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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Reduce the vertical spacing in the question title on the timeline page [duplicate]
There is too much vertical spacing in the question title on the timeline page when viewed on Chrome with Android. I'd suggest reducing it.
Example from https://stats.stackexchange.com/posts/604021/...
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Indicator on Meta next to the display name of former Staff and/or Mod users for actions performed with that status
When a staff member or a mod posts or performs an action on a site (like commenting, reviews, revisions) their status as Staff and/or Mod status is clearly identified using symbols or text set next to ...
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Feature of posting a question as an anonymous guest user (without having an account) is not useful and it leads to incorrect answers / comments
Posting a question as an anonymous guest user (without having an account) is allowed but for commenting 50 reputations are required.
A guest user (who doesn't have an account) can't accrue any ...
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Regarding the "Find a Stack Exchange Community" search engine, can community members add "Also Known As" terms to help direct people to their site?
This question is in reference to this box...
I found that when I entered terms like "climate change", "clean energy", "renewable", "global warming", etc. that ...
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Add possibility to save snippet of code in the user profile [duplicate]
I just had this need for storing a snippet of code, I made, for my future self.
In this case, it was an attempt at parsing a file in an effective way in C, approximately 45 lines.
I want it to stay ...
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Add a "go to page" when looking through unanswered questions
I am attempting to reduce the number of unanswered questions on one site.
When searching through (unanswered) questions there is a menu at the bottom with pages 1 through 5 and then the last page. For ...
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Can new users not be bait-and-switched?
As a new user on SE, I shared the common new-user experience of questions downvoted, and closed, and the feeling of being kicked around by (well-meaning) moderators, and perhaps worse, the suspicion ...
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Missing guidance in audits: Keeping in mind what guidance above?
I just 'failed' a First Questions audit. The message reads:
STOP! Look and Listen.
This was an audit, designed to see if you were paying attention. You didn't pass.
Don't worry, we've already ...
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Misleading category title in chat
This category is named “mine”. It is a bit misleading since it actually shows what rooms I’m in, not what rooms I own:
This suggests that I own The Nineteenth byte, which I do not.
Maybe this could ...
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Custom comment when sharing feedback doesn't warn of the character limit and simply truncates the text
When reviewing and sharing feedback with a custom comment, the little box thing where I type the comment doesn't warn of the 500-character limit, nor does it give me a countdown of how many characters ...
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Differentiating clickable and downloadable links in Stack Overflow Blog post
When accessing the Stack Overflow Blog post via mobile data, it becomes crucial to distinguish between clickable links and downloadable PDFs. The ability to identify and ignore PDF links can help ...
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Please make all blue tags black and gray in per-site metas
In most per-site metas common tags have black (and gray) cards; an example is Meta Physics SE.
But there are some sites that have colored common tag cards such as Meta Philosophy SE. And the color of ...
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No descriptive error when trying to post an answer while logged out
While typing an answer, my session expired (?) causing me to be logged out.
I didn't notice that, but when pressing 'Post your answer', the following 'error' was shown:
Your answer couldn't be ...
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Reminder about AI generated answers for non-English SOs [duplicate]
On the big Stack Overflow we have a notice in the answer box about the AI-generated answers policy:
Can we spread the same for the rest of the Stack Overflow sites in non-English languages: Russian, ...
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Please filter out modified posts that a low reputation user cannot see from the questions search report
I wanted to ask why I am being informed that a post was modified when I cannot see any modifications to that post, but I found the answer to that question in these two posts:
Question says modified ...
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MathOverflow links on Mathematics Stack Exchange [duplicate]
Sometimes on Mathematics Stack Exchange, I would like to reference a link from MathOverflow. It would be helpful if it got immediately turned into the title without having to type it and then include ...
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Please support syntax highlighting in user profiles
I found a bug report about this: Code syntaxhighlighting does not work in "About Me"
The answer by a staff member says:
If you want to make a case for why we should, a feature request would ...
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What is the purpose of limiting access to edit help center pages?
As far as I know the number of help center pages available to edit by moderators is very limited: What parts of the help center can site moderators edit?
Moreover, I (as a moderator of ruSO) can't ...
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Make answering notice for unregistered users be translatable via Traducir
On sites where answering for unregistered users is available, they will see the following notice below the post body text area:
Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow!
Please be sure to ...
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Why no rules sidebar? [duplicate]
Seems like this would save many newcomers from asking questions which get closed for being off-topic or belong on a different site, if they could easily see the rules about questions on the site on ...
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Feature request - A simple credential leak detection in the answer tab
I recently analyzed Stack Overflow for leaks,
and the sites contain a lot of leaks (Stack Overflow did contain most of them, but still askubuntu.com and unix.stackexchange.com do contain some leaks).
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How can I suggest edits to Stack Overflow Blog posts?
Kevin Henner's An intuitive introduction to text embeddings (2023-11-09) is a very impressive write-up, except for one paragraph near the beginning, which unceremoniously demolishes the analogy that ...
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What's the purpose of inactive "apply to answers too" checkbox on mod menu if the item text already refers to answers only?
If there are answers with wiki status, the mod menu for a question contains the following item (Remove wiki from answers):
* text autotranslated from Russian to English
What's the purpose of inactive ...
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Is it possible to use Meta to search a keyword throughout all my "saves" on all communities? [duplicate]
I saved some questions and some specific answers that I found useful on the Ask Ubuntu community, and I did the same on other communities, like Server Fault, Unix & Linux, Ask Different, Aviation, ...
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Feature request for account login [duplicate]
Add a feature to sign up or login through their GitHub Account. Many sites offer login through GitHub and I think this feature would make it better.
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Add direct link to on-topic page of help center for closed as off-topic questions
Currently the closed as off-topic questions have a banner like this:
This banner contains two links:
off-topic: https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions
help center: https://meta....
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Please change the CAPTCHA so that Chinese can use Stack Overflow [duplicate]
Programmers from china can't visit Wikipedia, but CAPTCHA redirects to a Wikipedia page: That means Stack Overflow refuses Chinese users.
I don't want to comment about the prohibition to Wikipedia in ...
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Use localized icons for Q&A in left navigation menu
On the recent update, we got icons next to items on the left navigation menu. All these icons are used for any SE sites. At the same time on localized sites, like SO in Russian, there are localized ...
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Add a warning about generative AI on other sites (only to sites which banned generative AI) of Stack Exchange
On Stack Overflow (only in English) there is the warning about generative AI answers:
Reminder: Answers generated by Artificial Intelligence tools are not allowed on Stack Overflow. Learn more.
Can ...
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Make clicking "manage" after saving a post auto-focus the list-selection dropdown
This would be nice for quality-of-life for keyboard users. Save me some completely unnecessary key-presses would you? (Or explain to me why they're not completely unnecessary)
Also, while we're at it, ...
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