Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Reduce bump activity of the Community Bot
Regularly half or more of the questions on the ServerFault front-page seem to be there only because they were bumped by the Community bot.
It's self claimed configuration is among others:
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Privacy issue, links for sharing questions, answers contains user ID
please do not add user ID to the links given to users when they click to share the link to an answer (for example there: Slow ext4 fsck , yet i see that it does not happen in all sites/questions ). ...
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Edits shouldn't require a minimum number of characters changed
Just now I submitted an edit to an answer that only needed some extra command-line options. But I couldn't submit it as intended because it only added up to 4 characters changed, and the requirement (...
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Please reinstate "must know what you are talking about" close reason
As already discussed here, I think there is a serious problem with people asking questions which are utterly and totally unanswerable because they don't have a clue about what they are doing.
Those ...
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Request adding Raspberry Pi stack to off topic site list
I'm going through the new posts which is not something I usually have a lot of time to do and I'm seeing multiple questions for networking on Raspberry Pi device. There is now a stack specifically for ...
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What do you do when you see an outdated question or answer?
ServerFault and a lot of other SE sites have been around for a decade or more, but technologies advance very rapidly.
I recently came across a ServerFault question with an answer which, although it ...
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Rename and add tag synonym for [tag:windows-subsystem-linux] like the remaining stackexchange sites
As the global maximum tag length has been increased to 35 characters, now the tag windows-subsystem-linux should be renamed to windows-subsystem-for-linux (or similar) and act as a synonym to the ...
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How about creating a tag for Powershell JEA (Just Enough Administration)?
Thanks to this community, I just learned about Powershell JEA (Just Enough Administration). It's an interesting technology that seems to fit right in to this community. Any thoughts on the creation ...
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Migrate to Raspberry Pi option?
There are quite a number of Raspberry Pi questions here at SF, and nearly all are from new SE profiles.
I suspect the users find SF through Google and so post here without realizing there is an SE ...
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Should NetworkEngineering be added to the migration close reason?
While I get there are already plenty to choose from, I'm curious what the percentage of each of those migration options actually occur in a month or year (but have no idea how to compose such a data ...
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adding ipset tag
I have a question about my Server Fault post: replacing a runtime instance of ipset
I'd like to add ipset tag to my question. There are actually quite a few questions on serverfault that cover ipset, ...
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Questions with accepted answers should stand out more
Questions with accepted answers are less emphasized than those without. Is this intentional, and if so is there a reason for this? SO has a green background so perhaps I'm just biased by that, but it ...
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Can I unvote/remove a downvote or upvote I gave?
If somebody accidentally clicked on a upvote or downvote, how can they fix that, e.g. fully remove the vote?
It looks like there is no way to remove a vote after the buttons where pressed. Is that on ...
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Splitting questions into difficulty categories
Im not sure if this is possible because it seems like a difficult implementation. However its worth mentioning.
This site is meant for systems and networking professionals, which means if we are at ...
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crossposting: How to deal with question asked twice on other stack exchange sites?
I have noticed a user asking the exact same question both on serverfault and stackoverflow. I'm referring to this question:
stackoverflow: importerror-no-module-named-xhaus-python-module-importing-...
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New review option: approve trivial edit?
I've noticed a lot of trivial edits of old posts - correcting grammar, fixing a missing dot in an obvious IP address (127.0.01 -> 127.0.0.1 was a recent one), that kind of thing.
Sometimes I reject ...
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Configuration management questions
Where do questions about ansible, Jenkins, puppet, chef and others....belong?
I see them on stack overflow and server fault.
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We should bring back the "question must show a minimal understanding" close reason
As per this discussion, the old "questions must demonstrate a minimal understanding of the problem being solved" close reason has been replaced.
However, questions such as this one (*) (and ...
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VirtualBox tag warning
One Stack Exchange feature which is significantly underutilized here at SF is tag warnings. These pop up when a user enters a tag into their question and can provide guidance on how to use the tag or ...
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Please don’t make Careers programmers only in practice! [duplicate]
Careers will soon be merged into Stack Overflow.
Only two sites are concerned by this change, because there’s currently only two kind of jobs on Careers, developers and system administrators.
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Change the duplicate excerpt
Currently,
This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please edit this question to explain how it is different or ask a new ...
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How to handle situations where a user needs professional support and you are willing to provide it?
This has happened to me several times already, and I think I'm not the only one.
A (possibly new) user comes by with a question which clearly shows he is way out of his depth and he needs ...
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How can I add bounties for my question
I have 111 reputations and want to add 50 bounties for my this question: pfSense not forwarding DNS to concerned VPS
Please advise how can I add them
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Make job ads related to professional system administration on serverfault for the default visitor
I’m currently a student who aim at becoming a professional system administrator. I hate having full time developer jobs (from stackoverflow careers) particularly on serverfault.
Since there are jobs ...
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Should we introduce a close reason for old, unanswered and unlike-to-be-answered questions?
Inspired by this question randomly popping up on the front page, although it hasn't been edited and no new answers of comments have been posted for more than three years. I guess this is due to some ...
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Reopen locked question
I stumbled across a inspircd authentication question which is locked so answers, comments, edits are restricted. The link in the sole (accepted) answer can't even be updated to point at the current ...
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Can we have more "Suggested Sites" for question migrations?
Are we able to add more options into the "belongs on" menu within the flag menu?
I'm aware of the "flag for moderator approval" as discussed in this Meta question, but I'm wondering if some more ...
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What about a "question follow" feature?
Since i have subscribed on SF and been active on it i have read tons of interesting questions with very interesting answers.
Those questions, and answers (i didn't ask myself), make me positively ...
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Accepted status-answered boxes are not clearly visible
Here is how to looks on my serverfault profile (/users/%/%?tab=questions&sort=newest):
The problem is, that answered questions are not clearly visible between those which are accepted and which ...
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Can we increase review queue limits?
Since the number of close votes has been increased, Can we view more questions in the review queue? It currently still shows only 20 or so.
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Can we increase the number of close-votes per day?
Recenly, in Chat it was suggested by an SF moderator:
One side issue is, given the volume we're seeing now, I don't think users have enough daily close votes.
The response by an SE employee was:
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Should the rep requirement for creating tags on Server Fault be raised?
I have a simple question, per the title, that I'd like community feedback on before venturing over to Stack Exchange meta and/or bugging one of the Stack Exchange Community Managers.
Should the rep ...
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Change or retract a vote to close
This may have been discussed on MSO but I don't go there any more, so I wouldn't see it and don't believe we should have to search elsewhere for answers relevant to this SF.
It happened again today ...
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Can ServerFault/StackExchange automatically "title" Microsoft Knowlege Base links?
I'd ask for it for other vendors, but I'm not sure how others handle their KB article source HTML, etc. and I'm not an HTML person regardless.
Here's what I'm looking for...
I know that when I paste ...
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Is there anything site-specific that can be done about excessive caching?
I just updated a bug report on meta.SE about excessive caching:
Caching should not show me yesterday's info!
I would like to know how many votes I've cast, but I'm still seeing yesterday's vote ...
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Nuke accounts or ban addresses that edit my honeypot answer
I've previously written about being edit spammed by a link spammer. A kind-hearted mod ;) took pity on me and locked the question. The lock has expired and now I'm being spammed again.
Please nuke ...
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SF's migration text does not reflect our current topic matter
Currently, when we migrate a question to another site, this is the text footer that gets attached to the question:
migrated from serverfault.com 13 mins ago
This question came from our site ...
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Change style of Links
There's already a question for this, I tried to "bump" it with a comment, but it didn't show up on the Active Page.
Can we setup a different style for links on the Server Fault page to make the link ...
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How to deal with questioners that don't accept your appropriate answer?
I've had this issue a couple of times now. A questioner (mostly newcomers) states a question where I provided an appropriate answer. However, either
the questioner does not comprehend the answer ...
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Create Tag : openstack-neutron
Is it possible to create an openstack-neutron tag?
I do not have that much of reputation to do it myself.
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Add [packer] tag
Packer is a tool which automates building and provisioning of VM and Docker images.
Questions that would use the packer tag:
Deploy packer images on bare metal server?
Chef installation in a chroot (...
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Are commercial placeholder domain names not blocked here?
I’ve just suggested an edit to a question which used xyz.com as a placeholder domain name. Lots of people are unfamiliar with RFC 2606, and therefore use domain names other than example{.com|.org|.net}...
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Can the off-topic close reasons be re-arranged?
Now that there's a re-written shopping question close reason, the generic "not relevant to system administration" close reason has moved up. Is it possible to move it back? i.e. so that it's just ...
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I am being spammed
One of my answers has become the target for a spam bot. Twice today, once yesterday and several more times in the recent past an Anonymous user has suggested an edit which is basically a set of spam ...
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SF needs its own "Shopping" link
While the original idea: Modifying the faq, shopping edition was a great one and duly implemented...I think that the existing link to http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/qa-is-hard-lets-go-shopping/ ...
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Should you really be asked to particpate in the moderator election when you don't have sufficent reputation to vote
I saw the "Please participate in the Server Fault 2012 community moderator election" notice and decided to take a look. After spending 10 minutes reading through the various candidates I then tried ...
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Add [mesos] tag
What it is:
Apache Mesos abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be ...
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Tag synonym [deploy] -> [deployment]
I would like to propose marking deploy as a synonym for deployment.
Here's my rationale:
the word deploy is the verb form of deployment and the two appear to be used similarly and interchangeably in ...
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Comment statistics on ServerFault
Sorry for my bad english, frenchy
This is a old question that I wanted to propose something new. (if not already proposed)
It's for comment on serverfault.
I wanted to propose that we could ...
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I think it's time to update the "We are Offline" BSOD
The current "We are offline" screen on Server Fault when it is down is:
with it's lovely 1996 DateStmp's.
I think it's time to update the Windows BSOD on the page to something more appropriate for ...
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