Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Can we please "lock" a post during edit
This has happened many times, I see a post which is fairly big and un-readable. No problem, the OP is not English and I can help. To get half way through when I see a notification telling me an update ...
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Asking whether the user meant MAC or Mac
When typing a question containing MAC, there should be question for the user whether he/she meant Mac/Macintosh. E.g. this question: how to connect Macintosh on LAN had MAC all over the place before ...
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No visible flag flag summary
If a comment flag is the first flag a user has on a site, then even if that flag is marked helpful, it will not show up on the flag summary page.
As soon as an another valid (non-comment) flag is ...
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Why do I need 15 reputation to mark an answer correct and 50 to add a comment?
So I found the answer I was looking for, better than the "community-accepted" answer, but it had 0 votes and I couldn't mark it as my answer since I needed 15 reputation, and I couldn't add a comment ...
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Flag as off topic - move to linux/unix community is missing
I have tried to flag ALSA stopped working with default device as off-topic, to move it into Unix & Linux community.
However there is no option for that (or I don't see it?):
Is this missing on ...
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Possible to suggest tag(s) after scanning through the question?
Is it possible to add this feature - after user enter his/her question into the question text area, the website will auto insert some suggestive tags for the question and insert them automatically in ...
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How to drag attention to someone else's question?
I found out badly answered/voted question:
disable the F1 key for whole system
And I hope it gets more attention, so the "best answer" could be the right one (the regedit thing). Just to help out ...
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Can we have j/k style (like Gmail) scrolling through posts?
Can we have j/k style (like Gmail) scrolling through posts, or is it already possible?
Often you don't want to scroll with the mouse, and using the down arrow or spacebar is just not enough.
You ...
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Why do people have to gain reputation on each Stack Exchange site before being allowed to comment?
I have been reading this discussion with some interest. (Why can people answer a question before being able to comment?). The answer so far is that new users might not understand the way the site ...
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Why were the comments removed from this question when the comments provided the answer?
The comments to this question Excel 2013 32bit and 64bit crashing on form were removed when the asker accepted my answer but the actual answer and quite a few 'Things to try' steps was in the comments ...
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Spammers exploiting the URL in the user profile to bypass spam protection
It seems spammers have found a way to work around spam filters using the URL in the user profile. This can come from the Home Page field in the form that unregistered users must fill out (the ...
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Automatically generate comment at close vote
When I cast a duplicate close vote on a question, the system automatically generates a comment (I vote to close the question being duplicate of ...)
I think it's very useful as it gives an early ...
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I can't change my vote to close, bug?
I voted to close a question, then realized it was not the best fit. So I went to change my vote, and saw there was no option to do this:
Not a big deal, I thought. I can retract (seeing as that's my ...
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Should SE sites force reading of the FAQ
It seems SE sites get a lot of "shopping questions", especially from new members.
Perhaps this could be remediated by disabling the editor area until the user has been seen to click on the FAQ (or a ...
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Specify reason for flagging off topic
When flagging a question as Off Topic I have to hope the the moderator reviewing the flag spots the same problem I do. I'd like to be able to specify a reason for a question being off topic. This way ...
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Transfer ownership of question
I have a question at SuperUser which was not answered effectively for a period of time. Since then I don't have the subject hardware anymore, so I cannot test the upcoming ideas. I would gladly ...
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Log-in problems
I think the log-in system can be improved. I am always logged in on facebook, but I use another facebook account for superuser, stackoverflow, etc.
When I want to log in, it is impossible to log in ...
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RSS feed for favorite tags?
I noticed that every tag has its own RSS feed, it's a handy feature to follow particular subjects.
I wonder of there is something similar for own favorite tags: I know that I can individually ...
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Flag for "Not an answer" should be re-worded [duplicate]
I flaged this answer as "Not an answer" due to the answer trying to explain product activation, where the question is about the process of performing the install.
The description for "Not an answer" ...
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How do I upload photos on Super User?
I figured that photos can only be posted via links. Is there any way to upload photos to a question or answer? Thank you!
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Would it be possible to have comments that are flagged as offensive, immediately not viewable until they are moderated?
Example:
I'm relatively secure in my sexuality, and laughed more than anything. But, maybe it would be a good idea to have anyone with a reputation of over 1K be able to flag offensive content (...
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PGP support for mails
Feature request :
Make a field per e-mail address where one's can enter a PGP key, so newletters and job alerts are encrypted (Facebook deos so e.g)
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Always display vote split
Since I made it to 1k reputation (yay!), I can now see the vote split by clicking on the current vote status of a question or answer. Is there any way so that I can always see these when I am logged ...
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New visitors can add images - should we review it
Is it worth having, within the Review/Tools section (https://superuser.com/tools), thumbnails of all images posted to be reviewed.
I'm not suggesting the image has to be approved first or not, that'...
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Standard Question Guidance
We get a lot of questions that fall into some common themes, like BSOD, network issues, USB issues, flash drive issues, laptop battery/power pack issues, etc. Often, the person will be clueless about ...
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Notify on changes on a revised answer [duplicate]
I came upon this Q&A
The least-voted answer, according to the comments, was downvoted because it's a "link-only answer".
(Kind of inconsistent, are we? The highest-voted answer is also a "link-...
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Penalty for unexplained down-votes [duplicate]
Often I come across perfectly valid questions which have been down-voted for no apparent reason, sometimes with no comments or answers at all.
I don't think a down-vote should ever be made without ...
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New style for part of super user
The logo for Super user, I interpret as a [ square bracket and a } curly bracket, with a · middle dot in between. [·}.
To keep that style, I noticed a place it could be added. When there is a new ...
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Chat privilege update [duplicate]
If I am not mistaken, you must have 75+ reputation in order to use the chat. If I try to chat with someone without the rep requirement it says that I can't. I thought it could be usful if a user that ...
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Why is there no way to look at progress towards different badges?
Does anyone know why there is no ability to view progress/statistics towards particular badges or just have the overall ability to look at progress for accounts? I feel like this would be very ...
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Possible bug with dropdown user menu
I noticed a discrepancy with the way the pulldown menu (I don't know what it's officially called, the sub-window that appears when you mouse-over your name at the top) displays reputation changes, and ...
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Add all-time column to meta user card drop down
By "user card drop down", I mean this:
It'd be interesting to see the all-time +/– votes score in an additional column. It's not something that can be easily determined otherwise, since there's ...
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Better styling for keyboard input in questions & answers
Super User and the other SE sites have support for the HTML <kbd> tag, denoting keys that should be pressed. These are styled in order to look like a physical keyboard key.
On the W3C wiki page ...
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A flag to inform moderators of questions answered, but not accepted for a long time
For example
Why doesn't the Windows command prompt window maximize to the full screen size?
Its more than 2 years old
It has been answered as well
Perhaps there should be a flag to inform ...
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It’s annoying and hypocritical that reputation is split between StackExchange sites. [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why reputation is not passed between superuser, stackoverflow and serverfault?
Why am I not permitted to downvote, comment, or use community wikis here on SU (yet) when over ...
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Why aren't spam and offensive answers simply deleted from the database?
Given the recent spate of spam by a, let us say "disgruntled" user, why is it that the account is deleted but the deleted questions/answers still remain visible on the site (to those with the ...
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Can we remove auto-conversion of sloppy answers to question comments?
This answer to another question of mine is the context for this question.
I have more than once, had the Post Your Answer button just move my answer to a question comment for me. But only if it ...
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To improve the Superuser search feature by allowing partially match ("like", "contains") logic
I asked this question:
Type to navigate and open anything on screen by using keyboard ? Similar to shortcatapp.com
In the content, there is the term "shortcatapp". But when I search using that term, ...
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Custom close reason is processed as a comment
When I click on “Close” (under a question),
I get a “Why should this question be closed?” dialog box.
If, in that box, I click on “off-topic because…”, I get a “Closing > Off-Topic” box.
If I then ...
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Default or editable link target in editor
Is there any way you can specify the target of a link (to _blank forinstance) in the editor on this site? Or could we maybe have all embedded links opening in a new window?
I have got in the habit ...
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Why no way to object to deleted post by moderator?
Presently there is no way to question a moderator decision to delete a post. Not even a comment is possible.
I think this puts too much power in moderators and brings frustration to the post author.
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Add informations to "reopen" - request
So I want to add some informations to a question which take care of the "Should I use an antivirus on osx" - question.
So I have clicked the reopen-link. But I'm not able to add any information why I ...
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Mark users as otherwise "inactive" on their posts if they are so
Every once in a while I see users (mostly new ones, no offense to them) comment asking for clarification on answers or questions from users that are no longer active on Super User. They haven't "been ...
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Color valid tags differently from invalid tags
I have an interesting idea for how tags work. No, it is not the new and improved tag, or a total tag makeover. In fact, it is a small change in how tags work that I think could help out a lot of ...
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Should question owners be able to down vote on answers?
I have had a few questions with not so good answers. Could it be possible that question askers can down vote (or up vote) on answers to their questions, without rep requirements?
Also, about up ...
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Can we support internal "chrome://" URLs?
Is it possible that we could support the internal chrome:// URLs used by Google Chrome and Chromium? There are many questions where one has to access an internal page used by Chrome to solve the ...
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Will this site get a dark mode? [duplicate]
That's it, that's the question. Can we get a dark mode? I am reluctant to use these dark-mode Chrome extensions, and I think all the StackExchange sites should have a dark mode, regardless.
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Provide "Average time to answer" stat to new visitors
In the sidebar of SU there are various stats on the different pages about Questions - questions without answers, count of questions.
According to this the time to answer a question monthly average is ...
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What about adding a button for <kbd> tags on the formatting bar? [duplicate]
I think that it would be useful to have a button for <kbd> html tags in the formatting bar just above the text edit box; we still have buttons to properly format quoting and for code, but we ...
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Last activity time vs Original Post Time
Would it be possible to show when a post was originally made as well as the last time there was activity on the post? (EDIT: From the home page, without having to go into the question itself.)
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