Questions tagged [feature-request]
Proposals for new features on the Stack Exchange network, or requests for a change to an existing feature.
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Feature request for close reasoning?
I asked question (on meta) on why a post was closed, because it made no sense, and that post was closed as well?
...a member for 11 years on Server Fault, so been here a long time and this makes no ...
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Prevent losing uncommitted translation input on popup editor close in Traducir
Context on Stack's community translation platform moving to be internally hosted:
We’re moving Traducir to our internal infrastructure
Editing the translation in Traducir takes place in a popup ...
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Add link to filter by key for pluralizable strings in Traducir
Please read this post before: We’re moving Traducir to our internal infrastructure
Each string in Traducir has a link to its Transifex source. In case of pluralizable strings, this link contains a ...
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Why does the "User was removed" link in the achievements popup link to me?
I had a moment of panic before I found out what this message means from other questions here on meta. Why does clicking on "User was removed" take me to my profile? I wasn't the one who was ...
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Wrap long source strings to prevent horizontal scrolling in Traducir
If the source English string is long enough to fit into screen horizontally then either you need to scroll the page or copy source into the edit box to see it entirely. See the GIF to clarification:
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Skip the extra popup confirmation window "Nominate this question for reopening?" to streamline the "Reopen votes" review process
I was going through questions in the review queue Reopen votes: Vote whether or not to reopen closed questions. I clicked on Reopen.
I expected this to reopen the question. Instead, I got a popup ...
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Please provide communities with custom post-delete-reasons as a moderation tool
Communities (or rather their moderators as representatives of us) can currently set three custom post-close-reasons — in the same manner, I would welcome custom post-delete-reasons as a moderation ...
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Title on Profile — Stack Overflow vs all other sites
It has previously been stated that the Title feature is only present if the site has Jobs, but while Jobs has been completely gone for over a year, Stack Overflow profiles still show a Title, and it ...
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Can the Stack Overflow code snippet facility be updated with newer library options?
In Stack Overflow, there's a useful facility for adding runnable code in HTML and JavaScript. There is a dropdown list on the left-hand side of the dialog which offers several third-party libraries. ...
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Hide Meta banner on the Enter the Private Beta page
The "Enter the Private Beta" page (visible if you open https://languagedesign.stackexchange.com/ in a private window, or in a regular window if you haven't joined yet) contains a banner ...
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Reputation graph suggests you've been a member for longer than you are
I joined a new site two days ago. When I look at the reputation graph on my profile, it looks like I've been a member for a couple of weeks already:
Wouldn't it be better to limit the graph from the ...
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Prevent browser popup error on wrong regex in Traducir
Since traducir.win is now under SO responsibility, could you please prevent the browser popup error from appearing on wrong regex input, and showing it again and again if I press Esc to close that ...
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Question already answered by a comment [duplicate]
I was wondering if someone else has the problem that a question might be already answered by a comment. I mainly focus on questions that don't have any answer already in order to help.
It costs me a ...
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Blocked from editing due to pending review
Currently a pending edit needs two approvals. I have edit permissions, but review queues are apparently slow today, and I cannot make some necessary edits because a second person needs to approve the ...
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Meaningless placeholder for tags on new sites
When asking a question on a new private beta, the input field for tags has a rather meaningless placeholder:
e.g. ()
I understand no tags can be recommended, but wouldn't it be better to just omit ...
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Can the banner on Beta sites be closable?
I joined a site in Private Beta, and there is a banner at the top of the page. Here's a screenshot of it (laptop)
Here is a screenshot of the whole page (mobile device)
And the transcribed version (...
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Add a way I can see the comments I've upvoted
I know that this question has been asked multiple times like here and here. But as you can see, by visiting the links, most of the times the question has been closed without any resolution. Hence, I'm ...
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Remove the flag counter from admin panel if there're no flags
On the site admin panel there's a flag count icon displayed as a part of "flags" tab:
Could we please remove that icon in the case there're no active flags? i.e. don't show an orange "...
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Suggestion on linked and related [duplicate]
I have these two suggestions,
In both the tabs, indicate if the question are closed. Sometimes, I open a question to see that it is a poor question which is closed.
Don't repeat the questions which ...
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Can we add the last update date for each page on Help Center?
Some help pages are site-specific. In particular, on non-English sites, the content of help pages are written (translated) obviously later than its original sources.
To detect outdated pages (e.g., we ...
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Add a bit column for whether a badge is retired in SEDE or a RetiredDate column
It would be nice (for example) to be able to easily filter out badges that are retired when querying SEDE for analysis purposes.
A bit for it would work, or alternatively, a nullable RetiredDate.
Or ...
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Allow me to block other users from close-voting my posts to prevent harassment and trolling
The Problem:
My daily flags are spent on a handful of people, who I see again the next time I log in with the same nasty behavior. They won't get banned, they actually have huge positive reputations ...
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Add comment link is too close to Flag link
Due to the long words and the number of links on the modified by the post author post and if there are no comments yet, the link to add a comment ("Добавить комментарий") is placed very ...
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Please create a standard, explanatory tag wiki for the [untagged] tag
Sometimes, questions get the tag untagged.
And dozens of such questions languish on many sites in this state for ages. (A review queue was once suggested, though it doesn't seem to have gone anywhere.)...
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Redirect back to the site from which I started the "Stack Overflow Developer Survey" after finishing
I think it would be great if, after completing the survey, it redirects me back to the site, from where I go to the survey page. At this moment it doesn't do anything
Maybe it designed like that ...
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Make tooltip text ending on user tab sorting order consistent. Only the "participation" tab contains dot at the end
Tooltip for "participation" tab contains the . at the end, but there's no dot for all other tabs:
I suggest to remove it here as well. Adding the dot to the all other instead I can't ...
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Increase width of community list popup to fit longest community name into single line
Currently some community names don't fit into single line in community popup, e.g.:
I suggest to increase the popup width to fit entire site name into single line, as it done for shorter names:
This ...
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Warn BEFORE of 6 character edit limit, not AFTER
It was a bright sunny day. We noticed something amiss in somebody else's post. We thought, "Let's be helpful, and fix it."
So we set our hand to (gasp) editing it. We thereupon see:
Your ...
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Could we support WebP image format when uploading images?
SE is a leading example of top multimedia streamlining for ease of use.
WebP is currently unsupported when attempting to upload an image. It's fast becoming a very common image format because it is ...
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Long title breaks strict column design on reputation tab [duplicate]
On the reputation tab in user profile page when the title is long enough it uses columns that are not intended (in my expectation) to be used for question's title:
I propose to place question's title ...
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Add option 'exclude these sites' in a filter rule
This feature request is not a duplicate of
Add the ability to exclude sites in global searches. Please, note the URLs in the quotations below are different. That question is asking for the ability to ...
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Stop bumping questions that nobody cares about
This is a follow-up of What is the point to show to anonymous users posts bumped by Community user? How to prevent that bad questions be bumped in low participation sites?
Bumps by Community-User are ...
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Prevent comment duplication
Possibly due to an internet connection problem I posted a couple of comments with the same content.
Staff can check it here. The latter one was already deleted by me.
My proposal is to check the ...
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Split decision questions are removed from the reopen queue before a majority is reached
I would like to elevate a variation of a comment from 2012 to a feature request:
I think the formula (for removing a question from review - ed.) should change from 3 to 3 + numReopenVotes. Otherwise, ...
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New flag for ChatGPT answers
Answers generated using ChatGPT are banned on many Stack Exchange sites. This is mainly because they aren't particularly accurate or useful, and are often misleading.
Personally, I've spotted a ...
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Imgur TOS change on May 15th 2023 could cause the loss of thousands of Stack Exchange images!
On May 15th 2023, Imgur will implement its new TOS, in which
We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account.
I, and presumably many other users, ...
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Can you please add Pine to the list of "Language codes currently available on Stack Exchange"?
As a follow-up to this question on MSE and this one on MSO, I would like to know if it is possible to add Pine to the list of "Language codes currently available on Stack Exchange" appearing ...
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Move "Mod" link to the right side
I've recently been elected as a moderator to ruSO and my regular-user's muscle memory gives me some fails. In particular since the "Mod" link was added on the left part of the block of links ...
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Apply the new activity tab design in the network profile as well
Some time ago, the profile page got a revamp on all Stack Exchange sites, while se.com got left behind. No change whatsoever for many many years.
I don't ask for the whole revamp to be done there, ...
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Add typo on all sites of Stack Exchange as a general reason
I propose to add the typo close/flag reason on all sites of Stack Exchange sites as a general reason instead of the "community specific-reason".
Instead of using different messages that says ...
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Allow me to open the full list of all elections on a site during an active election
According to the Q&A How to show the election history page when there is an ongoing election?, it's not possible to open the table listing all elections on the site when an election is ongoing on ...
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Please split the answer count shown on posts to distinguish between deleted and undeleted answers
Note: this is not a request to hide deleted answers (which has been requested in the past).
The answer count under a question currently has code that tracks which answers are deleted and which answers ...
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Don't include the username as a part of the candidate statement
The candidate statement on the moderator election page contains the username of the candidate as a header part of it by default. You can manually remove it, but almost nobody does it. For instance, ...
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Should election chatrooms have a different status when pruning/freezing rooms?
On smaller sites there isn't too much activity in chat - so it is not that surprising that if an election room was created, the "main" chatroom1 often gets frozen (since it was inactive for ...
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Reapplying to nominate self on the primary phase of moderator election
It's unclear from the FAQ if the nominee can reapply if they withdraw self in the primary phase of the moderator election.
The message from the system doesn't say anything about it:
Are you sure you ...
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Can we have the `pine` language code associated with specific tags in order to have it correctly highlighted in questions and answers? [duplicate]
TradingView would like to implement highlighting for Pine Script™ code, which is typically used in the [pine-script], [pine-script-v4] and [pine-script-v5] tags.
It is mentioned in section 2b of this ...
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Should ongoing support be rewarded with additional upvotes?
I direct your attention to this answer which has been sustained and updated over time. Reading through the answer shows how times change and improvements warrant readdressing questions and answers. ...
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We should be able to change which saves list a question is in directly from the question page
Let's say there is a question in your saves, and you want to change which saves list it is in. As far as I can tell, the only way to do that is to go to the Saves tab on your profile (https://math....
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Add back the highlight on the author's name on suggested edit reviews to their own posts, or indicate the author otherwise
In the old UI for the review queues, it used to be that if the author reviewed a suggested edit to their own post, their name would be highlighted:
(Source)
However, this is no longer the case:
This ...
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Why have you hidden the "Data Explorer" tool?
Why is Data Explorer tool accessed only by clicking the word "Data" at the bottom of the page?
Correct it.
Change the word "Data" to "Data Explorer".
Bring the word &...
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