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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Tutorials on Stack Overflow
Is there a reason why doesn't Stack Overflow have a tutorial section on its website?
I think this would be a great feature as yes, you can get an answer to a specific problem but sometimes it's just a ...
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The "talkative" user problem
After asking questions and providing answers here for about 10 years, few days ago I have faced with a very irritating problem.
Currently, the subject of my interest is ImageMagick, a command-line ...
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In the AI policy on SE sites allowing GenAI, don't discourage sharing the entire prompt(s). Sharing the entire prompt(s) should be instead encouraged
Regarding the SE sites allowing the use of generative AI:
https://physics.stackexchange.com/help/ai-policy, https://webapps.stackexchange.com/help/ai-policy, https://serverfault.com/help/ai-policy, ...
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i.sstatic.net is missing IPv6 DNS resolution
Cloudflare is about one of the easiest way to get a domain served over both IPv4 and IPv6. However the new image hosting domain doesn't have any AAAA records. Would it be too much to ask for images to ...
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Have an option to permanently switch to the jQuery fallback across all SE sites
Every SE site loads script from https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.4/jquery.min.js. Unfortunately, the majority of Google's domains, including ajax.googleapis.com, are blocked by GFW.
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Revisit the idea of attachments, now that images are selfhosted
Is it time to revisit the idea of attachments, now that images are self hosted? (Stack Exchange’s image hosting arrangement with Imgur is ending - advance notice)
See the old question here:
Please add ...
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Please enable hotlinking to images hosted under sstatic.net
I have just discovered that the new i.sstatic.net domain does not allow hotlinking. I assume it was done to prevent using the images outside of the SE network, however I kindly ask you to reconsider ...
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Can Stack Exchange have a direct interface to push code from GitHub? [closed]
I would like to see this feature implemented—an interface to push code from GitHub—as I keep having to copy paste code between Stack Exchange and GitHub.
I know that GitHub has its own discussion ...
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How to easily access your "saved for later"/duplicates list when voting duplicates
It would be very useful, when voting on a question as duplicate, if one could easily access the "Saved for later" list (or whatever list one uses), since that's where I keep the commonly ...
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When a tag is removed, why isn't it removed from watchlists?
Recent activity in New Caledonia (and the closure of the airport) made me wonder if there were any recent questions in the air-calin tag on Travel. It's one of my watched tags, so I clicked it and -- ...
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Can we exchange one index for another one?
In the Stack Exchange Data Explorer only the most logical/beneficial yet minimal set of indexes is created for the tables found in the schema.
One of those indexes is on the Users table:
CREATE ...
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Allow editing already-submitted “In need of moderator intervention” flag comments
After I submit text for the flagging reason “In need of moderator intervention”, it's not possible to edit it.
So my feature-request is: after submitting the "In need of moderator intervention&...
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Stack Overflow announcement profile [duplicate]
Feature request: a Stack Overflow announcement account!
So as you all know, Stack Overflow manages a lot of the administration of the Stack Exchange network, so this is not site specific.
I just want ...
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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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Separately show number of upvotes and downvotes [duplicate]
Here on Meta Stack Exchange (MSE), by clicking on the net reputation of a question, we can see the number of updates and downvotes received separately.
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