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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Please update /help/referencing on all sites to reflect the Stack Exchange policy that machine-generated text requires attribution
On December 12, 2022, animuson clarified that the rules surrounding plagarism on the Stack Exchange Network apply to all content not created by the poster, even if the work is otherwise not ...
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Expanding a user card leads to unnecessary shifting the elements below [duplicate]
Is it possible to prevent shifting the web page items down on expanding the user card?
As you can notice, the "Add a comment" link, horizontal line, and the rest content of the page are ...
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Clarify meaning of “Looks OK” in the Low Quality Answers queue
In the Low Quality Answers queue “Looks OK” option has a description
It is an honest attempt at answering the question and is not low
quality.
In most of cases when a reviewer wants to click “Looks ...
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Image markdown - remove to re-add isn't smooth
If I edit a post to swap a quick phone snap for a properly cropped version, straightened & punched up in Photoshop to be more legible, better exposed [a dozen reasons I edit many photos a day ...
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Capitalization for image placeholder
I found out that in process of posts improvement by this user, the phrase "enter image description here" used as a default image description placeholder is often (always?) being capitalized ...
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Don't cut badges too early
Some long-named badges are truncated too early on the profile page when viewed on narrow screens (e.g., on Android Chrome):
Reproducible on Windows 10 desktop Chrome as well:
Could we just display ...
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Add Mastodon to the "Know someone who can answer?" social media links
Over on https://askubuntu.com/ we have this banner under questions.
Is it possible to add a link to "Share a link to this question via Mastodon"?
(Some may prefer to use Fediverse to refer ...
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Stack Exchange "Top Users" page should show usernames instead
The Stack Exchange "Top Users" page looks like this:
The caption below each user avatar in the table says "week", "month", etc.
Shouldn't the caption instead say their ...
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Reduce whitespace between short posts and their comment section [duplicate]
For ♦ moderators, the vote section contains some additional links (to the flag history, and to show deleted comments). For short answers like this one, this causes unnecessary whitespace between the ...
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Don't notify all moderators for flags on "move comments to chat" chatroom
Sometimes when there are too many comments under a question or answer, the moderator will move all comments to chat, which means creating a chatroom and moving all comments to that chatroom.
If ...
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Stack Overflow profile page doesn't show reputation graph on mobile
I couldn't help noticing that, on my Stack Overflow profile, the reputation graph in the summary section doesn't show on mobile or portrait devices. I feel that there's easily space to fit the graph ...
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Make the number of follows for a post available to the post creator
When I asked whether there's a way of knowing how many members are following one's post, I was told this:
For the most part, you can't. Follows have never been publicly available.
https://meta....
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Don't give dupe-hammer for special tags
All of you know that Meta sites have special groups of tags:
required tags: [feature-request] [support] [bug] [discussion]
moderator tags: all of [status-*] tags
At the same time there's such ...
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Allow more than 5 tags if red tags are used [duplicate]
As many of you should know that using a more than 5 tags simultaneously on the single question isn't possible:
Hence once a moderator decides to add a red tag (e.g. any of [status-...]) on the ...
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Automatically mark notification read when I view the comment
I'm viewing a question, and someone posts a comment that notifies me.
I click on the "Show N more comments" message to show all the new comments, so I see the comment mentioned in the ...
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Why is it that a reviewer with full edit privileges cannot single-handedly approve an edit without improving it? [duplicate]
This issue seems to be a universal feature of SE. If a user suggests an edit, two users with access to the review queue are necessary to validate the edit, even if the first reviewer has full edit ...
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Prevent tabs dancing for all actions page
There's a tab "dancing" (tab and text on the same row or not) on All Actions page of User Profile for ruSO and rusSE due to long enough words used in translations:
Could we please somehow ...
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Make an option for auto-reading all the inbox once it's opened [duplicate]
In the past once you clicked your notification box, all the unread notifications were immediately cleared (i.e. became read).
Although this definitely was not comfortable for someone who receives ...
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Make the Users > Voters able to show the previous period (i.e. year 2022)
According to Glorfindel's answer to How to get the historical data in users Tab it's not possible to use SEDE to get historical voters data due to votes being anonymized.
Please add a way in Users >...
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Error message when marking all inbox notifications as read is not pluralized
When using the "Mark all as read" link in your inbox, and an error occurs (e.g. if your Internet connection is spotty), regardless of the number of unread notifications, you'll get this ...
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Inline tag edits are rejected on switch to full edit mode
On 10k reputation you get inline tag edit possibility. But this edits are rejected on switching to full edit mode. E.g.:
Before inline tag edit there are tags: bug comment voting:
In inline tag edit ...
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Rephrase text for possible duplicate with no answers
One more time I got a possible duplicate notice on my question. This time there's no answer on the suggested question:
I know the duplicate mechanic on SE, but completely disagree with the current ...
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Can I generate referral URLs with the full question title?
When I want to share a question, I can either share a link with the full question title:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75290101/could-match-start0-ever-return-1-in-python
Or I can use a ...
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Could/ should we add an answer-ranking system beyond standard votes?
I just ran into a "problem" that I have encountered many times while on the various Stack Exchange websites.
After I came across an interesting question and read a good answer, I upvoted the ...
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Move achievements to the right on accounts block
On the activity page of profile achievements block needs to be moved to the right part for the items with long enough site names. When they don't fit on the single line. E.g.:
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Bind right corner of the next badge progress bar to the badge block border
On most cases (screen width) the right corner of the next badge progress bar is aligned with bronze badge block. But sometimes when newest badge and next badge can not fit into single line, the right ...
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Move recommended badge item under the badge progress
There is "Recommended" item in "Select your next badge" popup:
My suggestion is to move that item below the badge progress bar (or even after the badge description). This will ...
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jQuery fallback link reloads the page instead [duplicate]
Currently, if the jQuery script cannot be loaded, SE displays a banner on the top of the page with a link saying "Retry using another source". However, this link, when clicked, will add the &...
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Link to stackexchange.com is not HTTPS under the default "community-specific" close reason on per-site metas
There is a default close reason available on per-site metas under "Needs improvement → A community-specific reason" that has a link to stackexchange.com that is not HTTPS. For instance, on ...
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Improve error when uploading an image with the wrong extension
Yesterday I was trying to rescue a broken image with help of the Wayback Machine. When I tried to upload it, I got a generic error message:
Failed to upload image; an error occurred on the server
In ...
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Stop image upload completion from stealing cursor focus
Upon image upload completion, the cursor focus is moved to the image tag (see example below). Feature request: don't move the cursor focus.
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Add link to full inbox to inbox dialog on stackexchange.com
The new inbox dialog has a link to your full inbox on all sites:
but not on stackexchange.com:
It shouldn't be that hard to add it - it can be a static link due to the support for the /current user.
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Unrecord accidental vote on a site where I have less than 15 reputation [duplicate]
I've accidentally voted on an answer on a site where I have less than 15 reputation. I wanted to undo it, but clicking it again just returns the same message that my vote was "recorded". Is ...
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Remove tag badges or dupehammer on moderator-only tags [duplicate]
Many people have tag badges or the dupehammer for moderator-only tags. I think this is a problem since it defeats the whole point of being an "expert" in a tag, since these tags only tell ...
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Make short "saved my <time>" comments single-flag-deletable
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The vast majority of short-length comments containing the substring "save" and certain units of time (hour, day, week, life) are useless (see "When shouldn't I comment" and ...
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Badge suggestions: Finder, Hunter, and Detective [duplicate]
To encourage helpful dupe-finders (regardless of whether they can close vote or flag), I am thinking of the following badges:
(bronze) Finder: Find a duplicate that gets the question closed as a dupe ...
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How can I cheat the reputation system?
I have been a full stack web developer and have been using computers for most of my life.
I use these Stack Exchange websites a lot, to get answers, as they say, and indeed they are right!
I get ...
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Is it helpful to have a doubt indicator on comments? [closed]
My current research topic is automated doubt identification on Stack Overflow comments under answer posts using machine learning models, where doubt raised in comments refers to having critiques about ...
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Stack Snippet is not supported on mobile devices - time to reconsider it
There have been a couple of cases when I wanted to write an answer on my iPhone and ran into non-working stack snippets editor, only to be greeted with magnificent error: not supported on mobile. Well,...
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Should users receive an official warning before being banned for an inadequate use of SE? [closed]
I use Math Stack Exchange for several months. Today, I got 666 reps and posted here an inoffensive joke about the Devil's number, which I deleted 10 minutes later. Ok, I shouldn't have done that.
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View question record [duplicate]
If a question record is needed for some badges, why can't I see what it is?
Since it’s only some calculation, which is already being made, it seems rather simple to display it on the user's profile ...
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Why do we see our own questions on the HNQ sidebar?
Many times, I see my own hot network question in the sidebar. Specifically, it is happening frequently with this question on Law. However, it is just a distraction because
I already know about it!
I ...
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New line for question title. Is it really needed?
Is starting a new line really necessary on some questions in that design?
Can’t it be fit in the single line?
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Captcha's from another domain than documented?
Stack Overflow sometimes asks to verify if you're a human being, especially if a lot of students coming from a proxy server are searching the site. According to Which browsers are officially supported,...
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Tags linked in the site maintenance banner can be updated to avoid synonym tags [duplicate]
During Site Maintenance there is a banner for read-only mode, which contains the following content.
This site is currently in read-only mode. We’ll return with full functionality soon. Visit our ...
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The background highlight color for the selected menu in the Activity tab can be improved
The background highlight color for the selected menu in the Activity tab is very low, whereas the background highlight color in the Settings tab is more optimal.
Can the same highlight color from the ...
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Unused meta tags that still persist
I found that some meta sites have tags that actually have not been used for a long time and are not deleted yet. Looks like these are some sort of "special" potential popular tags for ...
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Can we have a question's tags be displayed at the top in all review queues and tabs?
When reviewing items, I often find myself switching tabs, between e.g. 'Answer' and 'Question', not in the least because to properly assess the quality of i.c. an answer, I need to know what the ...
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Add to the /help/searching pages that is:q and is:a exist as short forms of the is:question and is:answer operators [duplicate]
In the "Miscellaneous Operators" section of the /help/searching pages, it says:
is:question narrows results down to just questions, and is:answer returns only answers
But I don't see it ...
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