Questions tagged [feature-request]
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Arduino.SE is now a full site. Should we add a migration path to it?
Arduino.SE is now a full site after graduating out of beta. This means that it's already eligible for migration paths across the SE network.
Should we add a migration path to it?
IMHO it makes ...
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Project deposit feature
After asking a question on EE forum concerning an aspect of my home project, I figure out that some peoples were interested by what I am planning to do. And maybe those people want to follow the ...
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I want to vote on questions in the Close Votes review queue
Sometimes I would like to vote on a question while reviewing close votes.
I can already edit the question and add a comment from the same page. Is there a particular reason for the vote functionality ...
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Which flag to use for no attempt on homework question?
I saw several question about homework with absolutely no proof of attempt these days. I wonder if these question deserve a flag? If yes, which one? None of the actual flag fit for this need.
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Circuitlab scematic editor: touch screen devices not supported message even though it used to work
I used to be able to use the circuitlab schematic editor until perhaps a month ago (I could be way off) on an Android tablet.
Why the regression? It used to work fine. I've noticed that going ...
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"This suggestion still needs 1 approve vote from other reviewers." Why? I have enough rep to force the edit myself!
Sometimes when browsing questions I see one with an edit request. It looks a bit like this:
share edit(1) close flag
Clicking on that ...
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Documentation tab like stackoverflow
Stackoverflow developers created a very useful page that leads to tutorials in many disciplines, each with various topics.
We could significantly benefit from this feature
Disciplines here could ...
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Can we have a mifare tag?
We have quite a few questions with this, https://electronics.stackexchange.com/search?q=mifare+is%3Aq, it's a particular technology people are free to fool around and with a wide professional impact,
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Points for the first and second answerer
How would it be if the first and second user who answers a question would gain reputation for being one of the first volunteers?
Why implement this feature?
It can be a reward for loyal people,for ...
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Reputation expenditure in reviews
As a new reviewer and trying to be a good citizen I am seeing numerous first answers to old questions which are low quality and in some cases blatant trolling.
The ideal way to deal with this would ...
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Closing an off topic question, appropriate alternative sites not present on radio buttons [duplicate]
Electronics seems to get used as a general point of first query, getting used for questions that should be on physics, the original software stackOverflow, or increasingly these days, Arduino.
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Please add \( \) to delimiters for inline MathJax
(see also Inline LaTeX doesn't seem to work)
I see that this site uses the nonstandard \$ delimiters to MathJax rather than ...
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Private Messages
As far as I can tell there is no private message feature between members here. I understand that, being a basic Q&A site, PMs are hardly necessary but nonetheless it could be useful for personal ...
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What is the preferred method of letting a user know their link has 404'd?
Leon has an answer to Identifying Capacitors which includes a dead link to http://www.amqrp.org/kits/elsie/. What is the best way to let him know the link is dead? I checked his profile but saw no way ...
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Feature Request: Notifications for question answers
I often come across interesting new questions which don't have any answers yet. To further my knowledge, I would like to revisit these questions when they do have answers.
I would absolutely love it ...
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Wasting a tag to properly format code
I just added a "c" tag to make sure the code blocks are properly shown.
STM32 Sleep Mode: Interrupt gets executed but the CPU stays in WFI. In this case, there was plenty of room for tags, but in ...
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Close as duplicate *after* I voted to close before question was edited
I'm aware the title is rather unclear. Couldn't manage to formulate it correctly.
I actually found this question:
Half Bridge with dual powre supply and two N-channel Mosfets?
is similar to this ...
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Feature-request- Some user-selectable categories for better filter, as-well stack-overflow
This website, evaluates question only on the basis-of public-votes, where the asker do-not have any right to put any evaluation to own question. But there is need for judging the question also from ...
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Feature request for uploading small-sized sound and movie file, and SVG format still image files
I keep a request for uploading sound files (wma, amr, mp3, midi etc). animation-file in gif format is being already allowed (and helpful) , but some-other sorts of video files (video recording files) ...
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How to adjust image size in stack post?
If a good-quality image uploaded, it fully expands throughout screen, and interferes reading. Where-as , if I upload a highly compressed version of the image, to fit the size, the necessary details ...
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Proposed New rules regarding new users?
I have been observing this for 3 days now. You will find tons of new members who ask silly, already answered, homework kinds of question. They either do not take the pain of going through the FAQ or ...
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Can I upload or post a pic of a circuit or schematic to a question
How do I add a picture of my circuit or schematic to my question?
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Unanswered tab always contains the same questions
I usually gravitate to the 'unanswered' section, but I find that there are always some old questions laying around that no one is ever going to answer. Some of these are a couple of weeks old, some ...
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CircuitLab touch capability?
Since I've only accessed SE from my mobile devices for the last month now, I've begun noticing some interesting erm "characteristics" of the CircuitLab links on this site.
If browsing with "Request ...
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Should it be possible to suspend a question **Pending a diagram**
There are any number of questions asked where the description, or the formula, is still totally unclear without a diagram. For instance what's the impedance of an RLC circuit? Well OK, what ...
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Problems with new users
There are a lot of people with less than 10 experience or have posted less than 10 times that create problems for the community. Some of these problems can be seen in these posts.
Attitude towards ...
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"Answer In Progress..." indicator?
Answering EE questions isn't simple. Quite literally, it can be rocket science (or the math thereof.) So it should come as no surprise that often we find ourselves typing away at the bottom of a long-...
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Add "reviewed" button to questions
Nick's call to clear the review queue pointed out a hole in how the system works.
I consider myself a active user. I look at the questions sorted by recent activity, then enter those that seem to be ...
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Circuit editor functionality - current scope
In the circuit editor when you do a time domain simulation you can only look at voltage. In traditional spice packages, its common to be able look at currents also. Usually this is done by ...
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Can additional symbols be added to the circuit button?
If there is a way to add more symbols in the circuit editor, I think a motor symbol would be appropriate. There may be additional symbols people would want. Is this possible? Is it difficult?
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CircuitLab schematic integration: we still get huge diagrams after 3 years, any news or workarounds?
When embedding a CircuitLab schematic the schematic is scaled to a constant width regardless of the complexity of the diagram. This causes questions and answers with multiple schematics to become ...
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Adding a 2016 engineers survey to the sidebar
StackOverflow has a "2016 Developer Survey" going on right now host by surveymonkey. It is full of various questions that relate to daily life as a programmer or whoever is visiting StackOverflow.
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why are there no tags for Analog-to-Digital Conversion, Digital-to-Analog Conversion, and maybe Zero-order hold?
and also abbreviated tags for ADC, DAC, and ZOH.
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Fighting exam fraud
Every so often there is a clear example of exam fraud on EE.SE, where a picture of a problem is posted from an easily disposable account (low rep, fake name) and often a message along the lines of "...
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CircuitLab + IE
Ok, so CircuitLab - the thing that we draw the circuits in for EE.SE posts - works perfectly well on IE11, and to be honest probably on other versions as well.
So can you please remove the really ...
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Link to Hardware Recommendation Site?
It's always been a pain to vote to close a question just because it was asking for a recommendation for a specific part or type of part, and not be able to give the OP an alternative.
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Questions on torque calculation - on topic or not?
There are a few questions around which concern torque calculations for different applications. I was wondering if those questions are actually on topic for EE as it is mainly a mechanical problem to ...
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Why some SE sites measure impact and others like Electrical Engineering don't? [duplicate]
I'm seeing two types of SE websites. I noticed that some SE sites measure "impact" in the activity tab such as Stack Overflow, Mathematics, while others such as Electrical Engineering, Physics don't ...
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New User profile page? [duplicate]
Some of the other Stacks have a newer looking Profile page, with changes and new features. Is EE slated for this or does it need to be requested? Will/Can it be implemented here?
From Profile Page ...
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Incomplete profile
Trying to give the best answer to a people's question, I spend most of the time to choose at what level should be this answer usefull for this specific people.
What I'm doing frequently is to refer ...
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Searching your own posts by username
I know that you can limit searches to just your own posts by typing:
user:usernumber
in the Search box, e,g, "user:1322 fpga" (since I am usernumber 1322) to ...
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Code to represent circuits
I'm not happy uploading screenshots everytime I have a question about a circuit. Besides that, SE itself does not host the images used in the posts, which might lead to broken links in the future.
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Can I know who up/down votes my answers/comments?
Can I know who up/down votes my answers/comments? If yes, how to check it? If no, could you make it possible?
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bounty period ended, but not ready to award yet.. help?
My op-amp question is generating some excellent discussion but none of the answers are what I'm looking for yet. I feel that once we can get this resolved it will provide an excellent resource for ...
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Why EE.SE is not using new user-page?
I have seen many stack exchange sites have modified their user-page and started using the new user-page. Why EE.SE isn't?
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Option to make uploaded image into a link to itself
On this site we often have images of schematics or PCBs etc. that are relatively high in resolution. Using the standard way of embedding an image in the post reduces the image size to something that ...
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Feature request - auto suggest addition of schematic to OP when not included [duplicate]
I hope this won't be received badly.
I was wondering if a feature for the questions pertaining to circuit problems and debugging.
What I noticed is a lot of questions asking for help with a circuit ...
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Adding a flag for homework problems
I've noticed quite a few homework problems being posted on EE.SE which makes sense since the semester is just beginning.
Its known that these are off-topic, as in we just don't answer them. I'm ...
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Is it possible to generate line breaks in comments?
I've noticed that some formatting is allowed in comments here, like using MathJaX to intersperse spaces and equations in the comment text, but I haven't found a way to generate line breaks; more ...
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Can we have comment templates?
This question is inspired from this post: Text building blocks in TeX.SX.
Can EE.SE have similar comment templates?
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