Three vaguely-related bugs
Hello.
One.
I entered some basic info on my profile, including my personal website which I'm glad to see we can have, here. However, clicking the link that resulted, led to a 'page does not exist' notice.
Two.
Also, while answering Tom's question about ACT II, I numbered my first answer with "1." and then wrote a few paragraphs. I then provided a second answer with "2."
It looks correct in the entry field but submitting it leads to both numbers showing us as "1." Presumably this is due to the intervening paragraphs.
Three.
I posted this question under META but it showed up under the main Questions. I am trying again, this time with META appended to the front end.
1 answer
I've had a dig through the logs...
When you updated your profile, the text you entered in the website field was
pltavormina.com. The site is expecting you to enter a website there with the protocol included, i.e.https://pltavormina.com. Since you didn't, it couldn't correctly determine where to send you when clicking on the link, and thus it broke. That's a bug, I'll log it and get it fixed.-
This is a feature of Markdown, which is used to format posts here, like it is on SE. Starting a new paragraph drops you out of "numbered list" mode, which means the next time you get back into numbered list mode, the list will start at one again - no matter what number you actually write.
To tell Markdown that your new paragraph is meant to be part of the list rather than outside it, indent the opening line of the new paragraph by four spaces. I've done that with this paragraph to keep it as part of item 2. I've taken the liberty of editing your answer to correct this - you can hit edit on it to see exactly what I've done with the Markdown.
We've had this issue happen before. It seems folks are getting confused about when they're asking on main vs on meta - I added a notice at the top of the Ask page to let you know which you're asking on, but I can make more changes if that's not enough. To be clear: using the "Ask!" button at the very top-right of the page will (at present) always ask a question on main; to ask a question on meta, you must go to meta first via its link at the top-right, and then use the "Ask Meta Question" button. What changes would make this clearer?
Bonus round! While I was poking around to find error logs for these, I noticed you had a couple of comments that failed to post as well. Comments are limited to a maximum of 500 characters - yours were 606, which is why they failed, but I do need to add a popup to let you know that's what's happened, to avoid confusion. (2020-01-08: Done)
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