Questions tagged [bug]
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Name of Answerer Not Appearing Under Answers Anymore [duplicate]
I have just noticed that answers are appearing on the site with no author names attached.
It seems that any answer which was posted without edits has no author attribution at all, and that any answer ...
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Can't see datetime and author of new answers
I'm not sure when this started, but it appears to be only for new answers that you cannot see the datetimes and authors.
Example 1:
Example 2:
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Approach to hyphenation is unneeded & misconceived; stop (mostly) hyphenating [closed]
Text on Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange is not right-justified so there is no need to hyphenate anything except:
a single word that overflows the given line length
or
if you are really, really ...
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Challenges won't sort by newest
When trying to sort the list of coding challenges by Newest (which the dropdown claims to be the default), they are actually sorted by Latest Activity. This is very clear given challenges are numbered!...
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'Popular unanswered question' title can overflow its container
The title of the popular unanswered question can overflow its container as seen in this screenshot:
Older question with the same issue
Older question with the same issue
Originally posted as an answer ...
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Highly-upvoted comments no longer stand out in the new comments UI
One of the most important purposes of comments is to flag important caveats, exceptions, issues or clarifications on an answer: "This didn't work for me until I did...", "This has been ...
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Show NN more comments links not working on new comments UI
The "Show N more comments" links on answers doesn't do anything. For examples, try expanding the comments on the answers here and here. This only appears to be a problems for answer, not ...
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Browser stuck when editing answer (using rich text mode) [duplicate]
The browser tab completely stops working when I hit the edit button and even refreshing the tab does not make it work and you should force refresh the page.
Exact URL where this bug occurs:
https://...
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Editing an answer freezes the browser
When I try to edit an answer, the site freezes. This post for example: How to get images on HTML site to stay in position relative to background image as it scales across screen sizes?
Has anyone ...
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StackSnippets refused to connect [duplicate]
I was reading the answer at https://stackoverflow.com/a/26502477/487813 and I clicked "run code snippet" and I got a generic browser
stacksnippets.net refused to connect.
Having a look at ...
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Why can't I comment on an answer to my question? [duplicate]
I've got an answer to a question I asked yesterday.
Now I was going to comment to ask further clarification, but clicking on the "Add a comment" button has no effect.
Since I've always been ...
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JS snippets are not working on chromium browsers [closed]
Getting an error on Stack Overflow when running any snippet on chromium browsers (tested on chrome and edge) it is working on Firefox though.
(index):1 Refused to display 'https://stacksnippets.net/' ...
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Tag trends site is broken
The tag trends page is currently broken. Results section just spins, console shows:
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 ()
Uncaught (in promise) SyntaxError: Unexpected ...
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Question/answer page jumping due to ads
Above the question on question/answer pages there is an ad (if you have less than 200 reputation).
This ad (just like other ads on the page) refreshes every ~30 seconds, causing all text below it to ...
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Why does the 'Popular unanswered question' open in a new tab?
All links on Stack Overflow open in the current browser tab; Questions, Hot Meta Posts, Users, tags and even The Overflow Blog.
However the 'Popular unanswered question' in the new Community activity ...
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