Posts in the Bugs Category.
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March 18, 2019
Bug linking to Instagram from Metafilter?
Do links to Instagram cause weird browser behavior for you? If so, is this a Metafilter issue, a browser issue, an Instagram issue, or what? [more inside]
August 5, 2018
Bug: 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. [more inside]
May 4, 2018
Unplanned Server Outage
The site had an outage today for about 6 hours. It wasn't planned and I'm sorry that it happened. [more inside]
January 28, 2018
"We're Sorry — A Server Error Occurred"
I've been getting this error message for months, across multiple platforms (Windows, Mac, iPad, iPhone) but today it's reached a peak. I've been refreshing the "Recent Activity on My Favorites" page over the last nine hours and haven't yet been able to get it to load. [more inside]
January 20, 2018
Broken button in blue: bounce to bottom borked
Seems as if the little arrow that takes you to the bottom of a post (I swear I knew what it was called once) isn't working for me on mobile. [more inside]
December 28, 2017
Fanfare Errors / IMDB API Removed
You may have noticed over the past few days (approximately since the 25th) that adding new shows or movies to Fanfare has come up with nothing but errors. This should now be fixed, but other errors are possible. [more inside]
December 10, 2017
Known issue: logged-out search not working right now
Quick heads up since a number of folks have noted/asked about this: yes, the search function for logged-out readers is currently not working. It throws up a complaint that is unhelpful but also not dangerous: "Unauthorized access to internal API. Please refer to...". We'll have it fixed soon, but just a heads up that (a) it is indeed a thing and (b) it's not something to worry about. Sorry about the annoyance!
November 28, 2017
Metafilter Scroll Tag issues on FF Quantum
Since updating to Firefox Quantum, and having had to reinstall the Metafilter Scroll Tag greasemonkey script, I'm having some issues with it ... [more inside]
November 26, 2017
favoriting is broken on some AskMefi pages
Maybe this is a known problem but I just stumbled across it. I was on this page https://ask.metafilter.com/travel-transportation/hong-kong and tried to favorite the first result by clicking the little plus symbol (+). Nothing happens. I was able to favorite it by going into the post and clicking there. Firefox 56 (ha) on Ubuntu Linux, accepting cookies.
Can someone confirm? You can unfavorite if it works.
October 30, 2017
Give a short, descriptive title like jingoistic trope
This Halloween, if you could dress as anything or anybody from a story or painting, what would that be. [more inside]
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