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Extra spacing before mhchem super/subscripts
This doesn't look right.
$\mathrm{|{}^1H|}$ $\mathrm{|{}^1H|}$
and
$\mathrm{|\ce{^1H}|}$ $\mathrm{|\ce{^1H}|}$
should give the ...
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Should the [homework] tag probably be removed from the suggestions when posting a new question?
It's not a bug.
I don't know how the system determines what suggestions to show there, but it is completely different for me (logged in/out, different devices). It almost seems to be random.
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8
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Close a question glitch
Based on your questions you seem to have a misconception as to the purpose of closing a question. Please read What does it mean if a question is "closed"? first, then come back to this.
Why ...
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Mhchem broken on mobile
This bug was caused by /sites route in the stackexchange api not returning MHChemMathJax in markdown_extensions due to ...
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Possible bug in newsletter?
Oscar did have an answer, which they subsequently deleted, but most likely after the newsletter had already picked up the question info.
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My user page is wider than my browser window in the new layout
Yep! This is because we haven't made the entire site responsive yet. It's not a bug so much as still on our to-do list.
It's part of why we've asked Help us improve the user profile and settings on ...
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Plus-minus sign messes with mhchem's \pu command
Thanks! Some of the things are already fixed on my harddrive (the "undefined" error), but not published yet. The others, I take as valid input for my todo list.
For now, ...
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MathJax in the Android App
Unfortunately the app uses a different version than the website. That does include the recent updates to mhchem, especially the \pu{...} command.
While ...
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Chemical formulas with fractional numbers are displayed wrongly
This issue has been solved since mid of 2016.
$\ce{0.5H2O}$ renders as $\ce{0.5H2O}$.
Short background: MathJax is NOT LaTeX. MathJax is a complete re-...
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Watched tags not displaying
According to this post on MetaSE, the issue has been discovered and a solution is enroute. From Marc Gravell, an SE staff member,
Sorry about that. What happened here: the favorites/ignored feature ...
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Why is there no "reduced ads" privilege at 200 reputation on this site?
This answer seems to suggest there are no ads on Chemistry (except for the sidebar) and the privilege is therefore hidden:
The privilege exists everywhere. But on most sites, it's hidden and ...
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Plus-minus sign messes with mhchem's \pu command
MathJax/mhchem 3.0.6 should fix the issues. It supports all standard uncertaincy notations as listed at https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/a/58667/24052. It will take a week or so to make its way to ...
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So … I think I just reviewed the same reopen queue entry twice …
I think I can shed some light in here. Note that my timeline for this question is a bit more extensive. First the question was closed. Then the OP edited the question a few hours later which caused it ...
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Possible bug in newsletter?
The question is unanswered in the sense of stack exchange: it does not have an answer with a score higher than zero. You can see that the answer by oscar has a score of -1, so it does not count.
(The ...
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Changes in UI mess with design of the "lab bench"
thanks for reporting. This is indeed because of black top bar becoming taller. Fix is waiting in repo for next build, so you should be able to see it in next couple hours.
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Badge not awarded even though it shows completion?
You'll need a so-called positive question record for the Curious badge and related badges.
A positive question record means you don't have too many closed, downvoted or deleted questions, overall. ...
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Problem in rendering with arrow
It looks like StackExchange has (apparently recently) added CSS that is causing the problem. In their primary.css file is the declaration
...
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Total posts awaiting review
This feature is poorly documented on meta, so rather than waiting 6 to 8 weeks for documentation to arrive here is the full documentation:
Users who have the access review queue priviledge but not ...
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Glitch in monthly leaderboard
Honestly, you aren't the only person shocked. I was too..
TBH, this began after I started playing around with deleting an answer and testing the delay in the rep recalculation taking place. I did it ...
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Inconsistency in "Unanswered" category, when moving between pages
I am positive this is working as expected. I went through the first 15 entries in this list. I believe the secondary sort criterion is votes. Remember that in SE terms a question is only answered is ...
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Why has this user's reputation removed/deleted?
As described in the Help Centre,
You lose reputation when:
your question is voted down: −2
your answer is voted down: −2
you vote down an answer: −1
you place a bounty on a question: −...
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Reputation "lost" but not showing in reputation timeline - bug?
This appears to be the result of a system-enforced penalty. In accordance with site policy mods are not at liberty to discuss specifics about specific users in public.
Buck ThornMod
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Why all questions from tags I follow don't highlight as I suppose they should?
This is a feature.
While on the normal question site all thermodynamics questions will show up highlighted, you have just searched for questions with thermodynamics (note it says ...
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Nonconforming MathJax example on the Markdown Editing Help page
We've updated this to be a simple quadratic formula example.
There were some other small changes we were thinking about making but we held off for the moment. We did add the word "syntax" after "...
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A question was put on hold, but gained an answer about thirty minutes later
As per one of the many SE updates that happened since this question, this can no longer happen. People composing answers will now immediately be notified if the underlying question has been closed.
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Total posts awaiting review
This behavior may have changed in the interim, but as of 2 Feb 2017, the orange-boxed number in the header bar indicates the number of suggested edits awaiting review, not the total number of posts ...
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