Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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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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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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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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“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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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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Can we get rid of the “featured on meta” main meta links?
As you know, MathOverflow has a special status in the Stack Exchange family, and (by a special agreement) it doesn't display any kind of ads nor links to the hot network questions in the sidebar.
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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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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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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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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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Retroactively add linked questions
Any question on MathOverflow (or other Stack Exchange site) shows the list of linked questions in the sidebar on the right. A question is added there if there is a link between the two questions ...
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Primarily opinion-based questions/answers
One closing option is primarily opinion-based: Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on ...
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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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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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Should top mathoverflow threads get DOIs and be permanently archived?
Josh from The Winnower (thewinnower.com) here. I wanted to reach out and see if users of mathOverflow would be interested in permanently archiving and assigning DOIs to top threads with The Winnower. ...
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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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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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Reword “What topics can I ask about here?”
Another time recently, an user has asked a question which is very far from research level, and has been reprimanded for not reading the FAQ. However, I realize that there might be a problem in the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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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Remove the user-identifying part of the “share” URL
When you click the 'share' button beneath a post on MathOverflow, a box pops up containing a short URL for the post, e.g. of the form
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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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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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New queue for questions without an accepted answer
In the questions section one can find a special queue for unanswered questions. It is for attracting more attention of the community and getting a possible answer in the future.
Is it possible to ...
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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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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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Homework section in the Help Center slightly outdated
I just noticed that the Help Center section that describes what is and is not on topic, and what the policy for homework questions and its rationale are, is outdated. It currently reads
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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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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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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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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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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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Right-clicking on a mathjax link does wrong thing
Surely I am not the only user of this site with this habit - if I want to have look at the linked content I right-click on the link to open it in a new tab, so when I finish reading I then turn to 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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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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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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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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Numbering and cross referencing of equations in questions and answers
A basic LaTeX feature which I sometimes miss when asking and answering questions in MO (specially when the question and the particularly the answer are longer) is the possibility of numbering ...
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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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Autosave of drafted questions or answers
So there I am, typing a new question (or an answer). As it appears $\LaTeX$'ed in the preview frame, I keep improving it... and then I realize that there is some detail I need to think more about ...
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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....
