Questions tagged [feature-request]
For proposals of new features on the site, or requests for a change to an existing feature, this is the tag to use.
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Differences between "updates," "upgrade," and "version-upgrade"
The upgrade documentation at https://drupal.org/upgrade states that an upgrade consists of changing the major version while an update is changing the minor version of Drupal.
Excerpt:
What's the ...
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Burninate "Custom" tag
There already was a request to Burninate the "custom-module" tag and now I see it's rebirth as custom.
custom-module doesn't have any meaning because:
A question tagged custom-module would ...
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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 commerce would be more relevant for this ...
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Expand the content of the "How to Ask" block
The content of the How to Ask block that is currently shown is the following one:
Is your question about the Drupal CMS?
We prefer questions that can be answered, not just discussed.
Remember to ...
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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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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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Ability to change the type of flag? Or have an unflag option?
I come across questions, when sometimes I find the need for flagging it. But, sometimes in confusion / or due to error I flag it wrongly.
And when I again try to flag, it says, you've already flagged ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Allow "drupal-N" tags to be migrated from other sites
When a question is migrated from other sites, any tag that matches ^drupal-?\d+.*$ is removed. The problem is that Stack Overflow uses drupal-6, and drupal-7; as users on Stack Overflow are used to ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 attack...is there anything else that the community can do to help the moderators?
I feel that recently we are fighting more with the spammers. But is flagging enough to help the moderators? any other measure we can do? I don't know something like when you flag and it is trusted ...
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Private User Messenging System
This may not be specific to DA meta as to a possible site wide suggestion to SE. If it is side wide to SE then forgive me for asking here. Also, if this has been suggested before and rejected then ...
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better tools for dealing with questions that disclose security issues
The Drupal project encourages security researchers to follow responsible disclosure and this usually works. Sometimes, though, people will post a security issue to the support forum or the public ...
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How can I see the questions and answers I've voted on?
Often I'll find that I need to find a question I'd recently looked at and voted on, but can't quite remember the title. Since I voted on it, and I can't vote twice, I know there's a record of which ...
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Why not let users pay for bounties?
Here is my crazy idea of the day:
The bounty feature is great to get better answers or to solve tricky problems.
New Drupal users won't have the skills (or time and patience) to contribute enough on ...
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Would a way to flag questions as "needs more information" be useful?
There are many questions where users post an initial, incomplete question, which can not be answered without more information. For example, they post a question about a error/issue with their code/...
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Order of html title attribute
Anyone else find it a bit weird that tags are placed first in the html title attribute. for example I've seen quite a few start:
6 - Some question here
7 - Another question here
When I have a load ...
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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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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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