Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Giving "bountied questions" more visibility weight
What community thinks about idea giving "bountied questions" more attention ?
I almost never look on the tab "featured", I guess I am not alone. So I guess such questions deserve little attention.
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What about temporary design changes just to make better distinction from other sites?
It seems that the most common complaint about the new design is that the site looks very similar to other sites. (Especially Mathematics was mentioned a few times, probably because there are many ...
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Being notified of the comments under the answer of someone else to your post
Sometimes a lot of good things happen as the comments under an answer to your post. Though we are notified of the answers given or the comments under the body of the post, it seems that we are not ...
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Should there be Anonymous Comments?
I currently got a downvote for my question Making a Graph Eulerian for Applying TSP Heuristics, but unfortunately the downvoter didn't leave a comment explaining what the motivation was, thus ...
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Change reputation required to post on meta back to 5 reputation points
Typically, Stack Exchange sites have the restriction that only users with at least 5 reputation points on the main site can post on meta. In this regard, MathOverflow is different. (It is listed also ...
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Who should be allowed to create a new tag?
There is a recent post on MO that includes two new tags: Beer and Bet! The problems of these two tags aside, I don't think it is a good practice to add new tags unless it is absolutely necessary. Is ...
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Chat does not appear in the sidebar
The chat doesn't seem to appear in the sidebar on the main site (although it does on Meta). ManishEarth has suggested that this might be due to the no-ads agreement. I think it would be useful to have ...
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Seems like right margins in answer texts need to be increased
It is a very minor thing but still - it seems that answer texts have zero right margin which shows somehow unpleasantly with colored background of accepted answers:
(This is with latest Chrome on ...
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Why do we link to Twitter, Facebook or Google+ below every question?
I edit this old feature request of mine, in the hope that mentality have evolved and some consensus can be reached and some action be taken:
After each question on MO (with no answers yet), we can ...
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Could there be a warning when a new tag is created?
It is rather easy to make a typo and create a new tag by mistake without even noticing it.1 Could we have a warning saying that the user is creating a new tag so that users can notice such mistakes ...
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Ability to flag for migration to other stackoverflow sites
Currently on mathoverflow, flags can be set for questions to be migrated to meta.mathoverflow, math.stackexchange, and stats.stackexchange. However, there are often questions that belong on other ...
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Removal of the "symplectic" tag
There is a symplectic tag on MO that currently contains just two questions. The first question so tagged dates from March 26 2017, so this makes this tag at least 1 year and 4 months old. I believe ...
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Close votes of different types
Sometimes when a question is closed, different people have a different reason for closing it. You can see this while voting: there is a count in the margin saying how many votes of a given type have ...
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Why can't we close questions that have a bounty?
I just cast the 5th vote to close the question
Was Cauchy so obstinate?, but the system said that it's impossible to close a question with an open bounty.
It seems to me that this question is ...
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Why is log-in hidden
On the front page I looked in vain for "log in" button. Eventually found to my surprise that clicking on "sign up" takes me to a page where I can choose between "sign up" and "log in". Do I have any ...
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close/reopen wars on Mathoverflow
Sometimes one sees a situation like with this question:
Cargo Cult Science in mathematics?
which goes on hold and back again a number of times.
Should there be a limit to the number of such rounds?
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Should users be shown some basic information before posting the first question? [duplicate]
In an answer to another question discussing possibilities how to decrease the number of off-topic questions1 it was mentioned that: Perhaps we should force a person to read the rules before posting ...
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A markdown question: are custom list number formats possible?
For list numbering, 1., 2., ... are used. Could I change this somehow, to use, say, (1), (2), ... or i), ii), ...?
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Tags "riemann-zeta-function" and "zeta-functions" are almost identical
I have discovered that the following two tags are too similar to each other:
riemann-zeta-function, with 299 questions tagged, has the description
The Riemann zeta function is the function of one ...
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Migration to Physics.SE
Several times, including perhaps this question today I would have liked to suggest migration to Physics.SE. Similar to this question I would like to ask for this feature to become available as a ...
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Recommending to move the question to another site
I am trying to recommend to move the question to another SE site.
When I press the corresponding button, the menu pops up which offers me choices:
meta, MathSE, stats. And no more choices. How can I ...
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Does it make sense to have both "surfaces" and "curves-and-surfaces" tags?
I have noticed that there currently exist tags surfaces (with description "A surface is a two-dimensional topological manifold. The term can also be used to describe a smooth surface, depending on the ...
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Serial downvoting
I received 4 downvotes within a short amount of time, I suspect it has been the same person.
I think a mechanism should be installed that no user $u$ can downvote more than one post with a positive ...
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What if I want to increase bounty by somebody else?
I found an exciting question that somebody gave bounty of 50, and I would like to increase it. Seems there is no way to do it. Why?
Also, I never tried this so I don't know: can I increase my own ...
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MathOverflow feature: facilitating collaborations (algebra & other sciences)
One of my goals as an academic is to facilitate collaborations between my field ("pure algebra") and other sciences. We can't expect administrative staff (for instance, the Dean of Science) to help ...
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How to cut and paste
It has happened a few times that I have wanted to move someone else's answer from the comments to an answer, when the poster implicitly does not wish to do so (by not responding after a days-old ...
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How to find the meta-thread of an MO-thread at hand? Is there one? Should there be?
Questions.
(0) How to find out for an MO question at hand whether it already has anything like its canonical meta-thread?
(1) Should, in your opinion, every MO question automatically generate a meta-...
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Can we replace client-side MathJax with server-side MathJax?
One of the (many) problems with MathJax is that
formulas are rendered using a client-side JavaScript.
Apart from the process itself being ridiculously slow,
this also means that the entire page must ...
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List of recurrent technical problems involving MathJax
Edit: I have retagged this question 'feature-request' in an attempt to expedite action on these issues. I request that the MathOverflow developers implement an automatic fix of the issues in the ...
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Tag warnings on MO
In the last few months, Stack exchange has introduced tag warnings, that is, a text that is displayed when a user creates a new question that contains a specific warning, such as this example.
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Allow posting on meta without any reputation for the first week
Would it be possible to remove the reputation requirements for posting on meta for the first week, while we iron out all the login problems people are having?
We've already had a few instances of ...
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Another close reason: "subsumed"?
This happened few hours ago: the question Series involving gamma function about the sum of a specific series, probably not research level, was followed by another one, Series involving factorials ...
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Can external links to MO questions/answers be made more informative?
On several occasions I have sent by email links to MO questions or answers. They appear just like this - say, https://mathoverflow.net/a/287214/41291
Is it difficult to achieve that such links in ...
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Placing bounties on questions which already have a good answer
It seems it's now possible to place bounties on other people's questions. I noticed a certain user placing a lot of bounties recently, including one on a question of mine which already had an accepted ...
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Removing questions after answers
I recently gave a simple counter example to a question posed (I'm sure the mods can see the question). Probably the user was embarrassed by this. The question was promptly deleted and with that my ...
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Is there a clear rule against "check this proof" type questions?
I discovered that the meta question "Questions" of the type "I have written something, please give me feedback" from more than three years ago still does not have any answer, while ...
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Reviewing questions outside one's expertise
The review system is rigged to nudge users into action rather than non-action. This means that when someone opens a review, if they want to review, there is a good chance that they will act on a low ...
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Stack Overflow Reference in Out of topic flag
This question is motivated by this post, but not exclusively.
When we flag OP's as off topic, under the "this question belongs in another site of the stack community", the StackOverflow website is ...
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Migration site list lacks entries
The question What is the integral of temperature over space called? obviously belongs elsewhere. Most probably the proper place is physics.SE, but in any case not here on meta, not on math.SE, and not ...
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Can we have a "cited by" in a right panel?
For math papers it is possible to check which other papers cite it.
Can we have the same thing for Mathoverflow questions/answers?
It would be nice to see next to the panels "related" and "linked", a ...
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Where can one find out details about the arXiv trackback feature? Can we have our own?
I stumbled completely by accident on the meta question Did ArXiv trackbacks for MathOverflow stop working again since September 29th 2016? and was really fascinated to learn that arXiv has this ...
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Is it possible to change the author of a problem on mathoverflow?
By a mistake I have written the problem Is "weakly good" series in a finite-dimensional Banach space "good"? from my account instead of writing it from the account of Lviv Scottish ...
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One more reason to reject an edit: too much alteration
I encountered this now, and have seen it quite frequently before: I would like to reject an edit, and the reason is something between "attempt to reply" and "clearly conflicts with author's intent". ...
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Using MO as a platform to discuss papers in math?
A use case scenario: I am reading a paper and I get stuck on some point. It is obvious to me that everyone else who tried to understand this point would get stuck. I ask around, people either haven't ...
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Should be simply "no answer" among bounty reasons
I am going to declare a bounty on a question simply because I hope it will additionally stimulate at least somebody to think harder on it.
Among the reasons I could choose is "Draw attention", which ...
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Hadamard product (and other ambiguous tags)
There is this tag, hadamard-product; as can be seen e. g. on the Wikipedia disambiguation page, it can have four different meanings. I for one, attracted by it in a recent question (I badly need to ...
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Booth at Joint Mathematics Meeting?
This is identical to my misplaced "answer" here, written while attending JMM. I am reposting a fresh question at François G. Dorais's request.
I wonder if it make sense, at some future Joint ...
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Does Mathoverflow really want the 'Publicist' badge?
I enjoy the rewards system on the Stack exchange network. I learned some time ago that you can easily earn gold badges on all sites by picking the most interesting questions and using the "Share" ...
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Request for help with javascript for the citation search feature
I would like to switch over the citation helper from the current kludged together back-end based on MathSciNet data, to an officially supported back-end (very kindly!) provided by Zentralblatt.
We'll ...
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Can we have question/comment functionality on the Data Explorer?
The Data Explorer is great. But there seems to be no natural place to request modifications to a given query or to request a desired new query.
If we had at least comment functionality, we could ...