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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Replace links with the current question title in comments
In questions, links get converted into question titles (see Replace trilogy raw links with the current question title?)
Can the same functionality be added to comments?
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Should We Zap The Low-Occurrence Tags? [closed]
I just looked on SO, and found that there are about 12,880 tags with only a single use. There are 26,250 used less than 10 times.
That's just too many for the community to fix. I think we need some ...
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Discourage questions being marked as answered within an hour or so of being posted
I keep on seeing a fair number of questions (such as this one) which get marked as answered within 5-10 minutes of being posted. Sometimes the questions like this are insanely popular and actually see ...
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Update Migration Path List for Non-Moderators [closed]
Currently the migration path options from SO are:
Meta.SO
Serverfault
SuperUser
Webmasters
Programmers
If we are going to be limited to 5 options, shouldn't we periodically re-evaluate which sites ...
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Replace trilogy raw links with the current question title?
It often happens that people will refer to other questions by simply pasting the full link to this question, especially on Meta.
Would it be a good idea to detect such links, and replace them ...
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Replace accept rate with citizenship level
I see that accept rate has now been removed from display on questions. I think this is not a great solution for reasons that waffles explained well. Take it away waffles!
On one hand accept rate ...
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Add markdown support for hidden-until-you-click text (aka spoilers)
Use cases:
Programming puzzles. This way the answer can be posted the same time as the question, eliminating doubt that no answer is possible for hard questions and proving that the question is not a ...
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Could authors overturn recent community review decisions?
When new users edit a post, the review is posted to a review queue and other reputable users can review the edit and choose to approve or reject it. However, I feel that a lot of people do it pretty ...
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How can we close questions with bounties?
I just encountered this question, which is very cute and funny and has nothing to do with programming. I tried voting to close, but was informed by the system that I can't do that when there's a ...
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How about a difficulty rating for questions?
It might be useful to add a drop down field "Difficulty" for questions. With a very limited set of options, say:
Beginner
Advanced
Expert
This way, users could easily judge if they can answer a ...
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Reputation for comments?
I have seen many good comments that really improve the quality of questions and answers, and I think they deserve a bit of reputation (maybe just 1 point) for a upvote.
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Prevent posts with links to jsfiddle and no code
It's extremely common for people to ask and answer questions with no code other than a link to http://jsfiddle.net or similar service. These of course are not appropriate. I have personally been ...
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Migrate to *any* site?
Wouldn't it be a good idea to be able to vote for questions to be moved to any Stack Exchange site? For example, I just voted this question as off topic, but that was all I could do. I wish I could've ...
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Don't close questions where the user has requested that it not be closed [closed]
The system should search posts for the word "please" in proximity to the phrase "don't close" or "do not close", and if found together disable the close link for the following reasons:
They asked ...
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Add a link to the timeline of a post
For the past year I have been quite active on SO and a bit on meta, but I had never heard of the timeline of a post until today in a comment on meta.
There was an announcement by Jeff Atwood two ...
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