Can the site(s) be used by specified users to achieve specified goals?
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Please don't close closeVote/flag window on click outside it
Please don't close the Close Vote/flag window if I click outside of it or allow me to continue typing when I open it again.
Sometimes (quite often) I write a custom message, touch my touchpad by ...
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Novice users confuse main site and meta site too easily - give them an explicit reminder
On Math Stack Exchange (and on Stack Overflow, and presumably other sites as well), there are sometimes questions intended for the main site that are asked on meta instead. This is presumably because ...
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Make Tools more visible
The link to moderation Tools is a bit hard to see.
This, accompanied to the fact that Tools doesn't appear in the links at the top of the page, makes access to Tools a bit harder to find than, say, ...
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2answers
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Answers with too much code and too little explanation
I recently pointed a friend in the direction of Stack Overflow as a place she could get answers to her questions. She responded that she'd tried it but that all that happened was that people would ...
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1answer
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Make it more obvious that I cannot vote in an election
I figured I could visit Server Fault to vote for the new moderators. But there is a lot of text on this page – so meh, I'm gonna scroll to the candidates and start voting. But it's not possible. So, I ...
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1answer
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Please, make the contents of the page occupy the whole page width, or at least make the code windows resizable [duplicate]
Please, make the contents of the page occupy the whole page width, or at least make the code windows resizeable.
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Review first post / late answers: show other answers as well
when I am reviewing an answer, I only see the answer to be reviewed and the corresponding question.
If the answer actually answers the question - at least to some extent - then I have to look at ...
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Default off topic option not focused
When voting to close a question as off topic, the "is off topic" option is selected by default and the "vote to close" button is enabled. (I understand that there reasoning behind this, in that people ...
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Improve comment is answer workflow
First off I have already read Mark a comment as answer to a question and I want to suggest something somewhat different.
Presently when a comment has been sufficient to lead the poster to the ...
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Close as a duplicate on mobile: Lots of Vertical Scrolling
Attempting to use the site with a Nexus 4. I came across a question that was a duplicate, so I found the dupe and voted to close.
The only problem: the button is at the bottom of the modal. While ...
4
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Improving access to private beta sites
It's been a while since I've been invited to a private beta and here are some thoughts on my experience with accessing the Sustainability private beta.
On my laptop I wasn't logged into the SE ...
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How can I easily find the synonyms I've suggested?
It's hard to find the /tags/synonyms URL. Filtering by username from there is not obvious as well. It would be nice if there was a link on the profile page.
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Mobile site forgets scroll position in Chrome for Android
Visit a page displaying a list of questions, such as the front page of Arqade, in the mobile version using Chrome for Android.
Scroll down.
View a question from the list.
Go back to the question ...
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Shouldn't the list of beta sites be available at the bottom?
Today I was trying to find a site (that I already knew, but didn't remember the URL), it wasn't in the bottom with the others (still in beta), and I spent several minutes trying to locate the list of ...
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1answer
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Sort favorites by number of answers and stars
The favorites tab includes the following columns:
Star count
Votes
Answers
Views
Content
The list is sortable by Votes and Views. It would be great if it were also sortable by Answers and Star ...
2
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0answers
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Option to vertically split screen for post preview [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Preview on the right please, optionally?
For longer posts, e.g. answers on math.SE that involve a lot of MathJax equations, but also if lot's of code is involved at SO, ...
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why do people access stackoverflow? [closed]
Does Stack Overflow really help other programmers or is it just meant for making reputation to impress each other.
Why do people abuse or down-vote questions or answers (rather than improving them) ?
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0answers
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HTML Labels for the selection of top tags on Careers
I seem to have made it a habit of requesting such things. In any case, the list of top tags on your Careers profile would certainly be easier to prune if you wouldn't have to hunt for a tiny 16×16 px² ...
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1answer
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Non-Latin characters in URLs are not accepted
I can't seem to find a way to link to pages containing non-Latin characters in URLs.
For example, Tåg.info (with an å). The å is required, since tag.info is a completely different website.
Using the ...
5
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0answers
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Please show me that I cannot post pictures before trying to send the question [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Warn new users earlier that they cannot post links or images
It would be nice if I could get a message instantly when trying to embed a picture although I am not allowed ...
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3answers
367 views
Drop delay for “Skip” and increase it for “action” review buttons
On some review items, I would like to skip them right away, but the skip button is disabled for some time.
Would it be possible not to disable the skip button?
For example, when reviewing questions ...
4
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0answers
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My vote is now locked in? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Idea behind “Your vote is now locked in unless this answer is edited”
I fail to see the reasoning behind not allowing me to change my mind on an answer.
Here's my ...
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0answers
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If users with <20 rep can't chat, why does SO nag me to move comment threads to chat? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Disable chat migration notification if one of the users has insufficient rep?
I frequently find myself helping new users with <20 rep with questions. These users need ...
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1answer
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On Stack Overflow it's not obvious from the colors yellow / white if a question's answer is accepted or not
Marking a question accepted is the way for someone who asked a question to state that a correct answer has been given. This is a very nice mechanism, because when someone posts a nonsense-answer, you ...
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Feature request - assign a tab-index to notification link
I see the search box in the upper-right of every page on every SE site has a tabindex of 1. Which is really useful and handy as it is the most used by users.
I suggest, to add a tabindex of 2 to the ...
3
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0answers
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Consistent link colors across all Stack Exchange sites
I'm often waffling about from site to site within the Stack Exchange network. I love viewing the highest voted questions within certain sites/tags. Something that irks me is that the color of links ...
6
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1answer
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Is the delay in the activation of the review buttons intentional?
I was doing some reviews today and I noticed the I'm done and Not sure buttons are activated after a small delay and not as soon as the next question (or answer) loads.
I know this is a silly ...
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Improvements to “review” for a tablet device
I review Stack Overflow questions on my tablet. For the most part, the new interface works great, but I have a few suggestions which I think may improve usability when working with a tablet:
The ...
6
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0answers
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question search based on posted time
Is there a way to search questions posted between certain date & time.
I know I can add it to favorites if I would like to follow the question, but sometimes when I see duplicate question posted ...
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0answers
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Add option to change chat user gravatars to a text list
When there's a large number of folks in a chat room, and you need to scan to see who's about, the gravatar icons don't really scale past ten or so users.
Having to rollover each gravatar icon to see ...
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0answers
59 views
Comments not getting posted the first few time from Android
Adding a new comment from my Android phone is always unsuccessful the first few time. Sometimes it happens so many times I give up the action.
Any solution?
My Details - SE Live with WalkMan
Android ...
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1answer
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Can we have a link back to the original question when improving an edit?
I have started reviewing edits and find myself clicking on improve quite a lot.
Occasionally, an editor changes the the meaning of the original author, but once I am on the improving page, I can no ...
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Please avoid discussion … go to chat [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Disable chat migration notification if one of the users has insufficient rep?
I'm helping a user here: Purpose of BAL in 3 tier architecture
The guy keeps putting ...
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0answers
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How do I STOP the search bar changing size when entering text
I find it very distracting the way the search bar changes size when I start typing in the search box. On my monitor my input cursor is at around pixel X of around 1200 when I start typing but then the ...
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How to improve low quality answers consisting of only a code block?
During review, many times (20%-30%) I see answers that are only a code-block. Some examples are SQL queries, CSS queries, any prog. language coding issues. The answer is only a code block. Stack ...
3
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0answers
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Can the review preferences be saved? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Review tools: how to configure preferences permanently?
I like the new Review that is in Beta. However, I have noticed that it doesn't seem to remember my review ...
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Ability to draw and add graphical illustrations, flowcharts, diagrams, etc
I think it would be a very useful and quality-improving feature.
As for me, when I speak on something, I often have a visual representation of how it works, or something.
It's obvious there are many ...
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2answers
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Increase link color contrast used on SE sites
I have spent a decent amount of time at SO, so I wanted to venture off to other parts of StackExchange. (Yes you can read this as wanting to boost rep). I have found other sites have bad color and/or ...
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1answer
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Why is the inbox _so small_?
I mean, apparently "size doesn't matter" but that's besides the point.
If you look at that itty bitty window, and how much information it has, I wonder how often do you expect us to check it? And ...
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Add label to the »suggested edit was helpful« checkbox when improving pending edits
HTML has a handy label element that allows to associate text with a form control and in graphical user agents allows the user to give focus (or execute an action) on such a control by invoking the ...
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3answers
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It's not easy to know what each Stack Exchange site is for
I have joined multiple sites on Stack Exchange e.g. Meta, Programmer, SO etc. On each of this site there is no place where the kind of questions that can be asked, or category of users the site is ...
4
votes
1answer
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Suggested edit popup gives poor layout in narrow windows
If the viewport is not a bit wider than than the full width of the page layout, then the suggested edit review popup from clicking “edit (n)” buries some or all of its controls, particularly including ...
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2answers
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How to avoid scaring off beginners with advanced answers?
This problem is not specific to Scala answers (it also affects e.g. Haskell answers), but I'll use Scala as an example. Apologies for the length.
Scala has a problem. It has a sub-community who know ...
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0answers
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When typing a custom rejection reason, the Enter key should submit the edit
When I am rejecting a suggested edit, I like to use the "custom" box to give more directed feedback to would-be editors. But there's a minor usability problem there that disrupts my workflow.
After ...
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0answers
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Tooltips for user suspension/annotation view
As you can see, user one has a grey box with a one in it and user two has a red box with a two in it.
For some reason they are in different font sizes and alignments as well.
But...uh...I really ...
23
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1answer
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Moderator nomination UI doesn't warn users about character limit
This is unhelpful:
Especially when the entered text has less than 1200 characters (according to wc -c)!
Now I realise that the site might count differently from wc (for instance wc doesn’t ...
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1answer
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Do not ask for an edit summary when it won't be displayed
An example for is if you Answer, and then go back to edit your answer within the first grace period. In such cases, the edit summary is never displayed, so why provide a box for it?
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1answer
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Make it less confusing for Low-rep users to flag as duplicate
When a low-rep user want to use an exact duplicate flag (click flag, "it doesn't belong here", then it turns into a close-vote look-alike screen where "exact duplicate" lives) the verbiage is a bit ...
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0answers
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“x questions with new activity” usability
My installation of Firefox seems to be suffering in the bog of "got too many extensions" senility and isn't as responsive as in its younger years...
However, this has highlighted a usability issue ...
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3answers
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Favorite tags have been moved down; can we have them back to the top?
I now have to scroll down one whole page in order to open the tag-specific pages. I find this disturbing.
This is how it was and should be.
