Questions tagged [bug-reports]
This tag is not for reporting a bug! Use this tag for questions *about* bug reports.
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How do I write a good bug report?
I've found a bug on the Stack Exchange network, and I want to write a Meta question bringing attention to it. How can I help my bug report get noticed and acted upon by the company/community?
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Why aren't tags for feature requests and bug reports standardized across all Stack Exchange meta sites? [closed]
I've noticed that some meta sites use tags like [feature-request] and [bug], while others use [discussion] and a separate tag for the feature or bug itself. This seems to create inconsistency for ...
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What is the community's opinion of having animated demos of bugs in posts?
Today, a user filed a bug report. The user had attached an animation of reproducing the bug in the post. However, after receiving comments from multiple users stating that the post should only consist ...
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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
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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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