Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Bounty chronology, possible or N/A?
I just started my first bounty on Ask Ubuntu! A very special one as I offered it on another person's question. Btw, gaining the Investor Badge.
Actually I'm planning to keep track of them using my ...
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Feature Request: Allow commenting on awarded bounties
The sacrifice of privileges in exchange for setting bounties has been covered in a few other questions (1, 2, etc.). While I disagree with the reasoning (my thinking is in line with that of ...
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Can we have the Ubuntu emoticons in the chat room?
Can we have the Ubuntu emoticons on the general chat room?
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Stackoverflow question migration
Growing number of posts on SO are related to installation of IDEs, libraries and programming tools on Ubuntu. Some of them might be a fit for Serverfault but they are usually far too easy to be ...
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why there is no keyboard <kbd> in the menu?
We have included options for bold, italics, links, CODE, etc., but there is no option for keyboard keys.
For example to get Alt as a key we have to place it in between <kbd> tags then it will ...
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Closing questions as instances or subsets of another question?
I see many AskUbuntu questions that are really too localized for the format. That's a recognized problem: we do
have a too localized flag, after all.
But I think many localized questions are worth ...
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Remove [desktop--envoriment]
It's obvious typo in the tag.
I see "1 questions tagged" here but can't retag because I see "0 question tagged" here
It has tag wiki so it'll not deleted themself as far as I know
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Prevent the 'Notification Bar Fiesta'
This is similar to this proposal on MSO, but happens at AskUbuntu. As a double treat, it's the same message twice AND the bounty was already awarded!
Could this be prevented?
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Provide way to link to headings from within both Questions and Answers and from comments
Use-case: Intra-Question and Intra-Answer Linking
As a user posting either Questions or Answers, I would like to be able to add a link within that Question or Answer to another heading within that, or ...
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Where is the any key. . .
... and other observations.
We, as a community, are asked to be nicer so how about the SE Employees help us become nicer by providing a question wizard for new users on the SE network???
No, not ...
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Section with reference to manpages, official documentation
I think there should a section above or below posts/answers with the option to add link(s) to (if any) manpages and/or official (or a similar) documentation to command used in the answer as this will ...
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How to embed an Askubuntu question or answer in a blog post?
I have a personal blog on the Blogspot platform where I often write about Linux. There are moments when I realise that my best texts are those I've wrote here, on askubuntu. So I want to embed my own ...
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Could our quote style be different to the code style? [duplicate]
Related. This suggestion has been added as an answer.
On Ask Ubuntu, this is what our code looks like compared to our quote style:
Code here is obviously code.
But quotes look almost the same.
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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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Add a "Migrate to xx SE site" option in the Off-Topic section for flagging questions
When I see a question that is off topic, I'll flag it.
But, should we add an option like:
o belongs to (dropdown list of SE sites)
Questions about (bla bla bla) should be asked here instead ...
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Tag synonym request: [compiling-from-source] -> [compiling] [closed]
The compiling-from-source tag is rarely used and the potential differences between it and compiling are small and mostly theoretical.
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Why I am asked if I am a human being each time to be told that it has not been 20 minutes yet?
Sometime, I would like to create questions for a few issues. Since I don't have enough reputation, when I submit the second question, I am told to wait 20 minutes. The page does not tell up when ...
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Is there a way to report users based on their user names?
I'm asking this because I came across the a user. If there is a function to report this kind of abuse, I haven't found it in the user's profile.
Please take this as an official complaint about the ...
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Are spammers attacking the website?
This time two unregistered accounts with successive user numbers are the ones. One posts a question while the others posts seconds later with the spam answer solicited by the off-topic question. ...
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user feed, a relic of a discontinued service
I found a user I believe to be a terrific resource. Naturally, I wanted to follow him on his answers, questions and contributions. After thumbing around his profile, I discovered the hard way that ...
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Remove Stack Exchange from title
Since Ask Ubuntu has a dedicated domain name, shouldn't the "Stack Exchange" part be removed from the title? Other SE sites with a dedicated domain already do this.
Titles of other SE websites with a ...
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raised flag - cooled off - now want to temper it / edit it -- what can I do?
I raised a flag. I asked for a post to be deleted.
After a cooling off period, I reasoned that the poster had clearly dedicated a lot of time to answering their question, in a great attempt to be ...
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List of most recent questions
Is there a way to browse the list of questions asked, in reverse chronological order? The complete list of questions seems to sort it on number of votes and views. Wouldn't it be a nice option to have,...
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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 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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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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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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Is there any way to block a question to be used as a duplicate
There are too many times this is used as a duplicate, My wireless/WiFi connection does not work. What information is needed to diagnose the issue?
The wireless script is just a tool to help find the ...
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Questions with 0 answers not highlighted any more :-(
I used to easily see the questions which have not yet got any answer as they were displayed in a red circle until recently.
Now it's very hard to easily spot them, and I don't think the argument "too ...
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Not using accepted answer option
Don't get me wrong, it's not about the points (but I do enjoy getting them). It's more of a site cleanup question.
Is there mods that you can ask to mark an answer as accepted, when you clearly ...
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Suggestion: Add link to relevant page in "off-topic" notification
Pretty minor suggestion, but it could be of some use.
A question of mine, https://askubuntu.com/questions/295699/the-vpn-service-failed-to-start-under-ubuntu-13-04, was put on hold (at my request) ...
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How can I find the questions where I posted a comment?
I posted some comments on questions, but I didn't use the star symbol to transfer those questions to my favorites.
Is it still possible to rediscover those questions?
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Are [vsftp] and [vsftpd] dupes?
I came across the tags vsftp and vsftpd. Both have similar descriptions and are not related to each other. I would propose to alias vsftp to vsftpd (or the other way around). Because I see not reason ...
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Is there a way to subscribe to a Q&A and get notified of _all_ activity (in the StackExchange Inbox)?
From other online "forums" (e.g. http://forums.mozillazine.org/ which is "powered by" https://www.phpbb.com/) I'm used to having a feature to subscribe to a thread.
I realize that here you can use ...
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Line breaks in markdown
I have been seeing new users who copy/paste code or information into posts not add extra newlines(or even type without extra newlines) and make posts hard to read, wasting the time of a moderator or ...
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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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Separation of Q&A feed to specific topics
What do you think about separation of Q&A feed to specific branches, like Ask Ubuntu Hardware Q&A, Software Q&A, Drivers, Games and so on ?
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Narrow down Favorites with filters feature request
I don't know if this is a new feature-request or it's already available.
Every day I mark questions with the favorite button and I'm collecting too many to effectively review them. For example, today ...
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Some improvements to the "not about Ubuntu" close reason
I'd like to suggest some improvements to the "not about Ubuntu" close reason.
"This is not about Ubuntu"
As it currently stands:
This is not about Ubuntu. Questions about other Linux
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Search Option In User Profile QA
I think that search option should be provided in questions and answers in the user profile, which is currently not available. Currently a user can see a list of own asked questions and given answers ...
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Tag Synonym Request [sound-problem] -> [sound]
I dont really think we need both sound and sound-problem tags.
Doesn't both of them mean the same thing?
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Social Networks: Is there a way to be informed about questions as soon they're asked?
Is there a way to be informed about questions as soon they're asked?
For instance:
gwibber (notifications)
facebook, google+ (as new on my wall)
twitter (as tweets)
email (ugh.. all that spam)
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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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Should we add OSS ads (targeted at users)?
There is this question "Should we add the SE network OSS ads?" about whether to re-use the SE ads which aim at gathering new developers. One of the comments is that those ads aren't a good match for ...
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Feature request: edit bounty message
I just put up a bounty message formatted in a way assuming paragraphs and bullet points are supported. Found out the hard way that it doesn't; is there a way to edit?
EDIT
Since it ain't possible, ...
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Make the 'Possible Duplicate:' uneditable by normal users
I noticed a post that had the
marked as duplicate by:...
But the
Possible Duplicate:
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Should'nt there be a feature in AU that would allow a user to get notified about changes in questions or answers he/she upvoted or downvoted?
Lets say I up vote a question since I felt that I had faced a issue earlier similar to that which was mentioned in the question. Now, when someone comments in it or answers the question I may also ...
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Unimplemented feature in Ask Ubuntu
I saw a user's Stack Overflow profile page and found an additional feature in it:
top 0.95% overall
When I click on the top 0.95% overall link, it redirects me to another page which shows the ...
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Ill gotten Mortarboards?
I got curious about the Mortarboard badge (200+ rep in one day) today and took a peek at several awardees' profiles to see what I could learn from their high score answers. I discovered that for a few ...
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Countdown for badges
Is there any possibility to see the progress of badge achievement?
I mean, let's say that it is needed X action to get a badge, and I fulfilled (X - Y), so, I would like to see something like this ...
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