Questions tagged [feature-request]
This tag is for proposals of new features on the site, or requests for a change to an existing feature.
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Fix the downvoting system to require downvotes to give a reason why it was downvoted [duplicate]
I'm getting down-votes on valid questions that have zero reason to be down-voted. Plenty of them have been answered, in fact. I recently asked in the comments for someone to explain why the post got ...
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Create a [rest] tag
There are over 2000 questions related to using REST with Drupal. It is clearly a subject that many people are interested in and many people have problems with. I think this is a good opportunity for a ...
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Create [mimemail] tag
I am the maintainer of the Mime Mail module and I would like to add a mimemail tag here on Drupal Answers in order to better support this module. There are years of questions about Mime Mail here on ...
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Add "Bugs must be reported on drupal.org" as close reason
When there are issues like Metatag images don't work anymore after updating to Drupal 8.6 I tend to close-vote them and giving off-topic because ... > Questions asking to recommend or find a book, ...
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Question Templates
I was a little bit more active on DA since a while. And I observed that it seems necessary to flag quite a large percentage of new questions to be closed as "too broad" or "unclear what you're asking"....
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Enable Community Promotion Ads for 2018 [duplicate]
Quote from "Community Promotion Ads - 2017":
We reset the ads once a year, every December.
And another one from it:
It is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second ...
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Re-create the "message" tag (or create a "message-stack" tag)
Modules with a dedicated tag
Tags such as views, rules, userpoints, features, quiz, webform, panels, feeds, ... etc are all tags named according to the Drupal module they are about. One could say "...
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Add Software Recommendations as migration path
One of the reasons mentioned on the voting-to-close dialog is like so:
Questions asking to recommend or find a book, tool, module, theme, distribution, tutorial, or other off-site resource are off-...
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Drupal version Tag in Related Sections
In Questions that may already have your answer, and Related sections, if question is tagged with drupal version I think it would be nice to see version tag next to a question.
Related questions are ...
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Re-create the "group" tag
Back in April 2016, I created the group tag. Its excerpt got approved on April 9, 2016 and it was used for multiple questions about the Group module (note: I'm not a (co-)maintainer of it ...). For ...
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Missing text beside relative time for Migrated questions?
Seems there's a missing text beside the relative time for migrated questions at Top Questions page.
If anyone does any changes to the post it appears like "modified 5 mins ago".
If someone answers to ...
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There is no Tags term MENU or MENUS in DA?
Recently, I have asked question of DA regarding the Menu, buy my surprise, there is no Tags term "Menu" or "Menus". All list I show was the name of menu modules. Can somebody please add that term, as ...
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Giving a good answer that is not being accepted or at least upvoted
Have you ever given an answer that it is and can be proven as correct but has never been accepted or upvoted? It is so frustrating!
I am not a child and I am not whimpering, I know the rules, most ...
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Please exclude version tags from title bar
I mean questions like this - there is nothing wrong with it being tagged 7, but this isn't great:
The same will appear in Google results etc. I believe drupal-commerce would be more relevant for this ...
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Improve the usability of the suggested edits review page
I know I should pay more attention and not do these things when I'm tired but I would say that the review page for suggested edits is not user friendly.
The topic of the edit could really be more ...
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Could we add the ability to change our votes on review items?
I just voted on a review item and immediately realised that I had misread something and voted incorrectly.
I think it would be useful to be able to change such votes after the fact.
I understand ...
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Can we ban the D8 tag?
I have edited all the D8 tagged questions to be tagged 8 instead. Can we disallow D8 somehow? I am not a moderator yet and I can't find a tool to report a tag to moderators either.
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Review notification
Yesterday i have seen a new menu in top bar section of my profile named as review. I conclude that it is due completing 500 reputation.
Today when i have clicked on review menu i have seen 1 post ...
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Allow Youtube video embeds
Per this request: Provide a way to embed videos in answers
I often create screencasts to suppliment answers and would love for the youtube.com link to embed itself into the answer.
Examples:
add ...
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How can we encourage users who down vote to leave a comment as to why
We get a lot of questions and answers down voted without the voter commenting as to why they down voted.
This is really frustrating because at the lower and of the spectrum it is not constructive ...
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Can't able to review Flagged Posts in Low Quality Posts
I found this POST under Low Quality Posts. But I couldn't able to review the post .
When I click on Recommended Close button I got a popup like the following. but there are no radio buttons to select ...
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Is there a way I can read comments to me from deleted posts?
Someone (I can't tell who) left a comment for me on a spam posts about do's/don't's of spam question reporting. Unfortunately I have no idea what it said except for the first few words because the ...
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Please introduce anti-spam restrictions
Due to large amount of SPAM these days (see Lots of question related to weight lose, fatty tissue etc in daily. Is it added intentionally?) I propose to introduce following restrictions for ...
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Edit in grace period should allow un-downvote, too
This question: open pop up window on map marker from outside map canvas after click an anchor tag in drupal 7 using gmap, location was pretty bad when I downvoted it. A bit more than a single line. It ...
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Can we have porn link prevention implemented here?
Mechanism is ready: Help users create dummy links that are not to unrelated commercial sites has status-completed. Could it be implemented here on Drupal Answers too?
I just encountered a question ...
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Please introduce review audits on Drupal Answers
As we can see for example here some people happen to post votes based on the username of last editor, not on the content of the post. That should not happen.
Please introduce review audits on Drupal ...
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Don't put edited closed question into reopen queue automatically, unless edited by OP
This is not a big deal, but we get a fair share of questions in the "reopen" queue where the edit is done by some well-meaning user in order to fix spelling, grammar or formatting without touching ...
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Notification for favourite questions
I like the feature of adding questions to your favourites, but I'd love to get a notification in my inbox when new answers were given to them or when the question has been updated. Is this a feature I'...
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Getting notification when an answer is updated
Is it normal that I don't get a notification in my inbox when someone updated his/her answer (that means an edit has been made) on one of my questions? If yes, wouldn't this be a nice feature? I'd ...
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Suggested improvement for "activity"
If users want to know their rejected edits, they need to go activity >> suggestions and click on "suggested edit" from the list of their suggested edits.
There is no link/tab provided for rejected ...
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Seeing own question and answer bans
Unfortunately, I've received a ban on Drupal Answers, but I cannot remember which ban is in effect. Of course, I could ask and/or answer a question, and find out quickly enough, but I think a page ...
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Automatic vote-up when answer is marked as accepted
I often see replies that are being marked as answer without a vote-up. As I consider accepted answers as useful, I was wondering whether it would be possible to implement an automatic vote-up when an ...
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How do I put a border around images I upload?
When adding an answer with lots of images (such as this), there is no easy way to distinguish between the text and the image. Please allow to put some border around the image. It will make answers ...
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Please change background colour for code in quote
Currently both quote have background colour #F4F4F4 and code block #F3F3F3. On my monitor they are indistinguishable.
Making code background darker is bad for readability, so please make code block ...
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Can we get a better visited color on MDA?
In the theme on Meta Drupal Answers, the color on an anchor is
a { color: #a69635 }
The visited state is
a:visited { color: #6c5f16 }
In body copy inside questions / answers, the color is
body { ...
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Improved guidance when a question is closed as duplicate
The text that appears (presumably automatically) when a question is closed as a duplicate is the following:
"This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not ...
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Blacklist [v6], [v7] and [v8] or make them synonyms of [6], [7] and [8]
In recent days I have seen them used on couple of questions. Like a wave. Most recently this one But we already have numerical tags for versions. So could you please blacklist these tags or make them ...
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Allow a user with a reputation lower than 20 to chat
A user with a reputation lower than 20 points is not allowed to chat.
Would not be good if those users could be invited in chat by users who have the privilege of chatting? I am suggesting this ...
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Let adding code wrapper in edits ignore the 6 character requirement
Is there a way we can ignore the 6 character requirements if we're only adding a code tag for a question? Sometimes I see people have included code, but they haven't formatted it properly so it doesn'...
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How to inform the downvoter, once the post is edited/updated?
Suppose that a user posts a link-only answer which gets a negative score. How should the users who down-voted that answer be notified, once the answer is edited and changed into a proper answer? If ...
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Enable code highlight in quotes by default
This network-wide question shows how to enable syntax highlight in code blocks inside quotes, as it's off by default. But here most of the time we want PHP highlight.
My request is: can Drupal ...
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Make warning-message synonym of warning?
Both warning and warning-message are pretty low on questions, and both cover practically identical area. I don't have enough points (whatever they are) to propose synonym myself, so posting here.
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Add other StackExchange network sites to off-topic close reason
I'm not sure if this maybe should be added to Custom off-Topic reasons for Drupal Anwers instead, but I figured it's a question in it's own right.
As it stands, we can only cast close votes to move a ...
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Can we restrict users with unresolved number of question?
Many times I see some users asking lots of question without accepting answer for old questions. So why can't we have restriction for number of question for a user just like we have for flag(I think so)...
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Is there a way to increase someone's bounty?
Let's say I see a question with bounty of 100. I like that question. I want it answered. I'm willing to boost bounty with 50 of my own rep. Is there a way to do this? I guess not, so are there any ...
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Question preview in list
I think it would be a great feature to be able to preview a question while you're scrolling through the list. Many times I find that I don't know by the title what exactly is the question about, ...
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A marker for when I've flagged a post as spam
Spam comes in waves, and it is difficult to keep track of what I've flagged and what's new (and unflagged). It would be nice with a little marker telling me what I've already flagged. The marker ...
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spam flagging workflow too complicated?
This morning there were at least 6 questions along the lines of "Watch Northern Ireland vs Russia Live football Online TV Link". I wanted to follow the call to action and i have a feeling the workflow ...
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Suggested improvements to chat
In my admittedly limited experience with DA i am finding that many times the OP would not have to ask the question if they knew how to ask it. The answer would be self evident. (Learning Drupal is ...
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Formatting edits
I rarely edit questions, but I finally tried to improve this one today: How to format Start + End Dates without using PHP
The question had an example, which was not formatted to be displayed ...
