This tag is for proposals of new features on the site, or requests for a change to an existing feature.
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Add automatic comments for every closure reason
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There should be a comment automatically appended to a question for every unique close vote. This helps users understand their question is at risk of closure and explains why.
Rationale
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No more (easily accessible) FAQ link?
I can't find the FAQ link on SO, where it used to be. Now it may have been moved or something but the fact that I have to look for it disturbs me. I was going to point the OP of this question to the ...
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Reviews: Handling invalid -yet good to be added as comment- edits
The problem
I come across a lot of edits where people trying to point out something to the OP. Sometimes it contains useful information that would benefit everyone reading it. Still it is invalid ...
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Links in How to Format when asking a question should point to helpcenter
The help section How to Format that gets visible when focusing the textbox to enter the body of a question, contains links that point to old sites, that i think are replaced by sites in the new ...
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What is reasoning behind disallowing edits less than 6 characters [duplicate]
I get that the mods do not want people to abuse the edit system just to rack up the edit counts, but stack overflow is primarily about code. Therefore we must be exact.
I recently came across a post ...
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Ability to search in your Answers/Question from your profile
Often I remember answering a question but can't remember the answer I gave.
It would be nice to be able to search your answers or questions for specific key words from within your profile page.
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How come I can only vote to migrate posts between a few websites?
So I was voting to move a question today and noticed I can only vote to migrate it to a select few sites:
Sure, these are the most common ones; however there are questions that belong on other ...
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Import PEAR Projects to Career Profile
It would be a very useful idea to be able to import PEAR projects that somebody maintains to their careers.stackoverflow.com profile. Most of what is required could be gleaned from the user specific ...
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Meta's logic is different to SO, so should reputation work differently?
Just an example:
When we talk about SO, I agree with the reasons stated here to explain why question upvotes grant only +5 rep instead of +10, but Meta is different:
1.- Answers have more ...
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Can we have the flag overlay back for flag-to-closes?
The Great Flag Overhaul seems to have removed the flag overlay from posts that have been flagged to close.
Can we get this back? It used to be useful (especially when trawling the close queue), and I ...
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Change the toolbar's image dialog to pickup selected image link
When editing posts where users have placed links to images on third party sites (usually because they haven't attained the rep to insert images themselves) I find myself embedding the image and ...
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User profile badges overview
I always struggle with the badges section in a user's profile. There's simply no overview.
Why don't have a badges page like on my own profile, but for a different user?
It should be accessable ...
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You should chose your Display Name when signing up
When a user signs up , their username is something along the lines of "User########"
Granted, in the welcome email it does say something along the lines of "Head over to your user account page to ...
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Retract “hold” vote [duplicate]
In light of the recent changes to the question close-vote system, which comes along with a drive to change the attitude/thought process behind the votes, a "cancel hold vote" option makes a lot of ...
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Replace special characters/groups of characters with words in question links
I want to propose to create a tool that will replace the special characters or groups of characters from the question title in the question link.
For example: a question with title Why {} + {} is ...
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A better “insufficient explanation” post notice
While answering this, I realized that the "insufficient explanation" post notice had potential to be quite useful on sites like MO, Physics, Chem (possibly Math, Bio, CogSci, and the other science ...
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Down/up vote tooltips should speak differently on meta [duplicate]
As more experienced users know, votes work differently on Meta. However, the tooltips still say the same as on other StackExchange sites:
The tooltips are:
Question up vote: This question shows ...
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Synchronize notifications
I find that most of the time, when someone has responded to a question or answer I posted, I click on the notification from the top toolbar, and read and respond to this notification. Thus the ...
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Make it clearer that some of the close / on-hold reasons have additional options
It's not that clear that the Off Topic option has some additional choices after it. I suggest that by adding an ellipsis to the end of the Off Topic wording (and probably the Duplicate one too for ...
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Suggest edits without actually making them [duplicate]
At 2000 reputation, users are given the ability to "edit anything in the system without it going through the peer review system", which is undoubtedly useful when it comes to correcting poor grammar ...
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Edits that end with title edits are easy to lose
I was in the middle of a really big edit on a question. I went to edit the title last, and then somebody else finished editing and the “click to load edit” bar shifted the whole page down and I ...
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Show when the bounty is ending in the Featured list
When we go to a page like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python?sort=featured we see the active Bounties on a certain tag (in this case, Python).
When we put the cursor on the blue bounty ...
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Bug when marking a question as duplicate
I saw this bug mentioned in image below, where in I was about to mark the question as duplicate..
Has you can see there is no radio buttons to select and go further.. And I am stuck..
Is this a ...
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Tag badge descriptions on help center page are inconsistent
The help/badges page seems to have an inconsistency with the tone of certain badge descriptions. Normal badges have descriptions like:
Question score of 10 or more
Answered first question with score ...
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No answers bounty text misleading [duplicate]
A bounty of mine ended with no answers.
But still the text of the bounty message says
This question had a bounty worth +50 reputation from juergen d that ended yesterday; you must award this ...
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User flair image should be served over SSL as well
Unfortunately, the current flair image is only served over plain HTTP. Naturally, if you embed it directly on a page served over SSL, you will get mixed content warning from your browser.
Please ...
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Don't choose the best close reason, allow multiple close reasons
Currently, if multiple off-topic reasons are chosen, all are displayed as a bulleted list.
I don't see why the same shouldn't be done for the other close reasons. Sometimes posts have multiple ...
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Why is it not possible to follow someone? [duplicate]
I'm sorry if this is not the right place to be asking this. Please move my question, if necessary.
I've been wondering: why is it not possible to follow people? I sometimes find certain people who ...
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Do not implicitly award bounty to an answer that has been downvoted by the investor
Sometimes you start a bounty and, since the problem is difficult and people try to reach the bounty, there is higher probability than usual that you get very low quality answers. Sometimes these ...
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Take into account the score in both tags to allow tag synonym suggestions
Yesterday I suggested initialization-list as a synonym of ctor-initializer. But this was my very first tag synonym suggestion, and I got it wrong - What I really meant to suggest was the other way ...
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Search Results list “on hold” questions as “closed”
The search results of SO list questions that are "on hold" as "closed". According to the new closing changes they should be displayed as [on hold].
Example:
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Require the “Other” off-topic close reason to be specified
It appears that it's possible to select the "Other" off-topic close reason, and vote to close without actually providing a close reason. This results in a custom close reason and comment which read:
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Review Close Votes queue not allowing vote to post
Related post for upvote on comment
While reviewing close-votes queue I found some good question, which deserves upvote but the interface not allowed me to vote from that screen. Now I have to open ...
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Retrieve title of external websites for use as link text of bare URLs [duplicate]
I have 2 URLs:
Anatomy of a "Memory Leak"
http://forums.asp.net/t/1917189.aspx/1?How+to+find+single+value+in+string
the 1st one is the stack overflow URL and the 2nd one is another ...
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Should navigating to a post in your inbox update your “responses” tab?
If it's implemented as: if you click on your responses tab in you profile, then all the new numbers on the tab go away, then I understand. It should be asked specifically for the case of "1 new ...
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Capitalize all system messages
Sentences that don't start with a capital hurt to my eyes. Especially when they're this large:
There's more: the system posts for you sometimes (for the 'possible duplicate' message). These ...
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Changing the sort order in questions list in tags section
Is there some way to change the order in which the questions are displayed in SO?
For example, I usually like to search for the tag "mongodb" and then go to the unanswered section. I would like to see ...
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Could common mistakes (i.e. deprecated functions) be detected?
Disclaimer
This is subtly different from other suggestions I've found, like auto-answering common questions. There is one exact case that was handled here, but it was localized only to ...
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First minutes on a new users post [duplicate]
Is it possible to add / inform clearly new users that the first minutes after they post a question they get 60-90 percent of the brain power people have to offer?
Most often, people post and go away ...
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The search box in mobile version of the site is too small and hidden
When we access the Stackoverflow by the smartphone, even if it is a Galaxy Note 2, you have to touch a tiny down arrow to see the notification bar, and there is a little field for searching questions. ...
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“unclear what you're asking” hold reason looks awkward
For the "unclear what you're asking" hold reason, the lack of quotation marks makes the phrasing in the "on hold" box confusing and awkward:
put on hold as unclear what you're asking by definitely ...
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How about making the downvote during grace period behavior more clear?
This is a suggestion for a minor user interface tweak. Could SO make the behavior described in this question and this answer (answer edited after downvote but within the grace period still locks ...
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With a large number of ignored tags, editing them becomes a hassle
Editing ignored tags can be cumbersome when you have a lot of them already.
If you would be so kind to take a look at the following. My front page looks like this:
When I proceed to click "edit" ...
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Clearly state that Mortarboard badge requirements excludes bonuses
In an earlier question of mine today, I was somewhat confused about the exact rules for earning the Mortarboard badge.
To prevent this, I think the Mortarboard badge's description should be changed ...
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Meaning of “Canonical answer required” bounty category
When opening a bounty and a question doesn't yet have an answer that I'm willing to accept, it always takes me a moment to pick a bounty reason: I am never quite sure what scenarios the "canonical ...
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Should SO include a custom Google search?
Most of the times, I use Google to search in SO rather than using its own search box, as it returns quite better results. I imagine this is a common task for many of the SO users, so why not including ...
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Can you change text url to link button [duplicate]
I saw this below message on some page
We are no longer accepting answers from this account. See http://goo.gl/C1Kwu to learn more
But http://goo.gl/C1Kwu is a just text. Stack Overflow is a big ...
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Why does SO not show “questions with new activity” [duplicate]
Many other StackExchange sites will notify you when there are "questions with new activity". For instance, from math.stackexchange:
Why does StackOverflow not have this feature?
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Show the user name on a deleted question (for the duration of the session)
I often help beginners, which means that I am offering bits of advice (say, on how to break a problem into manageable, searchable pieces) on questions that end up being downvoted. This tends to result ...
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Is there a way to search all of a user's suggested wiki edits?
retagging to feature requiest as there is interest.
I recently found a wiki tag review in which the editor's suggested content was completely plagiarized.
Before I got a chance to reject it the ...
