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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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Providing "make and model" around posts on Stack Overflow. Stack Overflow can be a great resource for figuring things out. Over time, many stack overflow questions become quite dated. This ...
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Would allowing specific Gold Stack Overflow badges to be exported as verifiable certificates improve user motivation and retention? I’m not referring to simply linking a profile or displaying badges ...
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Please introduce support for collapsible sections. Similar in effect to this: <details> <summary>Click to expand</summary> This content is hidden until the user clicks the ...
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I am writing a question. When I write and edit it, it seems everything is ok regarding markdown rendering: However, when I save it, I get these extra linebreaks at the top of code blocks: Why is ...
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On the current Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange sites, most timestamps shown on the screen have the HTML attribute title or datetime set to something which is, or includes, the UTC date and time ...
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Stack Exchange's post on their plans for curation was poorly received overall, and contains several statements and proposals that I strongly disagree with. That being said, it did have one suggestion ...
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In the real world, someone offering a bounty that goes unclaimed gets to keep that money. Why can't it work more similarly to that here? Last month I opened a question about an issue I was having. ...
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The "How do I ask a good question?", states: Don't include tags in the title. The system will automatically prepend the most important tag to your title for search-engine optimization ...
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This is what we have on the main site: Goal is, we would know if there is a new deployment. We would also get some hints about its date or some internal version number, if there is one. On the ...
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The new design is less compact than the old design. New design: Old design: Feature request: Could the new design be made more compact? It's the second time that the new UI makes the interface less ...
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I keep overlooking the difference between one answer and the next, and even between the question and its first answer. This isn't surprising, given the decreased horizontal movement (e.g, indentation),...
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It seems that on the Beta site, when you are answering a question, you have the choice of the Stacks Editor, sans Markdown with Preview Mode, or... Oh, that's the end of the list. This is a TERRIBLE ...
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Currently there is no way to see my request history for issues submitted using the "Contact Us" button at the bottom of the SO page. For example, say in the past someone has used the "...
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Just a random thought I had, which would actually solve 2 problems at once: I propose that when an SO user (or any SE user?) hits some reasonable score threshold, let's say around 10,000 imaginary ...
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I am a long-time but low-intensity SO user who occasionally asks and answers questions. I just asked a question, my first in a while. As the title of this meta question indicates, I requested help ...
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I recently posted an answer here with the following link for a Chrome setting: chrome://settings/content/localNetworkAccess Despite formatting this as a link, it still does not render as a link when ...
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Java Programming language Programming language … are mostly word-for-word matches, except for swapping Java for PHP. I would suggest adding a feature to look for duplicates, to prevent such bogus ...
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Some posts simply aren't questions. Sometimes, they're misguided attempts to write a blog post or a how-to guide. Occasionally, they're bug reports directed at companies, for which other developers ...
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I noticed that the tagging for Next.js is all over the place (but next has been sorted, at least!) For v13, the situation is resolved; the Next.js form is the canonical tag: 13: next.js13 (2,941); ...
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A lot of the time, it happens that a question is commonly asked but the existing well-received versions of it don't have good answers. Or a question might receive new attention (perhaps because of a ...
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A comment points out that Stack Exchange may not longer display the '(you're in the) Top x% of users' statistic anymore: As a side note it used to state that was in the top 2% of users on SO, but ...
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I find that there are questions on Meta that have lots of answers (say 30 or more) such that it is very difficult to find a particular posted answer, since we have to go to the next page button and ...
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A user recently posted a bug as they were being informed that they couldn't post a duplicate answer, even though they were under the impression that it wasn't one. The answer was, in fact, a duplicate,...
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Recently Stack Overflow introduced asking different types of questions (like advice, opinion-based, tooling, etc.). But I noticed that many beginners and even some experienced users have mistakenly ...
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I'm temporarily stuck using the Stacks Editor in full WYSIWIG mode on opinion-based questions. IDK if markdown+previous mode would be different. I accidentally hit escape while aiming for alt+~ to ...
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I use Stack Overflow to solve problems with various programming languages. Over time, these languages often get updates that change how they work, and in turn helpful users sometimes — but not always ...
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We have this for rep count, so would be good to be consistent. Rep: CA:
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in the case of spam in a staging ground question, which happens a lot from my observation, raising a flag for spam is at this point not counted as a review. I think it should count as a review for ...
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When I've flagged a comment, the UI used to show a little red flag symbol, but it doesn't anymore. This icon is helpful when re-reading a list of comments so that you know that you can skip the ...
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On mobile, please consider adding an X button to the search box to clear the current criteria. It's difficult to search for watched tags on mobile (please add this!!), so I have to type them in ...
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