Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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Update the SE documentation to clarify how many votes are required to close a question
Right now, the main Stack Exchange documentation says that five votes are required to close a question, except for a list of networks that does not include Physics SE. But this Physics Meta SE post ...
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Bug in the reopen queue?
Edit: appears fixed as of 01/26?
When I go to the reopen queue and choose to keep a question closed, one possibility is to choose that the question still does not meet a community-specific guideline:
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MathJax discrepancy between physics and math Stack Exchange sites
For whatever reason, when I put the first equation in the question box it renders correctly (in the preview) on the math Stack Exchange site, but wrong on the physics Stack Exchange site (PSE). The ...
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Trying to upload images I get
Failed to upload image; an error occurred on the server
Whether the image is shown in diminution on the left or not, and whether it's is JPEG or PNG.
What is up?
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Upvote not reflecting in reputation points?
So I asked a question and got an upvote on it but it's not reflecting in my reputation. Why is that? Is it a bug?
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Where are my bookmarks?
It seems that there is no tab "bookmarks" anymore in the activity section of the profile. Are all my bookmarks gone? Will they come back? If not, can the bookmarks be recovered?
Will the ...
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Why do equations display weirdly on my computer?
When I open a link on Stack Exchange, the math equations just can't show correctly. How do I fix it? (I've tried reinstalling Chrome, but it wouldn't work. But things go well in the Edge browser.)
For ...
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How serial does serial upvoting need to be?
I had a -10 serial upvote reversal today. I was a bit puzzled since I had not seen much activity on my account recently. It seems that yesterday, someone upvoted two of my answers on neutron stars and ...
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Why does the font size appear different for this question?
I saw a question on the Newest Questions page (the 3rd question in the image below) whose title and body were rendered in a smaller font compared to other questions.
Here : https://i.stack.imgur.com/...
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Why does it show "Queue has been cleared" every time I check 3 questions?
I recently got the Review Questions privilege, so I know very little stuff about how to review questions.
I was recently reviewing some questions, but after checking 3 questions, it said "This ...
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Why is the accepted answer not pinned to the top?
We currently have the highest-rated answer pinned to the top and not the accepted one.
With the meta question currently at 23 for pinning the accepted answer and 21 for pinning the highest-rated ...
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Opera browser blocks log in Physics Stack Exchange - HSTS issue
I have difficulties to log in the Physics Stack Exchange site via the Opera browser. It says:
Your connection is not private
This server could not prove that it is physics.stackexchange.com; its ...
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First questions queue is not working
First questions queue is not working properly. I noticed this a couple of hours ago and it has been not fixed yet.
(Screenshots on mobile device)
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Is this a bug with editing posts?
I just answered a question and edited it within a short period. But this is what I saw:
What happened to the grace period of 5 minutes for editing a post?
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Why did I get 20 reputation without any upvote or bookmark?
I had got 20 reputation for this question. But, I wonder how I got reputation from that question because, that question claims that no one had upvoted neither downvoted. Even, no one had bookmarked it....
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Confusing message from new review queue?
The answer here (in which a new user posted an elaboration on their question as an answer) has the following comment from the Community bot, presumably due to its review in the new "First Answers&...
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User name disappeared
Consider:
Until yesterday, my username was visible in this circle. But now it does not seem to be there. So I have to search my name under the 'users' section to go to my profile. Am I the only one ...
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Why aren't my watched tags yellow?
The questions tagged with my watched tags used to be yellow, and I found that super useful. Why are they not yellow now? Is this a problem on my end, or a change of the site?
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Why is my reputation not shown in the "other communities" section?
Consider:
See that the reputation is not shown for the physics community.
Why is this happening? And is there a solution?
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User is receiving badges for review tasks they could not have performed
I have come across a user who seems to have accumulated "Steward" badges at an impossible rate; I believe there must be a bug in the platform.
They received the badge 18 times in the 8 hours ...
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Question appearing blurred (less visible). Any explanation?
Please, find a screenshot of my PhysSE homepage. Is there any explanation why that question would appear semi-visible?
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Difference in "edited posts" in editor stats and user profile
I noticed that there is an inconsistency in the number of edited posts between the "editor stats" (which is the dialog that you can see in post revisions) and the user profile. For example, ...
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HTML tag rendering
An old answer of mine just got an upvote, which caused me to look at it again, and I was surprised to discover that my HTML tags for italics (that is the letter $i$ between two pointy brackets) were ...
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What happened to the 'Related' sidebar? [duplicate]
Previously, whenever I asked a question, there used to be a 'Related' tab on the right side. It used to display links to a lot of related posts. Now, I cannot see the tab 'Related' anymore. It was ...
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"Talkative" badge on meta
Yesterday I was awarded the Talkative badge on the main site for one message being starred out of ten message posted in chat.
According to me, chat is same for main ...
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Removing deleted questions from the "Followed posts" list
My "Followed posts" list is littered with deleted questions, which I cannot remove off the list, as they've lost their "unfollow" option. How do I prune off these entries?
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Edited MathJax not properly rendered in Review queues
I posted this question on Stack Exchange Meta as a bug. I'm posting it here for informational purposes and I'd suggest going to the Stack Exchange Meta version and upvoting that if you want (or ...
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Why don't we improve captcha?
I just wrote a self-answered question on the main site. The answer is really long, and frankly speaking, it takes some time getting all the diagrams right, researching, making sure the explanations ...
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What happened to my account on Physics Stack Exchange?
Today when I clicked on Physics.Stackexchange tab on my chrome the site opened up normally but when I clicked on Ask the window the tab opened up saying “confirm your account” and then I saw that my ...
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My quarter reputation is more than my total reputation!
What is this? Is this some sort of wizardry? Or is the server bad at counting?
Jokes apart! Why is my quarter rep more than my total rep?
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Possible vandalism?
Sorry to bother everyone, but I found this particular link over on the physics main page Could the recent evidence of a gravitational force orbiting the solar system indicate not the existence of a ...
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Strange account suspension date
I happened to notice an account
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shown as suspended until the nonsensical date of “Mar 18 '92 at 16:28“? I am not asking why the account is suspended, but why the “until” date is 27 ...
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An Issue with Detecting Identical Titles
I was editing a question titled "newton's law of restitution" and I edited the title to "Newton's law of restitution" (There were latex issues in the body of the question and I was not editing the ...
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Why it doesn't show correctly when someone was online?
Whenever I click on Anyone's profile to check if available(online) or even my profile,it doesn't show correctly. When I click on my profile it should show online, but it just show last seen a random ...
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No red error bar in the review queue
When I'm on the review queues, sometimes I can't edit the post for various reasons. (I have a maxed out edit queue, or someone else's edit is pending).
When this happens on the normal site, a red bar ...
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Profile/Activity layout issue [closed]
There seems to be an issue with the layout on the Activity tab in User Profile. The text and button at the bottom of the badge are obscured by the next row of tabs since the box is larger than normal ...
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Profile views, location section moved to extreme right corner
When I was going through some profiles on the site, I found out some different behaviour in a user's profile. Location, profile views section moved to extreme corner. Link to Akash.B profile
However, ...
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Glitch in reputation points?
Today, my question at Can a substance have zero vapour pressure above absolute zero? had 3 upvotes and my reputation was 597 points. Later it had 4 upvotes and my reputation was 602 points. Later it ...
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Imgur Issue? Cannot see or upload pictures
I haven't been able to put pictures in my answers, and I cannot see any pictures posted in other people's questions. Is this an issue on my end, or is imgur having issues?
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Reputation not adding up? [duplicate]
According to the achievements tab as of right now I have gained 20 points and lost 2, yet my reputation on physics stackexchange shows as 19 and here it shows as 21.
Is this a glitch?
EDIT: after I ...
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Differences in displayed order of answers
The order of display of answers to my question (and completeness of that record) is different when I (1) click on the question or (2) reload the page via the browser "Reload current page" icon. (Note ...
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What does the red circle mean next to a review queue?
Gut feeling is the red dot means "this queue is important right now/needs help or attention" yet it tells me the queue has been cleared. This is contrary to the grey circles, which go away after I ...
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A greyed answer
I recently came across Solving the problem. Although the user who posted a completely off topic post about cooking, which garnered 6 down-votes in 5 seconds has removed it. However, I noticed that ...
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Why doesn't the LaTeX code under the tag "operators" shows what it's supposed to show?
For a question about physics, I accidentally came along the "operators" tag. Why is the LaTeX code visible below this tag and not what it is supposed to show? I can't see a mistake in the code. Or am ...
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A moderator understood and answered my question but put it was put on hold as unclear?
I asked this question Zero Radiation Nuclear Bomb Possible? and a moderator completely understood my question, provided an answer and mention he would like to see other answers, but it still got put ...
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Can't logout from Stack Exchange
I am unable to log out from Stack Exchange in my browser, in both PC and mobile. After logging out, when I open the site again it appears as I am already logged in. I have not enabled the remembering ...
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Buggy behaviour of spoiler tags when they contain both text and images
I know that we don't use the spoiler syntax in Markdown very often, but it seems it's a bit buggy, at least on this site.
Consider the following test of the spoiler tag, containing both some text and ...
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Header background not tall enough with the new top bar
With the top bar redesign (currently mod-only, broader rollout planned for the next couple of weeks) in Chrome the header seems not to be tall enough to contain its content anymore. In this image, you ...
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Problems with tag notes
On the physics tags page, the tags mathematical-physics and mathematics are described as "Just because your question involves ...
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Chat does not support LaTeX input
The chat does not show LaTeX, not even in the comments which were moved to chat and had working LaTeX in the comments section.
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