04 than for the month of March
Month Rep:
Week Rep:
The Week tool tip indicate "2012-03-04 to today" and the Month tool tip indicate "2012-03-01 to today"
For the one who cannot read it, Tango has 920 for the month and 1798 ...
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1answer
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Blockquote background is oddly aligned in blog posts
Spacing on the blog looks a bit odd when quotations are used. For example:
This looks like this in the WordPress editor:
The screen surround goes a bit too low, nearly colliding with the next ...
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1answer
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Reputation Tally Page No Longer Shows Recent Points
In the past, when I went to my profile and clicked on the tab for reputation, and went to this page I could see my reputation points for the day. Whenever I viewed this page, I'd see the reputation ...
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Can the answer highlighting animation be changed?
This is a special topic for the designer :P
Is moderator voting anonymous?
The highlighting of the question is going from light yellow to white. It's not readable on SciFi as the background is dark, ...
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Global/inbox window has a blue area that goes down further than it should
The global/inbox menu has a blue portion which extends down further than everything else. Even when the text scrolls, the blue area stays. This is with Firefox 9.0.1.
Note that the top two ...
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1answer
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Visited URLs in links in quotes on META site are hard to read
URL links in quoted text in general on Meta.SFF.SE are a somewhat hard to read pink color.
But when a link is visited, it's a pale red that's extremely hard to read against the quote's pale gray ...
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Add ability to use wildcarded tags in search
It's possible to filter using a wildcard in a tag, for example stargate*, and to use this in the favourite and ignored tags.
However, you can't do this in search. Searching for [stargate*] gives the ...
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Chat room info pages using Sci-Fi & Fantasy theme are a trainwreck
The info pages of chat rooms assigned to this site appear to use some sort of mutant offspring between the default chat theme and the site-specific one, which is kind of an eyesore.
It might be a ...
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1answer
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Images have an unnecessary 1em bottom margin
Images on this site have an unnecessary bottom margin of 1em, which leads to them being weirdly offset when inline with text, as seen in the Town Hall Digest.
Even when not inline with text, the ...
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1answer
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Hovering over tags in the selector on meta renders them unreadable
Hovering over a tag option in the tag selector renders the tag's description unreadable, as seen in the following screenshot:
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'User joined chat' fly-in is colored white
When a user joins a chat room, their avatar and username fly down from the top of the screen to join the rest of the users in the sidebar. In our shiny new dark-styled chatroom, this fly-in box is ...
