Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Time cutoff for changing vote
The stackexchange software currently imposes a cutoff on changing votes, i.e. a vote cannot be changed after a certain time has elapsed. I can understand the rationale behind having such a policy as ...
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Is it possible to provide information about further developments outside MO that followed a question/answer?
It happened several times - I've found a very interesting (for me) relatively old answer or question which would most likely lead to some new research. I ask about any possible recent references in a ...
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A chat -theme for the MathOverflow chat
The MathOverflow chat needs a chat-theme (in my opinion), because the current one doesn't look very beautiful.
It should fit with the design of the main. Does someone have a design in mind, or wants ...
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Numerical Analysis - SO Vs MO
though I'm a relative newbie to the "Stack" community, my research interest has brought me to a dilemma. The area of Numerical Analysis is theoretically covered by both MO and SO, but is practically ...
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Two new user pages?
Will MO be participating in this?
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/04/two-new-user-pages-one-new-stat-this-ones-big/?cb=1
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Adding “Academia.StackExchange” to the migration list
First, I hope that the request is appropriate and asked at the right place. If you have any issue with it, remarks are warmly welcomed.
When flagging a question for "Off-topic > This question belongs ...
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Can we migrate users with their questions?
If a question is migrated from MO to MSE, would (or should) it be possible to automatically create the user an account at MSE and link it to the one at MO if they don't have an MSE account yet?
I don'...
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Legitimate questions put on hold with no comments, no notification, and no chance to improve
My question was put on hold as unclear. I see a number of issues in this:
No intent was made to clarify the question via comments: it was just shut up. I consider it rude and unhelpful.
No reason was ...
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Illustrating posts of others
This issue arose in connection to the question Is this a $C^0$ foliation of $\mathbb{R}^2$? where a foliation is described formally. I thought it would help to have a picture of it. Initially I wanted ...
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Should there be a “statute of limitations” for closable questions?
Ever more frequently I find in the "close votes" review queue questions which are a few years old. Many of them already have accepted answers, and one can see that they were well received at the time ...
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Public dumps for mathoverflow?
As far as I remember, there was supposed to be a public dump of the MO database just before the migration: http://dumps.mathoverflow.net/ . Not an urgency by any measure, but something that would be ...
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Hard to notice links in comments
This is a conscious duplicate :D
There are at least two more questions about it (The color of links in comments, On the current color scheme, and why it sucks - by the way, when trying to share them ...
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Flagging questions answered in comments
Several times e.g. here and its links, people have discussed the issue of questions of effectively answered in the comments, both here and on MSE, which remain in the unanswered queue.
Despite the ...
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Lots of non research-level questions
There seem to be lots of questions appearing posted by users that either mistake this site for math.SE or do not know what the purpose of the site is. Would it be possible and a good idea to limit ...
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Winter Bash on MO?
I noticed that the Stackexchange sites are having a Winter Bash, and one of my friends recieved a hat on MSE. Why isn't this on MO? It'll be fun to have something like that here, wouldn't it? (I ...
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How to find out what activity activated a favorite?
I have several favorite questions and it is a great feature that every time something happens around them, they are flagged up for me. However, when I turn to them, in most cases I cannot figure out ...
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Reputation's sliding window?
One may have the same weekly and monthly score. It's quite common. It's less common under such circumstances (of coinciding weekly and monthly gain) to be more advanced on the monthly list than on the ...
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Can the flagging of off-topic questions be simplified?
To help keep Mathoverflow tidy, by speeding up the removal of inappropriate questions, I often flag them and vote them down. In every case, the need for removal is obvious. Almost none of these ...
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Tell what's been modified
On the page of "top questions" that opens when I go to mathoverflow.net, each question is accompanied by information about what happened to it most recently. The information consists of "asked" or "...
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What outgoing migration paths should we have?
Now that we can migrate off topic questions, what sort of migration paths should be useful to have?
I think that adding at least Cross Validated, if not one or two of the other science sites, would ...
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Discreet editing
After I edited someone's Question or Answer, it feels real awkward to see my name mentioned in front of the author of the respective Q. or A. I feel that instead of displaying editor's name there ...
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Encouraging patience on cross-posts
I realize that there has been a lot of discussion about cross-posting an migrating between MO and MSE. It seems to me that it is common for someone to be unsure on whether a question is an MSE ...
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KaTeX vs MathJax
According to some benchmarks, it seems that KaTeX renders latex much more faster than Mathjax.
Is there any chance to use KaTeX in place of Mathjax?
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Acceptance of partial answers
In which cases is it appropriate to accept a partial answer?
For example, if an answer gives the state of the research on the area, that does not completely answer the question, but says also ...
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Quickly Accessible MathJax Help
I recently had the problem of encoding big brackets in a formula in my question "Functions that Calculate their $L_p$ Norm" and, I could find nothing under "How to Format > MathJax equations", as the ...
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Why not restoring the + 10 reputation for questions but make each negative vote also count -10 reputation?
To maintain MO alive and well, we need a regular flow of good questions, and not too many bad questions. It seems to me that one has given more weight to the latter, forgetting the former which in my ...
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About the option of editing comments - a different algorithm?
There is a 5 minute limit on editing comments. Perhaps the idea is to keep the flow of the thread faithful (to avoid distortions--or even manipulations--of a discussion).
However I happen to be quite ...
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Weighing votes?
Judging by my own experience, reputation counting is far from perfect. Mine has been growing mostly thanks to answers to easy questions which I've been lucky to be first to read. On the other hand I ...
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How to prevent with attempted spam edits
Over the last two days there have been two attempts to deface https://mathoverflow.net/a/152418/2051 using the edit feature, replacing it by spam. The user names of the robots which attempted edits ...
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Really minor complaint about the off-topic close menu
In the off-topic part of the close menu, the radio button for "this question does not appear to be about math" is annoyingly close to the link to the help center, at least for me:
Twice now I've ...
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“2 views” hardly different that “2 kviews”
In the old version of MO, the header of a question was accompanied by a graphic information (this is an example): a huge "2" or "2k" and a tiny "views". Now we see Huge "2" and tiny "views" or "kviews"...
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Flagging as Low Quality should add the post to the review queue
In How to handle crankery on MathOverflow 2.0? Andy Putman pointed out that he flagged a post as low quality, but it never reached the low quality review queue.
I feel that in order to effectively ...
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Don't HTML encode quotes when creating suggested BIBTEX entries
If you click the share link underneath a question (on the main site, but not here), you'll then see a cite link, which will ...
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Why doesn't “browse the complete list of questions” continue with next questions?
I always wonder (and find it anoying) that, when I reached the end of the first page of questions and click on "browse the complete list of questions", I find myself at the beginning of the first page ...
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Explicitly pointing out math.stackexchange when (new?) users ask a question
I have recently flagged several questions for migration to math.stackexchange which were fairly clearly not about mathematics research and related topics. It was clear that in some cases these new ...
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Enabling MathJax over https
MathOverflow (and indeed all the StackExchange sites) support https connections. However MathJax is currently broken, because the default server for the MathJax distribution doesn't support https.
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Migrate questions without disagreeing on their research status
Sometimes mathematics and statistics (as well as mathematics and TCS, or mathematics and computational science) overlap.
There are times (such as for this question) when I'd like to be able to ...
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Any chance of a “save for later / TODO” feature?
Sometimes when browsing MO questions I have the need to "save for later" for various reasons. There is a star for favoriting questions, it would be very useful to have "TODO" labels beyond just the ...
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Closing one's own question
Sometimes I ask a question and a helpful commenter points out that the question is ill-founded. This seems like a straight-up case for closing the question, but unfortunately the best I can do is vote ...
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Making it easier to access hidden comments
This is a follow-up of this recent post, and hopefully a feasible suggestion.
Problem: If a question/answer has many comments (say more than fit on my screen) and I decide to read them all, in ...
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searching mathematical formulae like in Zentralblatt Math
It would be nice if searching mathematical formulae like Zentralblatt Math http://zbmath.org/formulae/ could be implemented.
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Diagrams in MathJax via xypic.js
Apparently, the Stacks project can load a MathJax extension called xypic.js (check the source code) and then has access to ...
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Change of colors
I decided to follow up on my own thread regarding the color scheme, and test something up.
Using archive.org, I loaded a copy of MathOverflow from 2011, and it turns out that the questions in one's ...
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Tag suggestions on ask page
The ask page tag input box currently looks like this:
The old ask page on MO 1.0 had a much more detailed description of what top-level tags on MO are:
Since appropriate tagging on MO can be ...
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Why not adding AMS classification numbers, in addition to the tags?
The tag system is fine, and the names/explications of the tags clear enough. But why is there no way to add facultatively primary (and secondary?) AMS classification numbers, like in many journals?
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Please enable the AMScd package by default
We can draw diagrams using the AMScd package, and works quite nicely (see Math.SE for a working proof).
However, on MathOverflow the package seems to be disabled by default, so if a user wants to use ...
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Make it possible to flag posts as wrong
Presently the only ways to point out an error in a post are adding a comment
and editing the post. However comments are not very visible in particular if
a post has already many of them. Editing the ...
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Wording of migration closure
When we close a question through migration to another SE site, it gets a box looking like
The blue text to math.stackexchange.com is a link pointing to the newly created clone at the other end of the ...
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Please BCC moderator private messages to moderators@mathoverflow.net
(This is a feature request only really relevant to moderators, but feel free to vote or comment anyway!)
With the move to 2.0, the moderators now have a new mechanism for contacting users, called a ...
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When reviewing suggested edits, cancel rejection and approval votes
I have seen many edit suggestions approved which I consider to be minor edits to old posts (which bump them to the front page), or to actually reduce the quality or readability of the post. Other ...
