Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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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 ...
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On Bra & ket notation
I was asking a QM question recently, and wanted to use the bra & ket notation; however, the MathJax does not support the necessary packages, as far as I can tell.
Is it possible to add the ...
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Should a comment be left when the question has a drastic edit after answers have been provided?
In this post is an example where the editing by the OP has made a drastic difference and makes nonsense of the answer provided before the edit.
This has happened to me again after edits by moderators ...
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Adding option to get notification when a “followed” question is answered [duplicate]
I have read this question about the feature request for adding an option to get a notification when a "followed" question gets answers posted to them.
The top answer seemed to indicate that such a ...
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How can we improve the participation of subject experts and enthusiastic physics students in chat?
I don't use the main site much, but I have been a regular participant on Physics SE's main chat: The h Bar, for the past two years. Lately, I have been noticing a drastic drop in the number of subject ...
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No red error bar in the review queue
When I'm on the review queues, sometimes I can't edit the post for various reasons. (I have a maxed out edit queue, or someone else's edit is pending).
When this happens on the normal site, a red bar ...
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Understanding down votes on answers
I recently received two down votes in one day on an answer that was submitted more than a year ago (accepted answer), unfortunately without any comments. At the same time as the down votes, the ...
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Feature: Subscribing to Questions
It happens to me very often that I see an interesting question that I'd like to know the answer to. I'll favorite it but then never get notified if there is a change. It would be very nice to have a "...
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My question is deleted, I am not allowed to ask more questions. Are these really good practices? [closed]
I asked this question which I later learned was apparently preposterous and was heavily downvoted.
I was still positive that some one will one day come across my question who will be generous and ...
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Possibility to retract flag on comments [closed]
I have noticed that even if I mistakenly flag a comment, I cannot be able to retract the flag afterward... I think it will be a good feature to add the possibility to retract flags on comments.
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Bad behaviour from mod
Recently I was struggling with a problem so I asked for help from two people. 1st from Blue . I talked to him before and he is nice dude ready to help. Then I saw semiclassical who is also cool and ...
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Why won't you spend your reputation (on bounties)?
Is it because your total reputation is in front of your name and the size of that number is a sort of prestige?
In another discussion when someone expressed frustration that over reputation gain ...
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Tag with no tag wiki description which should be merged
I just discovered there is a floating (no tag wiki description) elementary-particles tag, which description is included in the particle-physics tag. Should not these be merged?
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How to kill the duck
There is a duck on the homepage. It is a bright colour and does not scroll with the page, hence it is a hideous eyesore and needs to be removed from my sight.
I clicked on it, hoping a close option ...
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Should we curate a “bogus science” wiki or similar?
A recent answer and subsequent comment discussion revealed there are possibly many bogus science sources on the web that are apparently invading the SE network. I understand that downvoting plays a ...
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We should reassign [tag:non-linear-dynamics] to [tag:complex-systems]
I propose we make the tag non-linear-dynamics a synonym of complex-systems.
Currently, non-linear-dynamics is set as a synonym of non-linear-systems, but I'd like to argue that the most common usage ...
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Ch-ch-ch-changing the site logo to cut out the weird arrow thing
Apparently, Ch-ch-ch-changes are coming to the site navigation and theming.
Given that that's the case (and that therefore there are designer work-hours already scheduled to attend to our site design)...
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Should we keep a list of wrong top/accepted answers?
Sometimes a wrong answer is the accepted answer, sometimes a wrong answer is the most voted answer, sometimes a wrong answer is both at once. Should we make a list of those? The purpose would be that ...
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A place for helpful comment templates?
I often find the need to have a comment template saved for future use, say when indicating to an asker that they need to write equations in MathJax instead of attaching them as images (with links to ...
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How to address high volume of low quality questions?
I've noticed that there are an awful lot of people who come here, create new accounts to ask their homework questions, get downvoted and closed then leave.
Obviously, we have flags, we can attempt to ...
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Chat option on Android app
The app is not showing direct option for chat. I have to open browser to get to chat. When I tap chat option, window comes to open it with app or with browser; when I tap for app, it opens browser.
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Giving newbies time to think
Maybe it’s just me, however, there are some questions where there exist much better answers somewhere which are not the accepted one. I understand that for an answer to be accepted, it just need to "...
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Any trick to mark answers as favorites, not just questions?
We can mark questions as favourites, but usually I would rather want to mark an answer as a favourite. Afaik this is not possible.
In my profile I could check my upvotes, but there I seem to have ...
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Please add a link to the Meta MSE MathJax tutorial to the editing help
If you're asking a question and you click the help button, it will send you to the Editing Help page, which has a LaTeX section that looks like this:
This is a perfect place to have a link to the ...
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Why Can't “Bounties” be Awarded To a Question?
I understand that bounties are mostly used to attract better answers but one of the reasons to award a bounty to an answer, as recognized by the PSE, is to reward an existing beautiful answer. I ...
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Is it possible to expand the list of migration sites for off-topic posts?
Recently, it seems that we've been getting several questions that would be more appropriate for Cross Validated. This question is only the most recent example.
Right now, the only choices for off-...
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KaTeX instead of Mathjax
Mathjax is slow enough that for math-heavy questions or answers my Safari 10 can barely keep up on a 3 years old mac (I am giving these details for precision sake: this is not a bug report but a ...
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Should close notices be more specific?
Recently I've asked an off-topic question: How to plot forcing oscillation with damping correctly?. The close notice has only one line of instruction:
This question does not appear to be about ...
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Suggestions on including audio file(s) in answer
I recently encountered a question about "1000 people whispering" and wrote an answer. Subsequently I did some experiments where I recorded a whispered sentence 19 times, and did some manipulations to ...
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A new flag: “not-constructive”
Many a times, there are questions which are absolutely vague and have no meaning in them, like: If I fall from a great height, will I overcome the speed of light?
Now, these are off topic questions, ...
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Dismissal of Non-Homework Question
Recently, one of my non homework questions for which I'd provided my attempt at the solution and conclusions, was dismissed.
The question was clearly not a homework question, and even some of my ...
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A tag for questions that can't be properly tagged by the user asking it
It can be hard for people which are not formerly educated in the field of physics to properly tag a question that they are asking. So I think there should be a tag like "should be tagged by a ...
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Enabling mhchem?
It would be nice to have mhchem enabled, by adding
TeX: {
extensions: ["mhchem.js"]
}
to the mathjax configuration. This ...
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Option to upload pictures in mobile chat
I use my mobile to access the site. The chat rooms in mobile view do not have any option to upload pictures. I have to click on Request desktop site to upload pictures everytime.
Can this feature be ...
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Review queue for “old”, unanswered questions
If this has already been proposed, I apologize. I have noticed that many questions are answered through short discussions in the comments; it is obvious that the OP is satisfied, so no one bothers to ...
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Where can we see stats of votes on comments?
I note that we can follow the up-/downvotes on our questions and answers, but there is not a convenient place to find stats on the upvotes on our comments on questions and answers. Is this one of the ...
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A review queue for misused tags
Qmechanic just raised on chat the need to take some more action on the mathematical-physics tag, and I think it's about right: the tag, despite some loud all-caps in the tag wiki excerpt, gets misused ...
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I want to print an answer and it should still look good
I want to make a nice printout of an awesome answer with lots of pictures and pretty equations. If I select the answer and use the print feature in the browser then the formatting is lost (paragraphs ...
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Can we introduce the “Submit a Published Paper for Review” feature in Physics SE?
I recently noticed this feature of Physics Overflow that there is a tab called "Submit a Paper". What it essentially means is that one can submit a paper that has been previously published (either on ...
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Is it possible to search in comments?
Is it possible to search in comments, along with searching in questions and answers? I suspect the answer is no. I think that would be a very useful option to have in the advanced search.
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Link to meta page for guide to MathJax commands under text fields (specifically for user agent mobile)
Wouldn't it be helpful to provide a link under the text box, shown while asking questions or writing answers, to the meta page dealing with MathJax commands: https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/...
