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Tagged with feature-request status-completed
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Suggestion to mass-replace links to http://math.uga.edu/~pete
Links to various files starting with http://math.uga.edu/~pete and http://www.math.uga.edu/~pete no longer work, but they can be ...
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Print to PDF too narrow
I am using Chrome (74.0.3729.169 (Official Build) (64-bit)) and trying to print a question (specifically this one Assistance with proof of $(AB)^T=B^T A^T$) to "Save as PDF".
The content is printed ...
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Can a question's colour or background be changed if I have visited it?
Is it possible to have different colours for the questions that I have already visited, and those which I haven't?
It would be better if there is some distinction because otherwise at present, I ...
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Warning when creating a new tag on meta
When a new tag is created on the main site, you get a warning before you can continue - this prevents creation of a tag by mistake. This was implemented as a result of this feature request: Warning ...
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Organizing favorite posts in folders\categories
Is there a way of organizing favorite posts into folders?
This is a feature I was thinking about for quite some time now. It happened to me more than once where I was looking for a certain post I ...
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Should we add external searches in some help pages about search?
I think that it might be useful to add somewhere advice about other possibilities how to search. (I am not sure what would be right place, but it would be nice to have it somewhere where new users who ...
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A feature requested for the purpose of avoiding unintentional newbie-biting
It is not unusual that a newbie posts a question that is obviously about mathematics and it is closed with a notice that says
closed as off-topic
and then down below that:
"This question is ...
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Retracting a flag [duplicate]
Is there any way to retract a flag that has been cast accidentally and the post has not undergone any change after the flagging?
I saw this post on Retracting flags and that the feature request was ...
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Can we have a favorite star for answers?
It is just a thought. As we have a star to mark favorite a good question, can we similarly have a star to each answer so that a good answer can be marked as favorites by users. That way one can know ...
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Let's get MathOverflow's "Citation Helper" here, too!
MathOverflow recently received a brand-new toy: a citation helper that adds a new button to the post editor to allow references to journal articles (and more?) to be added to posts quicker and easier.
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Show "how to ask" advice before a new user asks a question
Many questions by new users end up closed as duplicates or for another reason related to the lack of familiarity with the site. I won't go into details; they are much discussed.
I propose to enable ...
user147263
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Change the colour of the links in post notifications
I brought this up before in response to the notice about the new design, but it wasn't followed up on. The colour of links barely has any contrast to the surrounding text:
I have a strong feeling ...
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Increase the point where reviews are disputed
I noticed two answers that arguably should have been deleted from the review queue (Exhibits A and B; see also Exhibit C given by dustin in the comments, and there are probably many others as well).
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Let's require registration to ask a question
More than two years after http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/q/4569/, this may be the time for reconsideration. A brief update:
In July 2012, when the aforementioned discussion took place, the site ...
user147263
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Contest problem boilerplate lock reason
Given our current contest problem policy, I would like to request there be a customised post-notice for handling the locking of those questions.
Proposed notice text:
This question is locked in ...
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Should the site have an automatic word filter for titles?
Math.SE has a problem with titles. The percentage of questions with the redundant word question in the title is highest on Stack Exchange, by far. Plenty of titles consist of other mostly useless ...
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Why we can't see suggested edits rendered in latex before approving? [duplicate]
I've noticed that when viewing suggested edits there is an option to show rendered output but it doesn't actually show what the edit will look like after latex has been compiled. I realize there is ...
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TeX Rendering via HTTPS
I am curious, has anyone been able to get mathematics stack exchange to display TeX correctly when using HTTPS? TeX does not render for me when connecting via HTTPS but does when connecting via HTTP ...
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Should rep requirements for tag creation be higher?
There are, IMO, quite a lot of badly tagged questions and... not very good tags. Some of them were discussed on meta recently; some of these discussions show, IMO, that users who created these tags ...
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Warning for new tags
I have a reasonable idea for a feature request.
When a user is creating a tag the system will recognize that and point out that the following tag is new, requiring the user to acknowledge the ...
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Proposal: make the "interesting" tab the default on Math.SE homepage
Proposal: change the default home page tab of Math.SE from active to interesting.
Explanation and Rationale. Math.SE is the second most active SE site by the number of questions per day, behind ...
user74674
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Unable to search my answers for a particular topic
In an effort to find this answer, I executed this query. I tried several other variants of this query, but I was unable to find my answer to a question about uncertainty. I thought I used to be able ...
robjohnMod
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Slightly more informative error messages when the title is too long
Titles are limited to 150 characters. This is a reasonable limitations, but with $\rm\LaTeX$ one can easily go beyond that. Since it is impossible to a priori judge the length of the compiled $\rm\...
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LaTeX in tag wikis
LaTeX renders fine when you go to the tag-info page, for example, abelian-groups. However, when you try to add the abelian-groups tag to your post it doesn't render in the pop-up.
This is messy. Is ...
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Mobile site: getting rid of it
Is there a way to (permanently) get rid of the mobile versions of the site? Periodically SE decides to take me to it on my iPod and then I have to go back to the full site—this has happened many many ...
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Reviewing Suggested Edits
As part of the mod tools, there is a tool to review and approve suggested edits. The "review suggested edits" shows something like below which is not of much help to review and approve the edit.
It ...
user17762
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What is a good standard for publishing a reference to a stackexchange thread?
In the discussion "Research which began at the website", we wondered what the best way to publish a reference to a stackexchange discussion thread.
Presumably it would be the publication's standard ...
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Automatic Community-wikification of very long answers with lots of edits
I ended up doing a heavy rewrite of my answer on center-commutator subgroup duality because I was unsatisfied with the flow of it. This pushed the answer beyond the 10 edit limit which turned it into ...
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Please point mathematics.stackexchange.com to here, instead of to MathOverflow.
You could say I'm partially (or entirely?) to blame for this for not having done enough research beforehand. However...
A while back I wondered if there were a math-related site on the StackExchange ...
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Why can't I run data queries on the Math Site?
Maybe this question has already been asked, but I can't seem to find Math.SE on data explorer. On other sites there have been some useful queries run, and I was hoping to look into the Math site, but ...
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Show LaTeX syntax in "How to Format" box
I think you need to show the syntax for LaTeX formatting in the "How to Format" box when writing a question or answer. I just mean showing how to surround in $ or <...
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Command for strict inclusion does not render [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Please enable AMSsymbols extension for MathJax
I typed the command \subsetneq in an answer a few moments ago and it didn't render : the output just reproduced the command in ...
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Please enable AMSsymbols extension for MathJax
Please enable the AMSsymbols extensionfor MathJax. The lack of this extension has led to several independent bug reports.
The \not\mid symbol is not working well
Tex \implies symbol does not work
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TeX beth symbol missing [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tex \implies symbol does not work
In this post I cannot get the TeX symbol $\beth$ to work. I checked and the symbol does work on MathOverflow, so it may just be a ...
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The "accepted" color is too light
Please considering changing into something which introduces contrast.
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Re-render MathJax in comments
A couple of months ago, Kaestur Hakarl wrote a comment in Feedback on MathJax TeX rendering which didn't receive enough attention:
... Is it possible for the re-rendering pass to also cover ...
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I suggest more contrast for questions tagged by interesting tags.
Questions tagged by a tag included in my list of interesting tags are highlighed. That's great, but in the new design it's almost invisible. More contrast please!
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Why is the font color NOT black
The body text is #444 which is hard on the eyes. Stackoverflow.com uses black, easy to read. How about either allowing preferences (hard), or just color the text black (easy) so it is easier to read?...
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Can we get database dumps?
Anton over at MO regularly releases database dumps, which are great if you want to search through everything (including comments), or go statistic-hunting (e.g. compare the frequencies of certain ...
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Tex \implies symbol does not work
I needed couple of times to use the \implies symbol (which is basically a double lined right arrow). It works in Mathoverflow.net, but here it doesn't work: $\implies$.
Any suggestions?
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Allow TeXification in <code> tags.
Some special characters, e.g. *, _ and \ have special meaning in Markdown syntax, but these ...
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It is possible/make sense to add a mark to hide part of text?
In mathematics (and in other sciences), often there is no unique answer, the same problem can be resolved by different approaches, and often one can learn something from each one.
So in order to ...
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Feature request: LaTeX preview
I would like to be able to preview my LaTeX when typing my answers and questions!
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TeX math markup is sorely needed
This site is going to need TeX markup to express mathematical symbols and formulas well.
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