Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature on the site, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Embedding tikzcd diagrams
I know some tags are not supported, and some of them will likely never be (I have the <table> tag in mind). However, it is sometimes useful to embbed ...
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Community Ad Feature Request
Is it possible to have a post with all the sandbox of ads that this site has cause they are useful and just searching them up year by year is quite hard? This is a more feature request about the ...
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When a very short subject line is too long
Showing $\frac{|\overrightarrow{A_1B}|}{|\overrightarrow{A_1C}|}\frac{|\overrightarrow{B_1C}|}{|\overrightarrow{B_1A}|}\frac{|\overrightarrow{C_1A}|}{|\overrightarrow{C_1B}|}=1$ implies $AA_1$, $BB_1$,...
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Would it be useful to let users organize their questions/answers by custom tags? (tags only seen by myself)
I want a feature where I can organize my questions/answers in my math.stackexchange profile by some custom tags created and seen only by me. I want this feature because sometimes I forget which ...
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Feature request for unlocking competition questions after a given time
Feature request at low priority. Not to be escalated (Monday 31 Aug 2020). Further queries on this post are still allowed.
Recently, I have been flagging a few posts required to be unlocked. All of ...
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How to delete your old username from the comment's section, after changing your username?
I had been using math.stackexchange with my real name. As I begun noticing that stackexchange community is SEO friendly, I decided for privacy reasons, to change my username to just my first name. But ...
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Ability to have a search feature to find search through personal question history [duplicate]
Sometimes, I want to find a question I asked but I find it difficult it to scroll through all my asked questions trying to find one question. So, I suggest that this site includes a search feature in ...
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Find posts that were in a specific review queue
In another Meta question, the OP wrote that posts in the Late Answers queue are "fun to read". Personally, I have never reviewed a post in this queue, partly because they get reviewed before ...
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How can I find posts that have been answered by two users?
Q1: How can I find posts that have been answered by two users? For example user:1000 and user:1500? Or more generally a set of posts where two users have intersected, consisting of comments, questions,...
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Attaching files to an answer.
(It's been three years since a similar question was last asked so I thought I'd see if anything's changed since then.)
I've just completed creating a fairly involved answer, and along the way have ...
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Edit in progress warning
I often feel it is a waste of time when you are editing a question and shortly before you finish you see that the question already got edited, and your edit does not improve the corrections which were ...
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pre-viewing mobile answers
This meta-posting is intended to serve as a combination query + feature-request. I do not have
a mobile device; I think that this posting needs input from users who do have a mobile device
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There should be a badge for sufficient number of accepted answers
Just the other day I was counting my answers which are accepted with great enthusiasm and with a belief that there is a badge for 10 accepted answers or 30 accepted answers. But unfortunately there ...
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Weird citation of stack exchange question
I want to cite a question and its answer in my paper in IEEEtran format. However, citing the question gives me this weird result:
The URL of my account is broken and the author name is just the ...
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I want to view recently closed (not so recently asked) questions of mine
Five months ago I asked
Conjecture: Any odd integer $k>1$ has a partition $m+n,\,m,n>0,$ such that $m^2+n$ > is a prime.
and a few days ago it was closed, which I noticed only because there ...
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Add quantum computing stackexchange to "What to ask here" page
In the help center on the page What topics can I ask about here there is a list of sister sites that might be better suited for some questions that are still on-topic here. I propose to add quantum ...
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Can someone add a Differential Equations section to the List of Generalizations of Common Questions?
I was surprised that there isn't already a section on the List of Generalizations of Common Questions for differential equation questions. I'm especially thinking of those cookbook type "How do ...
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(How) Can we make our mobile phone to make a sound when we get pinged in chat?
Sometimes it is more customary to work in chat rooms, and as there are less chances for synchronous conversation we usually ping users. When we are on computer and get pinged, we get a sound like &...
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Gray or yellow background for questions and answers using > and >!
Many times I have asked myself why there is no longer a grey or other colour background as there was a few months ago using the > command. Using a smartphone you ...
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Newcomer Tutorial
I've seen time and time again newcomers coming to this exchange who've clearly not read the rules on how to post a good question to this exchange. I'm unsure how feasible this would be to implement on ...
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Notifications to followers of a question about its status updates (closed / open)
In my opinion, one of the most important functions of following a question should be to notify users its status updates. For example, say I encountered a question in the close vote review queue that I ...
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Should we write every constant upright?
This post comes out because some of my edit was rejected.
I honestly think we should use upright letter for specific mathematical constant.
For example I think $\operatorname i$ is the immaginary ...
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Addressing Community Specific Close Reasons (Again)
Currently, there are two radio buttons in the "Why should this question be closed?" dialog which are very similar, and which fail to clearly address a category of question which should be closed. The ...
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Feature to remind users to place a bounty
Often times a question comes along that I really want to know the answer to, but I can see that it has not received much attention yet. I can only place a bounty after some time has passed. ...
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Enforce accurate titles more strictly
The questions I view here have repetitive or inaccurate titles. I think this site as whole would be more useful if people paid more attention to titles. and, I think that can happen if we are more ...
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RSS feed for unanswered questions
Is there a way to RSS feed the unanswered questions? Because I would find it easier to have an influx of questions about certain tags I like. Is that even possible?
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Could we encourage posting code for numerical analysis and visualizations?
Many answerers create stunning visualizations to augment their answers. Numerical analysis is often leveraged to come to results. Both are using programming knowledge as a piece of the mathematician's ...
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Would it be possible to include the scicomp.SE site in the list of related SE sites?
I came across a post that is in my opinion more about scientific computing, than mathematics. Therefore I wanted to flag the question accordingly, but I couldn't find the scicomp.SE site among the ...
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Can we have a smarter serial voting detection?
Serial voting simply because of disagreement of opinions is toxic in the main site. While deduction of a few points does not (maybe it does) matter a lot for the victim, in the long run, however, it ...
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How do I label the rows/columns of a matrix in MathJax?
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\qquad \quad \ \ 1 \ \ \ \ 2 \ \ \ \ \ 3 \ \ \ \ 4 \ \ \ \ 5 \ \ \ \ \ \\
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h & e & l & l & o \\
m & s & e & * & * \\
m & e & t & a &...
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Why can't I edit my own deleted (hidden) question?
There was an issue in my last question on Math.Stackexchange. I wanted to first formulate the general idea of my question, and then work on the question a little bit. It would be ideal if I could do ...
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Marking a comment as resolved?
The problem
Sometimes someone comments on a question suggesting that some aspect of the question be clarified or otherwise changed. Then the OP changes the question accordingly, sometimes including ...
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Is there a way to enable desktop notifications for answers?
If there is way or if this could be a feature for certain questions would this be possible?
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Why can't we delete our own post on the phone app (Android)?
In this period of forced quarantine (april 2020, province of Québec) I only have my phone to access Stack Exchange. On a phone, I'm much slower and it sometimes happen that I post an answer at the ...
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Autofilters for Hot Network Questions
The SE software allows us to request certain regular expressions be automatically excluded from the Hot Network Questions.
I was asked by the CMs to make this post on the meta, and include the list. ...
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Is there any plan to bring dark mode to MSE as in the case of Stack Overflow?
Recently, dark mode has been applied on https://stackoverflow.com.
The result is fantastic to me. Is there any plan to bring it to MSE?
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Is it possible to see how many users are online?
Is it possible to see how many users (especially experts) are online? or I should find it by checking user by user? It seem to me that nobody respond to my recent posts.
Where can I find in my ...
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Why doesn’t the system tell you the character limit while writing a question. [duplicate]
Earlier, whenever I was about to write a post, when I was done with the title, the system would tell me that I have overshot my character limit. This was quite helpful. But after the last update, it ...
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Feature Request: Why can't we favorite answers? [duplicate]
I have a feature request why can't we favorite answers? Would it be a problem?
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How to write appropriate numbers in non of math, physics and chemistry sites in stackexchange? [closed]
in my question in my ell.stackexchange account, I want that look like user$20445$ instead of user20445.
How can I do this? I am not comfortable with these inappropriate numbers.
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Please enable syntax highlighting on Mathematics SE
Would it be possible to enable syntax highlighting (colour) for code blocks on Mathematics SE?
For example, on Stack Overflow:
My motivation for asking this question is that I was disappointed to see ...
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How many hours has a user been on math.stack?
In this question, How much time a day is healthy to spend on MSE? OP asked this
"how many hours do you spend here?"
And made me think that if
Is it possible to know the total of hours that a user ...
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Suggested edits : changes in titles
When reviewing suggested Edit, there is a side by side view before/after of the post.
Could it possible to have the same feature for changes in the titles? It can be quite difficult to validate an ...
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Why does the similar question feature not exist for the SE android app?
In Stack Exchange website we have a great feature which let us know if a similar question exists. It is present below the title bar.
Initially I was wondering if this feature existed in the app but ...
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Improved wrong comments written with MathJaX? [duplicate]
Sometimes I see that some comments are written with command or syntax errors.
In fact they are displayed in red (for example $\gama$ instead of \gamma ($\gamma$)) ...
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Can we have a spell-check and grammar-check to improve posts?
Can we have a spell-checker and grammar-checker on Math.SE ? so that could fix all the errors that some users have because they are not native english speakers. Whether on their questions, answers, ...
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Deleted questions (or deleted user accounts)
Over the last year or two I have encountered a couple of times the situation that I answered a (possibly badly formulated) question on a topic I am expert in (the [gap] tag) as I felt that the ...
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Post getting down-votes, because it's a duplicate. Can't delete.
I posted a question regarding a "new discovery" with divisibility tests and it was marked as duplicate by a user because it is very similar to other divisibility tests. I am losing reputation because ...
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Switch to MathJax version 3?
It seems it has been a long time since the MathJax has been updated on this site (probably MathJax 2.7 beta by @m0sa). So I was wondering if there is a plan to switch to newer version 3? (http://docs....
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Collaboration on Proofs
I'm a burgeoning computer scientist and interested in collaborating with others on proofs and solutions to difficult problems, both for fun and for publication purposes. I'm wondering whether there is ...
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