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Stack Exchange thinks that Shog is a elected moderator
Funny story...
When I first joined the team here at Stack Exchange, Jeff just went around on the trilogy sites and made me a moderator... And he used the "elected" route instead of the "...
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7
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After successfully retrieving 180 pages, the API gracelessly, semi-silently, fails
Yes, this is a serious bug. You can replicate it from any browser using the code below.
Every time I run it, it fetches 180 pages at an average rate of 5.51 calls per second.
On the 181st call I get:
...
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6
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The answer object returns an empty array for tags
This is a bug and seems (based on a series of A/B tests) to be linked with the body_markdown property.
That is, if your filter returns the tags array, it works:
"items": [ {
"tags": [ "batch-...
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5
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Stack Apps homepage truncates user names
Recently the user name truncation issue has been fixed in the Stack Apps site, now it is looking good.
Screenshot for reference:
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5
votes
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Bug with `badges/name` endpoint
I don't know for sure what the original problem was, but the most recent issue was a result of implementing a new badge without rebuilding the API. Once the API was pushed to production, the bug was ...
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5
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"Informed" badge shown as Next badge, but doesn't exist on this site
The Informed badge is removed from the "Next badge" tracking. Previously it was listed in the Available badges section. Now it is not available under the Available or Bronze section. So the bug has ...
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5
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400 - Bad Request - Invalid URL errors with HTML response
This is fixed.
I was able to pin down the issue two web servers. After SRE verified that the URL length settings were fine, I was able to narrow the issue to individual path components over the IIS ...
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5
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Suddenly getting "Couldn't parse `client_id`"
I expect this to be solved by Cloudflare protection is triggering on Stack Overflow authentication API routes
To reproduce and/or verify this you can use this glitch app for which you can find the ...
rene♦
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4
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JavaScript SDK-based workflow never pushes message back from OAuth login_success page on Stack Exchange side
Thanks for the report.
This has been fixed; for example you can see that the login demo is working properly again.
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4
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Stack Apps homepage truncates user names
If you have TamperMonkey installed, this simple script should fix the problem:
// ==UserScript==
// @name SAHPA (Stack Apps Home Page Aligner)
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
// @...
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4
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“Try It” URL has wrong URI
The link is correct. The purpose of that control is to provide a URL to the doc page with all the parameters prefilled. This is what most users expect and is similar to how that link control works ...
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4
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503 errors on batch get questions endpoint
So, you are making up to 150 requests in a 30 second period (10 "parallel requests", with a 2 second pause in between). And failing at 80 to 100+ seconds of operation and 400 to 500 total ...
4
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StackApps Captcha doesn't work: "Invalid domain for site key"
Captcha wasn't configured correctly for Stack Apps on our end. The issue has been fixed.
Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for the report!
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4
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'Informed' badge doesn't exist on site, but is still being promoted
I agree it is weird that you get teased for a badge you're unable to earn.
It is worth mentioning that Stack Apps is a bit special as a Question and Answer site within the Stack Exchange family of ...
rene♦
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4
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'Informed' badge doesn't exist on site, but is still being promoted
The button won't be shown after the next production build.
Thanks for the report!
The status-review tag will become red at the same time.
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4
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Items response empty after article POST request
The API for Teams behaves differently depending on the tier you're paying for:
Free tier - No API access
Basic tier - Read-only API access
Business tier - Read/Write API access
Additionally, only ...
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3
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What happened to the links to a Stack App mentioned in the documentation about write access?
This is a documentation bug in my opinion. The "via Example App" was never included, nor should it be.
A user is fully responsible for his or her content, it doesn't, and shouldn't, matter how that ...
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3
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3
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Invisible text in Markdown syntax help
This design issue has been fixed in the How to Format section.
Currently the text is visible correctly:
► backtick escapes `like _so_`
Screenshot for reference:
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3
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Why is "body" missing from certain inbox items?
The documentation was updated sometime in the last 2 years and the API docs (version 2.2) now state that the property may be absent:
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3
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API stopped allowing CORS requests
The bug has been fixed:
Thanks for reporting. We're working on porting our websites to ASP.NET Core, and those errors you've seen were a result of this.
We caught the first error ourselves on a ...
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3
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Accepted
Please migrate the question templates to CommonMark
It looks like this has been fixed. Here's how the templates currently look like:
<!-- thumbnail: https://example.com/some-image.png -->
<!-- version: 1.0 -->
<!-- tag: a-tag-on-the-...
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3
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Even though status-review has been made a moderator-only tag, it remains blue on this post
Yes, an edit will fix that.
This is because posts are stored as HTML. At the time the answer was submitted the build wasn't live. Therefor the tag wasn't a mod-only tag yet. It got no special handling....
rene♦
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3
votes
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Collectives Articles endpoint broken
The endpoint was for Stack Overflow for Teams and the Articles feature within that product. It returned Collectives Articles as an unintended side effect. When Teams moved over to a separate API, this ...
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2
votes
Accepted
top-answerers / top-askers documentation bug: number of results returned incorrect
Ok, this'll be corrected after the next API build.
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2
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Stack Exchange OAuth2, explicit access-token response format does not adhere to RFC6749 standard
I had the same problem. According to the authentication docs‡:
In order to get access_token and expires (if applicable) wrapped in a
JSON object, POST to https://stackoverflow.com/oauth/...
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2
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Accepted
Few typos in the documentation pages
The fixes for this were just pushed in the latest build. Thanks for reporting it.
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2
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Typos on api.stackexchange.com/docs/js-lib
Fixed, thanks to ᔕᖺᘎᕊ, for bringing it to my attention, rolling out in next API build.
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Paging fails at 10K items for /search on any site but Stack Overflow
This was a search issue in elastic (max_result_window) that has now been tuned across the network.
See, also, this related Q&A on Meta SE.
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2
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/questions returns wrong markdown when a suggested edit is improved
This was an old, old bug: a bit of logic assumes that revisions can be ordered by their creation date. This is not true for Improved edits, as both the suggested edit and subsequent Improvement share ...
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