Questions tagged [status-bydesign]
Indicates that the behavior described in a bug report is intentional and not subject to change.
2,457 questions
9 votes
1 answer
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hr breaking formatting
I was just working on a question, when I was adding a note at the bottom: For some reason, this made the formatting break. I only prefer using hr for lines, but I also tested it with ---, and it then ...
24 votes
1 answer
628 views
Why is this educational institution blocked from creating Stack Exchange accounts?
LOETB is the Laois & Offaly Education and Training Board, an accredited educational institute in Ireland. Their student email addresses take the form [year of enrolment][student name]@loetbstudent....
8 votes
1 answer
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Is there supposed to be a community bulletin widget here at meta.SE?
Meta.SE screenshot: Space.SE screenshot: I think this is a bug; that box should be there. I checked archive.org and there was a widget previously. Question: Is there supposed to be a community ...
75 votes
6 answers
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Fabricated data in posts.xml for multiple/all data dumps
TL;DR; as I wrote this post parallel to troubleshooting, I went from thinking there was an odd bug to thinking that the company is doing something intentional (or nefarious?) with the data dump again. ...
3 votes
1 answer
154 views
Remove unnecessary spacing when chat reply box is absent
The new reply system shows a popup, but reserves the space for it even when not shown: Here's the space being used: The following CSS fixes the problem: #chat:not(:has(+ #input-area #reply-box)) { ...
5 votes
1 answer
144 views
"Question eligible for bounty in ..." link is missing for recent questions
For questions too recent to be eligible for a bounty, the link such as "Question eligible for bounty in 22 hours" is missing. This was tested for Stack Overflow and Meta Stack Exchange. ...
20 votes
1 answer
479 views
I just won 18 announcer badges overnight; is something up?
I do link a lot, and I do get individual announcer badges regularly, but 18 overnight seems like something is amiss. Was there a recent "sweep" to update badges, or is something else going ...
17 votes
1 answer
406 views
Answers with positive score can now be deleted by non-mods?
The way things usually work is that if an answer has a positive score, it can't be deleted by non-mods - neither by manual delete votes (which aren't even available until the score is negative) nor ...