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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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Should we blacklist or delete the "research" tag?
This tag already has 23 questions using it, and from the list
it is clear that the usage is essentially random,
with no coherent unifying themes.
The only noticeable exception is that a substantial
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Filtering out the Autobiographer badge from "Recent Badges"
UPDATE:
We've blocked Autobiographer from appearing in the recent badges list network-wide so I've removed the general block of bronze badges described below. For more information on the changes that ...
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Should we blacklist or delete the "research" tag?
Suggestion: Burninate the tag research (rather than remove it manually).
Burnination means that the tag is removed from all questions without any bumping. (Pointers to more detailed information about ...
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"[error] I'm a teapot" when trying to add a picture
The "teapot" error is one of the various responses we return if something looks very suspicious at the http/form level - most likely because of an XSRF check failure. On mathoverflow, this is usually ...
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What should the modal window for first-time askers say?
The new Custom Ask Advice that is shown to new users is now live. Here is what it looks like right now on the site:
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Updated: Is it time to replace links to the UCDavis arXiv frontend?
As of 29 March 2022, I claim all the links in questions and answers to front.math.ucdavis.edu that predate April 2007, when the arXiv moved to the new, uniform ...
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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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Updated: Is it time to replace links to the UCDavis arXiv frontend?
I've reviewed your request and - while I'd generally want to say "yes, we can do this" - in this case, I'm sorry to say that I don't think it will be possible - at least, not without some ...
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Could there be a warning when a new tag is created?
I have just received a message from the Stack Overflow Team that the Warning pop-up for new tags has been enabled.
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Request for help with javascript for the citation search feature
As an example, the first result here contains the JSON
{
"results": [
{
"pagination": "266-278",
"links": [
"http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jsl.2013.12"
],
"title": ...
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Customize the modal window for the first-time askers
We used to have a page about how to ask a question on MO back on MO 1.0 that was quite good. The current one is kinda crap. I would suggest bringing back the old text explaining how to ask a ...
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What should the modal window for first-time askers say?
Vote up / down if you think Martin Sleziak's proposal should / should not be modified to use the phrase "research-level mathematics" rather than "mathematics at graduate level or higher&...
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What should the modal window for first-time askers say?
Vote up / down if you would / would not prefer to add to Martin Sleziak's proposal some language about cross-posting.
Voting for this change does not preclude voting for any other change as well; we ...
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Updated: Is it time to replace links to the UCDavis arXiv frontend?
As some of you may have noticed, I have a script which repairs broken links / images, with some more options than the mass-replacement tool available to Stack Exchange staff. It can do all kinds of ...
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Reputation displays after an edit even if opted out
We rolled out the fix.
Thank you for noticing that bug.
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Updated: Is it time to replace links to the UCDavis arXiv frontend?
Thanks for raising this one to our attention. We've now executed the requested changes on Math Overflow. However, it looks like, given the work y'all put in, this change set is relatively issue-free, ...
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Updated: Is it time to replace links to the UCDavis arXiv frontend?
At this moment, it is unclear whether a project like this should be done. (After all, until we heard from people running the arXiv frontend, we still should count as a possibility that it will be ...
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Customize the modal window for the first-time askers
Let me give some initial suggestion. (I hope that somebody proposes a better version - seeing many well-written posts both on main and on meta, clearly many MO users are able to do so.)
I have tried ...
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Should we blacklist or delete the "research" tag?
The tag has been blocked and can no longer be used. I leave removing the 40 tags from the existing questions - "burninating" - to you all. Please do look at the guide to how to burninate. It'...
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Reputation number not visible on main page
2 August, 2022 update: We have implemented a fix, finally. Hopefully this will survive any UI redesign in the near future.
Yes. I noticed that as soon as the front page changes were happening, but ...
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What should the modal window for first-time askers say?
Okay, after several days with no further substantive discussion on this question, it appears that both changes which I suggested as answers are supported by the community. After tinkering with a ...
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Customize the modal window for the first-time askers
Perhaps the following ideas are outside the scope or the original question. But in an ideal world, I think it would be useful to make the question editing window a bit more interactive for first time ...
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"Offline for maintenance" error message shows incorrect site name
I have just written a message to the Stack Exchange Team, and asked them to respond to this here. History has shown that this could take at least a few days.
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4
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Spaces in command sequences in old comments?
There was an issue with the way we render comments. This has been fixed now, please double check and let me know if you find anything.
More information here
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MathJax accents in Safari 10.1
The problem was introduced in the upgrade from Safari 10.0.3 (OSX 10.12.3) to Safari 10.1 (OSX 10.12.4), so I would think it unrelated to the switch in MathJax hosting. It seems to be an issue with ...
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Is the citation helper broken?
Oded installed a new version of Scott Morrison's citation helper that uses an API to Zentralblatt, which solved the problem. This change was already in the works, but I kept dropping the ball. Oded ...
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Request for help with javascript for the citation search feature
We will also need to modify the fetchCallback function from http://cdn.sstatic.net/js/third-party/citation-helper.js?v=2.
This is the current content of that ...
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