Questions tagged [feature-request]
Indicates that you have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Please enable the new Copy Button feature on Unix & Linux
One of the features added in the October 2025 Community Asks sprint is a Copy Button for code blocks: Copy Button on Stack Overflow - As of today, users will be able to copy blocks of code directly ...
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displaying "Unanswered Questions"
There are many questions with many tags that I never heard even the name of before. So, trying to find questions where I hopefully could do some help, I clicked "Unanswered Questions", but ...
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requesting tags to be made
I was wondering if it would be a good idea to have Meta tag named tag-request where you can request tags to be added and if it gets enough community votes then it becomes an official tag if there is ...
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Where is the disappearing comment/activity?
In the comments to this answer, @MC68020 addresses a comment to @ilkkachu, thanking them for something. Yet I do not see a comment by @ilkkachu nor any activity for them. There must have been ...
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Searching for [cd] should inform the user to disambiguate the search instead of returning 0 results
Tag in question: https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/cd-command Incorrect search I performed: [windows-subsystem-for-linux] [cd] Correct search: [windows-subsystem-for-linux] [cd-command] Searching ...
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1 answer
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Make Users "display name" changes less confusing
I find radical changes in users' "display name" (because of user's own will or accounts merging or else) rather confusing. Particularly when reading comments because when the link to the ...
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Is casting a vote to not close a post harder than to close it?
Is casting a vote to not close a post harder than to close it? The options under a post are all various reasons to close a post. Is there no option to not close a post? Is the review queue the only ...
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Voting button contrast
I'm finding it pretty hard to see at a glance, whether I've voted here or not. On other sites, it's not so bad, but the dark blue theme color for https://unix.stackexchange.com is especially close to ...
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How to stop being notified by my un-deletable question
I'll try to omit venting my frustration with the entire SE-verse here and just ask the question. I asked a question. The only responses to it were from people that had not read the question. Decided ...
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Filters for finding useful answers
Background I was looking at a recently asked question, where the asker was clearly out of their depth with an issue. The gist was essentially "I've got this problem, help please, because I've no ...
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Add one additional reason for closing or reword the "opinion based" reason
Facts : There are a couple of posts, here (on meta), from contributors wording their misunderstanding about the reasons that motivated the closure of their question for the reason that : This ...
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all actions / comments should keep track of comments versed into chat
I find the all actions / comments list (on the user's profile: https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/$userId/$userName?tab=activity&sort=comments) useful since one is not necessarily notified ...
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1 answer
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Users having offered a bounty on a question should be allowed to comment irrespective of their credit
The rule (I find just absurd) forbidding any user to comment if its credit is lower than some_value_I_do_not_remember leads to some inconvenience at least in one particular case we can discover in ...
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2 answers
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Remove answers already commented by some moderator from review queues
I'm left surprised by some answer presented in the late answers review queue. Considering Kusalananda (it could have been whatever other moderator) commented that answer 16 hours ago without taking ...
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1 answer
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Bounties : Does min = prec X 2 still apply if previous bounty was not awarded even in half?
After careful reading of the following paragraph read as part of What is a bounty? : Additionally, if you offer multiple bounties on the same question, the minimum spend doubles with each subsequent ...
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