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Kitty can’t fix it — Old questions inaccessible for logged-in users, giving “unexpected error”
Thank you all for reporting and excellent documentation of this issue! We have applied a fix and all the affected pages should now load as expected for logged in users as well as anonymous users.
As ...
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Where did the reputation go?
StackExchange is constantly evolving. Since the script is maintained by the moderators, and we are not notified in advance about these changes, we have no choice but to be reactive.
Changes happen, ...
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Kitty can’t fix it — Old questions inaccessible for logged-in users, giving “unexpected error”
This is not a resolution of the bug, but at least I have found a way around it: If I log out of my account the affected pages all become accessible. If I then log back in I get the "kitty" ...
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Spoiler mechanism not working
Look at the source code1 - this part has a newline after each word:
! Spoiler
with
multiple
lines -
this
does
not
work.
But this happens if I put the same text into a single line:
Related posts on ...
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My gravatar has changed
This is because of a change that was made to the process that Stack Exchange used to generate the gravatars. The change was done for security reasons because of a vulnerability that was found in the ...
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Double overline renders poorly, except in MathML
StackExchange hasn't upgraded the version of MathJax that they are using in quite some time. They are using v2.7.5, which is more than 4 years old. The current version is 3.2.2, which handles the ...
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Having the MO Mathjax parser recognise \( \) is a regex away
The real issue with using \(...\) as math delimiters is the interaction with StackExchange's Markdown engine, since Markdown uses ...
- 101
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Is there a penalty for merely looking at a question, comments and an answer?
To summarise the conversation in the comments, it seems Thomas may have accidentally downvoted some answers while browsing on a phone (I've done the same, especially when the screen reflows because of ...
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Edit history lost on migration
When a thread is migrated from one site to another, only the latest revision of each post in the thread is moved over. To find the original revisions of a post on a migrated thread, you can do the ...
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Long post fails to render
I think it was just an oversight - unpaired curly brackets.
Putting $V_{i(g)(\kappa)}^M=V_{i(g)(\kappa)}^N$ $V_{i(g)(\kappa)}^M=V_{i(g)(\kappa)}^N$ works as ...
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Why is there unexpected space at the beginning of a paragraph in an answer?
The line immediately preceding "The named..." has a single non-breaking space in it, which is preserved in the output.
The editor may be using a differently configured Markdown renderer, for ...
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Why is the wrong username showing up on a CW answer after a user changes names?
By my understanding, this bug was never fully fixed, although some change in the SE software circa 2011 rectified the displayed usernames on most community wiki posts at that time. For instance, the ...
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Can’t vote to close question as duplicate of question without an answer
I will quote from the help center - the part about duplicates:
In general, the original question must have an answer; questions may only be marked as duplicates of unanswered questions (a) on meta ...
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Occasional "echoed" usernames in Firefox
Suggestions in the comments by David Roberts and The Amplitwist turned out to be correct.
I switched out enhanced tracking protection, and that thing got replaced with a picture of the user.
Still I ...
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Can’t vote to close question as duplicate of question without an answer
This is just me recording my thoughts as to why, for MathOverflow, voting to close a question as a duplicate of an unanswered question should be an option. MathOverflow is a bit different from other ...
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Is there a penalty for merely looking at a question, comments and an answer?
This is a CW answer - feel free to improve and add as needed. The question is already sufficiently answered - the intention of this answer is to collect sources where one can read more about the ...
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Integral sign cut off in Safari
Comment I have seen this in the past. Currently, I do not see it.
Questions for diagnosis:
What math renderer are you using?
Does your error persist with others?
What System version? What version ...
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Icons for MO/metaMO in community list changed?
The problem is solved, I just needed to wait until the SE system and my browser got their act together.
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