Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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Monthly reputation counts tab on Users page is wrong
On the user page, if you click on the Month tab, the mouseover says "2016-08-01 to today" but the reputation counts are too high for that period. They seem instead likely related to the past 30 days ...
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Bug with Marshal badge
I don't know exactly what happened, but in the last 7 days I have received twice the Marshal badge (which I had already earned in Apr 13) without raising more than 1500 helpful flags.
Now in my ...
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Troubles with math preview: preview of formulas dies on me when writing a question or an answer
In mathoverflow I avoid asking questions and giving answers because the preview of mathematical formulas does not work: in the preview the formulas are shown precisely as I type them, with dollars and ...
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Tabs misaligned
The horizontal line on tabs on the profile page is misaligned:
This happens both on the main site, and on meta. The screenshots above are from Firefox 14 on Linux, however, I verified the problem ...
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Text on some buttons has become unrecognizable
Very recently (I think today) the buttons with "Post your answer", "Answer your question" and some others became black, with the text hardly readable.
With me it happens on Windows 10 with latest ...
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Should a closed question award "famous" badge?
I'm looking at this question, which got closed as a non-question, and yet did award its author in the "famous question" badge.
Technically it passes the 10k views, but I think this is either a plain ...
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Seems to be a (minor) bug with displaying mathjax
Hardly noticeable but I still decided to report it - just noticed: at Find the number of boolean functions of n variable that satisfy the following condition one sees this
The second $k$ below is ...
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Strange behaviour when clicking on MathJax in question title
I clicked on $\mathbb{RP}^n\times\mathbb{RP}^n$ in this title
Instead of taking me to the question, it stays on the same page but now displays this
If I click on $\mathbb{CP}^n$ instead, I go to the ...
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TeX bug: \mod and \pmod gone
It appears that the MO TeX does not understand macros \mod and \pmod any more; it used not to be the case. As a result for many questions the typesetting is broken.
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I can't post comments on first generation iPad
I have a first generation iPad, with OS 5.1.1, and sometimes look at MathOverflow on it, in the Safari web browser. Recently, it seems as though posting comments has stopped working. I type the ...
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Formatting problem
In my answer to
When is the closed unit ball in a smaller Banach space closed in a larger Banach space?
I wrote the following:
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Edit: $Y=Z^*$ does not display correctly when it is in the body ...
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Braces don't render in preview
When I type braces in math mode in a post, like $\{1,2,3\}$, they don't show up in the preview. See the following screen shot.
I tried all the different Math ...
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Color of links (both in posts and comments)
I know the issue has been discussed before in the last couple of years (here, here and kind of here), but nothing has been done to solve it, so I thought it would make sense to bring it up again. If ...
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Visited / unvisited links in the questions / answers
I just posted a question and I noticed that unvisited links use a color that is difficult to distinguish ... but visited links are even harder to recognize. See the snapshot below from my Firefox 41....
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New interface - empty rectangles in the reputation column
I've got new interface and I like it, but there is something strange:
Some numbers are supposed to be there, right? They are present on other StackExchange sites with this interface
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Image human verification problem
I typed up an answer, and it tells me I have to have a name and a password to post. Apparently my session timed out while I was researching the answer. So I click the "Login" button, and my answer ...
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Long MathJax in comment breaks linewrapping throughout the comment thread [duplicate]
A picture is worth a thousand words; here is what I am talking about, from the comments on this post.
By posting a very long formula into MathJax, not only have I caused my own comment to run off the ...
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Mysterious evil scrollbar
While compulsively checking my question, I noticed that a mysterious in-site scrollbar appeared. When I click on the scrollbar, the question disappears and I have to reload! This leads me to believe ...
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Non-CW answers to CW questions
I have understood that if a question has community wiki (CW) status, then all answers must have it, too.
I came across an exception in a question about refereeing.
The answers by Chris Woodward and ...
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Reputation graph in Chrome
I just noticed what seems to be a small bug; hopefully this question is not a duplicate. When I go to my user page, under "reputation" there is a timeline which I should be able to manipulate by ...
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Notification doesn't go away
I have a notification of a reply to a comment of mine which doesn't disappear from the notification icon on the top of the page. I click on it and it clears but, when I refresh the page or go to ...
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TeX sometimes displays incorrectly on search pages
When I type a search into the search box, sometimes the list of questions returned contains incorrectly handled TeX (of the sort that once was common all over the place here).
Here is an example: ...
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Where is the canonical place to submit Mathjax bug reports?
For example, here is an issue I've been having with Chrome on a Nexus tablet.
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Order of the tags at MO
I have seen a post suggesting that in SE network a tags for the question should be shown ordered by the popularity (i.e., by the number of questions): Are the tags shown in a particular order?
But ...
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Display attempt shuts down mobile browser
I am using a Droid2 phone with mobile browser version 2.3.4. Most of the time I can
display items on MO, meta, and related sites reasonably well, even the full site versions.
A few minutes ago, I ...
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Navigation tab position bug on tag pages for tags that have featured questions
When there are featured questions for a tag, the inclusion of the "featured" tab in the header cause the tabs to flow out of position.
(I'm using Chrome 34.0.1847.131 and Firefox 29.0.1 ...
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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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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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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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Registered vs. unregistered users?
What does it mean if a user is unregistered?
I'm interested in the questions and answers of a particular user, let's say "SAM". I clearly see questions that SAM has asked, but when I search for "SAM"...
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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 ...
S. CarnahanMod
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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 ...
Stefan KohlMod
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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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The math! It's overflowing!
See what happens if you expand the comments on this question, we get this prime example of a math overflow:
Of course, this is due to a \$ problem, but still, it seems to be a flaw in the CSS that ...
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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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Trouble understanding criterion to answer protected question
This question is protected, and the box at the end says: "To answer it, you must have earned at least 10 reputation on this site."
What does this mean?
I am asking because I am currently shown as ...
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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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Google Chrome not rendering Latex in browser
I have seen a solution to this problem for Firefox, but assume it is not the same for Chrome. This just started happening recently, and I have no idea how to fix it! Any mathematical typesetting on ...
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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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Tag scores, tag badges, and CW answers
I have a couple of questions concerning the score for specific tags, and the corresponding tag badges.
It appears that community wiki (CW) answers do not count towards tag badges, even when they ...
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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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List of recurrent technical problems involving MathJax
Edit: I have retagged this question 'feature-request' in an attempt to expedite action on these issues. I request that the MathOverflow developers implement an automatic fix of the issues in the ...
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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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