@yez re your tag edits to my prince questions. I didn't tag them with parashat Nasso, because i'm not asking about them in any way that pertains to the parsha, at all. I was just going to wing. It without a source but I feared downvotes. I could have mentioned the source in Joshua first, and not changed the question at all. Not sure its appropriate, could ya explain?
The general SE part of my toolbar has disappeared - It's blank but I can still click on that area. I tried deleting cookies and cache, refreshed, changed zoom levels and refreshed as per meta.SE advice - nada.
@GeminiMan when you say "general SE part of my toolbar", what do you mean? Some portion of the black bar at the top (where notifications and stuff show up)? All of it?
@GeminiMan but the rest of the bar is there -- your icon/rep/badges and the other links like help? Could you take a screenshot? (Also, have you checked for any add-ons that could be interfering, or tried in another browser?)
@MonicaCellio It was working fine until today, and I've made no changes. In meta.SE there was a discussion today of that section of the bar showing weird images, but their advice did not help me.
@GeminiMan oh, I haven't gone through MSO yet today so hadn't seen that. (Have a link?) Does it happen to you in other browsers too or just FF? The other day I had some rendering change out from under me despite not having changed any extensions; turned out somebody changed some site javascript in a way that now collided with a user script.
And if I click on it...
Looks like a CSS sprite issue...
I'm thinking that the image was recently changed, by looking at the name, http://meta.stackoverflow.com/content/img/share-sprite-new@2.png
Currently on Chrome Version 33.0.1750.154 m. Firefox is fine though, with all zoom lev...
@ShadowWizard Yeah, the fix is being built out right now. — balpha ♦1 hour ago
@GeminiMan the comments report that area being messed up on a variety of platforms, but not always for everybody on the same ones it sounds like. Since they're working on a fix for the existing problem now, maybe wait a few hours to see if that fixes your FF problem too? If not, I'd suggest posting on MSO with a screen shot and linking to the resolution of the "wacked" MSO post (to make it clear it's not that).
Can you use Chrome for SE in the meantime? Or try turning off FF add-ons to see if that makes a difference, and if so selectively turn them back on to try to find the culprit. I know this is a pain; sorry about that.
@GeminiMan oh, so for you it's just plain missing. Weird! I hope their fix fixes this.
Question to no one in particular: why have images from SE, like this one ^^^, suddenly gotten humongous? If I click through to that I get a huge image where I didn't used to. Is this because of retina displays?
@GeminiMan so you got an inbox notification on the main site (the red indicator), and after you cleared it it went back to being blank instead of having its icon (like in your screen shot)?
Chrome and IE 11 are fine, I'm only able to reproduce this in Firefox. Using version 27.0.1 on Windows 7. Meta as well as all the other sites are affected.
I can still see the hover effect, but the image is gone. I see this in Firebug:
The image doesn't show up in the Network tab. I...
@MonicaCellio I left the previous comment as an answer on MSO - I had to make an account first, and I thought that one automatically gets 100 rep points on sign up because of my account on J.SE. Does that come later or am I missing something?
@GeminiMan did you use the same OpenID to create that account? I don't see a linked account (in the "accounts" section of your profile I only see Mi Yodeya). If you used a different login or email address SE doesn't know it's you.
(Have to run off now, so with luck somebody else can help you get the accounts connected, or I'll be back in a few hours.)
@BabySeal I'm happy to be corrected, but the pattern I have seen in tagging questions by parsha is that they are about something that happens to be in that parsha. I think this makes sense - if you want to look up something that is discussed in parsha x, go to its tag. The questions tagged by parsha are not questions because of the parsha, just questions related to that parsha.
There is another tag, parsha-torah-portion, which is about the specific divisions of parshiyos, which I assume would be more related to questions specific to why something is in the parsha that it's in.
@YEZ I agree with that approach. If I want to find questions related to Parashat Nasso, e.g., so @mi_yodeya tweet about them during that week, I would want questions about the nesiyim that refer to verses in Nasso to come up in my search.
@GeminiMan merging the accounts is something that SE needs to do. Use the "contact" link at the bottom of any page on the main site, include the URLs for both accounts (Mi Yodeya and MSO), and ask them how to associate them. To prove you're you you'll need to tell them what email address or OpenID you used for each account, I think.
@yez it, the question, opens with a mention of an event from nasso. I could have opened with the question and peripherally provided sources, in which case we might still have something to talk about, but as it is, it is in the category of a 'parshat nasso question', (that). I could edit it now to change it, but that wouls be silly and be needlessly shifting it up to the t of the pile for no real reason, (last sentence of above post was not directed at you).
@GeminiMan if you click on "sign up" and use the same way of signing in that you use on Mi Yodeya, the accounts are automatically linked. When you log in to Mi Yodeya you use some login id/password, like for Facebook or Google or whatever you picked. That's called OpenID, because Stack Exchange uses it to verify your identity without making you create yet another username/password pair to manage.
Say you used Google; when you create the account SE asks Google "hey, did that guy successfully log in with you?" -- when they say yes SE says "ok, looks kosher to me". SE never actually knows your Google password; that's between you and Google. But SE uses your Google identity to create your SE account.
Because it's using that "remote ID" (Google or Facebook or...) to identify you, that has to be the same on all the sites where you want your accounts to be connected.
Having a disconnected MSO account isn't bad; you're not violating any terms of use or anything like that. But if you want them to be connected, you'll need to use the same OpenID.
@MonicaCellio I don't remember how I signed up to J.SE, and the system always logs me in automatically. In LastPass I have this url - openid.stackexchange.com with a saved password, so I guess that's my J.SE password.
@GeminiMan that seems plausible. That looks like the Stack Exchange credential, anyway. (SE used to require that you sign in with somebody else's ID, but later added something to support people who didn't want to.) What did you use when creating the MSO account? (Please don't tell me any private details, but was it something different?)
@GeminiMan but whose password? The same one as on Mi Yodeya, or some other password? Like, did you use the password that you use for reading your email?
@GeminiMan ok, then that's why SE thinks you're two different people. If you want the accounts to be linked you'll need to use the "contact" link to request it. Sorry for the hassle.
And if I click on it...
Looks like a CSS sprite issue...
I'm thinking that the image was recently changed, by looking at the name, http://meta.stackoverflow.com/content/img/share-sprite-new@2.png
Currently on Chrome Version 33.0.1750.154 m. Firefox is fine though, with all zoom lev...
Chrome and IE 11 are fine, I'm only able to reproduce this in Firefox. Using version 27.0.1 on Windows 7. Meta as well as all the other sites are affected.
I can still see the hover effect, but the image is gone. I see this in Firebug:
The image doesn't show up in the Network tab. I...
