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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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 ...
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tag for community involvement?
In FAQ the questions about community involvement are allowed but there is not tag for it. Would it be a good idea to have one?
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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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Can questions be watched and then flagged as spam according to agreed upon keywords?
EDIT - I've now searched properly..sorry guys :)
I've noticed this question from Kiamlaluno a while back - Doesn't SE catch spam messages? - is this still the same situation? Is there still no ...
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Is there a better way to indent code and highlight code or errors?
Forgive my frustration, please, but, highlighting code with "four spaces for each line" ... is very inefficient.
I had a problem with some code that spit out errors I would like for the community to ...
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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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Auto complete in comments
When we want to notify another user in a comment and start typing @USER_NAME it pops up a suggestion box and displays the complete name. Is it possible to enhance this by completing full user name ...
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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 ...
apadernoMod
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Show the automatic "low quality" flags in the moderator queue after they have been first visible to the 10K queue for a while
Moderators see the automatic "low quality" flags immediately after they are generated. Those flags are for posts that don't pass an automatic check about the quality of the post.
Alone, the flag doesn'...
apadernoMod
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Replace the text area used to answer a question with a "Add your answer" button for users with a reputation of 1
Recently, I noticed that the number of users with a reputation of 1 who writes as answer a request for more information (mostly related to their Drupal site), or a completely different question became ...
apadernoMod
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Add the link to http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-ask in the "How to Ask" block
On Stack Overflow, the "How to Ask" block shown in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask contains a link to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/how-to-ask, which is not present on Drupal Answers.
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apadernoMod
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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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Sound notification for new event
I would vote for a small yet useful add-on of sound notification that would come together with the visual red notification badge, when somebody answers or comments my question. This would free me from ...
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Automatically reject suggested edits when too much of the original post is changed
We recently had suggested edits that only had the purpose of completely replacing the post content with nonsense, such as in this case.
Such edits, where the post is completely changed, should be ...
apadernoMod
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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 ...
apadernoMod
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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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Typing shortcut for project links? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Markdown for Drupal reference
Do we have (and if not - could we have) a typing shortcut to insert links to projects (modules, themes)? Just as we have syntax for [tag:...
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Move the block showing the question asked on the meta site on the top
In the front page the block showing some of the question asked in the meta site is sometimes shown on the top, but sometimes it is shown lower.
At least in the front page, it should be always shown ...
apadernoMod
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Make more evident when an action is not possible
I was reviewing the posts flagged for moderation attention. One of those was an answer that was not an answer, and the possible actions for that post included the "convert to comment" action.
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apadernoMod
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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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Create a custom search filter for modules
There is a discussion about drupal.org soon promoting drupal answers and the number of questions could explode.
I think it would be really useful if we could filter questions by modules referenced in ...
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Allow users to hide the automatic flags, or hide them automatically
There are some flags that are automatically generated, and that a normal user cannot dismiss as valid. As they don't influence the flag weight of the Community user, it doesn't also make sense to flag ...
apadernoMod
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Deleting a question while someone is in the middle of answering it?
Mild annoyance here, but does a user get prompted that someone is in the process of answering a question before they voluntarily delete it?
I was just in the middle of answering a decent question ...
mpdonadioMod
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Create a synonym for the "d6" tag
It seems that d6 is back.
There are currently 7 questions tagged with it. Can we make it a synonym of 6?
The older question is What should be done with tags similar to "d6," "d7"?
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Allow better formatting for comments
when you write a longer comment to someone's question or answer you don't get any formatting options. A simple line break would make the comments a lot more readable.
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Add Stack Overflow as migration path
The voting-to-close dialog actually allows to only migrate a question on the meta site for Drupal Answers. It should allow to vote to migrate a question to Stack Overflow, for those questions that are ...
apadernoMod
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Don't allow unregistered users to post answers
I counted at least 33 spam posts posted in the past 12 hours; all of them were created from unregistered users. Maybe unregistered users should not be able to create posts, in the same way they are ...
apadernoMod
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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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Automatically link function names to api.drupal.org
Is it possible to automatically turn core function names into links to api.drupal.org? For instance: 'hook_node_load' would become 'hook_node_load'.
If it's possible at all, would you consider it ...
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The contrast with the background doesn't allow to easily see the numbers
The background used for reputation gained on accepted answers don't allow to easily see the reputation change. The background should be slightly lighter.
The same problem is present in the flagging ...
apadernoMod
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How can I track the answers posted by others to questions I answered?
I really like to follow up on the questions I answered to see if others have better answers or to later improve mine, if an answer gives me new clues to rewrite it.
The inbox only shows comments made ...
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Markdown for Drupal reference
It would be very helpful to have specific Markdown for creating links directly to the Drupal Reference http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal, especially when you are asking/answering a question that ...
mpdonadioMod
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Set the default highlighting mode to "lang-php"
There are some questions for which the syntax highlighting is not active because none of the tags used for the question have syntax highlighting enabled.
Difficulties with the #ajax form item ...
apadernoMod
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What information should be put in the "How to Ask" block at questions/ask?
During the discussion at Numeric version tags considered ... OK, the idea came up to put some more hints into the How to ask block on the right side of the ask question form.
The current text is (...
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Can we add drupal.org username as a profile field?
This would enable a simple 1:1 mapping of Drupal.org accounts and Drupal Answers accounts, allowing for some cool integration projects down the road.
For example it would allow Certifed to Rock to ...
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Add "general reference" as reason to close a question
In English Language and Usage is possible to close a question because it is a "general reference."
That closing reason would apply for Drupal Answers too.
apadernoMod
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Revert the tag drupal-x -> version-x tag synonyms
In “Drupal-X” tags versus “version-x” tags, the question was brought up whether core version tags should take the form of drupal-7 or version-7. Despite the top-voted answer being that it should be ...
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