Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Can we enable MathJax on GDSE? (revisited)
This has been discussed before in math markdown on this site, but I'd like to have some fresh discussion of this matter. Circumstances have changed in the meantime. The discussion of 2011 seems to ...
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math markdown on this site [duplicate]
Can we have math markdown on this site (like on math.stackchange.com)? It will make answering some of the geometry questions easier
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Can we get a hyperlink style for chat that is less subtle?
I'm open to suggestions as far as whether we should change the color, underline links, or both, but as it is it's a little too subtle for less than perfect monitors and viewing angles.
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Can we automatically convert tabs to spaces when users input code?
Obviously this is personal preference when you're creating code on your own machine. However, since adding tabs to a text box is not (as far as I know) natively supported in most browsers. Three or ...
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Auto-deleting "offensive" comments is bullshit
In particular, I alluded to the Mike Acton presentation titled 'typical C++ bullshit'.
This is the actual title of the presentation. It is known among game industry professionals by this title. If ...
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Why doesn't "trusted user" apply to tag synonyms? Is this a bug?
I'm curious of anybody knows the rationale for excluding the tag synonym suggestion feature from the set of features trusted users are allowed to perform?
It seems particularly odd to me that, as a ...
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Wolfram Alpha Results in Chat (Possibly Q&A)
We were chatting about faster alternatives to sin(x) in chat and invariably a few equations started cropping up. A few links to Wolfram Alpha plots (example) were ...
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Adding Steam OpenID?
Just wondering if it's worth adding the Steam OpenID Login to the list, like on the Gaming SE?
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Should we enable Stack Snippets?
Stack Snippets are runnable JS/CSS/HTML codeblocks within the questions/answers that have recently been implemented on StackOverflow.
I don't know as there are enough HTML5 game development questions ...
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Feature Request : Tracking all the game development competition
What about having a new feature here in GameDevelopment that track all the upcoming and to-be-announced game developers event/jam/competitions.
A interactive horizontal bar at the bottom of the page ...
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Can we customize our maintenance page?
I guess this is more a question for the moderators or higher-ups in Stack Exchange...
There was some downtime a few minutes ago, so I was directed to this boring offline page. So then I moved on to ...
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Should we throttle Community bot bumps on GameDev.StackExchange?
StackExchange sites have a "Community" user bot that occasionally bumps questions under certain circumstances:
The question is open and not deleted
The question was not recently active
The ...
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Feature request: Grant chat privilege
It's been an issue for a while, brand new users who need help can't get it because their questions are off topic for the site, and they can't gain reputation because they're new to game dev (so find ...
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Link Colors for Visited and Non-Visited Links too Similar
I have been browsing gamedev for a while and at first noticed that the color differences between a clicked link and a non-clicked link were rather similar. I attributed this to my poor eyesight (...
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Is there a shorthand version for posting links to other questions in a comment?
I read the comment formatting help and there are several shorthand links available to refer to pages within the SE network.
Quite often I post links to related questions in a comment and this turns ...
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Can we have MathJax on gamedev.SE? [duplicate]
Other sites like math.SE, physics.SE and chemistry.SE already have it. We get enough questions about math that it would come in handy here as well, though probably not as often as on those sites.
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Gift reputation to users that need it to join chat
While I realize that for many users the chat is not a big part of the community but its really what keeps me engaged with the site and I think it would help keep other people (as in new users) here as ...
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What's the best way to add videos to questions?
Often, a video can be a great help to visualise a problem.
But on many questions, the person asking just links to someserver.sometld/somedir/somevideo.someEsotericFormat, which might not even be ...
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Preventing "Oh, I had flagged that already."
I flag lots, but forget what I've flagged. When I reflag a post I had already flagged, I get told so by a helpful yellow box.
Surely it's bad usability to only say so afterward! It would really save ...
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Could we add a google+1 button?
I noticed there was a facebook, a twitter, even a linkedln button to share a link towards a question, but there is no Google's +1 button. Admittedly, Google+ is quite young and could know the future ...
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Can we have syntax highlighting on meta?
The following code example on meta renders without any syntax highlighting, despite a syntax highlighting directive:
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Request for new shortcuts to the new help pages
So, we now have help instead of the FAQ. Not really a fan of the new layout, in my opinion it's harder to find info. Regardless, it would be nice to have some proper shortcuts to the specific pages of ...
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Can community moderators be given permission to enable software-enforced blacklisting of tags?
In the "useless tags" thread we've identified several tags that we'd like to avoid, such as design. However nothing prevents users from actually using those blacklisted tags, which creates something ...
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Can we have more visible question highlighting?
I find the faint yellow background given to "interesting" posts (those that have some of my favourite tags on them) a little too faint. Depending on my angle to the screen, I sometimes can't discern ...
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Glow is synonymous with bloom
15 questions on glow and 12 on bloom while they describe the same effect, only bloom has a tag-wiki description.
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The HTML canvas tag
Based on the description of the canvas tag ...
A new feature of HTML5, allowing Javascript apps to have a drawing surface in the browser.
...it should be used ...
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User-Experience tag
I recently saw the tags to this question, and I believe that 'experience' is an incorrect tag.
I think we need a 'user-experience' tag for this type of question as it is both game-design and user-...
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Let parallaxscrolling be dashy
Oh yes, I am going to meta-post about a one-punctuation-character-difference, because this is about dashes and I love dashes.
parallaxscrolling has 34 questions — parallax-scrolling none. All ...
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Proposal to remove the reputation barrier on chatting in user created chat rooms
As per usual, a few of us were in the chatroom talking about code dump questions, subjective questions, localized questions, and other general off topic questions trying to figure out what to do with ...
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A small idea to prevent new users from posting subjective questions
I don't usually hang around on meta, so not sure if this has been discussed before. But just a suggestion.
Seems to me one of the silliest, most frequent duffs that happens on gamedev (and SO as well)...
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A good answer exists but is not accepted
I have been trawling through this site for a while, and I often go to answer questions that already have a more than acceptable answer, only the person that asked the question either doesn't deem it a ...
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How to Cite Images
What is the recommended way of citing images? Have a look at this rather good answer - Kevin cites the image directly in the textual (as rendered) portion of the body, where I am more likely to do the ...
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Why can't we embed a video in a question or answer?
Or maybe we can and I just don't know how to do it? Sometimes it's easier to display a video of gameplay and since I understand you don't want code, why not just remove the possibility of putting code ...
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Should or shouldn't we introduce a format to ask about game-engine suitability?
This question is a follow-up to the question: Would questions about game-engine recommendations be on-topic, given they have clearly stated needs?
The help-centre states:
What topics can I ask ...
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Can anything be done to make the "unread items" icon more clear?
I've been comin' to gamedev since around when it started, and have been having a repeat experience:
I log onto the site after perhaps half a week to a week away.
I see a weird icon of a rectangle ...
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Why never any notification of moderator elections?
Perhaps my absence from meta is the issue here: I very rarely spend time on meta; what time I do spend on gamedev is devoted to teaching i.e. answering questions on the regular site.
I haven't once ...
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Who decides what questions to migrate and why?
We've gotten a couple questions (What sort of things can cause a whole system to appear to hang for 100s-1000s of milliseconds? for example, also Changing Palette for Day/Light Mode using GIMP) that I ...
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Flag chat room for notification of new messages
Moving extended conversations in comments into chat seems like a good idea. However, generally those types of chats are not real time. Additionally, users have to manually check the chat rooms to see ...
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Could we embed small games in the site theme?
Assuming we had the means and permission to go way beyond the SE norms, could we insert a functional 256x256 square, like so?
I'm not married to Tetris. But surely we could insert some google-...
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Too many how to start questions?
Well, lately I have been active on gamedev stackexchange one thing I noticed is that I come by a lot of how to start questions (almost daily). Unfortunately almost all of them are closed being off-...
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Why is there a minimum character limit when editing an answer?
I tried to edit an incorrect answer but my edit was rejected because it had TOO FEW CHARACTERS!
This is silly. If I'm fixing an equation from dy/dy to dy/dx, I shouldn't be forced to type nonsense ...
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Adding a tag for CocosSharp?
So I started to dig into game developing and I was wondering why there is no tag for CocosSharp (cocossharp) available, already?
Cocos2d has a variety of tags for ...
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Can we implement communication with voters?
I agree that votes should be kept anonymous. However, it would be nice to be able to notify voters of changes, particularly down-voters.
For example, say a new user posts a question that's ...
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user names in comments should not count toward the total characters
I can understand that there is a minimum number of characters (to prevent spam)
but at the same time I sometimes want to include a deal of information into my comments, and end up short by a few ...
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Can we get a cocos2d-x tag?
This port is growing by the days and a lot people unsure about it just uses cocos2d and cocos2d-iphone, whose implementation in essentially different.
I would create it but I'm still working my way ...
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Where can you view or query all your recent chat replies?
I don't know if this could an obvious suggestion which has already been taken into account or a totally stupid idea (or if it is already possible and I just could not find it) but several times I ...
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Should there be a migration path to Software Recommendations?
Given all the "which tech to use" questions this site seems to get, Software Recomendations looks like it might be a good place to migrate the "which tech" questions to (at least the "well defined" ...
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The reopen vote interface kind of sucks (so what could be done to improve that?)
I gauged whether to vote to reopen for this question, https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/posts/93321/revisions, but I realized I couldn't accurately determine if the OP had improved it or not.
I had ...
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Why don't we have LaTeX? [duplicate]
It is crucial to have LaTeX on this board, because we often need to talk about matrices and vectors e.g. while physics simulation. I think there are many themes like AI and other which require ...
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Shouldn't [audio] and [sound] be merged together?
I'm talking about sound and audio here.
sound has the following description:
Audio (heard) output of a game.
audio has this:
The audio component of a game, representing what the player will ...
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