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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Open-ended questions should require at least 2 tags - The type and one other
I've noticed that a couple of Open-Ended Questions (OEQs) have been created with only a single tag and that tag being a type tag, such as advice. This isn't ideal as tags are there to denote what the ...
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Task System Suggestion
I suggest adding the tasks system to Stack Overflow. This is a system where users can do some tasks to get extra reputation, and the tasks are mainly things like asking, answering, editing, and some ...
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Please notify me if someone replies to my reply on an open-ended question
If someone posts a comment on an answer of mine, I receive an inbox notification very soon afterwards. But if someone posts a reply to an open-ended reply of mine, it seems I receive no notification, ...
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Support line wrapping in code listings
When listing code in questions or answers, one often uses lines which are longer than the rendered gray-rectangle box is wide. The result is a box with a horizontal scrollbar:
int foo(int ...
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Please bring back the "Show NN more comments" at the end of comments on answers
Answers on Stack Overflow questions no longer show a "Show NN more comments" link at the bottom. This is confusing. Please add it back to fix usability.
When I open a question on Stack ...
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Light mode for 2026 developer survey
Developer survey is out, but it is presented in the dark mode.
I know developers are obsessed with dark mode. But this also creates a huge problem for those with eyesight issues who cannot read light ...
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Our Close and Reopen review queues are full of old posts. Can we leave them how they are? [duplicate]
When I do curation, either in Close or Review queue, most of what is to review is more than 5 years old.
But let's consider 10+ year old posts only, to focus on them:
Is there any interest in ...
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Apply 'Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code' check for people with 2k rep
It looks like Stack Overflow skips the 'Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code' check for people with >= 2k rep. It makes it difficult to test this algorithm for ...
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Change the category name "Troubleshooting/Debugging" when asking a Question to minimize the risk of mistakenly asking Open-Ended Questions
Recently, there has been an increase of questions mistakenly asked as an open-ended question, especially on Stack Overflow where I see a lot of people making this mistake. Even I myself was about to ...
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Make downvotes work on open-ended "questions"
The "open ended" questions contain a flood of plainly off-topic (or completely inane) content like:
How to split tunnel with wireguard under linux
How to download a m3u8 file
Will those ...
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The reputation history page should either always show or never show zero-reputation votes
It seems that if a zero-reputation vote is cast on your post when there is already a reputation change for you on that day, that zero-reputation vote record is shown in your history like below:
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Please stop hiding downvotes on open-ended questions
I noticed you can downvote open ended questions, but they do not change the publicly displayed score. Downvotes are a tool for community users to signal to future readers that a given post is not ...
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Add question create time in the questions list
I suggest adding "asked" quick-info into question panel.
Maybe it can show up only after someone has modified it or after e.g. 3 years has passed?
Lots of questions in SO list are just ...
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Missing comma in top bar reputation at chat.stackoverflow.com/?tab=explore
Commas improved readability. They are present in the top bar reputation and comment tooltips on meta and the main site:
But https://chat.stackoverflow.com/?tab=explore lacks the comma.
This doesn't ...
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If a user is editing their question, it should prolong its life to get an answer [duplicate]
If a user is still editing a question, there should be a Stack Overflow system (*.stackoverflow.com/), a configurable n1 value of 5-15 minutes added for a user to respond to any comments that ...
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