Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Link back to user's parent-site profile in Meta
Since there's no "accounts" tab on SE 2.0 Meta pages, there's no link to the user's parent-site profile on the user's Meta profile page.
Please add a link somewhere so I don't develop callouses ...
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Color scheme in questions lists needs some help
The color contrast here (MetaSF /questions) is a bit difficult. Fine on the home page, but white and yellow against light gray isn't enough of a contrast. Talking about the vote / answer boxes.
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Post the Area51 announcement on the SF blog
Now that Area51 has been announced on the SO blog, could you also post it on the SF blog. In the case that people are following the SF blog and not the SO blog and understanding that that might be a ...
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Fix discrepancy between Server Fault reasons for migration and FAQ
Server Fault is getting questions migrated to it that are not appropriate to it, because the close reason associated with migration to SF is overly general.
From the migrate to SF close reason:
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Prevent ambiguous tags
I've just spent a few hours re-tagging a few hundred questions on serverfault.
Mostly this was to remove 20XX tags, and as they can be ambiguous (eg SQL 2008 vs Windows 2008, etc.) there's no easy ...
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Transfer bounty points
I believe If I could transfer points specifically to use for bounties (only for bounties) from
sisters sites (like stackoverflow) to other sites, just for the sake of opening bounties, I would have ...
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Serverfault orientated podcast
The Stack overflow podcast has always been very tightly focussed on the SO community and programming related conversation. Obviously this is inevitable when the two presenters are both programmers, ...
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Feature request on serverfault.com - "I'm a dev pretending to be a sysadmin" checkbox
I'm doing more and more sysadmin things day-to-day (deployments, dev-infrastructure, etc), so am needing to ask questions in serverfault.com with more regularity.
Some of the questions I feel are ...
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question list color coding on serverfault is hard to read
On each site in the question lists, the second column from the left gives a visual cue whether the question has been answered (besides the numeric information). For example, on Stack Overflow, red ...
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links in Serverfault not readily visible [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Change style of Links
Please consider either changing the color of links in serverfault slightly to contrast more with regular text, or make the links underlined. It is nearly ...
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Can Serverfault better show whether or not a question has any accepted answers?
On Meta, Stackoverflow, and Superuser, when a question has an answer that has been accepted, its answer count is displayed as light against a dark background. On Serverfault, this difference is much ...
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Raising the Tag Limit for Serverfault in Particular
I just ran into the 5 tags limit, asked a lot of questions and never thought to use that many tags before, but this time it would have been useful. So I would like a little higher tag limit myself.
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Is the highlight for interesting questions in SF too light?
Is the highlight for interesting questions in SF too light?
I think it is. I barely noticed that I already have interesting tags until I shifted my view from my monitor.
Increasing the contrast of ...
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Serverfault seriously needs more information in "How to Ask"
In "How to Ask", or preferrably, after you click "Ask Question" and before it allows you to type anything, there needs to be some kind of feature that warns against astonishingly vague questions like ...
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Data-dump for ServerFault?
Is there any plans for a data-dump for ServerFault? (Or more importantly meta.stackoverflow?)
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ServerFault - rules for questions without accepted answers?
I looked in the FAQs section and searched, but maybe I'm missing it.
I've noticed a lot of questions that have great answers that have been voted up 5-20 times for the answer, but the original ...