Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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What to do with homework questions?
I think something should be done with the homework questions: there are too many of them now. I suggest that one reason for closing should be "homework". If at least 3 people vote for that reason to ...
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How To Ask page
One of the best things on the old MO page was the "How to Ask" link on the top. It is true that SE took the hint and added something like that to the previous FAQ (which is now retired), but the MO ...
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Link back to mathoverflow
The old meta had a convenient link back to the main mathoverflow site, but that seems to have vanished. It would be nice to have it back.
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Is there a single page listing privileges & their reputation requirements?
On the old MathOverflow, there was a single page (the FAQ) which listed all the privileges and their reputation requirements, in increasing order. This has been replaced by the Privileges page, which ...
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A serif font for MathOverflow?
Wouldn't it be nicer to have a serif font on MathOverflow? As is done, say, on MSE.
It seems to be much more readable, like a printed text. And I'd say making answers looking more like notes or even ...
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Option to migrate to CS Theory
We should add the option to migrate to Theoretical Computer Science when voting to close. This question is an obvious candidate.
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Seeing up/down votes of your own posts
When a user reaches 1000 reputation they become an established user. With that comes the ability to see the number of up and down votes on any post. While I have no problem with this privelege being ...
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Projective geometry tags
Would it make sense to merge the tag projective-plane and projective-space into projective-geometry? It doesn't seem useful to have to search for each of these separately.
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Optionally only show "favourite tags" questions
I wonder if it would be possible to optionally only show questions having my "favourite tags" on them. (See also Questions containing my "favorite tags" are barely distinguishable)
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Why isn't "no longer relevant" an option for closing?
I would like to be able to close questions as "no longer relevant" if they have been answered in the comments (such questions generally are near the border, but on the MO side, of appropriate for MO). ...
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Is it possible to add an option to migrate to a programming site?
There have been a number of questions in the Close part of Review lately which were basically asking for help creating an algorithm to do some mundane task (see here, here, here for example). I wonder ...
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Why not 'thanks' in comments?
I've noticed a message in mathoverflow's place for comments saying that '+1' or 'thanks' comments are not appropriate. I don't agree with the second kind of comment being inappropriate. I think it's ...
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Capitalisation of "possible" in duplicate comment
There's nothing much to this question, but I thought I'd ask anyway.
When a question is flagged as a duplicate, a comment of the form "possible duplicate of . . ." is posted. Why isn't it "Possible ...
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Minimum character of an edit
I just wanted to fix the latex of a question. It took me exacly 2 characters to change, which caused a large formula to display incorrectly.
The software, however, asked me to make some further ...
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Is there an option to hide migrated (or even on hold) questions?
It would make sense, especially for MO, to have an option to hide migrated and on hold questions in the user preferences. Is there a way to do this already? If not I think this would make a nice ...
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Automatically fix outstanding mathjax issue involving backticks
After the transition to the stack exchange network, I have occasionally noticed posts being edited to replace occurrences of the following code (note the backticks):
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Remove substantial tag score requirement for suggesting tag synonyms?
I have recently attempted to create the obvious tag synonym 'dg-algebras' <--- 'differential-graded-algeb'. However, my attempt was thwarted by the system's insistence that I need five total score (...
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Community Wiki in the hands of moderators
I don't understand the wisdom of removing the CW button from the control of an author of a question, and having always to pester the moderators to turn it on. Might it be possible to return this ...
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Migration to stats.stackexchange.com
Today I came across this question, which seems to me would be better asked at stats.stackexchange.com. I tried flagging the question as off-topic/migration, but only meta.mathoverflow.net and math....
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Reasons for closing
I just voted to close this question as off-topic.
On the old MathOverflow, I'd have voted to close as "Not a Real Question". But in the current version, the closest I can come to "Not a Real ...
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Completely Unexplained Downvotes
I came across this question recently and asked the OP to explain some notation (see my comment below the question). As the OP was addressing my concerns, there was suddenly a down-vote (along with the ...
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Spelling conventions
After the recent discussion on LaTeX style accents, I have been reminded of this old discussion at tea regarding the appropriate spelling convention for some German names, such as Kähler. At the time, ...
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LaTeX style accents in regular text
LaTeX has some handy macros that allow the insertion of diacritics and other special characters in text mode. Relevant tables from the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List:
These are handy since they don'...
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adding a blog component
I found a really great discussion on Monomer-Dimer tatami tilings and up-voted it. However, it doesn't really have a question or answers. It's still a great read.
It's not the first time I've seen ...
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Should I be able to notify multiple people with the same comment?
One of the many things I was excited about in our move from MO 1.0 to 2.0 was the chance to leave responses to previous comments that automatically notify those people. Occasionally, a conversation ...
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Please avoid extended discussions in comments
In MO 2.0 you get this message if there are “too many” comments:
Please avoid extended discussions in comments. Would you like to automatically move this discussion to chat?
IIRC an old meta-...
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Enable saving draft questions and answers
As in the title - please, enable saving drafts of questions and drafts of answers, and returning to them on my next visit to MO.
I am very slow in putting my thoughts into print. I Leave them for ...
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Minor edits, subject to review
Now that MathOverflow has moved to 2.0, there is a potential solution to the long-standing tension between people wanting to make minor improvements to old posts, and others not wanting the 'active ...
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So, what will happen with Community Wiki by owner?
I have seen several discussions on this subject but I don't retrieve them.
Will it, when the dust settles down, be possible on MO2.0 for someone asking a question, or posting an answer, to make it ...
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Citation feature
Is it possible to re-enable the "cite" feature from MO (and later MSE)?
(I'd like to remind the users, in the case this is going to be enabled, that the feature now hides within the "share" button, ...
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Questions containing my "favorite tags" are barely distinguishable
I liked the fact that in MO v1, any question which contained one of my list of favorite tags was noticably highlighted (a brown-orange color, if I remember correctly).
In the new version, such ...
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No MathJax on meta
Meta doesn't seem to have MathJax enabled ($x=y$). I think it's best enable it to be consistent with the main site.
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