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Cannot see notifications-inbox after logging in

When Unix Stackexchange logs me in whenever I come from another site for the first time, I see I have some new messages in Inbox under the StackExchange top left bar. When I try to check those out, I ...
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references to FAQ

Now that the FAQ seems to have been transformed into 'help' there are a few problems with the analytical badge description. That description both refers to 'FAQ' which should now be 'Help` or 'Help ...
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Can't answer my own question!

I asked this question a while back, but I didn't get any satisfactory answers. After poking around the Internets for a while, I found what I was looking for. I'm all happy now, and I went to go answer ...
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Why am I regularly asked to prove that I am human?

This StackExchange site is the only one that consistently asks me to prove that I am human, giving me some hard to read CAPTCHA to fill out. Usually I need to cycle through a few until I can decipher ...
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Why can't I edit a question I have reviewed

Or, why are my approvals of other user's edits not actioned in the same way my own edits are? I have noticed that, should I approve or improve an edit by another member of the community under the ...
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Voting indicator state is not reinstated when trying to remove a vote on a deleted post

If you try to remove a vote on a deleted post, you will get the "this post has been deleted" popup and the vote count will be reset back to what it was before you tried to rescind your vote, but the ...
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Searching for "2038" (without quotes) redirects to a particular question instead of executing a search

Am I going crazy? Searching for "2038" (without quotes) redirects me to this question, whereas searching for "2037" or "2039" (again, without quotes) actually executes a search. Searching for "2038" ...
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bug in tag alias?

Today I tried to ask a question with tag regex and got rejected with: Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because: Creating the new tag [regular-expressions] is not allowed since the tag [...
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Favorite questions: surprising behavior

The interface for marking a question as a "favorite" displays somewhat suprising behavior. Say I open a question in one tab in my browser, and also happen to have the same question open in a different ...
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Accepted answer by an absent user is not sorted first

This question was migrated after having received an accepted answer (not by the asker). Neither the asker nor the poster of the accepted answer have an account on the target site at this point. The ...
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Extraneous vertical scroll bar in review task header

There's a vertical scroll bar that's not much use in the header for the review task screens (e.g. here). It lets you scroll down one line, but there's nothing to see below. Firefox 10 Chromium 22: ...
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The syntax highligher for this js script seems to have a bug for the code after the */ [duplicate]

Regarding this question, seems all stuff after the /* was grey-ed, with or without finding the matching */.
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Page Not Found when improving a suggested edit to a tag wiki body

I reviewed a suggested edit to a tag wiki and decided to click Improve. I wrote some text (at https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/39283/edit?improve=true), then submitted my edit. I was brought to ...
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Community Bulletin box is hard to read

The new "community bulletin" box has light orange text on a light blue background, which is fairly difficult to read:
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Code inside spoiler markup is not hidden

Inline code inside spoiler markup is never hidden. >! Text is hidden but `code` is not. (Used in the wild here.)
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Suggested edit custom reject reason box UI issue

The suggested edit rejection dialog looks a bit strange right now - the custom rejection reason text box is a bit too wide compared to the dialog box. Chrome 16: can't resize the custom text box ...
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Header size on new user pages

The new user page is live. Rejoice! However, the headers look odd here: Screenshot of my profile http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-new-profile.png The ones with links within them are too big, so they run ...
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"Vote to close" bug

I was trying to vote to close a question1 as a duplicate and, after I entered the URL of the duplicate question and clicked 'Vote to Close', nothing happened (ie., there was no response at all)—...
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Font discrepancy between badge pages

When I look at the Great Answer and Great Question badge pages, there appears to be a significant discrepancy between the font and point used to display the question, despite it being the same ...
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All reputation from main site represented as 'new' on meta

All of my reputation from Unix SE just appeared as 'new' to me on my meta profile. I have visited meta before (and it didn't display it all as new before). Is this a bug, or is it intended?
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Misguiding error message on tag edit

I made an edit to the tags of a question I received a double note, one at the top, that my edit will pass a review process, and a second one at the bottom, which I'd like to discuss: Oops! Your edit ...
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No "create tag wiki" button on meta

I wanted to edit the tags tag, and the page said I should: Click the button below to get started. I don't see any button to click, even when I scroll down:
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Return url while login is encoded

If I click "log in" while on https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions (for example), I'm redirected to https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/login?returnurl=%2fquestions I have this issue on Firefox ...
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The pre tag is shown in a larger font than other code snippets

On Unix.SE and Meta.Unix.SE only, I see <pre> blocks in a larger font than <pre><code> or backquoted blocks. Observed in both Firefox 3.5 and Chrome 13. This is perhaps not a bug, ...
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The linux tag is not allowed

When retagging a question (either with the tag editor or with the question editor), I can't add the linux tag. This happens both with Chrome and Firefox. Couldn't save tags because: sorry, ...
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Horizontal scrollbar on profile [closed]

There's a horizontal scrollbar on my profile (and any other profile, for that matter). Using Chrome on Ubuntu.
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Background image should not assume I use a white background

I like to use a grey background for Firefox to ease eye strain while reading plain text. Many sites (including unix.stackexchange.com) assume the browser uses a white background. This If you intend ...
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Tag wiki presentation box hides excerpt input box

The input box for tag wiki excerpts is too wide and disappears under the “What are Tag Wikis” box. Please make it the same width as the full tag wiki input box. (Observed under Firefox 3.0.6 and ...
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Problem with capital 'S' on Chrome.

As you can see, there seems to be some problem with the capital letter 'S' on Chrome 10.0.648.82 beta. (It seems to have a problem with the number '0' as well.) Edit: I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit.
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Text box on flagging dialog is too big

The text box with "Something is not quite right?" is too big it sticks out. I'm sure this is easy to fix :)
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Suggested edits icon is difficult to read

It looked right initially, but now the suggested edits indicator looks like this: (there's a "1" in there if you squint hard)
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Site icon in migration dialog is mispositioned

The site icon on the off-topic close dialog doesn't line up with the text: The only other sites I can close on are SO and BCG (which is still in beta); the icons look right on those:
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What happened to the appearance of tags?

Just now I have a look at the tags page and see that they all have a slash just like the things on title bar. That looks somewhat weird to me regarding that they are not at the root directory. For ...
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'0 questions tagged' bug

I've noticed that clicking on some tags takes me to a page that claims that 0 questions tagged exists. One example: memory. notes: this bug occurs only when I'm logged in related: not all questions ...
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Strange color on buttons?

It seems the buttons have a strange color that doesn't match anything else on the site.
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Vote-up arrow cut off.

The vote-up arrow appears cropped. I looked at the sprite image, and it's fine there, so some css trick is chopping it.
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Bounty button showing on answered questions

Why do I see the 'start a bounty' button on questions which have an accepted answer? See the screenshot below from this question
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Blockquote button in edit panel creates strange output [closed]

On Chromium, pressing the blockquote button in the edit panel toolbar gives the following: Blockquote Blockquote> BlockquoteBlockquote Blockquote Similar results if some text is highlighted ...

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