Questions tagged [feature-request]
Indicates that you have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Do we want to push for the ability to search for content in spoilers?
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It is currently impossible to search for text inside of a spoiler. This is status-bydesign
because people might find spoilers in search by accident (which defeats the purpose ...
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Why does this question about the maximum number of visible cube faces have close votes?
I recently posted this puzzle on puzzling stack exchange and I just realized that there are 3 votes to close it.
Since I lack experience on this site, I don't understand the reason for this. ...
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Enabling updates to punctuation in Question titles
Update on March 20, 2025
These changes have now been made.
There is a standing request for customization of punctuation in Question titles on Puzzling SE. Partial customization is possible with the ...
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Remove ► from our site-specific line about spoilers in "How to Format"
The "How to Format" box previously used ► characters to imitate list formatting. So when we got a site-specific line about spoiler markup in 2016, it had ...
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Can we notify / warn answerers of ongoing contest questions
This puzzle https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/128822/specific-triangle-sides-in-a-grid is from the current USAMTS Round 2 https://www.usamts.org/contest/problems/ , deadline December 2, ...
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Filtering on Upvotes Needs to Be Fixed
Strange that when one filters on "no accepted answers", the added condition of "with no answers with upvotes" is automatically thrown in.
Let the user select his filter(s) instead ...
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Spoiler blocks do not function in inbox notification
It is very easy to get spoiled on an answer via the inbox. Example (don't click if you don't want to be spoiled on this question)
As you can see in the spoilered image, all the words after "...
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Would we want to allow ... or spaces before question marks at the end of titles?
As a question-quality measure, Stack Exchange automatically rewrites question titles which end with punctuation, following a couple of rules:
Multiple ? collapsed into one
Multiple . collapsed into ...
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Can we get a Stack Exchange addition to Markdown to allow inline spoilers?
There are lots of questions in the Puzzling Meta about coded comments, suggesting that there's a demand for spoiler blocks within comments. The spoiler block is already a Stack Exchange addition to ...
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Idea to Solve Question to Answer Upvote Disparity
Today I was given a link to an example of a good Affix riddle, and I agree that it is good. However, it was solved in 10 minutes, so maybe it is a bit easy?
But the puzzle's difficulty is not my point....
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Reduce minimum bounty offer for the second or later bounties on the same question
I recently offered a bounty on my first question, but it didn't receive much attention, nor had it received any answers. The option to offer/start another bounty is now gone (the link-like button now ...
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Would it be worth adding a matchstick framework?
Do you think it would be worth adding a matchstick framework so all matchstick puzzles look nice and the same? I had this idea when trying to put into puzzle my matchstick idea but could not find a ...
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Should/can we get more than 5 tags for questions?
Currently, everywhere on the SE network, communities are limited to 5 tags per question:
However, puzzles can meet many different tag criteria and as such, 5 doesn't always seem right. For example, I'...
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Spoilers in linked/related sidebar
Here is a situation where I avoid linking one of my questions to one of my answers, and the reason I give is:
But please do not link it, because then when someone looks at the puzzle, "Unsolved ...
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Request: Restriction to ask a new question for new users
There are some users who sign up for puzzling but they just ask a question (most probably from ongoing contest, or for spams, or unrelated questions to puzzling etc) and leave the page. Therefore I ...
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