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 if resources from SE Q&A communities are not enough for reviews of postings for reopening? [duplicate]
If a posting is in review queue for reopening and resources of Q&A communities of SE are not sufficient for review within a day or possibly several days, is it of value making a comment or being ...
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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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What is the logic for the 4 sites chosen to be shown in Email Settings list of affected sites? Can it be changed to something more logical?
In the new email settings, there are four sites shown for the list of sites that will be affected by the settings. The rest are hidden under the "+ more" link.
When looking at the four visible ...
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The "What are Tag Wikis?" editing help uses "►", creating less-accessible "lists"
Related: "How to Format/Tag" uses "►", creating less-accessible "lists"
After the previous feature request was posted and implemented, I realized that there was another ...
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The "Describe why you would make a good moderator" box uses "►", creating less-accessible "lists"
This is my third report of the same phenomenon (one, two) and it's the same deal. The sidebar list items look like they're a list to a visual user. However, a screen reader will be unable to interpret ...
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Penalties for continuously closing questions for a bad reason?
It is extremely common in my experience to see a question that is closed for a reason that is clearly incorrect. It takes an eternity for the question to be unclosed through the appeal process.
In the ...
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Allow users to vote to close bountied questions
There was an an earlier meta-discussion about allowing moderators to skip the "bounty refund" step when closing a question that was declined, but I wanted to spin off waffles's comments into a ...
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Don't throw away all votes when a user is deleted
Currently, when a moderator deletes a user all of the user's votes are removed along with the user themselves. I was pretty surprised at this behaviour when I first heard about it, and I don't think ...
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An official way of closing announcements on Meta?
Currently, many announcements are closed using reasons such as
off-topic (custom reason)
The second draft of our Code of Conduct is available for feedback and review
off-topic (can no longer be ...
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Ban ImageShack images because they are reusing old URLs for advertising
There's a very popular topic on Stack Overflow's Meta asking to Ban ImageShack Images. This was created because ImageShack deletes old images to free up server space, making images within older posts ...
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Julia syntax highlighting
Since the syntax highlighter is now highlight.js it would be great to finally get some syntax highlighting for Julia code on Stack Overflow and other sites that might need this tag. Julia is one of ...
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The "learn more" explanation for Voting Correction does not cover all scenarios
The wording of the learn more for Voting corrected refers specifically and exclusively to multiple votes:
When a single user continually votes (up or down) on many of your posts within a short period ...
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We need "assume good intent" back in the Code of Conduct
At some point, "assume good intent" was removed from the Code of Conduct.
It's a key pillar of the social contract and how we choose to deal with each other. It belongs in the Code of ...
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Fixing some drawbacks of the fragmented login system [duplicate]
SE intentionally set up the whole account system so that each site is treated separately. Joining a specific SE site doesn't create an account on any other site. If you want to use multiple SE sites, ...
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Can we have more-consistent flag colors within a site?
The topbar now uses blue for flag counts across all sites:
This adds a third color representing flags to the mix. On Mi Yodeya and Writers (beta), the only ones where I have direct knowledge, the ...
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