Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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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 ...
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Adding a community specific close message for homework
After checking the stats on custom closing messages, homework seems to come up at least 30% to 50% of the time. Because of this, creating a custom closing message would be beneficial.
Homework ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Beginning statements that end with commas disappear
Sorry if the title is confusing, but when I try to put some text at the top of the question with a comma ending the line and press "save changes", the text dissapears.
You can watch a video of me ...
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Kinky CSS in answers header
In the header for the answers sections, there are kinks in the line:
where there are not on, say, Stack Overflow:
It is the same in both Firefox 46.0 and IE11.
Perhaps someone could tweak the CSS ...
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CircuitLab touch capability?
Since I've only accessed SE from my mobile devices for the last month now, I've begun noticing some interesting erm "characteristics" of the CircuitLab links on this site.
If browsing with "Request ...
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CircuitLab “simulate this circuit” bug
In my answer to a question, I included a CircuitLab circuit that can be simulated to demonstrate the principle being discussed.
When I edit the answer and the embedded schematic, everything works ...
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Anomalous reputation scoring behavior
A day or so ago, my achievents icon showed an upvote of 10 rep, and when I clicked on the icon it sent me to:
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/195369/43191
it showed the upvote, and after ...
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What's wrong with the User Profile Page alignment?
Sometime earlier today, I started getting this alignment problem on all User Profile pages on EE.SE (both main and meta sites). See an example below:
I added the red rectangles to show the empty ...
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When are closed questions deleted?
In the last few days I've noticed several closed questions getting deleted. This would be unremarkable if I had been noticing a steady drizzle of these all along, but I haven't. Maybe this has ...
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Log out error keeps appearing
Today I wanted to log out from EE from the mobile site but I can't.Instead,I keep getting an error message which says:"We apologize for any inconvenience,but an unexpected error occurred while you ...
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Image upload is broken
I just tried to answer a question by including a schematic in the answer, as I have done often in the past. I use Eagle to draw my schematics, then generate a appropriately sized image file from ...
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Can't select any options when reviewing a post I flagged
I have access to the Low Quality Posts queue. I flagged a post and it appeared in the queue, but I couldn't select any options as shown below.
This is sensible, otherwise people could flag/vote and ...
