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May 31, 2011 14:02
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Q: Chat logout not linked to Stack Exchange logout?

Alex AngasI just did a global logout and 'destroy credentials' on stackexchange.com but found myself still logged in to chat. Repro steps: Close chat and all trilogy/SE tabs Global SE logout and destroy credentials Restart browser Visit chat Is this intended? I can't see a way to log out of chat withou...

May 31, 2011 06:48
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Q: The editing race - the slackers always win.

Andy E's headI'm having a pretty big problem with the way the editing system is working lately. I think it was a recent change, but there no longer appears to be a warning message when another user has edited the same question you're in the process of editing. Instead, you're blocked from posting your revis...

May 30, 2011 10:14
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Q: SO sites do not load all the CSS files in the android browser

AleadamIt happened a couple of days ago. Clearing the cache did not help. This is what I see now: This happens with other SE sites also. Meta SO, on the other hand, looks fine:

May 27, 2011 08:49
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Q: RSS feeds for a set of tags (with OR clause) are broken

axtavtI used to receive RSS feed on a set of tags, such as http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=java+or+spring&sort=newest, but today it started to produce 404, though feed link at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java+or+spring still points to that address. Feeds on individual tag...

May 26, 2011 20:24
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Q: careers invitation link doesn't open

Ahmed KotbI have been invited by stackoverflow for carreers 2.0 site due to my good answers/questions in java tag but when i click the link i got this error is this a server outage or something like that ?

May 26, 2011 19:48
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Q: Code that is too long to display on a single line creates a massive vertical code block

anothershruberyIf you write some code on one line which is too long for the code block to display in one, it usually, if I remember correctly, would just add a scroll bar to the bottom. Seemingly this has changed as now the code block will still display the scroll bar, but will also add a lot of extra space bel...

May 26, 2011 17:43
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Q: my tagged questions link give error

RusAlexwhen i click on "tagged questions" link, loaded page http://stackexchange.com/filters/popular but if i click on "my filters" i see error: We apologize for any inconvenience, but an unexpected error occurred while you were browsing our site. It's not you, it's us. This is our fault. Detailed ...

May 26, 2011 10:54
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Q: Comment appears in the inbox, but not in the responses

Hendrik VogtThis is somehow a continuation of my bug report Comment appears in the inbox, but not in the responses (with the exact same title, but the previous bug was fixed). Yesterday I got 4 comment @replies from Gilles in my inbox, all on the post How do comment @replies work? Some of those comments are...

May 26, 2011 04:06
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Q: Trouble with new-user restrictions

yakatzI spent a long time writing the answer I found to a question that I asked and only after I hit submit, I got this: Oops! Your answer couldn't be submitted because: New users can't answer their own question for 8 hours. Please use comments, or edit your question instead. Besides that fact ...

May 24, 2011 15:12
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Q: Careers 2.0 "More jobs"-link has clear text JavaScript. Joke, or mistake?

Banang When looking at the page source it looks like this might be on purpose, but looking at it through the browser it just looks weird. Joke or mistake?

May 24, 2011 13:47
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Q: Why are migrated questions being shown as closed and migrated instead of just migrated?

SathyaThis seems to be a recent thing - questions migrated are now being shown as "closed off topic" and "migrated to ...". This was before the change. This is how it looks now

May 24, 2011 01:46
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Q: You really need to lower the rep needed for that privilege

KnuCould you add xhtml1.1 as a synonym of xhtml-1.1? PS: there's a bug the system thinks that this question is a duplicate of Add tag synonym (if I am not adding the PS) and won't lemme submit it…

May 23, 2011 18:11
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Q: Cannot login to chat when primary OpenID is Stack Exchange OpenID

SathyaOver at Super User account, I have Stack Exchange OpenID set as my primary OpenID. I can no longer login to chat using it - I get stuck at this screen I can repro the same using Chrome, IE9 & Firefox - there's no popup showing up asking to relogin et al. The GlobalAuth login tests pass suc...

May 23, 2011 14:58
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Q: Rename [alassetlibrary] to [alassetslibrary]

HarkonianThe tag alassetlibrary should be renamed to alassetslibrary -- the plurality is wrong for the current tag.

May 22, 2011 21:07
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Q: Unable to change OpenID to StackExchange OpenID

SathyaI'm trying to change my primary OpenID ( on my Super User account) from MyOpenID to Stack Exchange. Went over to my profile, clicked on "Change OpenID", and selected Login with Stack Exchange. Instead of logging in, I got the below error message: Could Not Find Pending Authentication Reques...

May 22, 2011 13:08
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Q: Problems logging in from my WP7 device

ChristiaanVSince a few days it doesn't seem possible anymore to login to StackOverflow (or any other variant) from my Windows Phone 7 device. When I go to the login page it only shows me the recover your account information, not the icons to choose by which service you want to login. Anyone having the same...

May 22, 2011 12:56
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Q: Automatic 1 undelete vote for deleted answers?

Bart KiersThe last couple of days, I've noticed that most deleted answers had a single undelete vote. To see if this was a coincidence or not, I deleted my last SO answer, hit refresh and saw that it too had a single undelete vote just seconds after deleting it. Why is this?

May 21, 2011 13:54
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Q: Number of comment flags always equals number of upvotes?

CharlesSince the reskin of the 10k flagged post/comment review page, I've noticed a curious trend: Each of those flagged comments has the same number of upvotes as flags. At first I thought it was just some curious happenstance, but the numbers never seem to vary, and it's been happening for days. ...

May 20, 2011 14:47
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Q: Add tag synonym

KnuCould you add css-hacks as a synonym of css-hack?

May 19, 2011 20:42
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Q: Comment on an edit

Space_C0wb0yI would like to be able to make comments on edits. I imagine this could be implemented by addressing and @-comment at any of the editors of a post. So if user X has edited a post, and write a comment starting with @X, that user gets notified. This would be useful for discussing edits or providin...

May 19, 2011 10:24
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Q: typo in cross-site FAQ

msh210The cross-site FAQ reads, in part: may be be removed. "[M]ay be be removed"? May "be" be removed?

May 18, 2011 22:08
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Q: Removing bounty removes all bounties from same user?

Robert HarveyOn this question: AutoMapper vs ValueInjecter I removed the current bounty and locked the question, due to the user misusing the bounty system for promotional purposes. When I did this, all rewarded bounties on all answers disappeared. Is this by design? Shouldn't it just remove the active b...

May 18, 2011 18:03
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Q: Repeated use of bounties for promotional purposes

RandomEngyI'm talking about this question specifically: AutoMapper vs ValueInjecter The author of ValueInjecter seems to be offering 50 rep bounties repeatedly on the question, presumably just so the question will get more exposure. Now the software looks pretty cool, but this seems like it's not what the...

May 18, 2011 12:56
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Q: Profile shows "upvoted 0 times" in collapsed reputation break down

cularisI first noticed it at Superuser and checked at Stackoverflow after that. If you go to your profile, open the reputation tab and collapse an upvote into several lines, the Alt-text for the new upvotes is "answer was upvoted 0 times".

May 17, 2011 21:30
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Q: Filter jobs/candidates by "working remotely"

MartinHNI believe it would be a good improvement, to add the option to filter jobs by "working remotely" in the locations filter. This would make it much easier to find those jobs/candidates interested in working remotely. At the moment, you need to go through a list of job postings and read the whole p...

May 17, 2011 20:54
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Q: "Expected identifier, string or number" error when using IE7

Alex Possible Duplicate: Problems with IE7 As of this morning, when I go to any StackExchange 2.0 site, IE7 is showing an error icon, with the following associated error: I've cleared my cache, etc. (as in the reply to this question), but no luck. Any suggestions, aside from using Firef...

May 17, 2011 18:02
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Q: Voting to close as duplicate removes voting controls from auto-comments

Jon SeigelI believe this happens under the following conditions: Vote to close as a duplicate There was an existing "possible duplicate of" auto-comment for the same target question as I voted The voting controls on at least the auto-comment* are gone after clicking through the "this question needs n m...

May 17, 2011 16:50
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Q: Problems with IE7

forsvarirI've had a few issues using the site from IE7 today (I can't update the browser, although I do have access to another one indirectly which I'm posting this from), which have recently gotten worse (I can't vote and the helper toolbar isn't there when editing questions). It's reporting an error: L...

May 17, 2011 13:46
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Q: "close as off-topic" shows placeholder text instead of site description

Piskvor's Semifinite MonkeysWhen closing a question on SO as off-topic, there's a selection of SE sites with their description. Today, the descriptions all read Explicit description for this site, instead of the usual elevator pitches. This seems to manifest in Opera 11, Chromium 11, and FF 4; see a screenshot (with freeha...

May 17, 2011 13:01
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Q: Pretty pretty please, can you update the SEDE data? (not just the date)

FXSo, after asking for a SEDE update, we got one — sort of: the date was changed, but it's still the old data. Same as last time. Can we, pretty pretty please, get a real SEDE update?

May 17, 2011 10:12
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Q: Script error in review page

DamodarGetting script error in review page, due to this, when clicking on "show full answer" link or any other link in that page. That particualr functionality is not working. Please find screenshot below. Error information: Expected identifier, string or number Line: 72 Char: 9 URL: http:/...

May 16, 2011 22:35
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Q: StackExchange Podcast Logo missing

Henrik P. HesselWithout a logo is looks somewhat sad, doesn't it?

May 16, 2011 17:25
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Q: is there a css problem on stackoverflow

mcgrailmI was looking at an old post and when I expand the comments the spread way over everything on the right ? does anyone else experience this problem ? I see it in FF 4.01 and chrome 11.0.696.68 and Opera 11.10 on Mac

May 16, 2011 15:42
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Q: Creation dates wrong on site directory

Alex AngasThe "Created X months ago" text appears to be wrong on the Site Directory.

May 16, 2011 10:44
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Q: Umlauts in search?

H.B.I tried to find an answer of mine which has a word with an umlaut in its body, it didn't quite work out though. Search string user:546730 übermensch gives these results: The search was supposed to find this answer.

May 15, 2011 11:21
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Q: Pagination of answers on the profile page wrongly uses the number of answers instead of the number of answered questions?

MarijnI think there is a minor bug in the pagination of answers on the user page. You can see it on my profile page now. At the time of writing, I have 63 answers which results in three 30-line pages. However, since answers to the same question are rolled up into a single "answer line" in the list, t...

May 13, 2011 22:18
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Q: bug in careers. HTML code showing in Edit location field

Stefano BoriniIn careers, in the edit profile page, you can modify the location of where you are looking for employment. When a location is present, I see this verbatim HTML code in the page right above the textbox and the "remove" link <input id="cvLocationId" name="cvLocationId" type="hidden" value="412...

May 13, 2011 12:33
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Q: Deleted answers now invisible to authors below 10k under EL&U and SO

Alain PannetierI've just tried it again to make sure before posting this question but since one day or two at least, whenever I delete a question, it becomes invisible to me. Evidence I've just deleted this answer in SO. And It's now invisible. I usually hang around in English Language and Usage. All the an...

May 13, 2011 11:36
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Q: Getting "Too many edits [...] Further edits are not allowed until tomorrow"

Akram ShahdaI have recently received the following message: Too many edits You have already edited 5 of your own posts today (not including very recent posts). Further edits are not allowed until tomorrow. Please contact a moderator if you require assistance. I was trying to edit ...

May 12, 2011 13:12
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Q: Can we improve the UI when the search frequency limit is hit?

akiraWhile using the (speedy) search on SU and toying around with votes: and users: I quickly hit the wall: The speed of the search fell down from "pretty quick answers" to "zero", without any feedback. I understand the motivation behind that. But I do not have a stopwatch around to wait for the pe...

May 12, 2011 12:03
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Q: My careers profile disappeared

notJimI think this (or similar) happened to me. I received an email telling me I had been granted some invitations, and now my profile on careers is gone. When I click the My Profile thing at the top, it tells me that I can sign up for one. Then I tried to use my invites to invite myself back :p, an...