Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature on the site, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Add original answerer marking
In MSE posts, the author of a question is indicated by a blue rectangle. I think we should introduce a similar marking under the comment section of an answer, indicating the author of the answer. It ...
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When auditing first answers, could the website add a hint if I click into the question?
My case
I was reviewing a first answer that appeared to be posted 5 minutes ago.
The review panel does not show the question body, so I clicked into the question for contexts.
Astonishingly, I found ...
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Add a random unsolved question button [duplicate]
There are millions of unsolved questions on stack exchange that will probably never be answered because they got buried with history. That is why I'm suggesting to add a button that, when clicked, ...
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Asking clarification between "presentation" of comments [duplicate]
Today I've experienced a new feature (maybe) of the user interface: the function "Recent inbox message" suddenly popped up a -1 value.
Is it a new feature, or some error?
And in the first ...
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Updating the "This answer is not useful" tooltip on meta downvote buttons
Currently, there is a tooltip
"This answer is not useful" on the downvote button on an answer on meta.
Could perhaps be updated to, maybe, "This answer is not useful and/or you disagree ...
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Downvoting a post is not a reason for failing an audit
This morning, I failed an audit, after downvoting it.
This problem seems to be very similar to this one I mentioned earlier.
Please make sure audit failures are only triggered in case they are needed, ...
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Change the canned text for closed questions
I am looking at a closed question here on Meta, and the precomposed text says "This post was edited and submitted for review 2 days ago and failed to reopen the post:".
Let us look closely ...
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' Rep needed ' column states ' Not previously ranked' in reputation league
Among Reputation League columns for some Community members/users including me it is noticed in 'rep needed ' column it is left blank as 'not previously ranked'..; as it happens often can someone ...
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What is currently the number of available daily flags on math.SE? Should it be temporarily increased?
By default, a user can use 10 flags per day and the number is then increased based on the reputation and the number of helpful flags - see here: On the recent changes to flagging and limits.1,2
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Most relevant questions, i.e. those with most upvotes
How do I search for questions with most upvotes ordered with this item?
I have run this command but it didn't yield any clickable outputs:
select Title from Posts where ViewCount >= 5000 ORDER BY ...
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Why don't append a reason why the question is closed as a duplicate?
Recently my question (link) got closed by someone who marked it as a duplicate of his own question asking a reference request. I supposed the answer of my question was on the article. So I looked ...
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Feature request: notification about my deleted comment
Feature request. As a user, I want to get a notification when a comment of mine has been deleted by a moderator. Ideally, I also would like to get a short explanation for the deletion in case it's not ...
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Searching for deleted questions
At the start of 2025 there were several questions paraphrasing a contest question (2/3/36 of https://files.usamts.org/Problems_36_3.pdf) including
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/5014709/the-...
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Click-to-Navigate while editing questions
When editing long questions, it would be helpful to be able to click on the render answer and have the cursor appear in the corresponding place in the editing text box to ease searching. Are there any ...
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Knowledge base proposal for MSE
TL;DR Is there a canonical blogging or knowledge base service attached to MSE? Also, can we use this service (if it exists) as a source for marking duplicates? If not, can we build one?
In principle, ...
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