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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Migrate Q&A to opinion-based [duplicate]
I found this question which in Q&A is not a good fit - However it would make a great opinion-based question! As far as I can tell though the only option I have is to flag it for closure as being ...
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Change the wording for posting straight to Stack Overflow when new users ask
When a "new" user (user eligible to be sent to the Staging Ground) is writing their question, they are presented with the below modal, to chose whether they want their post sent to the ...
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Can we enforce minimal accountability for close-voting? [duplicate]
The Incident
This incident has already been resolved to my satisfaction, so this is not a complaint, I'm not calling out individuals -- I'm merely using what transpired as the basis for my proposal.
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Open ended questions/discussions needs close vote capability yesterday
I do not like having to flag moderators to close an open-ended question that's just blatantly off-topic and got multiple posts saying so, but can't be closed because there's no close-vote feature ...
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The AI addendum mentions an AUP, what is that?
The recently added AI Addendum contains the following statement:
you agree that all data you provide, ... will be consistent with our AUP
What is the AUP?
I went to the help centre asking what this ...
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How to enable TypeScript code snippets in Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
So far I see JavaScript as the default (and seemingly the only) language option when creating a new code snippet. Indeed, the run produces an error as the JS interpreter doesn't understand TS.
Is ...
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Question types are confusing
I had a question about how to do something in C++
How to pass arbitrary-sized array as template nontype argument?
when writing the quesiton I noticed a new field "Type" with options:
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Can we remove the new code block headers?
Code blocks now have a header with a language tag and a Copy button. While this feature probably addresses a very old request, it poses multiple problems:
the copy button is only useful for very long ...
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Provide tooltips for all question types with special icons
When hovering over the text Staging Ground on the questions page, a tooltip appears, describing what the Staging Ground is. Example:
But when hovering over Advice or Best practices no tooltip is ...
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New "Issue Type" doesn't have enough categories [duplicate]
The "Type" field for questions is new (where is this described?). It doesn't include enough categories though; it doesn't cover code design or implementation. If I ask for help for how to ...
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Display Revisions link on Opinionated Questions
Opinionated questions do not display details of when a question was last edited, by who, nor a link to the revisions page for the post. This is despite the fact that the page does in fact exist if you ...
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Add new filter "no experiments"
Seeing all those "advices", "best practices" and whatelse as of recent is somewhat (very) annoying.
Can we have a filter to hide all those?
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Can an Advice post be changed into a QA post (or vice versa)?
Regarding this post:
How to detect use of std::string short string optimization?
Very clearly a question looking for a technical solution, but it was posted as Advice instead of QA, so it can only ...
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Please provide some indication/differentiation for 'free' votes not affecting reputation to reduce user confusion
Posting this as a dedicated feature request based on staff recommendation here.
Please differentiate somehow between free votes and 'real' votes. Preferably, this would be visible when looking at the ...
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Staging Ground not trapping short ambiguous beginner questions. Why not?
I have noticed several reputation one single sentence questions go straight into normal space on Stack Overflow without first passing through Staging Ground recently. This one is a particularly bad ...
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