Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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Some users have lost their username
It seems several users have had their name changed after the migration to something default of the form "userNNNN": see for instance
https://mathoverflow.net/users/1784/user1784 (VA)
https://...
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Receiving a badge for an answer before providing the answer
I just noticed that I appear to have received two 'necromancer' badges before I even gave the corresponding answers: for instance, compare the dates on the list of badges with the date on this answer. ...
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Math font render problem
I have some issue with the math font for quite some time now. And it only happens on this very site, and not on any other site.
Some of the letters, some of the time, don't render part of the top ...
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Answering question does not bump it?
I posted an answer to
Grothendieck spaces and total subspaces of the dual
and it bumped the question to the top under the tagged lists but not on the front page even though I have that page set to ...
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Rendering and inconsistency issues when reviewing edits
I was reviewing an edit, and had two issues with it:
You can view the markdown and the rendered output. I assume the rendered output would render the MathJax as well, but it didn't.
I tried to ...
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Alignment of tabs on profile page in MathOverflow
This morning, on several machines, with Windows 8.1, XP, and CentOS, and with Chrome and Firefox, on MathOverflow, the profile page shows:
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Why are we now getting 'hot network questions'?
I notice that we are now getting a bar listing hot questions from across the SE network. I thought we'd settled for no cross-site advertising in MO2.0.
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"post locked" and "post unlocked" chronology is reversed in history
This is kind of minor, but it seems that the revision history of a post occasionally fails to be written in chronological order, when events are in close succession. For example this post history has ...
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Wrong choice of words in info message -- "close" instead of "reopen"
When moving the mouse above the [reopen] button below a closed question which I have voted to reopen, I see the text "You voted to reopen. 3 more votes from other users are needed to close this ...
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Wrong message for closing questions as off-topic
I was just reviewing the queue for closing votes, and I noticed that the message displayed in the options for closing as off-topic was:
off-topic because...
This question does not appear to be ...
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Front-page not displaying questions
I always go to mathoverflow.net rather than mathoverflow.net/questions, because the latter only shows 50 results per page including results in tabs you've hidden (so I only see about 4 per page). ...
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YEAR is missing in many places specifically in questions
There is a little bug : most dates question , comments etc..) the year is lost.
As the site is now older there are questions that are 1 2 or 3 years old and we cannot tell.
May be I am missreading ...
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Inline images not displaying correctly?
The images in https://mathoverflow.net/a/123671/3 are not displaying properly (checked in Chrome and Firefox), but I'm not sure why. Loading the given URLs in a new tab works fine.
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Why does (moderators) tag on meta behave differently from other tags?
When I click on the moderators tag here on meta:
I see that it contains one question.
No tag-wiki is displayed. (And neither is the possibility to edit the tag-wiki.)
When I try to find this tag in ...
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Search not working?
When I load https://mathoverflow.net/search?q=topology (or any other search query) I get a Your search returned no matches. response.
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Will there be an update fixing the rendering?
As has been reported in two previous questions on meta (here and here), the mathoverflow update generated a few problems with the rendering related to mathjax.
Initially there was a problem with ...
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MathOverflow Weekly Newsletter / Greatest hits from previous weeks
I don't know how many look at the MathOverflow Weekly Newsletter, but these were
the "Greatest hits from previous weeks":
"Video lectures of mathematics courses available online for free" from Feb ...
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Trackbacks are no longer being generated for the arXiv
(Although this is a bug report, I or Anton are likely the people who need to fix it; this post is a bug tracking item, not necessarily a plea for help :-)
We previously been scraping the front page ...
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Where is the off switch for the concurrent preview now?
I feel like an idiot but I cannot find it. Meanwhile, if the post is long and has a lot of LaTeX formulae in it, and the connection is imperfect, the wysiwyg regime is a non-stop fight. I figured out ...
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Hyperlinks not working in user profile
After the migration, it appears that the hyperlinks in my profile description are no longer working. I've noticed the same problem with some other users who I seem to recall had working hyperlinks ...
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Why do backticks appear in the title?
Why do backticks appear in the title of the following question?
Is $ \sum\limits_{n=0}^\infty x^n / \sqrt{n!} $ positive?
Is that the expected behaviour? I foolishly attempted to edit the backticks ...
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Math Overflow not available as a chat parent user
I was configuring the Teacher's Lounge ping for MO when I realized that currently, the option to change chat parent user to MO is not available. Could this be added?
Also, superpings don't seem to ...
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Backticks breaking MathJax in comments
The backticks that were used to circumvent MathJax problems on MO 1.0 were removed in questions and answers.
However, it appears that the comments were not affected by this fix and thus display ...
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MathJax problems in comments
I'm not sure if this has been reported elsewhere. See for example Fred Kline's comment on quid's answer at https://mathoverflow.net/questions/104608/need-help-defining-placeholders-for-primes
The ...
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Participation in Tags?
Currently it seems that people (on the main site) are listed as not having participated in any tags. (This seems to be the case for me, and for JDH; I didn't check any others.) Is this a temporary ...
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Weird display of results from search
The results from this search don't seem to display properly. I'm assuming that it is not restricted to this search alone.
Added later: I have included a screenshot below. What I'm referring to is the ...
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Is there an association bonus for this site?
I used to have a 1 rep MO account. After the SE2.0 merger, I logged in, and while the accounts are showing up associated, I have not received the association bonus.
My MO profile is still the same, ...
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Mysterious one point rep increase
Yesterday my reputation total increased by 1 point. As far as I know there is (was) no action which would trigger 1 point increase (downvoting gives $-1$, accepting an answer gives $+2$, etc.) I am ...
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Different accounts not linking
I can not seem to get enough reputation to get chat to work. I think it is that my MO and SENetwork accounts aren't properly linked. In fact, my other stack exchange accounts aren't merged with my MO ...
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incorrect google link to mathoverflow
Whenever I google MO, I find that the link https://mathoverflow.net/ leads to a page that reads
This site is down for maintenance
This site is currently down for maintenance. Please check back in a ...
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Minor graphic glitch
Every time I see this I cringe a little:
For comparison, the corresponding thingie in math.se always has the numbers centered in the circle.
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why can't I link in a question?
I attempted to edit the question wrapping M5-branes on a Riemann surface so that it reads as follows:
(begin edit)
AdS/CFT gives us a way to use geometry to study field theory! I am trying to wrap ...
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The bit about parent user and the netwok not realizing I am on MO. Or network [duplicate]
Alright, I am going to ask this about myself, then I will go read the other one about MO not being available as a chat parent. That turned out to be Math Overflow not available as a chat parent user
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Double backslashes
The “backslash-bug” from the old version is no longer there. You can simply write { and } to get $\{\}$. However, all the old questions and answers using \{ are now broken and look terrible:
$\prod\\{...
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People without math.SE profile cannot join chat?
There appears to be some problem with people who are not members at math.SE conencting to at least one chatroom (the recently created "Homotopy Theory" chat room). That is, people with MO profiles are ...
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Automatic conversion of three backslashes into two backslashes possible? [duplicate]
In arrays in MathJax I needed always three backslashes to force a new-line; that was specific for MO and not so in MSE, for instance, where one needs only two. Now that we are in the stackexchange ...
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Vote count in Users->voters is off
Right now, my MathOverflow user page shows 12,878 votes, but the page with people's overall vote counts shows a mere 8674. I see similar discrepancies with other people's accounts. Is there some ...
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What is wrong with the tag excerpts?
Looking at the list of tags https://mathoverflow.net/tags it seems that all the tags are surrounded by html <p>...</p>. This seems to be happening ...
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Problem with links to tags on meta
For example, [tag:lo.logic] renders as lo.logic. It seems that the color for the top and left edges is the same as the background color for meta.
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The tour page is now a generic stackexchange version
In the sandbox phase, the tour page (here: https://mathoverflow.net/about) was populated with MO-specific questions/answers. Now it has generic (and to my mind, overly silly) questions, and I would ...
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Broken math on some answers [duplicate]
Here is an example. Is there an automatic way for moderators to fix what I imagine are many answers that somehow now display funny, or should we do it manually, one by one?
If the latter, people ...
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On StackExchange.com MO is still Uncategorized
Obviously MO is listed at All Sites/All, but instead of also being at All Sites/Science, like M.SE, it's in All Sites/Uncategorized.
(I noticed it back when the age was wrong, but it hasn't been ...
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A trivia question: reputation dip [duplicate]
Why did my reputation decrease by 300+ points right after the system up-grading?
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Minor GUI issues: the tag deletion button
I just posted a posted something, and I noticed that the little "x" on the tag names which suppose to delete the tag from the current tag list is not fully included in the tag box itself.
(This is ...
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Why is LaTeX not displaying correctly? [duplicate]
In this answer
On a proof of the existence of tubular neighborhoods.
and Neil Strickland's answer here
Is the counit of geometric realization a Serre fibration?
the laTex is not displaying correctly (...
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Moderation tools
The link to moderation tools seems to be missing for me. As Scott Morrison kindly explained in https://meta.mathoverflow.net/a/20/12705, it is supposed to be here in the toolbar:
The tools as such ...
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Age of Mathoverlow
As was pointed out here, Mathoverflow is listed as being 2012 years old here.
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Missing header at top of page?
In other SE 2.0 sites, I get a short header in between the StackExchange link on the left and the search box on the right. It includes account information and a link to meta (also review, chat, help)....
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MathJax in suggested edits
Pages like
https://mathoverflow.net/review/suggested-edits/1435
display suggested edits for review. The original and edited versions are displayed in parallel columns with the differences highlighted....
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