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Sep 8, 2022 at 14:54 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 4.0
Comments can just disappear without a trace one day, better link to answer.
Jan 18, 2021 at 12:21 history edited CommunityBot
replaced http://stackexchange.com/ with https://stackexchange.com/
Jan 18, 2021 at 11:45 history edited CommunityBot
replaced http://blog.stackoverflow.com with https://blog.stackoverflow.com
Jun 4, 2020 at 12:42 history edited CommunityBot
Commonmark migration
Jun 21, 2019 at 12:26 history edited Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog CC BY-SA 4.0
added 219 characters in body
May 23, 2017 at 12:35 history edited CommunityBot
replaced http://stackoverflow.com/ with https://stackoverflow.com/
Mar 20, 2017 at 10:30 history edited CommunityBot
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
Mar 20, 2017 at 8:46 history edited CommunityBot
replaced http://meta.stackoverflow.com/ with https://meta.stackoverflow.com/
Aug 14, 2014 at 10:43 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
old change that skipped being documented
Aug 1, 2014 at 20:26 history edited gnat CC BY-SA 3.0
2013-09-06: Any approved edit on a closed question [will push the post into the reopen queue](http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/196078/165773)
Jul 6, 2014 at 18:35 history edited gnat CC BY-SA 3.0
2013-07-24: [Very Low Quality flags automatically add the flagged post to the Low Quality review queue](http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/190639
Jul 2, 2014 at 14:42 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
Better late than never, adding the suggested tags feature
May 22, 2014 at 18:21 history edited Mark Hurd CC BY-SA 3.0
shift tag links from overflow to exchange
Apr 24, 2014 at 13:41 history edited CommunityBot
Migration of MSO links to MSE links
Apr 22, 2014 at 17:47 history edited gnat CC BY-SA 3.0
2013-07-03: [Close review history made available to 10K users and mods](http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/184309/165773)...
Mar 13, 2014 at 14:38 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
Official SE apps are also kind of new feature
Dec 31, 2013 at 9:16 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
Finally, official response! :)
Dec 27, 2013 at 19:50 history edited VonC CC BY-SA 3.0
Dec. 23rd, 2013: no "Trigger Reputation Recalc" button anymore
Dec 23, 2013 at 16:20 history edited Duncan Jones CC BY-SA 3.0
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Dec 21, 2013 at 15:36 history edited Arjan CC BY-SA 3.0
2013-11-07 (or earlier): when calculating the Gravatar email hash for those who do not have a Gravatar account, in some cases now a salt is used.
Dec 21, 2013 at 8:59 history edited Arjan CC BY-SA 3.0
Maybe implemented earlier: 2013-12-20: Personal data is now marked private when viewing one's own profile.
Dec 21, 2013 at 8:54 history edited Arjan CC BY-SA 3.0
Maybe implemented earlier: 2013-12-20: Personal data is now marked private when viewing one's own profile.
Dec 4, 2013 at 21:08 history edited laalto CC BY-SA 3.0
added new top bar rollout
Dec 4, 2013 at 15:07 history edited gnat CC BY-SA 3.0
removed += http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/209906/eeeek-hot-network-questions-killed-recent-tags-and-recent-badges
Dec 4, 2013 at 14:45 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
Adding information
Dec 4, 2013 at 14:30 history edited gnat CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2013-12-03: New [Hot Questions sidebar](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/209775/extend-the-new-hot-questions-sidebar) has been introduced.
Dec 4, 2013 at 7:54 history edited gnat CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2013-12-03: [Direct linking to a filtered /review queue](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/209777/165773) is now available.
Dec 3, 2013 at 23:12 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
Tool removed.
Nov 27, 2013 at 16:34 history edited ale CC BY-SA 3.0
added "delete votes remaining" feature
Nov 27, 2013 at 11:24 history edited gnat CC BY-SA 3.0
2013-11-14: [The new top bar (beta) is out on Meta Stack Overflow.](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/207420/165773)
Nov 27, 2013 at 10:34 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
"add comment" is now always visible
Oct 8, 2013 at 12:55 history edited ale CC BY-SA 3.0
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Oct 7, 2013 at 15:23 history edited ale CC BY-SA 3.0
added post-block
Sep 25, 2013 at 14:35 history edited Grace NoteStaffMod CC BY-SA 3.0
Here we go~
Sep 18, 2013 at 14:41 history edited Niall C. CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sep 17, 2013 at 23:36 history rollback Shog9
Rollback to Revision 80
Sep 17, 2013 at 23:24 history edited hjpotter92 CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sep 11, 2013 at 9:47 history edited slhck CC BY-SA 3.0
you can obv still flag as VLQ? not sure
Sep 11, 2013 at 6:24 history edited slhck CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sep 6, 2013 at 11:18 history edited Matt CC BY-SA 3.0
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/196026/nobody-in-my-community-has-the-power-to-re-open-a-question#comment618477_196026
Sep 3, 2013 at 12:01 history rollback Shadow Wizard
Rollback to Revision 75
Sep 3, 2013 at 11:56 history edited Flow CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sep 2, 2013 at 13:09 history edited gnat CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2013-05-31: [Collaborative effort lock](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/182572/165773) experimental feature introduced for questions where the primary value arises from the community's regular efforts to keep them updated via edits.
Aug 14, 2013 at 10:03 history edited Jehof CC BY-SA 3.0
added link to meta post to see own recent deleted posts
Aug 14, 2013 at 6:50 history edited Himanshu CC BY-SA 3.0
"recently" is required. Because older deleted Q&A are not listed there.
Aug 12, 2013 at 12:04 history edited fedorqui 'SO stop harming' CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 5, 2013 at 20:32 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
Found that links are suddenly parsed, they weren't before.
Aug 5, 2013 at 20:16 history edited Grace NoteStaffMod CC BY-SA 3.0
Technically it's not until the build gets pushed but that should still happen within the day.
Jul 29, 2013 at 15:45 history edited fedorqui 'SO stop harming' CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jul 26, 2013 at 17:12 history edited slhck CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jul 26, 2013 at 16:59 history edited gnat CC BY-SA 3.0
2013-07-26: The reputation requirement to access the First Posts and Late Answers queue was bumped up to [fill the empty 500 reputation privilege](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/186373/propose-a-privilege-to-sit-in-the-500-reputation-mark)
Jul 24, 2013 at 8:34 history edited Arjan CC BY-SA 3.0
2013-06-26: The question and answer ban messages now link to the help center, and the help center pages no longer link to What can I do when getting “Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account”?
Jul 19, 2013 at 14:43 history edited ale CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jul 19, 2013 at 14:04 history edited ale CC BY-SA 3.0
added hint text for comments
Jul 15, 2013 at 21:15 history edited Arjan CC BY-SA 3.0
2013-07-15: Close votes can now be retracted.
Jul 15, 2013 at 8:17 history edited slhck CC BY-SA 3.0
edited body
Jul 15, 2013 at 8:07 history edited Double AA CC BY-SA 3.0
comment flags now detailed in flag history
Jul 14, 2013 at 18:54 history edited Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' CC BY-SA 3.0
range search is not new (thanks Arjan)
Jul 14, 2013 at 17:35 history edited Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' CC BY-SA 3.0
new search option for maximum score
Jul 6, 2013 at 21:55 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
linking to post, not comment
Jul 6, 2013 at 20:02 history edited slhck CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jul 5, 2013 at 13:35 history edited Yi Jiang CC BY-SA 3.0
New privilege page design
Jul 3, 2013 at 17:34 history edited msh210 CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jul 3, 2013 at 12:20 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
close flags no longer handled by moderators
Jun 25, 2013 at 23:21 history edited gnat CC BY-SA 3.0
2013-06-26: [Flagging limits changes](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/185890/165773)
Jun 25, 2013 at 22:52 history edited gnat CC BY-SA 3.0
2013-06-26: [Closing changes: [on hold], unclear, too broad, opinion-based, off-topic reasons, bye-bye to Too Localized](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/184154/165773), rolled out network-wide...
Jun 19, 2013 at 9:23 history edited Himanshu CC BY-SA 3.0
Added reference.
Jun 19, 2013 at 7:34 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jun 18, 2013 at 0:19 history edited Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jun 5, 2013 at 6:34 history edited hjpotter92 CC BY-SA 3.0
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May 28, 2013 at 13:59 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
Long time request, don't know exact time when it got implemented though.
May 23, 2013 at 5:50 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
New exciting change in edit timestamp :)
May 20, 2013 at 11:42 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
Newest changes first
May 20, 2013 at 11:17 history edited Jeremy CC BY-SA 3.0
[Edit removed during grace period]; added 163 characters in body
May 14, 2013 at 9:51 history edited AakashM CC BY-SA 3.0
added changes to treatment of deleted content
May 8, 2013 at 10:35 history edited hjpotter92 CC BY-SA 3.0
added 133 characters in body
Apr 25, 2013 at 18:58 history edited slhck CC BY-SA 3.0
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Apr 2, 2013 at 13:00 history edited JonW CC BY-SA 3.0
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Apr 2, 2013 at 12:56 history edited Manishearth CC BY-SA 3.0
added 132 characters in body
Apr 1, 2013 at 15:23 history rollback Manishearth
Rollback to Revision 34
Apr 1, 2013 at 9:47 history edited Manishearth CC BY-SA 3.0
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Apr 1, 2013 at 9:37 history edited Manishearth CC BY-SA 3.0
added 107 characters in body
Apr 1, 2013 at 8:34 history edited Manishearth CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 31, 2013 at 8:22 history edited slhck CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 29, 2013 at 12:13 history edited slhck CC BY-SA 3.0
added 39 characters in body
Mar 29, 2013 at 11:28 history edited hjpotter92 CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 27, 2013 at 19:12 history edited bwDraco CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 21, 2013 at 2:21 history edited Jeremy CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 19, 2013 at 8:19 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
new "delete" link for comments on mobile
Mar 15, 2013 at 7:59 history edited ben is uǝq backwards CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 14, 2013 at 20:40 history edited Kirk Woll CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 14, 2013 at 14:31 history edited ale CC BY-SA 3.0
there was a change to how close votes are presented
Feb 25, 2013 at 8:31 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
Tab auto complete showing by itself when non ASCII letters are used
Feb 23, 2013 at 18:06 history edited Arjan CC BY-SA 3.0
New image upload.
Feb 20, 2013 at 11:44 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
New magic link!
Feb 18, 2013 at 22:02 history edited This_is_NOT_a_forum CC BY-SA 3.0
Some copy editing.
Feb 18, 2013 at 14:43 history rollback Zelda
Rollback to Revision 19
Feb 18, 2013 at 14:19 history edited Zelda CC BY-SA 3.0
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Feb 18, 2013 at 11:32 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
Yet another change in the close as dupe mechanism
Feb 12, 2013 at 15:17 history edited Manishearth CC BY-SA 3.0
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Feb 6, 2013 at 10:14 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
found out more about the new "close as duplicate" changes.
Feb 6, 2013 at 8:40 history edited Shadow Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
Text for duplicate questions has been changed
Feb 6, 2013 at 3:07 history edited John Saunders CC BY-SA 3.0
Proper date order
Feb 6, 2013 at 2:27 history edited Manishearth CC BY-SA 3.0
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Feb 2, 2013 at 2:39 history edited Mechanical snail CC BY-SA 3.0
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Feb 2, 2013 at 0:33 history edited Jeremy CC BY-SA 3.0
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Feb 2, 2013 at 0:21 history edited Jeremy CC BY-SA 3.0
modified duplicate behaviour
Jan 29, 2013 at 7:00 history edited gnat CC BY-SA 3.0
2013-01-29: Automatic review suspension has been introduced. We're kicking blatant abusers out of the queues automatically now.
Jan 27, 2013 at 14:27 history edited slhck CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jan 27, 2013 at 9:45 history edited Arjan CC BY-SA 3.0
Made link inline, ready for future copy & paste
Jan 27, 2013 at 9:38 history edited Yi Jiang CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jan 22, 2013 at 21:49 history edited Jeremy CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jan 22, 2013 at 21:35 history edited Arjan CC BY-SA 3.0
Added reference
Jan 22, 2013 at 20:43 history edited ЯegDwight CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jan 10, 2013 at 10:00 history edited tombull89 CC BY-SA 3.0
added info about gravatar alternative
Jan 10, 2013 at 7:19 history edited gnat CC BY-SA 3.0
2013-01-10: If *you* voted to close a post, and it hasn't been edited since the time it was closed, [then you won't see that post in the Reopen Queue](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/163173/165773).
Jan 6, 2013 at 20:27 vote accept CommunityBot
Jan 13, 2014 at 8:46
S Jan 5, 2013 at 5:34 history answered Mechanical snail CC BY-SA 3.0
S Jan 5, 2013 at 5:34 history made wiki Post Made Community Wiki by Mechanical snail
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