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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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.
I think this feature should be made available on ...
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Should the poster of a question be able to mark their self-answers after 2 days automatically?
After the poster finds an answer and posts it, they have to wait 2 days to mark it as the answer. Should Stack Exchange provide a button or option to automatically mark it as the answer after 2 days, ...
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Could we revisit WebP support with the new uploader?
There's a feature request from last year requesting WebP support. I'd say the arguments made there were persuasive, and I'd encourage people to take a look at that post.
I'd say that with the new ...
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Remove the 'resetting any rude or abusive flags' note from the rollback tooltip
The tooltip for the rollback button in a revision history is:
sets the current revision to this version of the post, resetting any "rude or abusive" flags
However, the 'resetting of red ...
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New image uploader should have a more descriptive error when you paste in a link rather than a picture
Admittedly, I pretty much tried to fit a square peg into a round hole, but I accidentally used the image upload button instead of the link button when trying to post a link to a question.
Current ...
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How can I make a reversed numbered list in a question or answer?
Numbered lists are easy:
Item1
Item2
This is how it looks when I'm typing this question:
Reversed numbered lists are not that easy:
Item2
Item1
This is how it looks when I'm typing this question:
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Make it flow smoothly to add a post to a specific saves list
I am an avid user of the saves feature. I like it. I want to love it. One of the biggest pain points is how much I need to move my mouse around to add a post to a specific list.
saves button is to ...
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Add a keyboard shortcut for adding a post to saves
I use the saves feature a lot, and I also use my keyboard a lot. It would be nice to have a keyboard shortcut for saving a post.
I dunno. How about v,s (as in "vote -> save").
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Allow bold/italic formatting in first question notice translations on international sites (English sites do make use of it)
When the user of any SE site is ready to post their first question they will see the notice, e.g. on ruSO now:
Source English text for the top paragraph in this popup is the following in traducir:
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Why do questions not get locked after a period of inactivity?
At least in exchanges where "necro-posting" is banned, questions do not get locked after a period of inactivity, and therefore can still have answers and comments added. If moderation ...
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Being able to easily see how many deleted versus non-deleted posts I acted on
I am often curious how many total questions I have closed/reopened/edited/etc regardless which ones were later deleted. You can view these statistics on your profile, and selecting the desired tab, to ...
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For each Stack Exchange site, would it be good to have a pseudo-dictionary webpages for tag list? [closed]
For each Stack Exchange site, would it be good to have a pseudo-dictionary web page for tag list?
Essentially, it is a dictionary web page(s) containing a list of pages used by a particular Stack ...
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Don't show the contents of a post that was deleted as "rude/abusive" in New Answers to Old Questions
When scrolling through /tools/new-answers-old-questions, it can be rather unpleasant and typically not useful to see the contents of posts that have already been deleted as rude/abusive inline. If it'...
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Minor terminology improvement for the AI policy
https://physics.stackexchange.com/help/ai-policy, https://webapps.stackexchange.com/help/ai-policy, https://superuser.com/help/ai-policy, https://serverfault.com/help/ai-policy, etc. state:
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Don't automatically convert answers to comments
It appears the system will automatically convert every short answer containing a link, into a comment. This is bad design. I wrote a short answer that is self-contained and perfectly acceptable as ...
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Create a view that provides a list of databases
In an answer to Strange new database 'Data.StackExchangePOC' is messing up cross-site SEDE queries our DBA extraordinair Aaron Bertrand suggested to have a feature request for a view to list ...
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The policy of editing out “noise” should be proactively explained and more easily referred to and justified
Across the network, but especially on Stack Overflow, it's considered important to edit questions and answers to remove noise. Of course I agree with this policy; it's part of what keeps the sites ...
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Prevent reopen votes from expiring until a question is dequeued to improve experience for low-visibility queue items
The workflow for getting a question reopened is you edit to improve the question, use the 'Add to review' checkbox or cast a reopen vote yourself to push your question into the Reopen votes queue, ...
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Knowing the date when I saved a post (a Question or an Answer)
In the Saves section of a profile (link pattern https://$community.stackexchange.com/users/saves/$userid/all?sort=Added) there is the "Added" sort option. But the items in the list don't ...
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Upgrade highlight.js library, due bad assembly code highlighting
When I edited a SO post, I noticed an error in highlighting assembly code sample.
Not only formatting is not applied when using assembly nor x84asm language identifiers, but it looks bad even if using ...
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Can we get an [ai-policy] magic link?
Now that sites have AI policies, it seems like we would benefit from a magic link, like [ai-policy], linking to the site's respective help page.
I tested this just now, but it didn't work, and it's ...
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Only add the "edited by" label for big changes, and not "Edit tags"
Editing tags is a minor change; "Edited by ..." should be added only for big edits/ improvements.
Personally, I find "Edited by ... Kilroy" distracting, not helpful.
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"A year in moderation" posts should include number of edited comments
Comments can be edited by moderators. The linked post mentions that changes are logged to prevent abuse, and suggests that moderators should do it "almost never". There is no visible trace ...
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Reopen votes queue guidance contains outdated and/or inaccurate information
Go to any site /review/reopen then click Learn more about the Reopen votes queue.
Closed questions that have received at least one reopen vote, as well as posts whose bodies have been edited within ...
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Add comment guidance has very low contrast text [duplicate]
This showed up the first time I added a comment:
The black on dark blue is very hard to read. I think it should use the standard code colour of code. so it would look like:
Comments use mini-...
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Should the "too many pending edits" pop-up be reworded for accuracy (unless rejected edits have no effect on the number pending)?
As per this pop-up, I have maxed out on my pending edits:
For those who cannot read screen images, it says with my emboldenment:
You have too many pending edits. Further edits cannot be submitted ...
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Can there be suggested edit audits that should be approved?
There has been some discussion over the years about the quality of suggested edit audits and the possibility of there being audits where the correct action is approve:
Are there tests of suggested ...
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Enable marking posts as answered on a different site? It seems like a good idea to me [duplicate]
Recently I asked a question on Stack Overflow, but then found an answer on Computer Science Stack Exchange, so I posted a link in a comment (I would have felt bad answering my own question with a link ...
