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Minor design issue in Profile Activity section on SE
When I hover over adjacent items in the Activity section's sidebar, the background colors seem to blend or overlap slightly. Is this the intended design?
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Remove the user-ID in a share-question link
When you click "share" to permalink an answer, it displays the following:
This user ID is used for certain badges. As of 2011, a staff member alleged that they were not used for tracking in ...
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Change "bounty ended" to "bounty awarded" in answer's timeline & revision history
Over the lifecycle of an awarded bounty, four events occur in the question's timeline (and revision history): "notice added", "bounty started", "notice removed", "...
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Make SEDE queries automatically run after the captcha is completed [duplicate]
On the SE Data Explorer, anonymous visitors must complete a captcha. This isn’t unreasonable at all.
The captcha presents after “Run Query” is clicked/pressed. After the captcha is completed, visitors ...
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The Stacks Editor should open in Markdown with preview mode by default
I started a new question on Stack Overflow and the wizard form was shown for me, which uses the Stacks Editor.
The Stacks Editor showed edit text boxes, but did not show a view of the actual formatted ...
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Stackexchange API to fetch saved posts across all stackexchange network
I want to fetch my saved posts from across stackexchange network that I have joined, is it possible? I have read the documentation on the api.stackexchange.com and it seems the api is intended for ...
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Put a note next to the 1 reputation when I am suspended
Many users will first learn of their suspension when they see their reputation score go down to 1. I disagree with the reasoning behind this (beyond "the reputation / privilege system forces this ...
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The "legitimate interests" section should to be removed or reworked to be one-click object/approve all
The current layout of the cookie setting currently allows selecting "necessary cookies only" with one click, however "legitimate interests" are not part of it. One has to click ...
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When a user is suspended, how about putting that fact underneath their icon so they're not shocked by their points suddenly being 1? [duplicate]
Normal people make correct inferences about the actions of others, but when I was suspended, I saw the 1 point, and was very confused. I hadn't yet read the mod message, I thought maybe my points were ...
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Feature request: author should to be allowed to see who voted his post [duplicate]
Author should to be allowed to see who voted his post to prevent malicious voting.
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Replies with SVG + JavaScript and DOM: Comment (and Request) [duplicate]
In some of my replies to questions at Stack Exchange sites I would like to add SVG images with related JavaScript codes because the replies were meant to be interactive. In lieu of this lack of ...
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Add users' deleted questions in search results [duplicate]
It's not a duplicate of Enable searching with deleted:1 for 10k users because I'm not only asking for the less than 1% of users with >10k rep who have the 'Access to Moderator Tools' privilege.
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Proposal to award the gold Copy Editor badge multiple times
Nearly four years ago during major updates to how the review queues worked and following discussion on the matter, we decided to award the gold Steward badge multiple times for any given review queue ...
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One-line private comment when downvoting [duplicate]
I got a few downvoted questions, and would love to know why. I think it would be really good if it were possible for downvoters to write even a few words as to why they did so.
This is not because I ...
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Notifications are either not marked read soon or at all [closed]
I've been seeing this on Firefox Floorp & Zen Browser (all Firefox-based) for months. I just tried this: either get a new notification, mark it as unread, right > open link in new tab, then ...
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"Interesting posts for you" - ARE NOT [closed]
On Stack Overflow, it says "Interesting posts for you" this is "Based on your viewing history and watched tags." Below is an image of the top posts picked for me today by Stack ...
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Allow the user to view a deleted post if it has a pending flag [duplicate]
Currently, if you have a pending flag on a deleted post and you are <10k, you can't retract it anymore (at least not via UI), so it's basically stuck until someone reviews it.
This happens mainly ...
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Could Puzzling be exempted from some punctuation rules? [closed]
Question titles automatically have certain rules imposed on them, whose goal is to fix some common grammatical and stylistic solecisms. (It looks bad to end a sentence with several exclamation marks!!!...
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The problem is that the entire page reloads when browsing the sites
On StackExchange sites, if I'm browsing, for example, I click on Questions, or I search for something, the problem is that everything reloads.
If I, for example, click on the inbox menu, the whole ...
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The text of the previewed body is clickable while the body edition place exists itself
The body activates and keyboard pops up when you accidentally click on the white background or the text of the previewd body, which is unnecessary I think:
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The last activity timestamp (if answered) in visited questions doesn't differ from a non-visited link
I just observed the last activity timestamp on question list for visited links doesn't differ from the non-visited links if the activity is answering.
As you can see in the picture, both links are ...
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The chat filter by "relevance" or "stars" gets reset to "newest" upon changing the query
When you sort chat search by relevance or stars from those buttons:
And then change the query to something else (just one change is enough), it gets reset to the "newest" filter.
I would ...
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Please make the links in "Related" and "Hot Network Questions" only touchable when clicked on the text
In the "Related" questions and "Hot Network Questions" under a question post even if you accidentally click on the white background you will go to that question page.
Please change ...
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Being able to delete an accepted answer if the question is a duplicate
It is well known that if an ordinary user posts an answer which gets accepted, then the poster cannot delete it. I suppose that the idea is that, since the answer got accepted, it has some value and ...
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Display vote closure summary in the close dialog [duplicate]
We recently got the asterisk feature in the Close link of questions, highlighting if we already did a closure vote, which is great.
Yet, the closure dialog could also be improved in my opinion.
Right ...
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Would it be possible to preview the title like it is the case with the text body?
Would it be possible to preview the title like it is the case with the text body?
Might not it help?
I've been forced many times to edit the title to make it clear, mostly in a typographical way.
I am ...
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Don't make it look like I'm question or answer banned while I'm actually suspended [duplicate]
When you are suspended and attempt to ask or answer a question, you are given the Question/Answer banned popup (screenshot of the question popup below):
Similarly, for answers, the message is telling ...
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Link provided when answer is automatically converted into a comment should mention the feature and its triggers
As per title, the page linked to when an answer is automatically converted into a comment doesn't mention automatic conversion of answers into comments.
This feature may be helpful, but it ...
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Add ARIA role / label to post editor buttons
From a comment on As a blind user accessing the site with a screen reader, how can I upload pictures for identification?:
I am blind, and as far as I know I haven't found anything that my screen ...
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Say "this answer", better than "this post"
Say "This answer is hidden", and "you deleted this answer". Better than "this post...", yes, even if technically answers are also posts.
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Please could we have a new standard flag reason for LLM generated posts [duplicate]
The current best advice to custom flag on discovery of AI Gen posts is to flag with a custom reason. This is for the purposes of enabling moderators to be aware and take appropriate action (e.g. ...
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Stop future internet-archived SE network pages from self-navigating to the live version of the snapshot page
When I save a snapshot of a network page on web.archive.org, the snapshot navigates to the live page. Like this. This also happens for snapshots saved before I started noticing this issue (like this).
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Add ubiquitous timestamp hover to 'Last seen' information for moderators
After the profile page was made responsive, the Last seen information was intentionally made less granular except for ♦ moderators. We can still see when someone was last active a couple of minutes ...
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Allow moderators to customize the first paragraph under "Get answers to practical, detailed questions" on the tour page
Currently, the first paragraph of the tour under the heading "Get answers to practical, detailed questions" says:
Focus on questions about an actual problem you have faced. Include details ...
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Allow bounties to be posted with the API
Currently, as far as I can tell, it is not possible to post a bounty on an answer through the SE API; indeed, that seems to be just about the only thing the API doesn't let apps do to questions. Is it ...
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Allow users with the ability to Vote To Delete to always see how many delete votes an answer or closed question has
Users with more than 10,000 reputation on sites with "Full" reputation requirements and 2,000 reputation on sites with "Beta" reputation requirements have the "Access to ...
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Consider adding a "show password" option to login screen
This way the user could annotate the password somewhere to remember it. But some extra security must be added too.
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Could we have a privacy page for where our data goes for AI related products?
Recently I was poking at arc browser. While my impressions of the browser are out of the scope of this question, their initial set up included an opt in set of AI features, and a rather thoughtful ...
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Give the edit posts privilege to users with a history of good suggested edits [duplicate]
Currently, the only way to unilaterally edit posts is to have 2,000 rep (1,000 on beta sites).
Many users, for one reason or another, have experience editing but don't post very often, and hence take ...
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Allow sort specification in site search [duplicate]
I regularly look for new Delphi question in [SO], using is:q delphi
When the results are displayed, I have to cick Newest
It would be nice if sort options could be added to the search query. What ...
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Syntax highlighting language request: Apex on salesforce.stackexchange.com
Apex is based on familiar Java idioms, such as variable and expression
syntax, block and conditional statement syntax, loop syntax, object
and array notation.
Syntax highlighting for Apex on ...
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Should `is:answer` and `views:N` combine? Getting my answers sorted based on parent question view count
I wanted to update / improve my answers to the most viewed questions that I answered (cause I think that would make more sense than improving the most upvoted ones), however to my (slight) ...
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Don't show the maintenance banner to those who won't be affected by it
I noticed this banner now here on Meta Stack Exchange:
This is good and useful for logged in users, to make them aware they won't be able to post during this time.
However, on many Stack Exchange ...
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Stack Exchange's email when you sign up contains a somewhat misleading link
When you sign up for Stack Exchange, you receive an email inviting you to contribute. It invites you to "Get started with new questions that no one’s answered yet" (emphasis mine). Except ...
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Make the "Save to" dialog draggable
The dialog that opens when you save a post then click "manage" on the notification isn't draggable unlike other dialogs like the one that opens when you are about to flag something.
For ...
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Please add a character count for the private note edit boxes on the Save to dialog for saves
It is possible to create a private note when saving a post to a Saves list and this private note can be up to 500 characters long.
However, at the moment, there is no indication how many characters ...
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Display the reason for review invalidation in timeline's comment
For more transparency on review invalidations, in the post's timeline, can the "comment" column on the line of the invalidation contain the reason for the invalidation instead of being empty?...
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The Public Network Terms of Service navigation should include all subsections
In order to increase transparency and better comply with the various (inter-)national privacy/transparency laws, I recommend expanding the navigation section of the Public Network Terms of Service. ...
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Allow moderators to change the outcome of a handled flag
Per staff request, I'm posting this as a standalone feature request:
Please allow moderators to change the outcome of a handled flag, such as when they accidentally/prematurely decline a flag they ...
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Show who posted a question on the Active questions list [duplicate]
At present, the Stack Exchange software only shows who last interacted with a question in the active questions tab.
The last interactor is shown on the lower right of the question "tile":
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