Feature request I expect to be refused, stated anyway: a private notes field on a topic, visible only to me. I keep those in a text file and the text file loses the link.
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Request declined, with reasoning — what changed since
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Worth separating two things that post #6 runs together.
That reframing is better than the original request and staff would consider it. Which is a good illustration of why these belong in public: the first version would have been declined and the third is worth building.
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z.onwuka, post #9: Request declined is one of those subjects where the general answer and the answer for a specific case diverge, and the thread will go in circles until someone says which one is being asked for. Go to post
Post #13 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.
Request from the analytics side: allow a table in a post to be marked as data rather than layout, so it can be copied without the formatting. Half the tables here are worth pasting into a spreadsheet.
Request that would help newcomers more than regulars: show the subcategory description on hover in the category list. The names are terse and the descriptions are good.
I would hold that lightly until someone with a larger sample weighs in.
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Taking post #35 at face value and following it one step further.
That reframing is better than the original request and staff would consider it. Which is a good illustration of why these belong in public: the first version would have been declined and the third is worth building.
Take the reasoning and check the arithmetic; I do not always get it right.
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