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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Allow saving new types of posts on Stack Overflow [duplicate]
Recently, Stack Overflow introduced new types of posts that include tooling, advice, opinion-based posts like Reading gz files with very long lines, line by line in c++? for example.
As we can see ...
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Please inform the question deleter that their question is being referred to
I have written two questions:
Question 1
Question 2, referring to 1
As I've received many downvotes on my first question and there's no answer anyway, I wanted to delete that question, and while ...
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Opinion-based questions should distinguish between answers and comments
I come across a lot of "answers" to opinion-based questions in review queues that don't actually answer the question. I've noticed many of these are either requests for clarification on the ...
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Clarify the different question categories
Since the opinion-based questions went live, asking a question now presents a user with four possible categories:
Based on the amount of questions I've seen in opinion-based that should be in Q&A ...
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AI assist will lower site engagement, needs vote buttons
AI assist lacking vote buttons adds an extra barrier between finding an answer useful and upvoting said answer and its associated question. That may not seem like much but I hypothesize very few ...
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Disable new 'what do you want to learn today' block
How can I disable this new 'what do you want to learn today' block at the top of the home-page?
The 3 widgets already waste a lot of space. I don't need another widget I'll never use.
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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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