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Questions tagged [feature-request]

Indicates that you have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.

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Improve the "good" example in "How to ask a good question"

Close to the end of of How do I ask a good question? , we see how a poor question can be transformed into a much better one. It doesn't go quite as far as I would like, however. The ...
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Allow moderators to lock questions without locking answers

In a situation such as this one: Capture multiple errors before raising an exception It would help to give moderators the power to lock only question edits/deletion, without locking new or edited ...
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Do the default first questions Share feedback canned comments make sense for Code Review?

Most sites have 2 default Share feedback comments in the First questions queue: Question is unclear Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to highlight exactly what you ...
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Increase character limit to 75k

Let's increase the character limit to, say, 75 000 characters. 65 000 is not enough. I face that problem a second time now. I have to exclude some code and instead store it elsewhere and provide a ...
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Should Code Review improve the new-question Title hint?

I would like to suggest a UX improvement for new users, so they're less likely to encounter edits / pushback from mods. 1. Summarize the problem Code Review posters are typically new users. ...
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Providing optional pre-commit (style) feedback on question uploads?

Context I am positively surprised by the amount of code quality verifications that can be performed automatically. Accordingly, I thought it may be valuable for other people that are not familiar with ...
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Are users not already notified when an answer on their question is edited?

See this sister question: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/306419/people-should-get-notified-when-answers-to-their-questions-are-edited I could have sworn this is already the case for CRSE but ...
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Automatically include newline if post ends in triple grave

The question says it all. I'm unsure if this is a bug or not, just something I've noticed over the years on this website. Currently, if a user posts a question with code at the end of the question, ...
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Disable Responsiveness or similar functionality for Code Review

Stack Overflow used to have 'disable responsiveness' option at the bottom of the screen, so that it was possible to get more information (i.e. the code and question) on the screen, in effect '...
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Should we copy over the requests tag?

The requests tag would be an informative addition to questions like this. Should we copy it over from Stack Overflow? I have filled the wiki but do not know how to add the Code Language and the ...
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Hide the "describe what you've tried" bullet (new askers' modal)

Our new asker's modal has the three bullets: Summarize the problem Provide details and any research When appropriate, describe what you've tried We are able to remove the third bullet point (see "...
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Can we have the first VTC post a comment? [closed]

I quite often encounter questions with at least one vote to close (VTC), but no comment or down vote. This means the OP doesn't know there is anything wrong with the question. Would it be possible for ...
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Adding alternative answer comment to low quality posts queue

When I review posts in the low quality posts queue, sometimes I stumble upon answers which provide alternative solutions instead of reviewing the OP's code. It would be nice to add this entry (...
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Stop focusing editor when clicking "run code snippet"

When creating a post that has one or more code snippets and I click "Run code snippet" the page scrolls back to the post's textarea. Since the code snippets are normally at the end of posts, ...
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Can we remove the need for titles to be unique

I came across the following title on the HNQ list. I made a Guess the number game in Python This is a pretty poor title, but the OP isn't to blame for this. As you can see the title almost ...
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