Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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A toolbar for MathJax commands would be helpful
As I was just writing my answer, I felt the need for the in-built MathJax toolbar for ease in writing equations and formulas without adding commands like \pi R^2 inside double $s. It will just create ...
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Would the braket extension in MathJax v3 be appropriate and useful for this site?
Since our math editor is currently on the news, here's one aspect worth considering.
One thing that's been pointed out on the Meta.MathOverflow threads (here and here) is that v3 of MathJax has been ...
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A better system for close voting
In my close vote queue, I sometimes get questions on high-level quantum mechanics or general relativity that I don't know enough to judge. This is annoying to me personally but on a larger scale, it ...
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Tags for calibrating answers to the level of question
A problem I find with the site is that often answerers don't know how to calibrate an answer to the level of the questioner. This was both good and bad for me personally as I'd get insight into topics ...
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Animations for answers: Would “source code” be a solution?
In many cases an animation would make an answer much clearer.
Here on Physics Meta there was already the question if it is possible to add animations to answers.
A comment suggests using animated GIF ...
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New tag “Physical quantities”
I would like to ask a question about function quantities, but I didn't find any adequate tags. If I didn't miss something, it might be useful to introduce a new tag, for example "physical ...
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Using chemical formulas
Using chemical formulas
I've tried using, now be careful: dollar-sign backslash letter "ce" opening-brace chemical-formula closing-brace dollar-sign.
Unlike on Chemistry, it is not working ...
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Is “check-my-work” defined to be off-topic in the site's help? (Should it be?)
On a recent question, there was some discussion in the comments about "homework-like" and "check-my-work". With regard to the latter, the OP pointed out that "check-my-work&...
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What happened to the 'Related' sidebar? [duplicate]
Previously, whenever I asked a question, there used to be a 'Related' tab on the right side. It used to display links to a lot of related posts. Now, I cannot see the tab 'Related' anymore. It was ...
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Recommending migration pathway to HSM.SE for questions
In closing questions to transfer to another site of SE,
so the "Belongs to another site of SE" option,
there is no ready option for the HSM.SE, a really crying need: cf. this question, a ...
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Why don't we add the option “other sites” in the close votes option?
We all know that some questions are posted in PSE but they should belong to another Stack Exchange site.
When you vote to close a question, via
Close question > A community specific reason > ...
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Why is nothing displayed under the 'Related' sidebar? [closed]
Previously, whenever I asked a question, there used to be a 'Related' tab on the right side. It used to display links to a lot of related posts. Now, I can still see the tab 'Related', but no ...
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Should 'newbie' questions be allowed to be deleted by the contributor without oversight?
'Vets' will probably know where this is leading to as most of us have experienced it at some point (it's not my first time!)
Yesterday a new contributor posed a well-formed question (about a steady-...
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Please make MathJax formatting more discoverable to new users [duplicate]
feature-request: please make MathJax formatting more discoverable to new users, by adding it to the post formatting wizard.
The Stack Exchange dev team recently released a new version of the Ask page, ...
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Have we thought about replacing the negative 'downvoting' of questions with a positive 'requesting clarification'?
Facebook eliminated the dislike for a reason.
My personal experience is just wanting to quit after a question gets to -3 for reasons unknown.
Downvoting of a question is an inherently negative ...
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Meta-commentary in questions should sometimes be allowed
I've edited in a 'meta-comment' into this question, which was rolled back by a moderator:
Note: answer accepted for sake of closing the question, though parts remain unanswered, and will be ...
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Ability to bookmark an answer
Sometimes I see some answers which are really good and I'd like to save. Similar to how we follow questions I'd like to have the ability to 'save' answers implemented in this site
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Should votes be made visible only upon request?
It appears to me that questions/answers receive votes at a rate quite positively correlated with the votes they already have (of course, this only applies for a certain period of time, I am not ...
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Should we have a tag for quantum technologies?
I just noticed that there is not "quantum-technologies" tag on physics.SE. There are various related tags such as quantum-computing, but many other realizations of quantum technologies also do not ...
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Introducing the possibility of creating folders in the favorites section
It is my first question on meta, and I am not sure if this is the right place for this.
I tried to see if it is possible to create folders in the section of favorites, to organise the related ...
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Abbrevation and/or warning for $\langle$ and $\rangle$ commands
There are so many quantum-related posts that do not use the $\LaTeX$ commands for the Bra and Ket in Diract notation. I see a lot of this: $$ | \psi > , \quad <n|n>, \quad <E_m|H|E_n>,$...
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Feature Request: Verified Users
I want to suggest a feature i.e. verifying some trusted users and giving them a badge.This will help the new users to trust the good answers given by them.
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Add a link and hint to use MathJax to the new question dialog
We like to see MathJax used on Physics SE for equations, but at present when you are typing in a new question I think there is no on-screen link to the MathJax "guide" or a reminder to use ...
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Feature Request: Dark Mode
Would it be possible to implement a "Dark Mode" on the Physics Stack Exchange as is being trialed on the Stack Overflow? I personally would prefer that viewing mode. Use the upvote on this comment to ...
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Is it unreasonable to expect feedback for writing an answer from the asker?
I find it quite frustrating if I write an answer and don't receive any feedback. On stack exchange the feedback is designed to work in the following manner:
By accepting an answer.
By providing ...
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Would it be possible to give 10 minutes warning to people writing answers that the question will be closed or made duplicate in less than 10 minutes?
I had spent some time answering this question, when it was made duplicate by an announcement at the top "this question will no longer be accepting answers".
Would it not be possible to give ten ...
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A suggestion box for downvotes (and upvotes, if necessary)? [duplicate]
I think that the main reason for a downvote is to convey that a post is not up to the mark, or does not show proper effort on behalf of the person who posted it. In other words, a downvoted post has ...
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Extracting a professional account from my existing contributions: Is it supported and wanted?
This question is about something I expected to have been asked before, but I could not find anything, neither on physics.SE nor on general meta. Apologies if I have missed something. I started ...
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Instead of just down-voting a new post, can't the same person care to explain why? [duplicate]
I have a question about my Physics Stack Exchange post: How to exactly evaluate the Magnetic Field associated with the given Electric Field in a lossy medium?
My question here is that instead of just ...
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Badly formatted questions and answers
There are several questions like this one, which have basic formatting issues. I'm not talking about formulas, which are not in MathJax, but rather
no punctuation (not the case in the linked question)...
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Is there any way to know how many users are currently online at a given time? [duplicate]
Usually I find that maximum traffic occurs on this site around (8:00 pm to 4:00 am, as per Indian Standard Time (IST, UTC+05:30)), but I don't have any concrete data related to it. So
Is there a way ...
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Is there any way to retract my suggested edit?
I often suggest tag edits in which I add the homework-and-exercises tag to homework like questions. In some cases, these questions are closed as off topic even before my edit is reviewed. So, in that ...
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Stop killing suggested edits in the name of “conflicted with a subsequent edit”
I saw this and thought to edit it by adding a blockquote, do some MathJax formatting and editing tags. And so I devoted 7 minutes (on a mobile device), trying to make StackExchange a better place. And ...
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Why aren't my questions marked as hot?
I've asked a several questions (for example, one about gravity waves (3k views) in the two last days With more than 2k views. So not too long ago. There is another question (I don't want with say who ...
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New flag suggestion [closed]
More often than not the correct answer here is "Have you considered learning philosophy or art instead?"
Now this is kind of blunt but i stress that it correct answer most of the time.
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A request to the existing users on the issue of new users
I'm myself is not an old user but not a new user too. The Physics SE is a little different from other sites and even other Stackexchange sites, new users who come over here generally asks about a ...
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Anonymous comment feature to explain anonymous downvote? [duplicate]
Recently my questions were downvoted, though the reason for such is unknown to me (also it's not quite a big deal for me) but I believe that if the downvoter had given me some suggestions for ...
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Shouldn't there be a “follow” option on profile page of users? [duplicate]
Sorry if I had given a wrong suggestion! But I think that Physics Stack Exchange is also a Q/A social media platform, so it would help us to trust the answers of the highly followed users. The follow ...
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How can answerers learn, if the downvotes on their answers are not justified?
I am not going to link the specific answer that prompted me to write this post because I want to make a general point.
I am aware of the policy of not forcing users to comment when they downvote, as ...
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Is it possible to see deleted answers?
I saw a thought-provoking answer to my question: How many worlds are there during branching in the many worlds interpretation?
Is there anyway for me to re-see the answer before it was deleted?
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Is the new activity indicators in PSE main page really useful/necessary?
I currently use both physics.SE and math.SE, and one difference I noticed was the new activity counters and notifications on PSE, which were absent in its math counterpart. Now, in my experience so ...
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Is the duplicate policy hindering the site?
In a couple of recent situations I have found myself at odds with the duplicate question policy of the site. The most recent case was this question Proof of Ohm's Law [duplicate] that was marked as a ...
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Why can't we downvote comments? [duplicate]
Comments by other users cannot be deleted or downvoted by users such as me. Why don't we enable the feature of downvoting comments and many downvotes causing deletion? Please don't get me wrong. But I ...
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Why “Leave Open” votes don't cancel the “Close” votes?
Once the question has been closed, one can cast re-open votes and a question requires exactly as many re-open votes as close votes in order for it to be re-opened. Given the homogeneity of time, I ...
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Suggesting a tag: “crackpot_theory” (you get the idea)
Re Is there any reliable place where i can put my theory of universe (it explained/predicted the behavior of almost everything i came across) and my comment to it. Lots of similar things have been ...
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what do I do if I started a bounty on accident
I started a bounty and I did not mean to can I do anything to undo it.
if there is not I request that there is a way to retract the bounty on the same day.
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A “Requires Expertise” Notice?
The Problem
I was going to write a question here asking what the appropriate response is to incorrect upvoted answers, but I realized that I'm far from the first person to ask this, e.g.
How should ...
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Notification to the user whose comment is deleted
I strongly believe that a user, whose comment is deleted by a moderator should be notified about it.
Many moderators ask the user to remove their comments however some just remove them without ...
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Why can't I suggest “Chemistry Stack Exchange” as another site when flagging a question as off-topic? [duplicate]
I've recently noticed that when I flag something as off-topic by suggesting it to another site(in order to get better answers for that question) I only see the options of Physics Meta Stack Exchange ...
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Why don't we have the physics MathJax extension enabled? Should we?
As a recent question points out, it would be nice if the site's MathJax environment included something similar to the physics LaTeX package.
Fortunately, the list of third-party extensions for ...
