Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Best way to post and visualize crystallographic data
I think this would help a lot to save time needed to produce images, reduce internet traffic and make understanding of the structures easier, if only there would be a better way rather than putting a ...
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Newcomers are more valuable than you think, please welcome them
This isn't a new issue as far as I have noticed from seeing the older posts regarding this:
Shouldn't we be a bit more welcoming to new askers/ posters?
We should have a Welcome post to link to ...
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Prevention of unnecessary edits of old posts.
The issue of unnecessary edits has been brought up many times here, both on meta and in chat.
The "Hidden points of editing you probably didn't know" post puts it fairly succinctly:
In any event,...
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Enable syntax highlighting for code
Editorial comment
As of 7th August 2017 there is quite strong support for the proposal. The developers have been asked via e-mail to take a closer look.
Here is a block of Python, indented by 4 ...
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Nomenclature tag synonyms: naming, name, or names
Often newcomers ask a question dealing with naming of chemical compounds. But they might not know, that naming is technically called nomenclature. Therefore I think it would be helpful to add naming ...
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Can we change the contrast of questions which have at least one of our favourite tags?
My question is just simple and that is only common sense for me, we can choose favourite tags and I think the goal is to rise the questions we can answer, at least, and the questions which can ...
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Quote box coloring, should it stand out more?
When I'm reading a post with quoted material, the quote doesn't seem to stand out to me, maybe it's something about it being yellow, but I cannot see it.
Quoth the raven
Nevermore
The blue here ...
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Pin chat to the sidebar on main site?
Can we pin the link to the chatroom to the sidebar on the main site? It does not always appear.
This was asked by another user in chat and discussed (I can't find it now, of course) and I thought it ...
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Enable automatic line-breaking for SVG output
The MathJax configuration for the HTML–CSS output processor includes the option linebreaks: { automatic:true }. When using this output processor (right-click on any ...
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Can we have oneboxed links for scientific papers in chat?
Certain weblinks when posted in chat will onebox, i.e. they will be displayed as a box containing part of the content of the site linked. This is especially cool for SE questions and answers but also ...
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Can we allow comments on the question change the status of a question to active?
I think it may be useful to allow the addition of a comment to bump a question.
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Inspiration from Hacktoberfest
Hacktoberfest is a program to get programmers involved in the open source community. The idea is that by contributing to a number of projects during the month of October, members can receive a free t ...
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Video player integration in answers
Many posts here involve explaining the procedure/process involved to achieve the desired results, whose demonstration videos / concept-explaining videos(with animations) usually can be found on sites ...
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Reviewing the questions by a reputed user before posting
Is it right if I talk about a system where experienced users like somebody with 1000 points and above to review each question asked and make necessary suggestions as soon as possible and then post it....
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Reasoning or commenting before downvoting
Would it be better if we make necessary for a member to comment/reason along with downvoting?
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