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 comments from the Staging Ground to the activity tab [duplicate]
I'm not sure if this should be tagged as feature-request or bug, but I wonder if it was a deliberate decision, a technical necessity, or an oversight that comments on questions in Staging Ground are ...
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Dark Theme Tag Pop Especially Bright
I'm not sure when the tag-popup changed, but when activated by mouse-over, the button color is a bit over-bright for the dark theme and the rest of the text in the popup. For example,
As a suggestion,...
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Can we get a “don’t post code as an image” reminder in the submission form?
On Staging Ground (and on regular questions), I still see new people post code in images a lot. Obviously, the first thing that usually happens is that someone drives by, and tells the poster to put ...
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Can only contributors of particular tag be allowed to vote or close a question [duplicate]
I have observed several times where questions which are specific to a particular tags being vote down or closed yet these questions are clear to contributors of that tag.
E.g. why should someone be ...
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Can the past SO events page get a redesign? (mockup idea included)
Tl;dr: The page listing past Stack Overflow events has some design issues (some accessability-related), and I think it might be worth updating/redesigning at some point. I also included a sample of ...
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Should podcast episodes in The Overflow Blog have a distinct icon?
In the below image, you can see two posts in The Overflow Blog. One of these is a written blog post, and the other is a podcast episode.
Currently, all content in the Blog has the pencil icon. I've ...
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Prevent staging ground posts from being approved when they are in a "require changes" or "declined re-evaluation" state
Yesterday I reviewed this staging ground post and requested "Major Changes" with a reasonably detailed comment about what needed improving.
The author made a very minor change to the title ...
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Should we bind the amount of pending edits to how many approved edits a user has?
Current State
As of now, there is a total hard limit in the suggest-edit queue. Additionally, there is a limit
of five edits per user. It is the same for users with 1 point and 1999 points. It should ...
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Allow comments to "bump" a question in the "active question" list
When logging into the site, I see the so-called "Interesting Questions", containing recently added questions, recently modified questions and recently answered questions; but I have the ...
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Add support for strikethrough with native markdown
A standard feature in Markdown is the ability to strike-through text. However, when I strike through in the Stack Overflow with standard syntax, nothing happens:
Actual:
~~An example of strike-...
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Please stop Google login popup from spying on Stack Exchange users
Whenever users are not logged into Stack Overflow or another Stack Exchange website, the Google login popup is shown in the top right:
Looks innocent until I look at the code:
<iframe
src="...
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Show rejections in the achievements-dialog
Currently, when a user raises flags or submits suggest-edits, they will not be notified in the achievements-dialog should any of them be rejected.
Instead when raising a new flag/making a new suggest-...
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If a bountied question is closed as a duplicate, allow the bounty to be awarded to an answer on the duplicate
A recent change means that bountied questions can be closed. Bountied questions can/should result in getting more views, as that's the whole idea of the bounty; you are promoting your question to the ...
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Allow tag-only edits when the post is mostly images/code
I'm editing tags on posts according to this post: What should we do with all of these symfony tags?.
Sometimes, when the posts are bad, I vote to close and/or downvote, but I still (sometimes) edit ...
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Bring back tag wiki excerpts to tag pages
Thanks to some recent changes, tag wiki excerpts have been removed from the tag pages themselves.
Example from kotlin:
This change was previously limited to tag hover popups, but has now propagated ...
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