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 happened to the edit dropdown?
I remember when someone edited my post, I could see what edits were made and if necessary roll them back. Now, it seems to be gone. Did it move somewhere else?
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Missing feature in new review format
I'm not loving the new format of the review queues. Putting aside the fact that I can't see any benefit from the change (apart from the extra exercise that my finger gets), the main thing that's ...
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Is there an easy way to create a link to past questions?
When I refer to past questions, I find it cumbersome to create a viewer-friendly link to it, i.e. the text title with the link to the question. I often feel lazy and just put http://japanese....
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Links to Linked and Related questions in mobile mode
Why doesn’t the question page in the mobile mode (for screens with a narrow width) show the Linked and Related sections? I can understand why they cannot be displayed on the right side as in the PC ...
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Furigana rendering options as of 2017/10/16
Why have they changed again? I have mine set to the following:
The popups work fine when I hover a kanji, but the furigana is shown all the time regardless of the popup option. Here is how the ...
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who manages the features of japanese SE?
Stackoverflow has a documentation section. That isnt available in japanese SE and in other SE communities. Are the features/settings of japanese SE managed by the moderators? or are they managed by ...
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Should we be able to downvote comments here?
There has been discussion about this on meta SE, but I want to ask about it here too. Comments do not serve the same function on all sites on SE, and this leads me to wonder if this sort of 'one size ...
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bounty for meta
My question Full site not responding to iPad has not been paid much attention by the moderators of stack exchange. I wish there were bounty for meta questions.
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Can we allow mathjax on the japanese stack exchange site so that questions about japanese mathematicans can be asked?
Some people might want to ask questions about the Japanese words for mathematical symbols.
Can we allow the MathJax plugin on the Japanese stack exchange?
¿What word do Japanese mathematicians use for ...
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This is not a question about the Japanese language
Whatever happened to the close vote reason: "this is not a question about the Japanese language"? Did I just dream that this used to be one of the pre-made reasons for closing a question?
A ...
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Can we update the wording on a close reason?
I voted to close this topic asking for proofreading and corrections. I closed it as "Off-topic" with the following sub-choice:
Questions asking for translations are off-topic unless prior research ...
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Should xxxx-ben tags be merged with "dialects"?
There are a lot of dialect questions that come up, most of them about Kansai and Osaka variety. It seems somewhat redundant that every question about any specific dialect will also have the "dialect" ...
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How to Recommend Deletion of certain Low Quality Posts
Sometimes I review questions and sometimes an answer has been automatically flagged for low quality.
Sometimes the answer is just short and the post still answers the question, but often it is giving ...
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Entering Japanese in the comments for an answer keeps saving the comment [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Please disable Enter to submit comments
This problem may be specific to Mac, or may be specific to Firefox. When I enter a comment on an answer, if I type in Japanese, when I ...
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Can we leverage this website in order to create Kanji story database?
I'm currently learning kanji using the Heisig method. I think it is a really good system and, relative to my original expectations, I've been making good progress. However, there are also many kanjis ...
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Make the serial downvoting reversal script more active
From time to time I get serially downvoted. I wait for the reversal script to kick in, and it doesn't, and when I flag it, nothing happens.
It's not because the serial downvoting didn't happen, but ...
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is it ok if we have an option to indicate something along the lines of "please only reply if you are a native speaker"
Related to my previous suggestion: We should have a way to know if someone is a native speaker.
I was wondering is it ok if we have an option to indicate something along the lines of "please only ...