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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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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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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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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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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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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Move suggested actions in the duplicate autocomment to the close banner
As so eloquently put by Shadow Wizard:
There is already the "official" close banner appearing (for the OP only) on top of the question when there are pending close votes/flags - the ...
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Please catch no alt text in the automated question review process
When writing a question, you now have to submit the question to go through an automated review process before being allowed to post it. If the review was successful, it'll give you this message:
Our ...
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Preserve image transparency when resizing images
Whenever an image is resized on Stack Exchange using URL modifiers, any transparent elements or backgrounds will be lost in the conversion.
Exactly how the missing transparency is handled can vary ...
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Please don't show the red dot indicator for review items I can't do
This is not a duplicate of Please don't red alert me for queues I've handled, because this reports different things from that question. That question is specifically about the case where the ...