Questions tagged [feature-request]
Proposals for new features on the Stack Exchange network, or requests for a change to an existing feature. On posts tagged feature-request, voting may indicate agreement or disagreement with the proposed change, in addition to the quality or usefulness of the post itself. Feature requests are not brought to the company's attention until and unless a [status-review] tag is added by a moderator or employee.
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What about having a comment section on the user profile page?
Considering careers.stackoverflow.com, employers may be interested in seeing your questions, answers, as well as your comments.
Some comments contain valuable information that can show your knowledge ...
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Add list of recent chat flags to /admin
Chat has a list of moderator links on /admin.
Unfortunately, this page doesn't have a link to /admin/recent-flags, the list of recent chat flags. Every time I want to find this list, I always have to ...
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Can we move "Start a bounty" to a more intuitive location?
Can we please move the "Start a bounty" link to be in the same location as all of the other action buttons? It makes no sense to me for this to be buried after the comments - It's an action on the ...
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Why don't you just based on the tags categorize a question onto the right substackoverflow site? [duplicate]
Same thing for duplicates and etc.. Why is it not existing or AUTOMATED. Do we have time to to research if the next possible duplicate is exactly the same question or not. I google it if i don't see a ...
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Trackbacks from SE to the arXiv.org?
Is it possible to implement trackbacks from SE sites to the arXiv.org?
Example: Here is a list of trackbacks to the arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.2658 from various blogs. My feature-request is that if a ...
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Indicator on Meta next to the display name of former Staff and/or Mod users for actions performed with that status
When a staff member or a mod posts or performs an action on a site (like commenting, reviews, revisions) their status as Staff and/or Mod status is clearly identified using symbols or text set next to ...
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Don't automatically recommend an asking days badge in the user profile if user doesn't have a positive question record
The Curious, Inquisitive, and Socratic badge family (i.e., the "asking days badges") are awarded based on two criteria:
Achieved a threshold number of qualifying days (days when one's both ...
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Inform new users about the option to edit their own post when adding a comment
When reviewing close votes, I regularly encounter questions with the following history:
New users ask a question which is unclear because it is lacking relevant information.
People add comments, ...
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Move the Tag Badges category to immediately after Answer Badges on the Badges page
Currently, the Badge Categories on the Help Center > Badges page are ordered in a non-alphabetic, semi-arbitrary manner, likely based on utility.
Question Badges
Answer Badges
Participation Badges
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Allow higher-resolution GIF images
Current limitation: One cannot upload animated GIF images with over 50 million pixels. This makes it impossible to upload HD animated images that have more than a few frames. E.g., if a gif has a ...
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Can we change the way the badge progress for the asking days badges is displayed?
Currently, the badge progress for the Curious, Inquisitive and Socratic badges looks like this:
When I don't have a positive question record, it only says "need a positive question record", ...
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Is it possible to know how many competing answers I upvoted?
I am trying to achieve the Sportsmanship badge. I wonder if it's possible to know how many times I upvoted competing answers until now?
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Mechanism to Determine Appropriate Stack Exchange Site
I see a lot of moderators migrating questions from one site to another pretty often, but tonight I had a question which doesn't neatly fit into any in the list.
Is there a mechanism, or even a ...
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Suggestion: display questions with a random delay to avoid duplicate answers
Quite often I see general or simple questions attracting many answers in a few minutes time.
Often this is because many people see the question at the same time with no answers, and jump to the rescue....
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Improve upload error message for animated WebP images
Animated WebP images are not supported. The error message is misleading (test file):
Not a valid file type: please upload a bmp, gif, jpeg, png, or webp file.
Feature request: Improve upload error ...
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