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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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 ...
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Trying to ask a question provides better results than normal search.
I have noticed this interesting behavior several times now.
Many a time I scour Math SE looking for a particular query but fail to find anything even after several rounds of rephrasing and ...
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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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The word "urgent" in a title should trigger a warning
It doesn't currently, and it adds nothing to the question. Most of the time it's "urgent" because homework is due soon. Agree or disagree?
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Proposal for promoting more interesting, deeper questions
There was recently a (now-locked) thread about the prevalence of "do my homework" questions on math.se. I want to set aside for now the question about what to do about people posting homework ...
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Congrats to Ross Millikan AND Davide Giraudo [duplicate]
This just in. Ross Millikan has joined J.M. in the exclusive club of users who have cast at least 10000 votes. Congrats and thanks!
As per Julien's suggestion I'm also soliciting opinions from ...
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Award ingrate badges?
Lately, I've been losing enthusiasm for this site, so I don't bother answering questions if I don't think I'm going to get any gratitude (in the form of an upvote, an accept, a "thank you", or some ...
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It is ridiculous that people like me can nominate
You should have at least 10.000 reputation, and be active for at least a year, otherwise the nominations get spoiled with kiddos like me that have no chance, and should not have a chance to become a ...
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Why is there no support for MathJax in chat?
The question Should chat have TeX support was first asked
3½ years ago, and it has been asked at intervals since then. I am not asking that question. I know that chat should have TeX support and ...
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Allow newline in comments
The comment length here is such that it corresponds to what normally is a long paragraph in usual written communications.
In some situations, it is more natural to write two short paragraphs, or one ...
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Concern about lesser attention towards relatively advanced questions
There have been some concerns regarding voting on m.se and as has been pointed out there, this may have to do with increasing number of questions, e.g. some statistics here.
In this post I wish to ...
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To whom am I replying?
Here's another potentially dumb question. As I go through old comments, I find myself to have replied to @users who seem to have changed their name. Anyway, while I can guess to whom I was speaking, ...
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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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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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Bounties don't last long enough
I've personally been involved in one, two, three questions with bounties which were effectively awarded plus two that were placed and not answered. Twice answering and thrice asking. And each time ...
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What qualify questions to be in mathoverflow and not in math.stackexchange?
I have read that https://mathoverflow.net/ is only for the very advanced mathematics, such as upper graduate level or research level, counter to https://math.stackexchange.com/ which is for any ...
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About putting a -passed away- notice on some user’s profiles, but having prior approval from the close relatives
When a person passes away, usually a notice indicating this, is added on their profiles, or names (papers, etc).
For such users on the site, can the notice be implemented too? but having the prior ...
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Number of comments to unanswered questions
When we are at math.SE homepage, we can see the asked question, and at the left of the title we can see information about the numbers of votes, answers and views, like this:
What I suggest is to add ...
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Late answers - a mechanism for getting a fair share of upvotes?
It is a not unheard of phenomenon that answers don't get much upvotes in the following scenario:
First, a user asks a non-trivial question, which turns out to be non-trivial enough not to get an ...
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Notification after a downvoted answer was edited
Is there an option to receive a notification, when a post you downvoted was edited?
With a downvote you suggest that something is wrong, after the poster edited it, maybe there is no reason anymore ...
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How to prevent "no clue" questions?
A significant number of questions asked in MSE begin or end with "I don't even know where to start", as a way to justify one's inability to provide own work on the problem and/or attract sympathy or ...
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Save the answer in PDF?
Lot of answers here are excellent but there is no way to save it. Even if we can put them in favorites or print them.
What about create a way to save answers in pdf?
Also on meta : Is it ...
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Reconsidering custom close reasons on Math.SE
In the discussion this meta thread it was discovered, that the current custom close reason missing context or other details is much less specific than the other close reasons.
The answer to what is ...
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Why has the number of profile views been removed from MSE?
The number of profile views of each user is no longer visible. Why has this been removed from MSE?
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Minimum suggested edit length
I just edited a question which was missing a couple of {} in its LaTeX markup. The effect was to make it hard to work out what was going on for people (such as, I ...
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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 ...
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Do we want tag warnings, and for which tags?
(Inspired by this meta.academia.SE discussion)
A new feature has been introduced this summer, tag warnings.
These warnings are meant to provide users with just-in-time information to help them avoid ...
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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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On mutual tactical serial upvotes and unconstructive comments
I notice that there is a group of users on this site who like to leave unconstructive comments on each other's posts. For example, A writes "Great answer, +1" on B's posts and B writes "Short and ...
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User spamming chatbot answers
The user Serg Z. is currently spamming answers copy-pasted from chatbot output (perhaps with slight modifications).
They have recently deleted two examples (users with 10K rep can see these) after I ...
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Flagging for migration to Mathematica.SE and Computational Science.SE
I noticed we can flag posts for migration to physics.SE and stats.SE. Can you please add options for migration to Mathematica and Computational Science, too?
(A.K.): The Mathematica site has ...
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Is there any particular way to find the "easy" questions to answer?
Right now, I am student of pre-calculus. I am still studying basic calculus (derivatives & integrals) just because - well why not, it helps me get a head start. But as you can imagine sometimes I ...
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Feature request - but it woudn't be a feature, it'd be a blessing - editing panel and preview side-by-side - fighting lag on large answers!
I've only done a few questions here but already it's grinding on me. Why can't we have the writing-answer panel and the preview panel side by side, rather than below, this means for big answers I can'...
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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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Auto-detecting dead links within the Stack Exchange network
I was exploring this question. The answer in particular links to a CS Theory question (that I assume was similar or the same) that had been deleted/moved.
I imagine that there A LOT of questions ...
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Latex preview on question title?
Almost every single time I type a question I end up having to go back and edit the title due to no latex preview. Obviously you can write the title in the body first to check it but it's very easy to ...
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Could "Ask Question" dialog be more helpful?
The Ask Question dialog has an appropriate faint overlay text in the Title input area:
what's your math question? be specific.
(Aside: this seems to suggest ...
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Is it possible to convert (and possibly download) the answers/discussions in pdf format?
First of all, I don't know if this is not a place for asking this question or whether it has been asked (I have searched before posting). My apology is these cases.
I felt very often to save all ...
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exercising the vote not to close
For the second time now I've found that a close vote has been cast for a question and I believe that the vote is based on a misunderstanding or misreading of the question. In such a case, I can only ...
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Adding flagging to the review of low-quality posts
In the review page for low-quality posts,
When reviewing answers (at least) it is sometimes the case that the answer is in fact a comment by a low-reputation user. While voting for deletion is fine, ...
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Feature suggestion: marking an edit as minor to avoid messing with the question flow
I won't be surprised if it has already been discussed, but anyway.
I relatively often make minor edits to my own answers: typically a typo in math or in English, or a slight modification of the logic ...
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Title and $\LaTeX$
This is not a question. Just a request.
This Issue has been discussed previously and I think this can be implemented technically as well.
Writing title all in latex disables the options like "Open ...
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Can we get a $\LaTeX$ button?
I would like to propose the addition of a $\LaTeX$ button. It would be very similar to the "code" button that formats the highlighted text into code, the $\LaTeX$ button would surround the highlighted ...
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How can we best judge who has the skills to be a moderator?
Some recent events have raised the question as to who is best equipped to be a moderator. It has become clear to me that some hugely valuable contributions are being lost to the site over concerns ...
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Feature request: user script or option to turn off instant MathJax rendering
In view of the nearly unbearable slowdowns I experience while composing answers (both in Safari 5 and Firefox 5 on OS X 10.6.7) since June 21/22 I would most welcome a possibility ...
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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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Feature request: always display upvotes and downvotes separately
One annoying problem I've experienced in the past is the following: I downvote something that I think is bad but that is not obviously bad (e.g. it is not spam). Exactly one other user upvotes in ...
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Why not add the title of the question in the preview while writing it? [duplicate]
Sometimes I don't know if the $\LaTeX$ used in the title of a question I'm writing is correct. Why is not added the title preview of the question when one is writing it to avoid typos? Just like it's ...
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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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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 ...
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