Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Change “for scientists, academics, teachers and students”
The short description of Chemistry Stack Exchange reads
Q&A for scientists, academics, teachers and students
This is certainly not wrong and describes quite well that we are open for a broad ...
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Enable mhchem mathjax extension
Mathjax 2.0 supports the mhchem extension. Could we enable it? It will save us lots of time in typesetting chemical formulae.
How to enable the extension
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Which plugins for chemical formulas do we need?
Some Stack Exchange sites have site-specific extensions that allow them e.g. to typeset mathematical equations, create UI mockups or display Go board positions. Some support for creating and ...
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Can we please burninate the organic tag?
It was created recently and (fortunately) hasn't been used till now.
It is pointless, unless somebody wants to advertise home-grown lettuce on Chemistry.SE!
It is ugly and I do not want to use it ...
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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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Should we create a community blog?
Several people have mentioned that we should note significant answers to common (or interesting) questions, for example here.
I think a community blog could serve several great uses:
Discussing ...
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Plagiarism: To what extent? We should be able to flag for this
I've read a lot of great answers from very generous people contributing on SE:Chem. However, sometimes I've come across an occasional answer where large swaths if not the entire response was a ...
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Reputation losses on Chemistry.SE - Can we please get the votes back?
The following illustrates the dramatic impact of a situation described earlier in
Don't throw away all votes when a user is deleted.
Chemistry.SE is a vivid beta site with ~ 2700 questions. The ...
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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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Why are there no migrations paths to Physics.SE, Math.SE, etc.?
When flagging for migration to another SE network, the only option I get is chemistry.meta.stackexchange.com. Why are other SE networks not shown here, like Physics.SE (many questions fit there better ...
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Can site users suggest some design specifications regarding graduated site development
So here comes a good news that Chemistry SE is graduating soon. (Update: we have graduated now! Yay!)
Chemistry Stack Exchange has a steady flow of high quality questions and answers, and a growing ...
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Can we make a "big list" community question for structure drawing software?
I would like to know the possible alternative available in chemistry software I've found very useful the big list like TeX or StackOverflow I would like have something similar to find the best ...
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Finding a library to allow drawing chemical structures directly on the site
Drawing structural formulas is a very common task in chemistry. Simple chemical formulas are often not sufficient, they are ambiguous for pretty much any non-trivial molecule, and structural formulas ...
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Enable migration paths to Physics and Biology
According to an answer to this question, now that Chemistry.SE is out of beta, it is eligible to have migration paths to other sites. I think paths to Physics.SE and Biology.SE would be very helpful ...
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Shouldn't the OP be notified if his/her question is put on hold or closed or edited?
I recently asked a question which was put on hold. I was not notified of it being put on hold. I was always notified if my question had any answer or comment. If I had received the notification, I had ...
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