Questions tagged [error-message]
For questions concerning various error messages that users receive throughout the network.
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Remove `[Text]` from the no-alt-text warning message
Feature request: Remove [Text] from the no-alt-text warning message.
Screenshot taken on https://ell.stackexchange.com/
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What does `[Text]` refer to in the no-alt-text warning message?
What does [Text] refer to in the no-alt-text warning message?
Screenshot taken on https://ell.stackexchange.com/
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Improve upload error message for animated WebP images
Animated WebP images are not supported. The error message is misleading (test file):
Not a valid file type: please upload a bmp, gif, jpeg, png, or webp file.
Feature request: Improve upload error ...
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"Comment reserved for system use" when trying to edit with an edit summary
Trying to leave an edit summary gives me this error message:
Comment reserved for system use. Please use an appropriate comment.
This occurs both for anonymous and logged-in edits, for answers and ...
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Data Explorer Query crashes with collation conflict error
I have a website built off my Q & A posted in Stack Exchange sites such as; Ask Ubuntu, Stack Overflow, SE Security, etc.
Data Explorer is used to scrape ALL Stack Exchange Q & A I've posted ...
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New image uploader should have a more descriptive error when you paste in a link rather than a picture
Admittedly, I pretty much tried to fit a square peg into a round hole, but I accidentally used the image upload button instead of the link button when trying to post a link to a question.
Current ...
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Adding GIF images or images is very laggy or provides errors [duplicate]
I never had these issues in the past (using BSE for years now), but in the last weeks I have massive problems adding GIF images or images into my answers. While images work (after waiting a loooong ...
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Display name can contain full stops, diacritics, and underscores as well - message should mention this
Full stops and underscores should be added to the list below when editing display names.
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Should the "too many pending edits" pop-up be reworded for accuracy (unless rejected edits have no effect on the number pending)?
As per this pop-up, I have maxed out on my pending edits:
For those who cannot read screen images, it says with my emboldenment:
You have too many pending edits. Further edits cannot be submitted ...
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Asking how to format code blocks on SOF because I am prohibited from commenting on an existing post
I am getting this warning when proofreading a question:
Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code. Please indent all code by 4 spaces using the code toolbar button or ...
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"An error occurred with log in."
(N.B., this is not affecting me, who uses Google auth., but has been reported by multiple people within the Meta Discussion discord).
Upon trying to log in, the error:
An error occurred with log in.
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Who is Dave and what is he doing in the chat?
As discovered here, there's an Easter Egg in chat, triggered when trying to set a negative timeout for a chat room. It shows a funny error message:
I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
So, ...
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Hot Network Questions Feed App no longer working
The app I created to offer RSS feeds from Hot Network Questions fails since today to fetch its data from the source.
One of its main endpoints is https://stackexchange.com/hot-questions-json1. It ...
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Stop telling Tor users to contact support for registration, if their request will be dismissed anyway
When Tor-users try to sign up, they consistently get this error message:
Something went wrong. Please contact us at [email protected] for assistance.
update: somewhere between 30 ...
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When trying to specify a question on another site as a duplicate target, the error message displays incorrectly on sites with ampersands in their name
When flagging/VTCing a question as a dupe, and the link pasted into the box is from a different site, the error message looks like this:
But on the 17 sites with ampersands in their titles (as well ...
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