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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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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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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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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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For context, I use StackOverflow 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 — ...
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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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Related: Why did I just get a notification about earning the Vote Up privilege? Now that the much-derided experiment on comment voting requirements seems to have been graduated and the voting ...
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The Challenges pages load all posts (submissions) on a single page. Moreover, the submissions tend to be much longer than regular answers on the main site. Take this example; with close to 50 posts, ...
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When trying to download the Stack Overflow data dump, I ran into an issue with slow internet speeds. Chrome estimated the download would take about 3-4 hours. However, after only a couple of minutes, ...
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When clicking "delete" on a comment in the new UI, there's no confirmation, unlike in the old UI where you would get a popup: "Really delete this comment? [Cancel] [OK]". I guess ...
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I noticed my comments UI changed and now usernames on comments aren't highlighted for OP anymore. Questions still use the old design and still show highlighting: But not answers: (this is from an ...
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I noticed my comments UI changed and now the timestamp isn't clickable. It used to be a link to the comment. The equivalent thing is now to click the dropdown menu and click "Copy link" then ...
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I noticed that the tag guidance for internationalization was messed up, and tried to fix it. In the process I noticed two more things: The "What is a tag wiki?" text says that "The ...
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Jira has a nice feature which shows the icon (favicon), title, and meta thumbnail of the page (if available) that the link or URL is pointing to. A real example issue in Jira containing many links: ...
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In a thread with my question or my answer, the steps for copying an HTML/CSS/JS snippet are complicated (feature-request) and partially counterintuitive (bug, marked bold below): Click "Copy&...
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In chat today, multiple users send a message consisting of the @ symbol followed by the first three letters of a user's username. This happened for me after typing @, typing the first three letters, ...
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TL;DR What if Stack Exchange utilized an LLM integration to add ONE standard answer for questions with low activity, while encouraging the community to review said answers? It could help revitalize ...
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Please change design of Comments section back to original look-n-feel! Thank God, it is employed by the rest of StackExchange, including this Meta itself - at least so far. Currently, comments to ...
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The visualization of the results for this section is extremely unclear: What am I looking at? It's not clear what the left vs right side of the graph means, and hovering over each ribbon simply says &...
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So instead of showing the date a comment was posted, we're just going to show "Over a year ago"? Essentially, hide when someone's input was given. So we don't have the context of how ...
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I know SG-comments are for getting the question to a state that it is answerable. But I frequently see comments attempting to answer the question or giving leads to what might be the problem. The only ...
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In the new comment layout experiment (2025), comments are being labelled with "Over a year ago" instead of the actual date. Why would you seek to hide this information? In my opinion it's ...
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I found it to be a poor user experience every time I put a comment on a specific question or answer thread with the basic markdown format I usually used. Is it possible to simply allow us to use ...
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With the advent of LLM-based (Large Language Model) AI (Artificial Intelligence), people ask fewer questions on Stack Overflow (SO). Markedly fewer, perhaps 10% of peak, although more like 20% of ...
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The last question about this was back in 2017. I feel like it's worth re-visiting now, in mid 2025. Has there been any further consideration to enabling IPv6 support for Stack Overflow? Some quick ...
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There was a "button" at the upper-right corner of the snippet, that allowed to open and view the snippet on the entire browser window. It was good to check the responsive aspect of the code....
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I've spent around 3-4+ hours writing/editing this answer: C# LINQ Dynamic - Against a DataTable - Syntax not working? The final version of it was downvoted. I want to be able to flag an answer I wrote ...
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TL;DR: parent question post deletion is too easy – notifications may help Something like this – actually analogous to the usual notifications Parent post deletions should be checked more thoroughly ...
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I'm surprised that the Stackstatus page requires the www. subdomain prefix. Just https://stackstatus.net does not point at an IP. Would be nice if you set up cloudflare to redirect at least to www....
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There was no mention (that I was aware of) regarding the brave new changes in the Editor and Snippets area? And I can humbly say that it's terrible from a UE/UI/UX point of view; incomprehensible ...
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I am trying to improve the question VS Code is too big. It currently consists of an image and a single sentence, so I want to add detail to better explain the issue. However, when I submit my edit I ...
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I was recently enjoying the new SO Challenge feature. After enjoying the coding challenge, I wanted to post my submission. But silly me - I accidentally posted it while formatting the post. I deleted ...
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Sometimes someone asks a low-quality question (e.g.) on the main site and it gets downvoted and closed, and responds by trying to repost it and landing in the Staging Ground instead (e.g.). The ...
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This spawned from an experiment on pairing askers with experts in the community, and I think directly hits on some research the Stack Overflow staff has done with new users; primarily that asking ...
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I've been led to turning off experiments due to the New Comment UI Features on Stack Overflow; it is just too distracting for me I immediately looked for how to turn it off. The only option that I ...
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According to the answer to this question: For Collectives, there are two types of "Recommended" answers: explicitly recommended: A Recognized Member or Admin of the Collective has chosen ...
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