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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Language labels on code blocks look as though they're part of the code in the block. Can this be changed?
After encountering the issue with misidentified languages in code blocks, I went to look at my old questions and answers in case any of them were affected.
Even in situations where the language was ...
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Clarify the security reporting guidance for Stack Internal
This is going to be a bit broad, but I think it's worth discussing, even with the Needs more focus line.
The general guidance for reporting security issues for Stack Internal (formerly Stack Overflow ...
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Save an activity log
What about a feature that lets you save the activity log in a csv file? That would allow saving my activity log before I delete a user profile or have something to check and search offline to get my ...
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Make images uploaded with the new Ask page clickable
Feature request: make images uploaded with the new Ask page clickable (the new Ask page is used on some Stack Exchange Sites such as Super User and Ask Ubuntu).
Rationale: that is the behavior of the ...
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Don't send me notifications (and emails) for company update posts
Recently I got an unwanted notification and subsequent email for the company update: Chat room owners can now establish room guidelines.
Note: this is a "message" notification for the ...
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Subheadings in the Code of Conduct should be HTML headings
In the Code of Conduct, the main headings are proper HTML headings: "Code of Conduct" is a <h1>, and "Our expectations for users" is a <h2>, along with other headings ...
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Change "no" to "insufficient" in predefined flag decline reason of "Declined - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it"
As indicated in this answer, one of the standard, predefined responses available to diamond Moderators when declining a flag is:
Declined - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to ...
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Show chat flags on message history
Currently, flags raised on a message do not appear in the message's history page. There is a page which shows all historical flags, which has to be binary-searched if you want to look up historical ...
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How can I add a schematic from a tablet? [migrated]
I am a user in Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange.However I don't own a computer,I only own a tablet.I want to upload a schematic in EE.SE but it doesn't support for tablets.What can I do?If I ...
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Don't add new lines between suggested tags [closed]
Minor cosmetic suggestion: don't add new lines between suggested tags. Example:
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Keep cursor in the tag field after selecting a tag in the new Ask page
Feature request: Keep cursor in the tag field after selecting a tag in the new Ask page.
Current behavior (tested on Chrome+Windows): After selecting a tag in the new Ask page, the cursor is not the ...
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Chat transcript should show times in the current timezone, not UTC, to match the live room
Chat room pages currently show time in the user's local time.
However, chat transcripts currently show time going off the UTC time zone, regardless of what time zone you're in.
Could transcripts show ...
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Prevent users from posting an answer on posts they VTC, and vice versa
Occasionally one same user posts an answer and VTC the question, not necessarily in that order. Stack Exchange can, and ought to, implement functionality that preempts that contradictory behavior.
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Introduce “Knowledge Trails” linking questions that represent progressive learning steps
Often, several questions form a natural learning sequence, for instance:
“What is entropy?”
“How is entropy defined in statistical mechanics?”
“Why does entropy increase in isolated systems?”
Each ...
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Replied-to message preview is easy to accidentally click when trying to select the message on mobile
The reply indicator on mobile that shows up for older messages for context
is very easy to accidentally click on mobile, and it's annoying to have the page scroll up instead of selecting the message. ...
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Incentivise curating sites through flagging, reviewing, closing, etc [duplicate]
A pretty thankless task I do a lot is going through the review queues, closing questions, and flagging.
Given how important curating the site is to maintain quality, it seems weird we're not rewarded ...
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Typo fixes shouldn't pop to "most recent'
It really should be possible to fix a typographic error, even at late date, without having the question pop to the top of the most-recently-active list. Perhaps putting a threshold on number of ...
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Could we have a way to distinguish chat flags on rooms we're in?
Effective chat moderation's done in real time - and it's easier/simpler to act in a chatroom where you're known and trusted. The current flag notification bubbles do not differentiate between a ...
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The experiment opt-out help center page should probably say "Stack Exchange" instead of "Stack Overflow"
There's a page in the Help Center about how to opt out of experiments: /help/experiment-opt-out. Its title is "How do I opt out of experiments on Stack Overflow?" and it starts with the ...
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Could we consider ways to filter the inbox?
Inspired by a now deleted post by a spammer, and another meta post, and requests to filter in/out sites....
There's a broad spectrum of usage amongst users. I for one prefer to see everything I'm sent....
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Room Owners should be able to see deleted messages in the transcript
Currently, if a room owner goes to the transcript of a room they own, they won’t be able to see any deleted messages.
They can see deleted messages (and their content) when in the room chatting, and ...
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Improve the "How do I flag a message?" section of the chat FAQ
I see that SE added information about chat flags to the Chat FAQ at some point since the feedback request. For posterity, there is a Wayback Machine capture that shows the current flagging section. I ...
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Can I opt out of receiving election nomination reminders in my inbox?
I was startled to received this message in my inbox today:
We need more candidates for the [x] community moderator election.
Why am being notified of this issue? There have been countless elections, ...
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An idea to help graduated sites without design/icon
Looking at stackexchange.com/sites, there are a lot of communities without any icons.
It is a bit of a sad sight as quite a bit of the sites already graduated. Like pets.se.
I don't think the problem ...
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Confusing 'Top Network Askers' widget on Tag Filter page
On the Tag Filter page, there's a sidebar widget Top Network Askers which states
These users asked the most upvoted questions on this page
While that is technically correct, because they asked all ...
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