Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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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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Number of pending edits hardly readable
This is how it shows
and at least on my monitor I can hardly tell the number from the orange background. Can a more contrasting color be used?
By the way, is this readable for others?
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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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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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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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About Me box on user page not in the right place
What's with the formatting of the top of our user pages?
It used to be, the "About Me" box (with sort of a light yellow background) was at the top right of the page, directly across from the user's ...
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Answering closed questions
(Possible) bug: this answer was posted a few minutes ago, despite that the question was closed an hour earlier.
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Can not delete comments in quick succession
I have had a few times where I have gone to delete several comments on a single post to help remove some of the irrelevant comments. The first comment deletes fine, but it takes several seconds before ...
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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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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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"An error occurred submitting the CAPTCHA" - EVERY TIME
Having had the captcha pop up when posting, I've so far failed to persuade it that I'm human.
This is not a gripe about the difficulty of it, the frequency of popups, etc. it's the technical fact ...
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"schematic -->" in answers with multiple CircuitLab schematics
First time I noticed this bug, I though I may had made a typo, but now I spot the same bug again.
As someone may edit out the bug, this is what it looks like in the editor pane. Notice the stray "...
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"Mathjax is not defined" JavaScript error and no toolbar is shown and preview doesn't work
Currently if I try to open https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/ask and ask a question in Firefox or Chrome the preview won't work. Here's a screenshot:
You see, there's no text in the ...
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Suggested edits pending bubble displays even when it is your own pending edit
I suggested an edit and now the little bubble is showing that there is 1 suggested edit pending. Since I was the one who suggested the edit, I of course can not approve the edit. When I click on the ...
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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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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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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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Italics not working in WYSISYG
In this thread, I gave an answer and attempted to use italics at the end of it but failed; rather, my text shows up with the markup asterisks about it but no formatting. (See for yourself.)
Am I ...
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Negative number of reviews pending approval
I just had the pending edits bubble tell me that there was "-1" pending. This happened as I was accepting multiple edits with out refreshing the page. The other bubble on the page (which I didn't grab ...
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Unable to Edit tag wiki while edit pending?
A tag (safety) was edited and showed up in the edit queue. The suggested edit, while better than the existing description, was not proper. Trying to make an edit/suggestion of my own, I went to 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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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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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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Preview and Formatting Tool not showing on page
Only on electronics.stackexchange.com is the post preview below my text always empty, and the formatting tool is not shown at all. However here on meta.electronics.stackexchange.com it is working just ...
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stackexchange/circuitlab-bug or linux/firefox-bug?
I submitted a bug report for Ubuntu in parallel: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1177236
I think it is a Linux/Firefox bug, but I want to double check here. Sometimes while scrolling some (not all) ...
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Code Block Formatting indentation
In the Edit window there are obviously spaces in this question. Why are the indentations ignored in the rendering of the code block?
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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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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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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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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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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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Bug in editor toolbar
Over the last few days, there have been several instances where I have gone to enter a new answer, or edit an old one, and the editor toolbar (the one that shows the icons for links, pictures, quotes ...
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SE crashing chrome?
Over the past couple of days opening the main questions page or viewing questions is frequently crashing chrome. I get the "the following page(s) have become unreposive" box. I have had to open the ...
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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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Discrepancy between rep on summary tab and reputation tab
I received an accept on an answer to a question that is closed today.
The summary tab says +25 for that accept, the reputation tab says +15 for the accept.
I assume that the +15 is right since I was ...
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