Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Do we want Code Syntax Highlighting?
We've had more questions lately in which people asked about specific code from various Bitcoin-related codebases. I've also been approached by a developer who requested that we get Code Syntax ...
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Is it possible to get a chosen answer changed?
There's a question that was asked 4 years ago - this one - Can I cancel a transaction that has not been successfully broadcast yet?
The thing is, the chosen answer doesn't work well - as the comments ...
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Should MathJax be enabled on cryptocurrency sites?
Even Code Review, Game Development, furthermore, World Building has MathJax "Latex rendering". I believe it'd be really useful if it was enabled on Bitcoin SE.
For the full list: https://meta....
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Auto tweeting activity
Was I wrong that I saw a banner/notice somewhere for a user to setup auto-tweeting of their activity on Bitcoin.SE to their Twiter account?
Where can this be setup (or was I seeing this on another ...
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Canned responses
Any chance of starting a discussion about the possibility of SE having canned responses for comments?
I often find myself typing the same resposes, e.g:
Welcome to Bitcoin.SE! You can help the ...
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Option to migrate to Ethereum SE, Monero SE and IOTA SE
Lots of questions belong to these subs. It'd allow these questions to be answered.
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Community Wiki for Bitcoin
I noticed that on some popular stack exchange sites there are community wikis such as StackOverflow and Unix StackExchange.
Since we've graduated from beta, do we also get to start a community wiki?
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Add "future market values" to close reason
Currently one of the close reasons reads:
Questions on current market values, energy costs or service provider availability are off-topic as the answers are changing too frequently to be useful to ...
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Any plans for bitcoin documentation?
I am new to this site and wanted to get some knowledge about bitcoins and was wondering if there is any plan for a wiki for this website? just like there is one on stackoverflow.
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Questions that should be directed to customer service of service providers should be off topic
Questions like these:
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/45969/lost-my-blockchain-wallet-id-and-my-email-account-has-been-hacked-i-do-not-have
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/...
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How can we clearly say what is or is not a question?
I think we can all agree that just adding a question mark to the end of this (and the post it refers to) does not make it a question:
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/40424/shameless-...
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How come I can't put math equations in my questions or answers?
Compare the same question on Bitcoin with the one on Cryptography
I think the second one is much clearer. How do various stackexchange sites decide on this and how does it get turned on?
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Prerequisite readings for users
I don't understand half the questions of the site. There seems to be
a certain level of affluence by the participants of bitcoin.
Probably the community doesn't want novel, advanced questions to be ...
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We should have a new "subjective/argumentative" post notice
While there are some questions on Bitcoin.SE that have objective answers, a lot of our questions are more subjective than that. In the early days of this SE they were met with close votes, yet, I do ...
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How could our "Off-Topic close reasons" be improved? What would be another useful one?
We currently have three Off-Topic Close Reasons:
This question does not appear to be about Bitcoin within the scope defined in the help center. (Default Off-Topic Close Reason)
Questions on current ...
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Implementing LaTeX?
Quite often, I find the need to include mathematical expressions, and currently it is very awkward to typeset them. (I typically use fixed-width mode for that since is looks a bit better.) Could we ...
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Why is it bitcoin.SE instead of cryptocurrencies.SE
With all of the altcoin rage and the random loss/gain of trust in bitcoin recently, why is this stackexchange named "bitcoin" instead of "cryptocurrencies"? I mean, it seems like most of the question ...
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Could we implement a spam filter?
We've been seeing a lot of spam like this lately. I've been flagging all of them, but it's still annoying to see them on the front page. Is there some way to put in regex filters to combat this sort ...
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Suggestion to change the FAQ
In our FAQ it is clearly says that this site is not about politics. I just created a suggestion to open a site just for that.
Will it be rude for me to ask you to mention this site in the FAQ, as ...
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localbitcoins Tag for LocalBitcoins.com
My suggestion is to create a tag called 'Localbitcoins' or 'Localbitcoins.com' for users with questions about the Local Bitcoins website. This could potentially conflict with the local tag, however I ...
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This site should be renamed
Given that questions about Ripple and other crypto-currencies are considered on-topic: Should this SE also cover questions about Ripple?
I think this site should be renamed to something like "Crypto-...
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"Bitcoins.stackexchange.com" should redirect to "bitcoin.stackexchange.com"
I just made this typo, and I'm sure other people do too. What do you all think about adding "bitcoins.stackexchange.com" as an alias to "bitcoin.stackexchange.com"?
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Can we create the tag bitcoinjs?
The system refused to let me create it, because bitcoinj already exists. These are two distinct libraries.
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Code Syntax Highlighting - Is Code In-Scope For Bitcoin.SE?
Stéphane Gimenez asked this question earlier today and it would make sense to me if the code syntax highlighting option were enabled for Bitcoin.SE. Granted we're nowhere near SO levels of code-...
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Can we have question migration to other stack exchanges?
I would like to be able to vote to close a question to Crypto SE or Money SE.
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How can this site support questions in foreign languages?
Here is an example of someone asking a question in a foreign language, and the difficulty that arises.
Could speculation some day rise bitcoin to the moon?
How can this site support others in ...
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How to review questions with votes to close?
Is there a way to see all questions that currently have votes to close by someone? Seems like it would be useful to have community members be able to look through any questions with close votes all at ...
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Can we remove "based on actual problems that you face. " from the FAQ?
The FAQ contains this sentence:
You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual
problems that you face.
I think a lot if not most of the questions right now don't fit this ...
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