Questions tagged [status-completed]
Indicates that the report has been resolved through the implementation of a feature or the fixing of a bug.
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Can we get a banner in memory of Steve Jobs on Ask Different?
Can we add a banner on Ask Different in memory of Steve Jobs? RIP.
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Please change name of site from “Apple” to “Ask Different”
The new "mobile" template, among other things, replaces the site logo with the name of the site in text. However, the Stack Exchange engine still thinks that this site is called "Apple", which results ...
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Making Clash of Clans questions off-topic here
We currently (as of November 19) have 65 questions tagged "Clash of Clans" on the site, with an average question score of 0.2. Currently, these questions have generated a grand total of two answers ...
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Retina graphics for Ask Different?
As retina displays are becoming more pervasive in Apple hardware, and we're here to support users of Apple products, I think it would be great if the AD site included retina versions of its image ...
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Rename tag appstore to mac-appstore and ios-appstore
Since Apple's Mac Appstore is coming in less than 90 days, should we think about renaming all appstore question to ios-appstore, before all the question related to the Mac Appstore start to appear?
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Mountain Lion Challenge - ask, answer, blog and win Apple products! [closed]
Congratulations to our winners!
For asking a Nice Question:
Felix
Nathan Greenstein
Viktor
For asking a Popular Question:
Vivart
KMC
Dennis Madsen
For giving a Nice Answer:
Scot
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CSS Bug 'on hover' for comment button
If I slowly mouseover the comments button on AD (I have tried with with 2 other SE sites that I cannot replicate this on) I get a rapid flickering between the hover and non hover state when I near the ...
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Why is the “new” label so hard to read?
I suspect some CSS rule is being incorrectly applied to the "new" feature notifier.
I'm talking about the "new" block that appears when a new navigation or other site element is added. It showed up ...
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Our 404 Page is Boring
I stumbled onto a question that was deleted before I refreshed the page (read: could answer the question) and I noticed that we have an awfully boring 404 page. I feel that this is a grave problem!
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Who owns @askdifferent on twitter?
There is a twitter account with our name that has no tweets or followers and isn't following anyone. My fervent hope is that someone in the Ask Different community is squatting on it in case a use for ...
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Active bounty “flip-card” graphic nitpick
Don't mean to be overly critical / nitpicky.... but every time I see this graphic..
my not-horribly-or-excessively OCD, yet atmittedly design-concious brain has to stop, look, and do a double-take ...
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How to handle Lion questions
With the developer preview of Lion available and the customer seed program in action, I imagine that we're going to start seeing questions about the upcoming Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
Since all the ...
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How does (or will) the Jobs tab on the Ask Different site work?
Currently the jobs url that's live on the site navigation (and meta) resolves as a 404:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/jobs
Is this an expansion of the Stack Overflows careers or something ...
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Warning pop-up is difficult to read
The colors should be changed. I can't see what is written. That yellow and white color make it impossible to read. It can be read but you need to select the text with your cursor.
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Can we have the reputation league shown in the user page like Stack Overflow?
Having been participating on Stack Overflow a bit recently, I've noticed this:
This doesn't seem to exist on Ask Different:
Can it be added?
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1answer
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Getting an 'Aw Snap' on Chrome on the apple.stackexchange home page
AskDifferent Home Page breaks on Mac possible because of
/questions/100422/why-does-crash-macs. Vulnerability identified at http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/08/rendering-bug-crashes-os-x-and-ios-...
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Retagging windows7 to windows-7
Could we please reverse the synomym for windows-7 / windows7?
Currently it's windows-7 -> windows7, if we want to be consistent with the naming it should always have a dash.
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Search box text colour
Just noticed that the colour of the text displayed on the search results page does not show the search query very clearly until the search box is re-selected.
Blank search box waiting for a query:
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Is this really our new look?
All I can say is... please, no.
It's like someone threw a bag of crayons at Windows 10.
The old 'fade out' version was fine. This is just a distraction.
For anyone who hasn't yet read the Meta post,...
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1answer
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Visual bug on tabs covering badge tracker
There's a bug where the tabs in the Activity screen overlap the badge tracker section and it hides the "Track the next one" link. Chrome 69.0.3497.100 on OSX 10.14 Mojave.
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Put a newline after the 'Answer Your Question' button.
Related: "Add Another Answer" button Bug
This doesn't look like Apple!
The 'Answer Your Question' button overlaps the 'Notify' label and checkbox. To use this feature (I really use it) I ...
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The accepted answer of the Ask Different example question is wrong!
The about page for Ask Different uses this question:
The problem is, the answer, as of a few months ago is YES. Apple released iBooks support in the newest version of OS X: Mavericks.
There is an ...
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Adding hyperlinks fails to allow cut and paste
Trying to insert a hyperlink now fails as I cannot paste into the pop up box.
This worked in beta and still does on other stack exchange sites.
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1answer
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Typo on the “header” for the site
Towards the top of the page on the beta site it looks like a typo:
got a question about the site iteself?
meta.apple is the place to talk about
things like what questions are
appropriate, ...
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askdifferent.com does not redirect when HTTPS
http://askdifferent.com performs a 301 redirect to http://apple.stackexchange.com.
https://askdifferent.com doesn't work: connection refused.
With the move to HTTPS across Stack Exchange, can the ...
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In the flag-weight page, the vote block is not rendered correctly when the question/answer has been down voted
A flagged question/answer that has been down voted is shown as in the following screenshot.
The minus sign is in the middle of the grey block, and the number is partially shown outside that grey block;...
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Why did Apple.SE visitors count drop so fast?
Last month Apple.SE had 1k views/day on average but this week it has decreased to 500. Does anyone knows the reason?
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Merge the “osx-mavericks” and “mavericks” tags
A merge/synonym request:
mavericks — 1020 tagged, 62 this week, 10 today
OS X 10.9, Mavericks, is the tenth iteration of the computer operating system, OS X.
osx-mavericks — 10 tagged, 10 this ...
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Color scheme hard to read
The color scheme on the priviledges page is so dark, it's barely readable. So is the red warning messages I get while posting. Tried multiple browsers, multiple PC's, pretty much the same everywhere.
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Inactive button not readable when reviewing First Posts or Late Answers
When reviewing First Posts or Late Answers, the inactive button is hardly visible:
This seems to be Ask Different-specific, it doesn't happen on a dozen other sites I checked.
I've tested this on ...
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1answer
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Email responses prompt crowds Answer button
The Add Another Answer/Answer your Question button is floated to the left, causing the prompt to receive email notifications appear somewhat awkwardly to the right:
I'm not positive it doesn't end up ...
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1answer
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Visual bug when viewing your own questions
I just asked a question and noticed what I think is a bug.
When you view a question that you have asked, you see the "Know someone who can answer..." message at the bottom, as well as the "Would you ...
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1answer
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Two edit links on the blog's post-meta line in single-post view
While obviously these links are only available to those with sufficient privileges on the blog;
I suspect the first Edit is a stray, because the trailing " | Edit" looks much better. Especially ...
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Rename [podcasts-app] → [podcasts.app] for consistency
I propose renaming the tag podcasts-app to podcasts.app for consistency with other app tags.
The majority of tags for apps on iOS, watchOS, and macOS end in .app to specify it is about the platform-...
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[ios-X] versus [iosX]
While re-tagging a question, I noticed the tag for specific versions of iOS is as such ios4. Is there any reason for this?
I personally think ios-4 would be cleaner. Besides, we already have ios-sdk ...
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A bug with the tag badge tracker vanishing
I was on my profile and wanted to look at the tag badge tracker, I selected it in the drop down and the graphics below the point graph disappeared! So I can't go back to the privilege tracker and I ...
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Answer being auto-edited before being posted?
Not really much to say, other than here's a GIF to explain:
Whilst in this example I'm editing an existing post, this happens for new posts too.
If I omit the , in the text, it removes the entire ...
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<pre> elements on blog don't scroll for overflow-x
On Ask Different, content in a <pre> element that is wider than the box will cause the box to scroll (CSS overflow-x: scroll;).
On the Ask Different Blog, that doesn't happen. The too-wide ...
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Multiple Tag Wiki Edit Screen Style Bugs
It seems that some old and new style bugs have cropped up with the various style changes that have occurred over the course of 2011.
Which is, well, all of them? :)
Let's take a look at the tag wiki ...
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Visual bug on tabs with bounty questions
When looking at the front page, the Featured tab looks like this:
When I browse to the Featured tab, it looks like this:
Notice how there are artifacts outside of the red oval.
I'm running Safari 5 ...
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Syntax-highlight activation for tags
Dear Mods,
Taken in mind the following meta answer, and some examples without syntax-highlight, please enable it for the following tags:
applescript
launchd (for their plist/xml files)
terminal
...
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What's up with the red on green bubbles?
I'm not colorblind, but these bubbles from the reputation summary / recent changes page are really pushing the envelope into "fugly". Could someone here have a word with the designers and see if they ...
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Can I view all my close votes somewhere?
I have wanted to go back to questions that I've cast a close vote on and check up on them. However, I lose track of all the questions. How can I view all my close votes?
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Moderator Tools > Flags has spelling errors
In the headings of the help text on the right-hand side of the Moderator Tools > Flags page, the two instances of the word "I" should be capitalized. I recognize that these headings have a lowercase-...
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What is planned for Apple's fall 2013 press event?
Invitations for Apple's fall (in the northern hemisphere) 2013 press event have been sent:
http://www.loopinsight.com/2013/09/03/apple-announces-special-event-for-september-10/
The pithy summary for ...
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Merge whatsapp.app and whatsapp tags
whatsapp.app - 84 questions tagged
whatsapp - 5 questions tagged
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About page (site tour) still refers to FAQ and not the Help Center
The text in at the bottom of the about page still points people to the FAQ and not the very nicely assembled Help Center.
I'd put "Help Center" on the button, but something without FAQ would also be ...
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Is the CSS different between Main and Meta?
When I switch between Main and Meta within the same browser, the layout changes slightly, most noticable when viewing my reputation scores, where the icons move over further to the right on the main ...
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Ask Different should have the correct favicon
Ask Different has a nice style, but the favicon is still the old sketchy-style. That should be replaced. It's OK on chat and meta.
