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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Please add the list of questions (un-)protected to the profile page [duplicate]
Currently, the profile page does not show which questions one (un-)protected.
One can get a list from SEDE (at most one week old, not containing deleted questions), but that's somewhat cumbersome.
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Allow Chinese names with less than 3 characters on Chinese Stack Exchange
...and possibly elsewhere on the network, but I really think it should at least be allowed on Chinese Language.
I and many others are not able to use our names on Chinese Stack Exchange without ...
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Allow rollbacks for tag wikis
So, on Myth.SE, there were some interesting tag wiki suggested edits, using content directly copied from Wikipedia. Stack Exchange does not appreciate that.
So some of our newer users approved it, as ...
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Streamline moderators contacting users through chat
If a moderator needs to contact a user (and it's not severe enough to warrant a moderator message), it's common to make a private room and ping them. The procedure is:
Create a new chatroom (named "...
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Please show tags in the list of suggested questions that may already have your answer
Over on Arqade we've had a meta discussion recently regarding the inclusion of game names in question titles due to an issue where the 'Questions that may already have your answer' suggestions when ...
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Ability to see linked chat messages separately
We all know how big chat rooms can advance quickly. Is there a way (or a future plan) that I can view a linked message and it's predecessors in a different view/page/thread? So they are all in a ...
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hot network questions have inconsistent CSS for visited/not visited depending on the site you're on
This is a HNQ excerpt from Stack Overflow. Visited questions are objectively darker.
This is a HNQ excerpt from Super User. Visited questions are objectively lighter.
This is a HNQ excerpt from ...
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Display comment flag next to vote instead of below to reduce whitespace
On the desktop site, most of the vertical whitespace in one-line comments is to make space for the flag button, which is below the vote button. I find this whitespace to be excessive, especially given ...
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Is there a way to see deleted Area 51 proposals, to learn from what went wrong?
I asked if there was an SE site where I could ask driving questions, and I was told in a comment that someone tried to start an Area 51 proposal called "On the road", which covered what I wanted, ...
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Can we list more blog posts per page?
I love the new blog format, but paging back to find an older blog post is somewhat arduous — there are only five short excerpts per page.
Instead of scrolling down a short ways to click 'older'...
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Please provide a way to download SEDE data via an API
I recently suggested on the Stack Apps site that a formal API be added to SEDE, and it was suggested I reference the feature request here, for visibility.
My use case is a query that the API does not ...
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FAQ sidebar for per site metas
Meta Stack Exchange has a nice side bar over when you are on the main page (the one you hit when you go to the 'meta' link, not the 'questions' tab).
It's great. You can see there is a 'faq' ...
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Help Center for Area 51
Is area 51 going to have the help center? The content would be different, but I like the idea of the help center and I think we should be consistent across all of the sites.
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Can we change the contrast of questions which have at least one of our favourite tags? (For Chem.SE) [closed]
I asked the question on meta chemistry stackexchange about the difference of contrast which is less obvious for us in Chem.SE than in Math.SE for example.
We will be glad if someone can help us.
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