Questions tagged [bug]
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396 questions
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Why is there a memory leak when viewing any question on Super User?
On both Chrome and Edge (but not Firefox), with no extensions installed, Super User questions (the regular site, not meta) use an increasing amount of memory until the tab crashes with an out of ...
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Intermittently getting "An error occurred when loading the review item. Please try again." on accessing suggested edits review queue
I have only gained enough reputation to access the suggested edits review queue on Super User within the past week. I have noticed several times that on trying to access the suggested edits review ...
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Pagination breaks on the last page of results, shows multiple extra pages
Pagination on the last page of results is broken. Take the example of mono-framework, which has 77 questions (as of writing). For this example I've sorted by newest and set page size to 50 results, ...
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10 votes
2 answers
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Language name (side "feature" shipped with copy button for code block) is glued to code, this worsens many existing posts
Problem The "Copy button for code blocks" feature has been turned on for Super User. Along with it came this "feature" of language name (e.g. bash, python) automatically appearing ...
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6 votes
1 answer
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What's wrong with the suggested-edits review queue?
I've restarted doing reviews (on the main Super User site, not the meta one), and although most review features are working fine, there seems to be something wrong with the suggested-edits review ...
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8 votes
1 answer
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I can't report ads: "Error uploading Ad report."
I can't report ads in superuser.com First of all it always asks for a screenshot of the ad (it should know it as I'm clicking "report ad" right below it). After uploading screenshot I get &...
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Bug: Super User image upload triggers false code detection (console.log inserted from unrelated image); impossible to upload image as intended
I was just trying to write and post a question about Excel to the main Super User site. I was going to add an image of my spreadsheet as it currently is set up, to help explain what I'm asking. ...
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Please remove this answer from the list of audit tests
I fell into the following audit tests: How to set up a Git host on Windows? https://superuser.com/review/first-answers/1324089 I admit that the answers are insufficiently described, but they look ...
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7 votes
2 answers
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Why must Markdown rendering in preview differ from final?
I have read Markdown discrepancy between live preview and finished posts Where Jeff Attwood wrote There may be some minor discrepancies between the preview and the final post. ... preview is like the ...
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7 votes
2 answers
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What is wrong with this animated gif?
I'm trying to answer a question, and given that in this particular case, showing a really short movie is so much better than trying to explain it, I recorded a 19 second clip with the following ...
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Inbox not marked as read
When someone posts a comment on a question or answer from me, I get a notification in my inbox. If I click the notification and get redirected to the question, that notification itself is not marked ...
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What the heck does this mean: “Comment reserved for system use. Please use an appropriate comment.”
I just got this message when trying to leave a fairly innocuous comment for an edit on a question: “Comment reserved for system use. Please use an appropriate comment.” The only way I could submit ...
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6 votes
1 answer
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Possible bug with the new image hosting system: PNG images are declared “Too small…” if both dimensions are not equal to or larger than 160 pixels
Preface: While I saw this similar question on Meta Stack Exchange, and the original poster there is complaining about the 160 limit in general. My issue is with the restriction being applied to both ...
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1 vote
1 answer
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I messed up. What can I do? => This is an audit test
I just fell into the following "audit test". It's just a question of somebody saying "I messed up, can anybody help me?", such a question should not be an audit test!
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Why is a tag too similar to itself? [duplicate]
I wanted to tag this question with variables. When I typed "vari" the only suggestion was environment-variables. Since the description says "system-wide" and my question concerned ...
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