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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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:
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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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Don't let users enter a sixth tag in the first place
Yes, in the fine print it says "Add up to 5 tags".
Then don't let users enter a sixth tag. Currently it is like Cheech & Chong, "Don't take those. I already took them.".
Once ...
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Can I select which elements appear on the Stack Overflow for Teams Question/Answer screen? [closed]
The SO for Teams UI feels a little cluttered (I have no use for the 4 outlined elements).
Perhaps these elements could be made toggleable on/off on a per-user basis from a UI customisation page?
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Screenshots in posts referring books [duplicate]
Please add search indexing to screenshots.
As a physics student, it is more than natural to come upon some doubts while reading a standard textbook. When asking questions in PSE about that specific ...
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Add confirmation for saving a tag's syntax highlighting change
♦ moderators have the ability to assign to every tag a default language for syntax highlighting (see the FAQ):
When clicking the Save button, all that happens is that the button gets disabled, which ...
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Please add image size options to markdown help
The markdown help page for images says nothing on how to make small, medium and large sizes as described here. This info is very handy. Please add it.
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Update the document title and URL after an inline question edit is submitted that edits the title
After title edits are submitted using the inline question editor, the browsing context (webpage)'s document <title> and location are not updated. The update will only be reflected in the ...
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Offer long links to answers, in addition to just short
Let's say you are looking at some question and you see a good answer, and you want to share it with your friends.
Well, each answer only has short links available. If you want a long link that looks ...
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Should we lower the flag count for spam/rude-abusive for brand new users and chat flags?
While we do love our new users - oftentimes spammers are 1 reputation users, simply cause they (clearly) don't get any votes.
While I do realise there's potential for abuse - it feels like a lower ...
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The "Describe why you would make a good moderator" box uses "►", creating less-accessible "lists"
This is my third report of the same phenomenon (one, two) and it's the same deal. The sidebar list items look like they're a list to a visual user. However, a screen reader will be unable to interpret ...
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Don't display questions that contain an ignored tag when the option `Hide questions in your ignored tags` is enabled
Ignored questions that contain an ignored tag are briefly shown before being hidden.
Feature request: don't display questions that contain an ignored tag when the option Hide questions in your ignored ...
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Can we alias a question's title without creating a separate question?
For a long time, we have marked questions as duplicates as way of aliasing another question.
For example, I saw a question on a Stack Exchange site which was titled something like:
I am *onfused with ...
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Add a help-center link to "In need of moderator intervention" in the question flagging menu
In the flagging menu (see bottom for reference), almost every single category has a link to a clarifying help center entry. The only exceptions are:
Duplicates (which has a comprehensive submenu ...
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The 'You cannot post due to spam and abuse' message should appear when I click 'Ask question' instead of 'Post your question' [duplicate]
I use Tor for anonymity and I often see the Your post could not be submitted at this time due to the volume of spam and abuse originating from your network message, because apparently some malicious ...
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Automatic retracting delete and undelete votes to questions and answers [duplicate]
I suggest automatic retracting all delete and undelete votes to every question and answer which has no delete or undelete vote in the last 365 days. This is to prevent deleting and undeleting the same ...
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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 there a unified portal/dashboard to update/change user account details and login credentials for all Stack Exchange sites?
I have searched across portals and multiple pages Google search results, but I couldn't find any definitive way to update my account details uniformly for all the Stack Exchange sites.
Heck, there ...
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How to watch tags across more than one Stack Exchange site
How do users watch any given tag across multiple Stack Exchange sites?
For example, to watch [bash] or [awk] I watch the tag on Stack Overflow. However, it appears I must re-watch that same tag on, e....
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Remove "by" from "deleted by" in timeline
It seems that the "by" word should be removed from the "deleted by" phrase in the post timeline. E.g.:
Since "by" is already placed in the title of the next row in the ...
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Feature Improvement: Always display sub-stack meta posts in a side-bar on their main site
Personal opinion: Stack Exchange would be better if more people participated in the metas, particularly for smaller stacks (where things are less settled and more community input would be beneficial). ...
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Should any flag on an eventually-deleted post be marked as helpful, even if it was declined by a moderator?
Should we have it be that if a post is deleted, any flag on that post is marked helpful, even if it was declined by a moderator?
In other words, say I flag an answer, and the flag is declined by a ...
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Slogan/motto/credo/goal/summary of site next to logo [duplicate]
Copied from here:
This video (about SE being toxic to newbies) got me thinking.
I agree that the FAQ is too long and hard to find on most Stack Exchange sites, and it would help to put a quick Sprint-...
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Is it possible to create an RSS feed of the latest answers for a certain tag?
I want to create a feed for user activity that will give me the recent questions and answers.
I was able to create a feed for new questions with this script:
import feedparser
# Set the RSS feed URLs ...
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Opining a successful-edit-count-based two tier suggested edit system
This is a bit of a follow up to the 'answer' here.
From the time editing was first introduced, it's a system that both has been refined, and occasionally has scaled poorly. In general, the mechanics ...
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Allowing opinion-based questions which seek recommendation [duplicate]
I've been watching YouTube and a few platforms and hearing out all the feedback on SE/SO. Well, the first problem is about opinion-based questions. Yes, it can cause chaos with each person's opinion ...
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Add an advanced search option to custom filtering
Currently the ability to create custom filters is limited by the options implemented as a separate user element (like radio button, check box or list of tags).
I suggest adding an alternative ability ...
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Warn users when voting to close for a specific reason if the question was previously closed for that reason and reopened
I've noticed each of the following scenarios happening quite a bit:
A question is incorrectly identified as meeting a specific close reason and is closed.
The author or other users comment as to why ...
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Reputation history should have indents
When I look at a user's detailed reputation history, I see something like this:
I find this list confusing to look at, and think it would be best to indent the reputation actions with four spaces (or ...
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Add tooltip with exact timestamp to 'Data updated ... ago' label on SEDE homepage
Can we add a tooltip with the exact UTC timestamp to the 'Data updated ... ago' label on the SEDE homepage? It would help indicating whether the refresh was slow (as it was today) or even incomplete. ...
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Long location is unnecessarily truncated on user's profile page
Really long locations are truncated on users' profile pages. As here, for example:
Instead of the full location, it's cut off and the last few characters are replaced by an ellipsis. On the other ...
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Users should be allowed to select their time zone [duplicate]
Stack Exchange uses the UTC time zone, which is confusing for users who are based in other locations.
For instance, if I'm checking a user's actions, the timestamp may say something like Mar 1 at 16:...
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See private notes on saved posts
About 6 months ago 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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Unclear wording and missing screenshots in: "How do I delete my account?" Should be clearer that it is just one out of many accounts to be deleted
This came up after reading, commenting, and answering How can I delete a Stack Exchange account of mine?, with the hint of a user to make this an MSE feature request.
Unclear wording
Unclear wording ...
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Link to user profile with recent questions and answers
Is it possible to get a link to the activity section of the user profile with recent questions and answers?
For example, if I enter the link, https://math.stackexchange.com/users/223599/sooraj-s?tab=...
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Can the 'you don't have a [class] badge yet' message be synced to whatever badge you're tracking?
I have a feature request to make.
Right now, my Profile tab shows the following on Meta:
Per my interpretation, what this is telling me is: You don't have a gold badge- if you want to get a gold ...
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Any chance of adding a way to follow feeds using ActivityPub?
It would be nice to have an equivalent to the site Twitter feeds (for those sites which still have Twitter feeds, and equivalents for those which don’t) accessible over ActivityPub in a way I could ...
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Is there any way to hide my badges and reputation from others?
I ask because I believe badges and reputation serve only in creating implicit bias amongst askers when viewing answers and comments, and on the flip-side amongst commenters and answerers when viewing ...
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Is it possible to add a "Copy to clipboard" option in the MathJax drop-down list?
In Piazza, when viewing the source of some math that is typeset using MathJax, there is the option to "Copy to clipboard", as shown in the screenshot below. If I click on "TeX Commands&...
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Comments and Questions should use the same ENTER key actions
When writing a question, the ENTER key goes to the next line.
When adding a comment, the ENTER key is booby trapped to also hit the
comment submission button that is also present. Yes, one can then ...
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Use a different CAPTCHA provider for privacy and security [duplicate]
Note: this is not a duplicate of Replacing reCAPTCHA or Please use another captcha than reCaptcha, because this post is chiefly about privacy and security concerns, and not usability, challenge ...
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Reviewers should be able to communicate with each other about a review task
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Reviewers of a post should be able to comment on the task in a separate comment section visible to everyone but only actionable by the reviewers, 10k users and moderators.
Communication between ...
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Remove Teams-related 'searchOn' parameter from search result links
When you search for something and click on one of the tabs
the resulting URL contains a searchOn parameter:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&q=something&searchOn=3. If I ...
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Mark as "Answered" if no other answers in 24 hours
Recently I forgot to check a question as "Answered". Since it remained unanswered for a day or three, many other proposed answers were given, and some of them were really better than the ...
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Where’s the indie self-publishing site?
I got a question about missing sites and am hoping this is the right place to ask. FYI: I don’t see a meta link on the closest existing site, so here goes:
Under “Professional” you’ve got “Writing” (.....
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Better handling of inbox notifications that have been merged together
I've been trying to figure out why I find the new inbox so annoying. No doubt part of the issue is just that it's different. Some of it is definitely because I prefer the previous behavior in some ...
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Flag to put a closed question in the Reopen queue (just like we have for the Close queue) [duplicate]
A few days ago, I found an interesting question on Music.SE that was closed. I wanted it to be reopened, but I couldn't find any typo or small problem that I can fix with an edit to put it into the ...
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Don't cut off question titles on the search result page
Feature request: Don't cut off question titles on the search result page. Example:
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