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Circuitlab no longer functions in my browser

When I was attempting to write an answer today, I discovered that Circuitlab is no longer functioning--it just shows up as a blank white box over the page, and never loads. The browser I'm using is ...
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Answer did not show in my "recent inbox messages" icon, but did in my "go to full inbox" pull down link

Someone answered a question I posted, but their answer did not appear when I clicked on the mailbox (inbox tray) icon. (Hovering over that icon gives the pop-up message "recent inbox messages&...
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I can't edit my old schematics

I have noticed that I can't edit my old schematics because the EDIT button under the schematic doesn't appear after I go into edit mode on my answer. What could be the reason?
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Circuit editor disappears without warning and without saving when you click outside it

I just spent about thirty minutes working on a somewhat involved schematic for an answer, only to accidentally click to the side of the circuit editor, whereupon the whole editor closed without saving ...
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Bug: MathJax `enclose` environment not behaving as expected even when we write `\require{enclose}`

I am having difficulty using the MathJax plugin on the electrical engineering stack exchange. When I write \require{enclose}, the ...
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Tag Edit queue is full and has been for several days

Saving Tag Info edits has been showing the error message "The edit queue is full at the moment - try again in a few minutes!" for several days now, which is quite a few minutes. If this isn'...
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'Yearling' badge awarded three times in five days

I'm not sure if this is intended behaviour or a bug, but this notification has come up three times this week. I've definitely only earned 200 reputation in one calendar year (or, at best, in two ...
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Circuit editor missing from Ask Question page?

Have we lost the Circuitlab circuit editor feature? I started asking a question this morning, and the button appears to be missing from the editor. Maybe it is down for maintenance or such?
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Why am I in the Penalty Box when I just joined (sorry posting here, temp. non-citizen can't post where it's needed) [closed]

I wanted to join the Statistics Stack Exchange, so I did join the community, but as soon as I did, I was put in the penalty box there. Of course, once in the penalty box, I'm a non-citizen and can't ...
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Inappropriate link in advert (yes or no or something else?)

I keep reporting this advert because I can't disable it and it's annoying me. Nothing appears to be being done about it. So, why does pressing the ad-choices button take you to some random yahoo site ...
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Medal bug: Linking to wrong question

I just got my first "Teacher" medal on EE. It's displayed in my profile overview under newest badges. If I click on it, it says it was awared for. Arduino Stepper Motor So apparently the ...
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The LaTeX sandbox question is crashing the page

In Chrome, the EE.SE LaTeX test page crashes the tab. Link below: Test the new LaTeX markdown in this Sandbox question! The page partially loads (at least everything near the top for me), and then I'm ...
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Review Tools Broken?

https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/tools?tab=Close&daterange=last30days is completely empty. Is there a problem??
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Electronics Election - Votes Remaining

Not the most world-shattering misbehaviour, but while voting in the Electronics Moderator elections, I am informed that: Initially, that I have three votes... After placing my first vote, that I have ...
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It appears there might be a bug in the rendering of the election pages

For example the "Nominations close in 6 days" line overlaps with part of the lines above: And the same problem is on this page too: I'm using Google Chrome on Ubuntu 16.04, but with the ...
Nike Dattani's user avatar
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Has there been a body text CSS change on EE.SE?

The line spacing on Q&A text has opened up making each line look like a separate paragraph. This is the same on Chrome / IE and on Android Chrome. Are some of the guys in the basement twiddling ...
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Why is Hi deleted?

When I start my answer with Hi-Z, it is shown in the preview, but after submission, the Hi- part is auto-deleted. Why is that?? Is it to prevent salutions like <...
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“needs more focus”: Significantly different from former “too broad” close reason

The question I am planning to start manufacturing of smart locks and smart bulb that are integrated with tuya application. How should I make a circuit? was pretty rightfully (imho, but I think ...
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Can't access "reasons for" links in closure box

Until very recently (maybe less than a couple of days ago) if I voted to close a question, I could re-open the close box and find a hyper-link to a page that explained why shopping questions get ...
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Question marked as active today, with no activity on it today

I keep seeing old questions on the homepage that don't seem to have any recent activity on them. Like this one for instance, which was on the home page and claims to have been last active today, but ...
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iPhone SE app bug?

The StackExchange app on my iPhone (6s) keeps prompting me to join meta - which clearly I already have. It prompts for this whenever I attempt and up/down vote or comment. I have tried logging out, ...
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Can we have the correct prefix for "people reached"?

Of course, this should be capital M from mega, not the lower case m from milli!
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How does the system determine a "Highly active question." -- I think 6 year old questions are not Highly active

I've encountered multiple questions that are marked as being highly active and requiring a higher reputation to answer. The only problem is that some(or maybe most, I did not keep track) of them last ...
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Where is the edit button on the schematic circuit lab tool?

If I remember right, there used to be an edit button on the schematic. The schematic html section says there is one. I can't find it, I remember it being next to the simulate this circuit link. ...
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Is there a problem with CircuitLab "Save and Insert" today?

Is anyone else having trouble with CircuitLab for the last 24 hours? I can't save any schematics. I'm using Chrome on Windows 10 but checked with FF and Edge. I thought yesterday's maintenance ...
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Please avoid extended discussions in comments. Would you like to automatically move this discussion to chat?

That's what I often get prompted with once I'm into my half-dozenth comment. But when I click the link, I'm told the attempt to move it failed. So I carry on writing comments. How does one 'move a ...
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Problem uploading image(s) to EE question, “invalid request”

Can’t upload image of a transformer to EE.SE right now. App says “invalid request”.
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Did everything just get wiped out?

Is it only on my end, or did everything on EESE just disappear?
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OSX: Safari: inserting pictures not working

Drag and drop is not working, inserting with "click here" is working, but only during creating question, not during edit. The problem is on Safari and MacOS, with chrome it is OK.
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What is "Private Beta"?

I was looking at https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/asking. There is a list of links, including: How to Ask Questions in Private Beta What's this? Something left over from an older, better, ...
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Stack Exchange Moderator Survey email - including non-moderators?

Just wondering how many folks out there received this in their inboxes recently ... i'm a little perplexed since I'm not actually a moderator on any SE site. Seems weird since the questions are ...
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Why can't one decide what SE does the question belongs to when flagging? [duplicate]

Gives me only one option when I tried to flag the question as it belongs to probably stack overflow. I wanted to flag that question so that it can be migrated to stackoverflow.SE Why am I not getting ...
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Is "off-topic" well-defined?

I am new here. I just read a question that was classified as off-topic. It asked about reducing the VSWR of a commercial antenna with an impedance matching network. It seems to me that this is ...
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Image upload filename problems

StackExchange's image upload tool is very handy, and I especially like that you can just give it a url to get an image that's already on the internet. But there's a problem when trying to get png ...
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Clicking the notification tray takes me to the login page

I'm having some trouble with the site; if I try to open the notification tray it takes me to the login page, and when I try to log in with my google account, as I usually do, it claims that my google ...
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Can Spell Check of Electronics Terms be Updated?

The spell checker doesn't seem to know many common electronic terms. This is quite surprising for an electronics forum. Is there a library file somewhere that can be updated with common electronics ...
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Why does our inline syntax for Mathjax different from say, the Math SE?

I noticed that in our Stackexchange, the inline for Mathjax is different from the Math SE or Physics SE. For the Math and Physics SE, the way the inline for their equations for Mathjax equations is: <...
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Unfair use of Moderation tools

The question in question has been reopened and closed but is still need to be open so more answers can be given. I will gladly read even if it is hypothetical and upvote. I have a question about my ...
Procreator's user avatar
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Default font - issues with Verdana

Windows 7, Firefox, 100 DPI display. I see the body text on EE.SE pages rendered in Verdana font. I can tell this because of the notorious bug in this font, namely broken kernings in particular sizes. ...
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I downvoted an answer today and that downvote shows to have deducted my reputation by 1. Why?

Funny. Though it hurts a lil. :D
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Can't access review history because of HTTP 500

I am trying to see the first revision of this post. When I click one the 1 to unroll the text, an image with three 'loading' dots ...
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Circuitlab scematic editor: touch screen devices not supported message even though it used to work

I used to be able to use the circuitlab schematic editor until perhaps a month ago (I could be way off) on an Android tablet. Why the regression? It used to work fine. I've noticed that going ...
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"This suggestion still needs 1 approve vote from other reviewers." Why? I have enough rep to force the edit myself!

Sometimes when browsing questions I see one with an edit request. It looks a bit like this: share edit(1) close flag Clicking on that ...
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Saw a link that probably isn't relavant

I was poking around in the help center and saw this: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask-beta I'm pretty sure this is left over from the EE.SE beta or chip hacker days. It doesn't ...
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Found a weird user giving out SE account details

I have posted a question and found myself surprised about a comment. (Check last comment to the posted question, the comment by the user who is called "asdf"). "asdf" is most probably a bot, and is ...
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Can't edit or flag a locked post

I can't edit my answer to https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/4341/142 to add attribution or fix the rotted links, and I can't flag the question for this problem, either; there is no Flag link, ...
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Why is my "flair" Identicon different from my standard Identicon?

I was poking around the newly designed Network Profile page, and clicked on the "Flair" tab. The Identicon embedded in the flair isn't the standard Identicon for my account, which is shared across ...
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Newsletter ad is still using old logo

The newsletter ad for this site appears to be still using the old logo: Now that I look at it, the newsletter itself is also using the old design.
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Responses page takes a long time to load

In the last couple of weeks or so, it takes a long time for the page to display when I click on "responses" in my EE.SE main site profile. At first I thought this was something on my machine, or ...
Olin Lathrop's user avatar
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The 10 minute ban bug

We are not allowed to answer another question within 10 minutes of answering the first question or accept an answer within the same timeline. I find this feature quite good, but I have found a bug. I ...
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