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Proposals for new features on the Stack Exchange network, or requests for a change to an existing feature.

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Make "Accept all cookies" button biggest

Here are the familiar site cookie buttons. I propose that the biggest button be used for the "Accept all cookies" choice. That is the one we prefer users to press.
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Missing guidance in audits: Keeping in mind what guidance above?

I just 'failed' a First Questions audit. The message reads: STOP! Look and Listen. This was an audit, designed to see if you were paying attention. You didn't pass. Don't worry, we've already ...
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Additional option to handle offensive chat message in another language

While in chat, I received a request to review a potentially offensive message from an Stack Overflow en español chatroom: But since I only speak English, I cannot choose "yes" or "no&...
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Don’t rate limit Archive.org as much

Sometimes an Archive.org capture shows too many requests instead of the site: https://web.archive.org/web/20181202194435/https://english.stackexchange.com/ I think (but I don’t have a link) that this ...
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iOS iPhone app - iPhone 6 Plus [duplicate]

The iPhone app works really well on the regular iPhones The iPas app works really well on iPads But the 6 plus fills a strange niche - in vertical mode it works much like any other iPhone, but in ...
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Misleading category title in chat

This category is named “mine”. It is a bit misleading since it actually shows what rooms I’m in, not what rooms I own: This suggests that I own The Nineteenth byte, which I do not. Maybe this could ...
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1 answer
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Improve load speed of side nav links on blog, or include loading indicator

When visiting the blog I noticed that it takes a long time for pages to load when clicking on the links in the left navigation sidebar. In addition, there is no visual indicator that anything is ...
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Generic site referral URL's for the purpose of growing small Stack sites and earning badges [duplicate]

Users need to be attracted from other online platforms to simulate the growth of smaller Stack sites. Currently, there is only a possibility to use referral URLs (that contain the user ID) for ...
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Please put "Top Questions", the tab bar, and "Ask Question" on the same line

Please change this: To this: It took me 20 seconds in devtools to rearrange this html, you're wasting vertical space and it looks bad compared to before. I guess it's been done for responsive ...
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Custom comment when sharing feedback doesn't warn of the character limit and simply truncates the text

When reviewing and sharing feedback with a custom comment, the little box thing where I type the comment doesn't warn of the 500-character limit, nor does it give me a countdown of how many characters ...
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Limit the number of times an author can choose "Submit for review" when editing a closed question

When a question is closed, anyone can make an edit and submit the question for reopening: This can be done an indefinite amount of times, which can lead to situations where authors are making ...
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Please make all blue tags black and gray in per-site metas

In most per-site metas common tags have black (and gray) cards; an example is Meta Physics SE. But there are some sites that have colored common tag cards such as Meta Philosophy SE. And the color of ...
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Differentiating clickable and downloadable links in Stack Overflow Blog post

When accessing the Stack Overflow Blog post via mobile data, it becomes crucial to distinguish between clickable links and downloadable PDFs. The ability to identify and ignore PDF links can help ...
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Image size limit: Why it is set to 2 MiB?

From older Meta posts it seem to me that the file size limit was higher in the past, and linked to the limits allowed by imgur. However, now the limit is 2 MiB, and imgur allows much more than that (&...
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No descriptive error when trying to post an answer while logged out

While typing an answer, my session expired (?) causing me to be logged out. I didn't notice that, but when pressing 'Post your answer', the following 'error' was shown: Your answer couldn't be ...
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"Convert to edit" option for subsequent answer from the same user needed

There are significant number of times where a user provides a second answer rather than editing their first. This question on Web Apps is the most recent I have come across (diamonds or 10k users only ...
6 votes
1 answer
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Please filter out modified posts that a low reputation user cannot see from the questions search report

I wanted to ask why I am being informed that a post was modified when I cannot see any modifications to that post, but I found the answer to that question in these two posts: Question says modified ...
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Reminder about AI generated answers for non-English SOs [duplicate]

On the big Stack Overflow we have a notice in the answer box about the AI-generated answers policy: Can we spread the same for the rest of the Stack Overflow sites in non-English languages: Russian, ...
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Missing orange logo with dark theme [migrated]

Now that the dark theme is under reconstruction, could we please have the orange logo back? The white logo is dull. The orange logo is displayed perfectly on the tab of Edge, so why not where it ...
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See private notes on saved posts

In September 2022, Bookmarks evolved into Saves. (See: Bookmarks have evolved into Saves) Features of this evolution are the abilities to add private notes to a saved post, and to organise saved post ...
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Better style for HTML 'definition list' <dl> elements

Among allowed HTML tags there are tags which together form 'definition list', namely <dl> (definition list), <dt> (definition term), and <dd> (definition description) elements. They ...
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Please support syntax highlighting in user profiles

I found a bug report about this: Code syntaxhighlighting does not work in "About Me" The answer by a staff member says: If you want to make a case for why we should, a feature request would ...
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MathOverflow links on Mathematics Stack Exchange [duplicate]

Sometimes on Mathematics Stack Exchange, I would like to reference a link from MathOverflow. It would be helpful if it got immediately turned into the title without having to type it and then include ...
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Parse question links from other SE sites

In a SE site, if you put the link to a question, the link is parsed into the question's title. For example, https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/246034 produces Is the loading icon copyrighted by ...
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Suggested tags are not displayed with their excerpts and other info when asking/editing a question on mobile

When asking or editing a question, one is offered tag suggestions while typing in the "Tags" section. On a desktop browser, each popup also displays the tag wiki excerpt (when available), ...
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1 answer
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Stack Exchange should show rules on the right side when making post to help users follow the rules

When making posts on Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange, you can see on the right side "Draft Your Question" and "Helpful Links." While the latter contains links for asking good ...
4 votes
1 answer
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What is the purpose of limiting access to edit help center pages?

As far as I know the number of help center pages available to edit by moderators is very limited: What parts of the help center can site moderators edit? Moreover, I (as a moderator of ruSO) can't ...
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Make answering notice for unregistered users be translatable via Traducir

On sites where answering for unregistered users is available, they will see the following notice below the post body text area: Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow! Please be sure to ...
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How about a difficulty rating for questions?

It might be useful to add a drop down field "Difficulty" for questions. With a very limited set of options, say: Beginner Advanced Expert This way, users could easily judge if they can answer a ...
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Why no rules sidebar? [duplicate]

Seems like this would save many newcomers from asking questions which get closed for being off-topic or belong on a different site, if they could easily see the rules about questions on the site on ...
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Feature request - A simple credential leak detection in the answer tab

I recently analyzed Stack Overflow for leaks, and the sites contain a lot of leaks (Stack Overflow did contain most of them, but still askubuntu.com and unix.stackexchange.com do contain some leaks). ...
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Encouraging people to explain downvotes

Note: If you're looking for a simple explanation as to why comments aren't required on downvotes, see Why isn't providing feedback mandatory on downvotes, and why are ideas suggesting such ...
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Tag overview page cuts off beginning of some descriptions (not just common words)

This answer says that the descriptions on the tag overview page are meant to cut off common words such as "This tag" at the beginning of the tag description and although I find this weird, it seems to ...
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1 answer
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How can I suggest edits to Stack Overflow Blog posts?

Kevin Henner's An intuitive introduction to text embeddings (2023-11-09) is a very impressive write-up, except for one paragraph near the beginning, which unceremoniously demolishes the analogy that ...
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What's the purpose of inactive "apply to answers too" checkbox on mod menu if the item text already refers to answers only?

If there are answers with wiki status, the mod menu for a question contains the following item (Remove wiki from answers): * text autotranslated from Russian to English What's the purpose of inactive ...
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1 answer
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Is there a consolidated source of accessibility guidelines for users posting questions/answers? [duplicate]

While Stack Exchange itself tries to be as accessible as possible, I have been unsuccessful in finding anything to help users in their posting accessible questions/answers. Is there a consolidated ...
7 votes
1 answer
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Unable to view exact view count on questions with many views on touchscreen devices

For questions with many views (when a suffix is used) there isn't any way to get the exact view count on touchscreen devices. E.g.: On devices when the mouse pointer is available you can see the ...
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Is it possible to use Meta to search a keyword throughout all my "saves" on all communities? [duplicate]

I saved some questions and some specific answers that I found useful on the Ask Ubuntu community, and I did the same on other communities, like Server Fault, Unix & Linux, Ask Different, Aviation, ...
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Linking "Similar questions" suggestions from every Stack Exchange website

Suggestions for an addition to the "Similar questions" feature Each Stack Exchange site has a "Similar questions" list under which the user generates the title for their question. ...
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Feature request for account login [duplicate]

Add a feature to sign up or login through their GitHub Account. Many sites offer login through GitHub and I think this feature would make it better.
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Please add a system to allow file uploads attached to questions and answers

I posted a question and a couple of respondents asked for the source code. I could only post portions of the code. If attachments were allowed I could have uploaded a .zip file with the whole ...
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Prevent Markdown links from escaping the tilde character (~) on Stack Exchange

When Linking to a Text Fragment, :~:text= is used as part of the URL to identify text to highlight: https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/370143/#:~:text=to%20identify%20text%20to%20highlight%3A When ...
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Confirm dialog when an interesting (or ignored) tag is to be deleted

In the SO main page you can add/remove your own 'Interesting Tags' and 'Ignored Tags'. Well, I navigate fairly often by the 'Interesting Tags' to find questions of interest. I've arranged the '...
168 votes
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Invite low rep users to participate in chat

I'm aware of the preference for 'general answers to general questions' attitude on SO, and wholeheartedly agree that questions that are focused on specific, one-time issues are not as valuable to the ...
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Add direct link to on-topic page of help center for closed as off-topic questions

Currently the closed as off-topic questions have a banner like this: This banner contains two links: off-topic: https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions help center: https://meta....
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Please change the CAPTCHA so that Chinese can use Stack Overflow [duplicate]

Programmers from china can't visit Wikipedia, but CAPTCHA redirects to a Wikipedia page: That means Stack Overflow refuses Chinese users. I don't want to comment about the prohibition to Wikipedia in ...
15 votes
1 answer
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Use localized icons for Q&A in left navigation menu

On the recent update, we got icons next to items on the left navigation menu. All these icons are used for any SE sites. At the same time on localized sites, like SO in Russian, there are localized ...
15 votes
1 answer
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Add a warning about generative AI on other sites (only to sites which banned generative AI) of Stack Exchange

On Stack Overflow (only in English) there is the warning about generative AI answers: Reminder: Answers generated by Artificial Intelligence tools are not allowed on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Can ...
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Blocklist is missing the effect of the listed patterns (warn vs. block type)

The following picture is a redacted example of what <site>.stackexchange.com/admin/blocklist looks like: While this page is called the blocklist, not all of the patterns are blocked. Some of ...
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Can SE add Progressive Web App (PWA) support?

With app development frozen, there have slowly been issues popping up about their continued use (e.g. The SE Android app has not been working for half a year, and Stack Overflow app not loading ...

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