Questions tagged [bug-reports]
This tag is not for reporting a bug! Use this tag for questions *about* bug reports.
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Can staff please post an answer upon tagging a question as [status-completed]?
Related: Remove questions with moderator tags from the Unanswered list (2011)
We currently have 425 wholly-unanswered questions marked status-completed. This is a problem for three reasons:
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What are some deferred, ignored, or sunset projects we wish SE would work on to facilitate the community?
We all have our pet projects - things we wish SE would do but which seem to be forever stuck in the backlog pile. Other times, something that's well received gets forgotten in the shuffle.
Inspired by ...
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Do we need to reopen all bugs closed as site-specific and prevent further closing them on MSE?
Based on the comment and the post itself Users Can Report Bugs On Whatever Child Meta Site Suits Them it seems that closing bugs as site-specific on MSE is not legitimate. Am I right?
If so, should we ...
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How can I determine if this is a bug or feature-request for design tagged question?
Some design issues are based completely on personal opinion. In some other situations, they feel like an edge case, like this one: Add comment link is too close to Flag link
Should this be tagged as ...
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Where can I ask if a bug affects multiple sites?
The [bug] tag excerpt read(s):
Use this tag for a reproducible problem ON THIS SITE
I have a MathJax problem, reproduced at DSP.SE, Math.SE, Stats.SE, and MathOverflow.SE. Meta.SE doesn't use ...
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Imgur link fails to render while adding an image in question: "Failed to upload image; an error occurred on the server"
I have faced this issue 2-3 times. Whenever I paste an Imgur link in an image upload window, it gives an error:
Failed to upload image; an error occurred on the server
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How do we draw attention to our bug reports? [duplicate]
I posted this bug. It got ~35 views and 6 upvotes within a couple days of posting it. But then, people stopped viewing the question, and it hasn't really gotten any views or signs that the staff might ...
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Problematic sharing of a closed question that is linked to another answer on mobile [duplicate]
I was trying to share a link to the question How can I plot this Cartesian Equation in Geometry Nodes? that was closed and marked as duplicate.
I believe the question is not a duplicate, so I wanted ...
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Should I report issues on iPad?
I was using my iPad recently, and realised how weird the formatting was on the SE sites, like really screwed up - profile page, question page, review queues etc. Should I report the issue? Or do I not ...
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Is it valid to ask if or when a request tagged as under review or planned a long time ago will be implemented, or for its current progress?
Quite a bit of the time, many bugs I run into or feature requests I come up with have already been asked about on the site. These prior requests have received a positive response from a staff member, ...
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What to do with these accidental duplicate posts of feature-requests and bug reports, where the original hadn't been recently or at all addressed?
Based on some of my recent feature-requests and bug reports being closed as duplicates, helpful discussions with the community and reading through Why can a feature request or bug report without an ...
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Is it a good approach to report a bug with an answer to a similar question, rather than asking a new question?
Is it a good approach to report a bug with an answer to a similar question, rather than asking a new question?
I see something like this happening here:
Stack Overflow for Teams is now free for up to ...
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Resolving the issue with closing or using red tag?
What's the correct approach to resolve old questions tagged with bug which are no longer reproducible?
Should they be closed with the reason:
The problem described here can no longer be reproduced. ...
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Did I drink too much eggnog? I see hats double! [duplicate]
'Tis the season of happy holidays, office parties (maybe not with covid), and some other traditions like hanging mistletoe, drinking eggnog, or earning some Winter Bash hats...
The thing is that, I ...
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How do I get attention for a bug report or feature request that was deferred a long time ago?
As I was using the site, I had an idea for a new feature for the network.
As I searched through the Meta archives, I found that someone already asked for the same thing a long time in the past. The ...