Questions tagged [feature-request]
This tag is for proposals of new features on the site, 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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Add "contains"/"overlap" checks in the ask-wizard to prevent duplicate content
With the implementation of Can you prevent users from using same content in ask question wizard? last year it is not possible to add the same content in the two textareas on the Ask Wizard. You get ...
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Send users in a question ban to the Staging Ground when asking a question
This is something that has been raised a few times, both on announcement posts and in the private Team; however, I am posting a formal request to make it so that users that are in a question ban are ...
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Increase reputation required to post a Discussion
This is very similar to a prior post I made, however, that was off the back off a massive spam wave that was hitting Discussions at the time.
I am, however, specifically requesting, again, that the ...
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Add "by views" sorting option to search
I would like to have a "most viewed" and "created date" sorting option when searching for questions on the site (as shown in the image).
This will also then open the door for ...
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Why was the threshold to mark an SG post as off-topic/duplicate changed from 2 to 3? Can it be changed back?
The Staging Ground's environment is a bit different. Typically, two users can together vote a question as being off-topic or as a duplicate. This means that reviewers can expediently handle questions ...
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Orange triangle looks too much like warning [closed]
What does this triangle appear to say to newer users?
three bronze badges, or
three violation warnings?
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Add a "My Discussions" entry for Discussions LABS in the profile page
As the title says, I didn't find the Discussions I proposed.
I think the best place to do this is to create a new entry under Activity.
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Move to Staging area feature
Questions are expectedly arriving from new users and bypassing the staging area. Would it be useful to include a button, say beside the close button, to move the question to the staging area? This ...
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Warning about no more close votes should be on 'close' button
This post is only slightly related to this one, and I am aware of the vote count at the bottom right corner of the close window.
And, while I completely agree that disabling or hiding the 'close' ...
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custom filter shows both published post and SG item if load new items after publishing the SG post in another tab
I requested a custom filter page, opened an SG item in a new tab, published the SG item, returned to the custom filter tab, loaded new items, and saw both the SG item and published item. Not a big ...
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Private nicknames to help with user31415926536
I tend to get all these user(number) accounts mixed up all the time. The generated gravatars don't help (much) and sometimes people change theirs.
What if I could specify that I want user12345678 ...
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Future Dates in Daily Visit Calendar
I've been using the Daily Visit Calendar to track my activity on Stack Overflow, and I noticed that it's possible to navigate to future dates. Since the primary purpose of the calendar is to track ...
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Are there any stats, or way the community can obtain details on how Discussions are performing?
It's not a secret that, at least from users active on Meta, that Discussions as a feature has not been well received. Every time I visit the feature I feel like I end up flagging almost every post on ...
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Flagging a Staging Ground question as spam should close-vote it too [duplicate]
I ran across an obvious piece of spam in Staging Ground. I flagged it accordingly, but I still had the set of choices in the "Review Question" box. It clearly shouldn't be promoted to a &...
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Can't dupe-hammer a Staging Ground question after it was voted off-topic and submitted for re-evaluation
https://stackoverflow.com/staging-ground/78628790
Initially, the question was voted as off-topic as caused by a typo or not reproducible. In my view this is incorrect; rather the question simply ...
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