Questions tagged [bug]
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Anti-bot filter bugs
I've been using the chat since I've created my SO account(quite recently), and I was just checked by an anti-bot filter. For some reason, this is not a Captcha, and you just have to wait. It should be ...
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Tags mangled in page links
Let's start from the page https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/gcc%20or%20x86%20or%20assembly , which gives questions that have at least one of the 3 tags. If I go to the bottom of the page, &...
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Comments can be added on "answers" to opinion-based questions from review queues
I came across this "answer" in the first answers review queue and more out of curiosity than anything shared feedback using the Community bot. Afterwards, I noticed that the actual ...
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Incorrectly inferred languages with new code block design [duplicate]
I came across this question where the main code block was plainly go code which had been incorrectly inferred to be coffeescript! A second block of error output was labelled as Go code. This makes ...
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Having the "Ask Question" page open in two tabs can easily lose your work
Reproduce with:
Go to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask
Type something
Open another tab
In the second tab, the content from the first should appear
In the second tab, type something more
Close ...
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Post description does not show on Google
When a Stack Overflow question pops up in my Google Search results, it will have the text:
You now have 5 free votes weekly. Free votes. count toward the total
vote score; does not give reputation to ...
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The box to contribute an Article in Collective is partially hidden
Here: https://stackoverflow.com/collectives/php?tab=articles
I see one box on top left that is behind the top bar:
When simulating a smaller screen, the whole box is visible:
Firefox 144.0.2 on Ubuntu ...
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how to force code format to be POWERSHELL instead of BASH? [duplicate]
recently, the code blocks holding powershell code are showing bash instead of powershell.
even going into the post and changing the language from bash to powershell seems to have no lasting effect.
so ...
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Question in Staging Ground not closed despite 6 close votes
This question can't be closed for some reason, even though it has already 6 29 31 close votes, while normally two are enough for questions in SG.
And for every close vote on these unclosable questions ...
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Canceling the edit of a tag removes "Advice?" [duplicate]
Go to an endless question
Edit tags
Cancel
Actual result: is gone.
To me, this looked like I accidentally removed the "Advice" tag, so I tried to add it back again, which was not possible.
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Changing a question's type [duplicate]
I posted this question on Stack Overflow. I did not fully understand the new "question type" input and would like to change it "troubleshooting". How does one do that?
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"Answer" converted to comment on opinion-based question, but they don't have comments
I just went to delete an opinion-based question, as it wasn't asking for opinions and was also off-topic to Stack Overflow. As the OP had, however, cross posted it on the correct site, I left an "...
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Please restore the Plaintext Editor with live Markdown Preview
I don't know if this is another A/B test or not, but right now I have no way of using the plaintext Markdown editor while being able to see a live preview of the rendered result.
I am not going to ...
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Questions hidden by tag filters leave behind non-collapsed borders
The questions tab (https://stackoverflow.com/questions) on the main page will filter/hide questions which are on the tags ignore list as expected. However, as of today (30th Oct 2025) they leave ...
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Opinion based questions (advice) on home page while experiments are disabled
The Upcoming opinion-based questions should not be visible on the home page for users that disabled experiments:
We have officially launched this experiment to ten percent of all users on Stack ...
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Answer with 2 upvotes but only +10 rep [duplicate]
I posted this answer yesterday. Today I see it has 2 upvotes but in the top-right achievements/reputation notification, it only showed +10 instead of +20. I checked my rep history on my profile (TIL ...
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"Select your next badge" dialog has unavailable badges listed in the Available tab
This is what the badge progress UI looks like for my user:
If I understand correctly, the ones circled in red are impossible for an established user to be awarded, because we do not see the "ask&...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In the latest three moderator elections, nominees who were called up to meet additional demand aren't indicated on the election index
In the election index page, for the 2021 election and earlier, moderators who were called up after the election to meet additional demand are clearly indicated as such.
However, in the 2022 and 2025 ...
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Problem joining Stack Exchange Meta Community
I wanted to join Meta SE to ask why I was having problems joining other SE communities. That same issue stopped me from joining Meta SE. I did see other questions here with a similar subject but the ...