Questions tagged [feature-request]
Indicates that you have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
218 questions
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upvote or thumbs up etc an edit
is there any way for the poster to provide appreciation to the folks that do a good job of editing posts to clean up formatting and other such issues. there have been several posts i had issues with ...
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Add the "Copy button for code blocks” feature on Server Fault
Stack Exchange has finally introduced a new copy button on SO (example), and we can request to have it available on other SE sites:
We can also enable this feature on other tech sites that use code ...
Score of -1
1 answer
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Simple Question: are homelab questions are on topic for Serverfault
I'm noticing that more and more questions related to some home lab environment are appearing.
As I understand the rules, this is not on topic. And for fun fact, it appears that no one has asked this ...
Score of -5
1 answer
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Answer to own questions
Can we please prevent that someone who asks a question can answer his own question?
A lot of workarounds get posted which are not ideal and may cause issues in the future
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Low effort questions with lack of basic troubleshooting
I have been active trying to help people here on serverfault and have been in IT for 15 years, and it's a problem on a lot of communities. But it would be great if we could provide feedback with ...
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Please make a better contrast between plain text and visited links
I touched on a link on the main site and it became darker. But I found it very similar to plain text. Some eyes really feel them the same.
In fact, the color of plain text is #0B0D0F and for the ...
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Why is the question about Nginx, MySQL and Wordpress is off-topic?
I have a question about my Server Fault post: Wordpress via 3 PHP versions
Is here a place I'm able to ask questions about servers' software?
I thought the questions about installing Wordpress and ...
Score of 6
3 answers
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Reduce bump activity of the Community Bot
Regularly half or more of the questions on the ServerFault front-page seem to be there only because they were bumped by the Community bot.
It's self claimed configuration is among others:
Randomly ...
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1 answer
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Privacy issue, links for sharing questions, answers contains user ID
please do not add user ID to the links given to users when they click to share the link to an answer (for example there: Slow ext4 fsck , yet i see that it does not happen in all sites/questions ). ...
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1 answer
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Edits shouldn't require a minimum number of characters changed
Just now I submitted an edit to an answer that only needed some extra command-line options. But I couldn't submit it as intended because it only added up to 4 characters changed, and the requirement (...
Score of 5
2 answers
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Please reinstate "must know what you are talking about" close reason
As already discussed here, I think there is a serious problem with people asking questions which are utterly and totally unanswerable because they don't have a clue about what they are doing.
Those ...
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1 answer
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Request adding Raspberry Pi stack to off topic site list
I'm going through the new posts which is not something I usually have a lot of time to do and I'm seeing multiple questions for networking on Raspberry Pi device. There is now a stack specifically for ...
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1 answer
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What do you do when you see an outdated question or answer?
ServerFault and a lot of other SE sites have been around for a decade or more, but technologies advance very rapidly.
I recently came across a ServerFault question with an answer which, although it ...
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1 answer
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How about creating a tag for Powershell JEA (Just Enough Administration)?
Thanks to this community, I just learned about Powershell JEA (Just Enough Administration). It's an interesting technology that seems to fit right in to this community. Any thoughts on the creation ...
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Rename and add tag synonym for [tag:windows-subsystem-linux] like the remaining stackexchange sites
As the global maximum tag length has been increased to 35 characters, now the tag windows-subsystem-linux should be renamed to windows-subsystem-for-linux (or similar) and act as a synonym to the ...