Preview bug lite
I discovered just now that closing an <a> tag with an </i> tag looks correct in preview but blows up in the actual comment. I'm also afraid to post this, using entities that look right in...
View ArticleThe purple.
Make it stop. Please, pb, make it stop! When I scroll slowly through MeFi, the background slowly changes from blue to purple. With careful scroll wheel manipulation I can isolate a specific block of...
View ArticleOne of These Things is Not Like the Others
Date Font Bug Small bug - font size for dates in the blue and the green (main and ask) are smaller than the font size for the dates in the teal and the gray (projects and metatalk).
View ArticleI know, write it in a word processor, then copy/paste if you don't want to...
Bug (or at least unexpected behaviour): deleting tags sends half-written comments to the aether. I was in the middle up writing a clarification a recent askme, when I realized that one of my tags was...
View ArticleThe website so nice they headed it twice...er, thrice and a half.
Every once in a while, while reading MeFi on my phone, the heading will freak out. Like this. It does that on the blue and the profile pages, but does this on all the subsites. I don't think I do...
View ArticleComment inflation in Google Reader
I subscribe to AskMe via Google Reader, and the bottom of each post provides a link to the post. The link reads "X comments on this item," where X is always 1 more than the actual number of comments....
View ArticleMorgan Freeman doesn't die like the rest of us.
Using Chrome on Windows 7 with the deleted posts script installed, the title display seems to be malfunctioning to show the deleted post in between the title and the body of the non-deleted post below...
View ArticleChrome for iPad not obeying title size set to 0
I'm logged in and using Chrome on an iPad 3. I have title size set to zero in my preferences. That works on my laptop and elsewhere, but not on my iPad; I see the titles exactly as a non-logged in user...
View ArticleOctothorpe/Ampersand Substitution Mayhem
When I'm logged out, the link here works correctly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=misN2jbpo1Y#t=1m05). When I'm logged in, the site has converted the hash to an ampersand...
View ArticleNo echo in here
Over in this longboat thread, we've discovered an odd bug. If you try to make a post that's identical to one that you've made previously in the same thread, it doesn't work. Instead, the thread...
View ArticleHeartbleed SLL bug vulnerability
I've got the Chrome addon for the Heartbleed server test site and it's just given me a message saying that metafilter.com is vulnerable to the Heartbleed SSL bug. More information about the bug.
View ArticleCan't readd posts to Recent Activity?
I made a comment on the Fannibal thread, then after a while I removed it from my Recent Activity. I just made another comment there yet the post isn't showing up on Recent Activity again. Bug or...
View ArticleBug with favorites and "load recent comments"
I'm seeing a bug while favoriting comments that've been loaded through the "recent comments" auto-loader. If I add an auto-loaded comment to my favorites, all the loaded comments vanish once the...
View ArticleDisappearing Favorites from Recent Activities
I've been following the Israel/Gaza post through the Recent Activity My Favorites tab. Today, that post stopped appearing there for me even though I still have the post listed as a favorite. I've tried...
View ArticleNot Sure if Bug Report or Pony Request
I can't login using Lynx. Specifically, I can't get Lynx to even prompt me to accept any cookies from Metafilter, and I think I know why. The problem seems to be with when cookies expire. Using Lynx to...
View ArticleCustome search doesn't search fanfare?
Has anyone else run into a problem pulling up fanfare threads through site search or am I an idiot? I was trying to find a Great British Bake Off thread, so I entered the name if the show into the...
View ArticleLosing my place when rotating.
Since the using the new themes, which I love, on my Nexus 5, whenever I rotate to landscape and then back to portrait I end up back at the top of threads. I'm running Chrome 39.0.2171.93 in Android...
View ArticleMinor MeMail bug...or not!
I've noticed that, after sending a message, the Your Inbox "tab" link includes "sent=1" and the only way I've found to clear the "Your message was sent" message is to use the little (more difficult for...
View ArticleHelp Test Android Orientation Update
The Modern theme has long been plagued with a bug on Android phones where it bounces you to the top when the orientation changes. We're trying to improve that and could use some help testing it. Keep...
View ArticleButtons to jump down not working
When I click the jump to end of thread on any page it turns green and doesn't do anything. Also the jump to comments on the popular post page. This is on Chrome 61.0.3163.98, on Samsung S8 running...
View ArticleBug: Pasting links into comments
I'm no longer able to paste URLs into the link-helper alert window on Chrome. It just replaces the link text with the URL. Still works on Firefox. Example GIF. Same issue on Modern and Classic. Problem...
View ArticleContact Form failing to Send
Unfortunately, a bug was causing contact form messages from people with e-mail addresses @aol.com and @yahoo.com.(something) to not be sent. I'm really sorry. This should now be fixed, and if contact...
View ArticleImpossible. Perhaps the archives are incomplete.
I'd always thought MeFi site searches were pretty much comprehensive, but last night I came across several search terms that were clearly missing content. Has anyone else noticed this behavior in the...
View ArticleIssues with Recent Activity page on mobile Safari?
When I load this page, regardless of settings, it jumps back and forth between two apparently presentations and is totally unusable — you can’t read or click anything. Is this just me, or is it a...
View ArticleIt's not easy being short
One of these links is not like the others.One of these links doesn't belong.Can you tell which link is not like the otherby the time I finish this song? Reading this post made me notice that the nifty...
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