Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Automatic Split Votes?
As you all know, when you reach 1k rep, you can "split" the votes and see the number of upvotes and downvotes. Would it be possible to add a setting to auto-split, and clicking results in the total?
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Downvoting answers (or questions) without a reason? [duplicate]
I cannot understand why this even allowed here. I mean, is this a game or something ? I can see everywhere downvoting questions and answers without a specific reason. I would like to see this stopped, ...
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Require obligatory user registration! [duplicate]
Ok, I'm mad... why? because users that need to use Live sessions use the cookie registration, etc... then when that live session is deleted because they restart, reinstall, re... whatever, we get 2, 3,...
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Review Suspension not in FAQ
So apparently, I've been suspended from reviews by some automatic process of which I was completely unaware. Due to there being absolutely nothing about review suspension in the FAQ, I understand very ...
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Can we have more than 3 custom close reasons, pretty please?
Ask Ubuntu mod here. We've exhausted our custom close reason slots and we need a few more.
We are a very broad site. We cater to development, application support, installation support, hardware ...
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Where did the FAQ go?
It seems that in the site re-design, our FAQ got buried deep down in the page hierarchy https://askubuntu.com/helpcenter/on-topic.
How are new users supposed to find this?
Even when you ask new ...
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Table making bug
Markdown than is on SE doesn't support table making.
Read the Markdown sytax specs page — section Inline HTML.
Example table in Markdown (and HTML) is on http://paste.ubuntu.com/1633733/. That works ...
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Should there be a way to mark an edit as a "minor edit" so it doesn't bump the question?
I very frequently go back to my own old answers and re-edit them, but they are mostly only minor edits:
Fix typos
Improve formatting
Change wording if it's misleading
Make them more up to date
Often ...
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Why does meta complain when you downvote a post without commenting first?
If I downvote a post (say I didn't hated hats!) without commenting first, it gives the same old reminder:
This doesn't reflect Meta - here, you can downvote to disagree. This might be misleading to ...
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How to search in the favorite questions in AskUbuntu account?
I m starting to have lot of favorite questions in my AskUbuntu account.
So it takes me some time to search and find a Question in my favorites.
knowing that these questions have tags (like ATI, Wine, ...
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Why is the upvote/downvote count hidden from everybody with <1000
I'm wondering why the upvote/downvote count is hidden from everybody with less than One Thousand Reputation. This seems fairly arbitrary, and is really useless in the end, as scrutiny of the person's ...
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Add Unix and Linux to the off topic menu
Sometimes I come across questions that I believe to be better suited on the Unix and Linux StackExchange site. E.g. How can I set up radius authentication properly? .
When using the flag as off ...
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Can we increase the minimum reputation requirement for creating new tags?
Currently, you only need 300 reputation to create new tags. If you couple that with the 500 reputation required to retag questions at your will, you can easily end up with lots of tags that should ...
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Sweet ping sounds for AU rooms
I always feel the AU chat rooms ping sounds are not very good. (They are intimidating, sometimes actually). I've recently joined Stack Overflow Java and found that they are enjoying a very gorgeous ...
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Linking Encouragement
This isn't really a question, but I'm not exactly sure where to put it. I would like to request stack exchange linking rewards.
Everyday many of the same questions are asked. Users that are ...
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Edit flag for users
I have seen several questions which are asked by users who does not know English very well, (sometimes just bad, including myself). I want to propose an Edit flag, which users can raise to aware ...
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How to proceed with a feature request?
I have made a feature request recently in meta. You can find it at How about page numbers on the top of pages as well? .
Do I just leave it there or are there any specific steps that I should do in ...
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How to understand a downvote
Is there any way to understand who or at least why a downvote was awarded?
Because in 2 cases that I got a downvote, the answer seemed perfectly fine and also had upvotes from other users.
The only ...
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Can we add 'Vote History' back to our Ask Ubuntu profile page?
I want to view my voting history on my profile page here on Ask Ubuntu. How do I do this?
Judging from this Meta Stack Overflow question, this functionality existed and was removed 'for some reason'....
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Add Linked In share button to askubuntu
Would not it be nice if we could add LinkedIn between social networks to share links Askubuntu? Especially focus on the labor side that this network continues to provide.
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"Another user Is editing this post" warning
Sometimes, I find that before I post my edit, someone already has edited the post.
Can't we make a system like this:
Without the Feature
So, lets say User A started editing X post, and User B ...
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Google Code Prettify support for Ask Ubuntu?
Reading this answer I've realized that we don't have Google Code Prettify support on Ask Ubuntu like we have on Stack Overflow.
Since we agreed that we welcome Ubuntu development questions I think we ...
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There's no way to mark a question solved when you figure it out yourself.
If I ask a question that nobody else is able to answer, and I later figure it out, then there is no way for me to mark the question as answered. It will be marked unaccepted forever. I consider this ...
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Can I always see my inbox first?
I would like to see my inbox first instead of the hot questions. Is there a way I can fix this?
It's really annoying. Really!
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Could a suggestion appear when users type a non-question title?
A problem
Looking at titles on the Newest Questions page today, I'm not seeing many questions:
"I have two top panels in Ubuntu for some reason"
"Performance Test Software"
"Feedback for 11.10"
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Possible to split a bounty or award a partial bounty?
How do we award a partial bounty?
And how would we split a bounty up between several users?
And (3): I believe the two above are not possible, so is this the right place to ask for an enhancement of ...
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How can I find out if my question has been asked before?
When I ask a question I do get a list of related questions that helps a lot to find out if my question has been asked before.
However I sometimes find an additional question that covers exactly the ...
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Can we blacklist "same" in answers?
Something I've noticed in the brief time I've been a moderator is that most of the "not answer" flagged posts have one word in common: same. They're usually posts saying something along the lines of "...
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Should we add the SE network OSS ads?
Stack Overflow offers free, vote based ads for open source projects. They seem to refresh them regularly, here's the latest thread for this iteration.
I tried 2 experiments when they opened this time ...
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why captchas + login?
Do you get Spam from people, who do a regular login?
Why do I have to solve a captcha, after going through a login?
Why do I sometimes get an captcha and sometimes not? Can't the system see, that ...
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Please disable displaying a tag at the start of page titles
I'm sure many of us have noticed this recent change across all Stack Exchange site, where the most popular tag is displayed at the front of page titles (as displayed in search engines, and in the ...
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HTML in questions but not comments?
Why is it that we can use HTML markup and entities in questions but not in comments? Shouldn't they be the same?
Testing markdown here, italic, bold... well, that seems to work.
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enabling auto reload for askubuntu main questions page
I am a regular at askubuntu and tend to gloss over all the questions. Is there a way to enable auto reload on the main questions page so that new questions can be seen without refreshing the page. If ...
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Stack Exchange chat via Pidgin, Empathy, etc?
Is there any way to connect to Stack Exchange chat rooms in Pidgin or Empathy or a different chat program?
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Allow formatting in tag wiki headers.
(This might be stack generic so this might belong on meta.SO, but then again it might only be interesting to AU so...)
In my never ending quest to get more existing teams in Ubuntu to use Ask I am ...
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Why am I unable to use “ubuntu+1” as a tag
I'd like to tag this question with “ubuntu+1”, which has traditionally been our way of describing the current development focus which will become the next release. Although the interface suggests ...
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Launchpad Single Sign On
There was a link on a popular Facebook 'Ubuntu fan page' to the site today. Somebody commented to ask "Why can not use Launchpad username and password??".
Of course you can use your launchpad account ...
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A close vote option about "lack of attention" should definitely not be used
I saw this custom reason for close voting:
Any question that falls under this category should simply be closed as "unclear what you're asking". It needs more detail, so, as Eliah Kagan says,...
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The preformatted text/code text font in chat is not sufficiently distinct
In chat, when putting text between grave accents to ensure that it is output as code, the resulting text is not very distinguishable from the other text:
The only way it's different, right now, is ...
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Can we get more close votes?
Currently we only get 24 close votes a day. I find this much too limiting, I can use all 24 of those votes really quick and still find a use for 24 more votes. Is there any way we could get a couple ...
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Can we add a rEFInd tag?
REFInd is a commonly used boot manager developed by Rod Smith. I think that it should be added due to its eminence. I can't add it myself because I don't have the rep. I'd like if someone added the ...
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Blocking "Babaji" and similar repeated Spam Attacks
I'm sure most of you have seen these "Babaji" posts around AU or the internet. My question is:
Why is there no filter to autodelete Babaji?
Pros:
Moderators won't spend so much time/effort on ...
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How do I flag a question which seems more appropriate on android enthusiasts?
While flagging questions,we have an option which says This is not about Ubuntu. Questions about other Linux distributions can be asked on Unix & Linux, those about Windows on Super User, those ...
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Don't include self answered or questions where the OP commented in the review audits
There is a mayor problem with one of our close reasons and the audits. We close stuff based in "no reproducible" basis, when OP can't figure out what was wrong nor how the issue was solved nor there's ...
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Could be possible duplicates arranged by votes in addition to default order?
When I find duplicate question, for example Will not allow me to install playonlinux! Says I have 'held broken packages
and flag them, the system shows me the list of possible answers like this:
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Remove the link to the video tutorials from the help pages
Due recent changes to our help page I took a peek what was written there too. I found there was a link to some video tutorials, I checked out that was linked to meta.AU, and was in the disposition of ...
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Video tutorials on Ask Ubuntu
This is a feature request to suggest adding a Video Tutorial section on Ask Ubuntu.
Primary target would be including videos to explain most common tasks like Installation, WUBI installation, ...
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Raising the Answer Text Limit
Today I was working on one of the answers (A special guide) and I was limited again by the 30K size for answers. The example mentioned is this:
How do I install the Nvidia drivers?
Which I needed to ...
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We should get "Ubuntu questions on SR" notification in chat
In general chat room, we get notification for Ubuntu questions on U&L.
I think it would be a good idea to get Ubuntu questions on SR notification as well.
SR stands for Software recommendations, ...
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Can we have a 'current bounties' ad on AU?
Can whe have something like this on the community ads. Currently it gets rejected as to big. from here: Community Promotion Ads - 2014 - Ask Different Meta
Current Ask Ubuntu bounties http://stack-...