At the moment there are 293 questions tagged with feature-request and a total of 72 with a status-* tag. This means a lot of requests, good and bad, are in limbo. Can I request th …

In the past, there has been some secrecy about exactly what super powers moderators have, but given that SE is now in open beta and anybody can sign up and have a look at the admin …

The current mechanisms for pointing domains to StackExchange sites (using either CNAME or A records) are fine for users that are comfortable messing around with their DNS settings, …

If a question is converted to wiki because of too much editing, the subsequent answers are made wiki (like they are if the question were wikied by checking the box). There's no rea …

Many of the answers/comments to questions in MathOverflow contain links to eprints from arXiv. The arXiv accepts trackbacks from a white list of sites (and we're pretty confident …

Please allow moderators to see deleted comments. As a moderator on my site, one of the things I do is email users who have been naughty. I've found this to be a very successful st …

Feature request: the ability to define 'tag synonyms' (ie. aliases) such that two (or more) tags are considered the same by the system. This would normalise the behaviour of the ta …

It would be nice to be able to browse "best answers" in a given forum. Indeed, it is possible that there are excellent answers to mediocre questions (as measured by upvotes), and …

StackOverflow recently added a facility to edit comments within a few minutes after you post them. This isn't nearly as important as porting Advanced Search (which is a frustrating …

Earlier today I was working on fixing the reputation tracker I wrote for Stack Overflow last September, and I took some time and made it work with StackExchange. This service is us …

Amidst the ongoing discomfort with OpenID it seems many of us had forgotten about the 'cookie account' used by anonymous/unregistered users. These accounts are created when an unre …

I'd like to see previews for comments, too. I know that comments are meant to be simply formatted, but over on mathoverflow.net we're seeing lots of examples of poorly formatted c …

I am a regular user of Mathoverflow.net.. We are mainly professional mathematicians and graduate students in mathematics. Since most of us already have a degree with major in mathe …

Wouldn't it be a good idea to offer a free license for small, non-commercial (private) communities with less than, let's say, 50.000 page views a month? Maybe with a "sponsored by" …

I've just discovered a fun way to earn some reputation on an SE site: Make a sock puppet account. Make a bunch of reasonable posts with your sock puppet. Vote up those posts a bi …