Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Accessibility not met?
Here is what the site looks like using the "Text Only" tool in Chrome:
Missing alternate text and navigation contrast.
Can this be fixed?
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'Post closed' activity should say 'Post put on hold'
Since we put questions 'on hold' now instead of 'closed', shouldn't the activity change to say 'Put on hold' instead of 'closed'?
If you look at the actual question (for reference: https://ux....
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Questions tab options are confusing
The options under the Questions tab are a mix of sort options and filter options. Newest, Votes and Active sort the questions by those attributes and display ALL questions (thus making the label to ...
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Format notices differently from blockquotes
Pretty straight-forward.
An edit notice prepended to a post:
A blockquote in the same thread:
To help quickly distinguish between the two better (and make sure people actually see the notice), the ...
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spam concerns with valid answers being changed to spam
During reviews, recently I have noticed that there a number of cases where edits have been made to valid answers to completely convert them to spam. Thankfully those edits have been made by users with ...
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New feature that would allow the closing of a question via migration to any *.SE site through an automated close/moderator flag process
Related question: Why is meta.ux.stackexchange.com the only choice for migration?
As a result of the answer I received to the aforementioned related question, I thought I'd see about asking for a ...
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Flag a comment that you have upvoted
Occasionally a new user will post something that needs additional clarification. I ask for clarification and the user posts something new and then posts a comment saying something like "I've added a ...
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Can we get rid of the editing characters minimum?
From time to time, I'm trying to fix just a single typo or most common the formatting of a post. In 70 % of the cases the characters minimum keep me off, especially while deleting or adding spaces or ...
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Let's document that site reviews are off topic
There's a custom close reason for Site Reviews (in the Off-Topic section), but the section of the FAQs titled "What types of questions should I avoid asking?," does not explicitly say that site ...
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More options for migration in close requests
OK, so I go to request a Q be closed, reason being it would be better answered elsewhere.
This option...
... leads to these options ...
Yeah, just the one site.
I suggest the following be ...
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Does UX use syntax highlighting?
Over at StackOverflow, we have syntax highlighting for code blocks. I just left an answer with code blocks that are using language hints, but I don't see any highlighting at all.
Here's a link to ...
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The favourite question icon conveys a wrong message?
I saw this question favorited four times and my intuitive response was that four people marked it as something bad. It's because of the "danger like" color of the star.
Here's my suggestion; make the ...
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Feature request: not show votes on answers for the first 48 hours
I've found that on questions with many answers the highest voted answers are usually those that were posted first.
When I'm short on time and I go to a page with a relatively new question, I'll read ...
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Reputation is reduced by 10 with comment : user was removed
I noticed that my reputation is reduced by 10 with comment : user was removed.
When can this happen ? What is the meaning of it ?
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Better Flag Options for off topic
So far I have flagged three good questions for being off topic on ux.stackexchange.com
I am unhappy that two are closed when really they should have been migrated to other sites.
Perhaps the 'wrong ...
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Could we have some more visual difference between visited and unvisited links?
I read the questions on UX in "newest" sort order. Usually I'll scroll down to the first question I have already read before working my way back up to the latest and greatest.
On StackOverflow this ...
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Metadata for UX StackExchange
Just wondering what metadata is collected or available for the forums (other than individual stats and general summaries), because it would probably help to answer many of the question on both the ...
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Provide a way to review question asked by the users
There are many questions that are to do with user interface design at the conceptual stage. When suggestions are put forward, it is usually to help generate ideas, and then the user can try and apply ...
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Can we remove badge for editing posts? re: excessive editing
I hate to pick on rk. because he is a good contributor, and I have seen a few other people engage in this behavior too.
But when I log onto this site, and see something like this, it bothers me ...
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Why no love for UX community bulletin?
Can we at-least have some background color to highlight that it exists? I feel it will be a good start to divert traffic of regular users to the meta. Right now, it is quite hidden and can easily be ...
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Feature request: newest answers list
At the moment, we have an option to list the newest questions, why not have one to list the newest answers as well?
This feature would be beneficial for two reasons:
It would benefit users who come ...
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Feature request: change "modified" to a more descriptive word.
On the active list, I would like to see more descriptive language used in place of "modified."
Instead of saying "modified N hours ago," it would be helpful if instead it said
"edited N hours ago,"
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Creating a tag longer than 25 characters
Today I wanted to add a "conversion-centered-design" tag, but it is 26 characters long. At the same time, "ccd" may be harder to understand. Any way out of this?
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Should retagging not move questions to the top of the active list?
Retagging questions currently moves them to the top of the active questions list. (I'm not sure, but I think this move may be a result of the retag function having been merged with the edit function.)...
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Where did the "Retag" button go?
Is it me, or did this site used to have a "Re-Tag" button under every question?
If it did, I personally found it useful. Why has it disappeared?
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Take back a flag?
I recently flagged a question (this one) as really bad (because it was). However, I also left a comment for the original poster letting them know that it was really vague and not a good fit. The ...
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Badges for answering X and asking Y number of questions
There are badges for achieving a certain amount of activity for: voting, visiting, editing, reviewing, and flagging. But there is no activity level badge for answering x number of questions, or for ...
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How to encourage questions
Firstly, I am suggesting this only for UX.se, so please don't migrate it to the Stack Overflow meta.
Right now UX.se has become almost exclusively about computer related UX and mostly leaves out the ...
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Respond to someone reviewing my suggested edit
I recently made a revision to this question.
It was a substantial revision because the OP had posted an answer to the question that should have been an edit to the question. I flagged that answer ...
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Why aren't duplicate questions automatically merged? Or at least linked both directions?
When a question is closed as a duplicate, it automatically includes a link to the question that it was a duplicate of. In cases where it's closed before it has been answered, this approach makes ...
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Badges -- single vs multi-time awards
There are badges like Analytical ("Visited every section of the FAQ") which can be awarded to a person only once. Yet there are those that can be obtained multiple times, like Nice question ("Question ...
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Update FAQ to state that tool recommendation questions are out of scope
Over the past four months there has been a lot of discussion about the Tool category. The general consensus seems to be that in most cases, these questions are out of scope. That is the direction ...
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Why do links use very similar colours for :visited, :hover and regular links?
When scanning the main page, I find it a little difficult to differentiate between visited links and regular links. I can see the difference but it always catches me off guard as visited links seem to ...
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Form buttons and pagination do not have a hover state?
I noticed that the form buttons like 'Post Your Question' do not have a hover state and neither does the pagination links.
Is this purposeful?
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Should the edit feature reset the questions scroll?
One of the senior users on ux.stackexchange has been editing posts for a few hours. He may be doing to improve the quality of the questions when new users come to it; for their benefit and its all ...
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UX StackExchange Bottom Notice poor link color contrast
It bugs me that the "bottom-notice" links on the UX pages have such poor contrast. The color contrast of #E8BF6C against a #FFFFFF background is 1.74:1.
WCAG 2.0's luminosity contrast algorithm ...
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Is it possible to change the Edit Counter of Users to show the accurate progress on editorial badges?
The Edit Counter of Users shows all edits, even the edits that doesn't count on the Strunk & White or Copy Editor badges. It's kind of confusing to see an edit count that doesn't match a goal to ...
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Why can't I just upload a profile picture?
Profile Picture update experience
I wanted to change my avatar on this site. I found my user profile section by clicking my name. I wasn't successful in changing my picture right away. First I ...
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Day to day profile stats?
I'm trying to do a little bit of analysis of user activity on the site. I want to learn how asking, answering, commenting, chatting and performing other activities in this site is related to ...
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Favorite Tag color coding on UX.Stackexchange
I have been using SO.SE for sometime now but recently started using UX.SE.
We have an option to set favorite tags and those tags appear marked in different color in the view and its easy to pick up ...
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Hide answers first?
Is there any way to hide other answers until you submit your own answer? I ask because a question I've put up for bounty seems to be stuck in a rut. All the answers are pretty much derivatives of the ...
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Where can I find a history/log of the featured questions?
If I've understood this correctly, then all the "bounty" questions are listed in the "featured" section. Right?
But once the bounty is awarded, then they disappear from that list.
Since many of ...
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Adding GraphicDesign.SE to suggestions list when flagging a post as off-topic
Today, the only site suggested as an alternative when flagging a post as off-topic is Meta UX. However, a very large share of off-topic questions should really go to graphic design (a distant second ...
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Newbies can't easily show appreciation for answers
I'm new to the UX community, but have been on other StackExchange sites. Not sure if this is the right Meta to post this to, but the "problem" is happening here, so here it goes.
I asked my first ...
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Optionally present images as thumbnails
This question relates to this Meta Stack Overflow question.
Could we provide a method (possibly optional) that shows embedded images first as a thumbnail or medium-sized image preview and then show ...
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Easier way to provide image credit/attribution
This is similar to this Meta Stack Overflow question, but I think it probably becomes more of an issue on UX.SE where questions naturally tend to benefit from a visual/graphical response.
While I ...
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Favorite icon VS Badge icon
I find the icons for badges too similar to the icon for favorite questions. I remember that this confused me when learning to find my way around the page and what the badge are.
Here is the favorite ...
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Any way to download bmml source when asking a question?
When asking or editing a question, I find that sometimes I will create a mockup using the Balsamiq UI creator.
The problem is that sometimes I would like to create a slightly different version of the ...
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Improve linking between "exact duplicate" questions
When a question is closed as an exact duplicate, the behaviour is not ideal at all. For reference, here's an example question I'll use.
Firstly, the closed message which describes why it was closed ("...
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Use non-breaking spaces in timestamps to prevent awkward wrapping
The timestamp in the comments list (at least) can wrap awkwardly making it difficult to read:
Since the whole timestamp is always relatively short (i.e. three words), and once it wraps it already ...
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