You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Where did the “Retag” button go?
Is it me, or did this site used to have a "Re-Tag" button under every question?
If it did, I personally found it useful. Why has it disappeared?
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Take back a flag?
I recently flagged a question (this one) as really bad (because it was). However, I also left a comment for the original poster letting them know that it was really vague and not a good fit. The ...
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Badges for answering X and asking Y number of questions
There are badges for achieving a certain amount of activity for: voting, visiting, editing, reviewing, and flagging. But there is no activity level badge for answering x number of questions, or for ...
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How to encourage questions
Firstly, I am suggesting this only for UX.se, so please don't migrate it to the Stack Overflow meta.
Right now UX.se has become almost exclusively about computer related UX and mostly leaves out the ...
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Respond to someone reviewing my suggested edit
I recently made a revision to this question.
It was a substantial revision because the OP had posted an answer to the question that should have been an edit to the question. I flagged that answer ...
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Why aren't duplicate questions automatically merged? Or at least linked both directions?
When a question is closed as a duplicate, it automatically includes a link to the question that it was a duplicate of. In cases where it's closed before it has been answered, this approach makes ...
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Badges — single vs multi-time awards
There are badges like Analytical ("Visited every section of the FAQ") which can be awarded to a person only once. Yet there are those that can be obtained multiple times, like Nice question ("Question ...
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Update FAQ to state that tool recommendation questions are out of scope
Over the past four months there has been a lot of discussion about the Tool category. The general consensus seems to be that in most cases, these questions are out of scope. That is the direction ...
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Why do links use very similar colours for :visited, :hover and regular links?
When scanning the main page, I find it a little difficult to differentiate between visited links and regular links. I can see the difference but it always catches me off guard as visited links seem to ...
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Form buttons and pagination do not have a hover state?
I noticed that the form buttons like 'Post Your Question' do not have a hover state and neither does the pagination links.
Is this purposeful?
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Should the edit feature reset the questions scroll?
One of the senior users on ux.stackexchange has been editing posts for a few hours. He may be doing to improve the quality of the questions when new users come to it; for their benefit and its all ...
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UX StackExchange Bottom Notice poor link color contrast
It bugs me that the "bottom-notice" links on the UX pages have such poor contrast. The color contrast of #E8BF6C against a #FFFFFF background is 1.74:1.
WCAG 2.0's luminosity contrast algorithm ...
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Is it possible to change the Edit Counter of Users to show the accurate progress on editorial badges?
The Edit Counter of Users shows all edits, even the edits that doesn't count on the Strunk & White or Copy Editor badges. It's kind of confusing to see an edit count that doesn't match a goal to ...
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Why can't I just upload a profile picture?
Profile Picture update experience
I wanted to change my avatar on this site. I found my user profile section by clicking my name. I wasn't successful in changing my picture right away. First I ...
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Day to day profile stats?
I'm trying to do a little bit of analysis of user activity on the site. I want to learn how asking, answering, commenting, chatting and performing other activities in this site is related to ...
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Favorite Tag color coding on UX.Stackexchange
I have been using SO.SE for sometime now but recently started using UX.SE.
We have an option to set favorite tags and those tags appear marked in different color in the view and its easy to pick up ...
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Hide answers first?
Is there any way to hide other answers until you submit your own answer? I ask because a question I've put up for bounty seems to be stuck in a rut. All the answers are pretty much derivatives of the ...
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Where can I find a history/log of the featured questions?
If I've understood this correctly, then all the "bounty" questions are listed in the "featured" section. Right?
But once the bounty is awarded, then they disappear from that list.
Since many of ...
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Adding GraphicDesign.SE to suggestions list when flagging a post as off-topic
Today, the only site suggested as an alternative when flagging a post as off-topic is Meta UX. However, a very large share of off-topic questions should really go to graphic design (a distant second ...
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Newbies can't easily show appreciation for answers
I'm new to the UX community, but have been on other StackExchange sites. Not sure if this is the right Meta to post this to, but the "problem" is happening here, so here it goes.
I asked my first ...
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Optionally present images as thumbnails
This question relates to this Meta Stack Overflow question.
Could we provide a method (possibly optional) that shows embedded images first as a thumbnail or medium-sized image preview and then show ...
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Easier way to provide image credit/attribution
This is similar to this Meta Stack Overflow question, but I think it probably becomes more of an issue on UX.SE where questions naturally tend to benefit from a visual/graphical response.
While I ...
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Favorite icon VS Badge icon
I find the icons for badges too similar to the icon for favorite questions. I remember that this confused me when learning to find my way around the page and what the badge are.
Here is the favorite ...
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Any way to download bmml source when asking a question?
When asking or editing a question, I find that sometimes I will create a mockup using the Balsamiq UI creator.
The problem is that sometimes I would like to create a slightly different version of the ...
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Improve linking between “exact duplicate” questions
When a question is closed as an exact duplicate, the behaviour is not ideal at all. For reference, here's an example question I'll use.
Firstly, the closed message which describes why it was closed ...
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Use non-breaking spaces in timestamps to prevent awkward wrapping
The timestamp in the comments list (at least) can wrap awkwardly making it difficult to read:
Since the whole timestamp is always relatively short (i.e. three words), and once it wraps it already ...
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Rep count in meta.UX is not a link like on UX.SE
As reported by Ben Brocka on this issue, the rep count shown in the header in meta is not a link, whereas the same text is a link in the standard UX Stack Exchange.
I would expect the links in the ...
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Should we be able to embed Youtube videos?
I am suggesting that users of User Experience on StackExchange are allowed to use embedded video in questions and answers. User Experience is often a process of completing tasks, which sometimes is ...
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UXSE success rates
Couple questions:
Do we know if users are actually implementing answers/solutions they receive on UXSE?
Do we know if the answer/solution actually worked for them?
Should the users who provided the ...
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Escape 'Balsamiq text' from question teaser?
Questions on ux.stackexchange.com sometimes contain Balsamiq wireframes (often very helpful). Some of them are included at the beginning of the posting. Looking at these postings in the questions view ...
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Poor grammar choice on FAQ page
I noticed this section in the UX FAQ:
What makes a good question?
Prefer questions that elicit definitive answers or solutions rather
than prolonged discussions. Remember, this a Q&A ...
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Allow new users to post Mockups
Earlier today a new user wasn't able to share a mockup to improve their question. Since Mockups share the image restriction (requiring 10 rep) brand new users can't use the Mockup feature.
I think ...
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The font color of hyperlinks on ux meta is hard to read
The font color of hyperlinks, especially unvisited hyperlinks, on UX meta (yellow on a white background) is very hard to read. Maybe we could add more contrast?
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Dragging tags to favorite box doesn’t work
When I drag a tag on the questions page from the tag list to the input field Favorite Tags it breaks:
The tag usability is changed to httpux.stackexchange.comquestionstaggedusability.
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Changing the icon for Balsamiq on the toolbar?
I was just wondering if it would be possible to have a more descriptive icon for the Balsamiq feature offered by UX stackexchange. I have been on this site for a while and only today I found out about ...
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Down voting my own answer
I found that my answer for a question someone asked is inaccurate. I would like to down vote my answer, partly because its not a good answer and partly because I want to move it as low as possible in ...
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Make “Log in” link into a modal box?
I clear my browser cookies each day, and log into StackOverflow with my oAuth quite a lot. Something that would be simpler is if we had Login change from something where it's on it's own page into ...
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Reacting on the “This post does not cite any references or sources” notice box
There is a notice added to my answer that says:
This post does not cite any references or sources ...
But it does not say how to react on this. So I added sources now, but how do I inform the ...
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Move moderator comment banners?
I'm seeing a few answers with what appears to be a special comment appended, like here.
It strikes me that such a comment banner would be better placed between the answer and any following comments, ...
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UX.SE Site Doesn't Display Well In Network Chat Rooms
I'm referring to the 'onebox' that occurs when you post the URL of a stackexchange site into one of the chatrooms on the network. As most of these rooms have a light background, the UX onebox is ...
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Should we allow Community Wiki-type lists posts on the main site
Questions such as Gallery of Step1, Step2, Step3, … progress bar UIs for web apps? are posts requesting lists of examples of a certain type of technique being used 'out in the wild'. I feel these sort ...
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Questions related to UX Management
I know the UX stackexchange is focused more on the day to day, practical aspects of UX but I was wondering if we could add a tag for "management" to address questions like, how to manage teams, how to ...
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Proposal: Handcraft integration with UX.SE so members can easily add HTML mockups to answers
Lately I've been making HTML mockups for some of my answers. Here are two examples:
Interactive table - with many levels of information
How to make a 20-field online form more user friendly?
I've ...
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Should Accepting an answer not be available until a specific period of time has passed?
Recently several questions have had an answer accepted after only being open for a few hours and garnering only one or two responses. This is potentially stopping other relevant answers being left ...
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Can StackExchange license Balsamiq for mockups on UX.Stackexchange?
Who thinks it's a good idea for StackExchange to integrate with Balsamiq for UX.StackExchange? I do, and I'd be really happy if we had the ability to make mockups on UX for UX.
This is something for ...
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Make [desktop] a synonym of [desktop-application]
Having both seems a bit redundant, and the latter is used more, as well as being more meaningful (IMO).
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Vote to close options should include GD.SE and SO
You know, this thing:
The most common sites we migrate to are easily Graphic Design.stackexchange and Stack Overflow; could we get these included in the Off Topic options? Usually this is a result ...
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When can we elect moderators?
This site has now been in beta for 441 days. We've exceeded by far all of the target metrics required for launch (except questions per day -- but our questions tend to be more engaging and most are ...
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Can the list margin be increased?
I reformatted the list in this question Developing the news area for a website, with the aim of making the list a little easier to read (i.e. more obvious that it's a list). Upon completion of that ...
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How to encourage editing and extending and curating answers?
As I understand it, UX.SE is a site for collecting good answers to interesting questions, and less a site for rambling discussions in response to questions.
The "pick a best answer" mechanic drives ...
