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Comment autocomplete @reply in iOS app
I could have sworn this was submitted already, but can't find it.
Comment replies don't autocomplete in the iOS app. Can we either add that, and/or better still, a reply button from the comment popup ...
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Whatever happened to the 5 second comment upvote limit?
There used to be a limit on upvotes for comments (Allow more than 1 comment upvote in 5 seconds). Today though I found a good question with a list of intelligent comments and quickly upvoted them all. ...
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Let me do SOMETHING with a comment link to a deleted question
In the iOS app, links in comments to deleted posts are a dead-end. The app can't display deleted content even if I have the privilege to view it, but there's also no way to do anything else with the ...
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MarkDown syntax is interpreted inside comments hyperlink tooltip, but HTML tags are not
Here's a comment.
And it's code :
Wouldn't be it better if the procedure were used on[`CloseAsOffTopicReasonTypes.MarkdownMini`](https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/2678/242800 "from the links : the ...
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Allow comments to be edited [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should we be allowed to edit comments?
I've never worked with Greasemonkey so I don't know how it works or if what I'm about to ask is possible, but I had a great idea for a ...
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Could comments be shown on the edit [question/answer] page?
A lot of Stack Exchange sites treat comments as "suggested improvements" for questions and answers they're posted on, and users/mods will often suggest incorporating content from comments into the ...
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Move comment discard instruction text in iOS App
Can you please move the text that reads "Swipe left to discard comment" out of the text entry field in the iOS App?
I'll be honest, I'm not a huge fan of the swipe to discard in the first ...
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Tooltip still showing for "comments disabled" text on deleted/locked posts
Recently when we can't post new comment, text describing it was added which is good and dandy.
However, the tooltip is still there lurking in the darkness awaiting mouse hover:
Can it please be ...
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Make clear when the comment comes from the question's OP [duplicate]
With the theme used in this very site, comments from the question's OP are not different from the other ones.
Would not it possible to have it as in other sites?
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A little less AJAX?
Is all of this k3wl AJAX really needed? What really gets me is comments. Surely, surely, surely, the comment text is small and the show comments could just unhide the HTML, or insert the text from an ...
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Add some sort of feed back mechanism on the job descriptions in Careers
Some of the jobs descriptions and formatting in Careers are...not exactly optimal. StackOverflow has a fantastic system for educating folks on better ways of asking and formatting questions. Maybe ...
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Suggestion: Maybe add "trolling" to the list of reasons a comment can be flagged?
I've seen some discussions here on meta-SO where moderators have said that the appropriate action for a user who appears to be trolling in comments is to click the "Flag this comment as offensive, ...
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Loads of comments still miss intended recipient
As we all heard, you now get notified about changes in favourite questions. That is certainly an improvement, but I don't think it remedies the issue of comment notifications, because it notifies ...
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Can we auto-show commenting help for new users? [duplicate]
I'm seeing a lot of new users on StackOverflow who are replying to me in comments after a question, either without mentioning my @handle, or by using my handle without the at-symbol, or who put a ...
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Use the Android app's new commenting interface for editing comments too
Recently, the Android app introduced a new way to submit comments while still being able to view the answers etc. (i.e., not in a new activity).
It'd be great to be able to edit comments with this ...
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Tell me how many characters I've got left for comments in the Stack Exchange Android app
When typing a comment on the Android app, it doesn't tell me how many characters I have to type, or how many I have left. It would be nice if it displayed it as I was typing (like on the website), ...
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"Comment edited" icon is too prominent
I noticed this yesterday:
The "this comment was edited" pencil icon became fully black, which makes it very prominent and draws too much attention to it, in my opinion.
I'm pretty sure it used ...
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Reply to comment feature request
Maybe I'm creating a dupe here, but here goes...
Similar questions:
Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don’t own them)
and
Let’s ...
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When a post is printed, comments should be printed too
When a post is printed, the question and answers are printed, but the comments on them are not. It would be nice if the comments were also printed.
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Comment on an edit
I would like to be able to make comments on edits. I imagine this could be implemented by addressing an @-comment to any of the editors of a post. So if user X has edited a post, and I write a comment ...
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Comment Formatting topic for Help Center
The new Help Center could really use a comment formatting article of some sort.
While I do know about https://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help#comment-formatting at the moment, I will eventually ...
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"undo your comment upvote" is missing in app?
There is an option to undo the comment upvote in stack exchange sites like an alert
Whereas using Stack exchange app, I'm able to upvote a comment but unable to undo it.
I think instead of showing ...
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Preserve scroll position when upvoting comments in the Android app
If I click a comment then click to upvote it, the screen reloads and I'm back at the top of the question.
I think it would be better if it left me where was (with the screen updated of course).
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Can't edit comments within the mod queue anymore
I'm not sure when this ability was lost, but it would be nice to have it back again. Now, you have to open the actual question in order to remove the odd Sheet or Faulk.
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Add share link to comment menu
It'd be nice if the iOS app gave you a share link for comments like it does questions and answers. Currently that option isn't available:
My Twitter ramblings will thank you.
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Comment list in user info page
I have noticed the new Pundit badge. It's a nice badge but on user page it's not possible to find users comments.
So it would be great to have the Comment list like the Answers list.
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Indication required for up voted comment in Android app
There is no indication for the comments on question which I have already up-voted.
In app, user can do vote-up as many as he wants to play with it (Though its not incrementing up vote counter on Web ...
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Make oneboxing work for comments in chat [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Add chat oneboxing support for comment links
As the title says, now that comments are linkable, I would like them to be oneboxed to appear similar to this one, when they are ...
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Change flag tooltip for comment flags
Given that the flag mechanism has been expanded and improved for both questions and answers and taking into consideration these two questions that ended up more or less with a 'you should flag more' ...
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If a comment is deleted while the author is editing it, the edited text will disappear into the void without warning; show a warning in such cases
When editing a comment, if it has been deleted while the comment author is editing it, the edited text will completely disappear into the void without any sort of warning as soon as the user clicks ...
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Reply option has been removed from comment actions menu
In the latest beta version (1.2.2.185) I just noticed the Reply option no longer exists for comments:
If this is a bug, can this please be fixed? Otherwise, can it please be added back? I became ...
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comment doesn't support multiple backticks code span
Quote from markdown syntax:
To include a literal backtick character within a code span, you can use multiple backticks as the opening and closing delimiters:
``There is a literal backtick (`) here.``
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Highlight OP's comments in iOS app
Just the iOS version of the Android app question: Highlight OP's comments on the Android mobile app
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iOS Tablet app: modal or sticky comments to questions
Having just tapped out a nice long comment to a question using the stackoverflow app on my iPad, and then accidentally clicked outside the comment field, I have one request:
Please, please make the ...
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Add a [reply to comment] feature
Possible Duplicates:
Reply to comment feature request
Let’s make it easier to reply within comments!
I would like a reply to comment feature to SO, so when someone replies to one of your ...
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Insert space in comment feed in IOS app [duplicate]
Comments in the IOS-app (Version 1.4.1) feed are identified with a Comment immediately followed by the actual comment:
This can greatly benefit from inserting a space.
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Dashes not on comment-italics-whitelist
For some reason I'm baffled by, there's a specific whitelist of characters that can touch the special markdown characters (e.g. *) in comments without breaking them. Can dashes/hyphens be added to ...
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Shortcut to the @name feature?
When leaving comments to comments, it feels rather random to type in people's names. Is there a way to automatically insert a user's name?
ETA Like I mentioned to @Code in the comments, "random" ...
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Make comments from original poster stand out. Use different background color
Make comments from original poster stand out. Use different light background color than white. Like what happens with accepted answers.
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Why can you type new lines in comments if they are never rendered?
In the comment box, you can type new lines, but they are never rendered. This can trick people into thinking that they can separate text into paragraphs, when this is not possible.
I think that when ...
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Can the initial hover delay for comment upvote/flag images be mitigated?
There is a noticeable delay the first time the upvote or flag images are "hovered over". Can this be resolved by pre-caching (using JavaScript) or combining several images into a single file (using ...
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Is there a way to edit or delete and reenter comments once they're posted?
I just posted a comment to someone's answer on SO and accidentally left off the very first backtick, resulting in a really messed up looking comment. Of course I couldn't see the result of that ...
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Can low level users comment on answers to their own questions? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
New user comment clarification
One of the first things that many new users do is to ask a question.
People then respond, and there is a need for the original poster to ...
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Improvements for the new add comment feature in the Android app
The new commenting feature (0.1.28) is pretty awesome. I've a couple issues though:
It only works on answers, not on questions.
When you tap the "add comment" button, the keyboard and the ...
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Comment replies from newbies not reaching addressees
This has been discussed at least once before but it was accepted and implemented but not the way it was originally intended. If I overlooked an already existing identical feature request, sorry.
When ...
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Show me a message if a comment I'm editing gets deleted [duplicate]
When I'm editing a comment, if the comment gets deleted in the meantime, I'm not notified in any way. This poses a problem because if I try to submit my edit, my edited comment is irretrievably ...
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Ban "What have you tried?" links in comments
Recently on SO, I've been noticing a lot of link-only comments on (admittedly bad) questions.
The typical comment looks like this:
What have you tried?
Now, my first instinct is to flag the ...
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