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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Dismiss suggested edits which conflict with full edit instead of auto rejecting them
Currently, once an edit by a user without full edit privilege is suggested, it can be either approved or rejected.
There is a known edge case that causes suggested edits to get auto rejected: (aka ...
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Formatting and hyperlinks should not count towards the character limit on comments
This is a minor frustration, but I have a comment that I put italics and bold into (using asterisks.) Now I know I should just be happy that I could do it at all, but it seems to me that those should ...
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Don't bump "dead" questions [duplicate]
Community Bot visits old questions and bumps them so that they can receive answers and hopefully have an accepted answer eventually.
However, many answers are old, and the OP sometimes hasn’t visited ...
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Remove `[Text]` from the no-alt-text warning message
Feature request: Remove [Text] from the no-alt-text warning message.
Screenshot taken on https://ell.stackexchange.com/
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Allow users to setup canned replies in their profile, then use these to reply as comments
The idea is pretty straightforward. I didn't see a related topic.
The idea would be to add a section to the user's profile where they can enter a list of canned replies. Canned replies would consist ...
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Change "Hot Network Questions" to "Trending Network Questions"?
The word Hot in Hot Network Questions feels like it carries a sexual connotation.
Should the phrase Hot Network Questions be changed to Trending Network Questions?
Do you think the latter is more ...
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Is it possible to send a request to a person by a private message? [duplicate]
Is it possible to request the person by PM?
Scenario:
Someone asked a question.
He is asked to show the code.
The code was used unfortunately in pastebin.com
1 week later session expired pastebin....
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Manually clear saved question drafts
I've seen lately that new question editing is stored somewhere for later use if we wander off the new question without posting it and then return back to the page. Which is a good functionality ...
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What was the answer for which I earned and then lost rep points from removed user? [duplicate]
From time to time I lose 10 rep points for a "User was removed" reason. I'm really curious to know in what way I helped that user, that is, what was his\her question, and what did I answer? ...
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Make voting activity on your posts available on site metas (what you would get from rep if metas had rep)
Child metas don't have rep, so there's no point in tracking a rep stat or reporting changes. But one of the things rep updates do on main sites is to alert me when there's activity on older posts. ...
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Can users with sufficient reputation get free ChatGPT Plus accounts?
I'm just going to put this out there, with no real idea how it'll be received but...
Question: Can users with sufficient reputation get free ChatGPT Plus accounts?
In particular:
Stack Exchange is ...
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Automatically resize images if their file size is too large
I posted this in 2018 here and it was marked as status-deferred. It's almost three years later and this is still an issue on Gardening and Landscaping and any site where photos are used to help ...
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Image size limit: Why it is set to 2 MiB?
From older Meta posts it seem to me that the file size limit was higher in the past, and linked to the limits allowed by imgur.
However, now the limit is 2 MiB, and imgur allows much more than that (&...
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Add a confirmation dialog before suspending people on chat
At the moment, suspending folks in chat is pretty easy: You press a button, and they can't chat for an hour.
The problem is, this button doesn't have any sort of confirmation. It just... goes ahead ...
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2FA for Stack Exchange universal login
I'm aware there's already a FR for this, but it applied to OpenID. With OpenID now being deprecated fully removed, that feature request can never be implemented. Therefore, this feature request for ...
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What about having a comment section on the user profile page?
Considering careers.stackoverflow.com, employers may be interested in seeing your questions, answers, as well as your comments.
Some comments contain valuable information that can show your knowledge ...
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Add list of recent chat flags to /admin
Chat has a list of moderator links on /admin.
Unfortunately, this page doesn't have a link to /admin/recent-flags, the list of recent chat flags. Every time I want to find this list, I always have to ...
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Can we move "Start a bounty" to a more intuitive location?
Can we please move the "Start a bounty" link to be in the same location as all of the other action buttons? It makes no sense to me for this to be buried after the comments - It's an action on the ...
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Why don't you just based on the tags categorize a question onto the right substackoverflow site? [duplicate]
Same thing for duplicates and etc.. Why is it not existing or AUTOMATED. Do we have time to to research if the next possible duplicate is exactly the same question or not. I google it if i don't see a ...
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Trackbacks from SE to the arXiv.org?
Is it possible to implement trackbacks from SE sites to the arXiv.org?
Example: Here is a list of trackbacks to the arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.2658 from various blogs. My feature-request is that if a ...
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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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Don't automatically recommend an asking days badge in the user profile if user doesn't have a positive question record
The Curious, Inquisitive, and Socratic badge family (i.e., the "asking days badges") are awarded based on two criteria:
Achieved a threshold number of qualifying days (days when one's both ...
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Inform new users about the option to edit their own post when adding a comment
When reviewing close votes, I regularly encounter questions with the following history:
New users ask a question which is unclear because it is lacking relevant information.
People add comments, ...
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Move the Tag Badges category to immediately after Answer Badges on the Badges page
Currently, the Badge Categories on the Help Center > Badges page are ordered in a non-alphabetic, semi-arbitrary manner, likely based on utility.
Question Badges
Answer Badges
Participation Badges
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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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Can we change the way the badge progress for the asking days badges is displayed?
Currently, the badge progress for the Curious, Inquisitive and Socratic badges looks like this:
When I don't have a positive question record, it only says "need a positive question record", ...
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Is it possible to know how many competing answers I upvoted?
I am trying to achieve the Sportsmanship badge. I wonder if it's possible to know how many times I upvoted competing answers until now?
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Mechanism to Determine Appropriate Stack Exchange Site
I see a lot of moderators migrating questions from one site to another pretty often, but tonight I had a question which doesn't neatly fit into any in the list.
Is there a mechanism, or even a ...
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Suggestion: display questions with a random delay to avoid duplicate answers
Quite often I see general or simple questions attracting many answers in a few minutes time.
Often this is because many people see the question at the same time with no answers, and jump to the rescue....
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Improve upload error message for animated WebP images
Animated WebP images are not supported. The error message is misleading (test file):
Not a valid file type: please upload a bmp, gif, jpeg, png, or webp file.
Feature request: Improve upload error ...
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