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When I first get the 'new' tab, it shows the list of questions, and the ones with my favorite tags highlighted as usual. I then pick filter 'favorite tags' and get the following:

This seems counter-intuitive. What is the 'favorite tags' filter supposed to achieve?

I then clicked on 'need answer', and did the filter and it worked just fine. I then went back to 'new' and it no longer showed the filter. It showed a 'show' and 'sort' filter. The show filter was on 'recommended'. I then clicked on it an chose 'all', and it immediately changed the choices to 'filter', 'show' and 'sort'. I keep repeating this cycle, so it's repeatable. Here's my loop without touching the filter option (just tabs):

new: - http://stackoverflow.com/?show=all&layout=expanded,
then hit 'need answer'
need answer: - http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=needanswer&layout=expanded,
then hit 'new'
new: - http://stackoverflow.com/?layout=expanded,
then hit filter tag 'recommended' and go back to first new:

When I first get the 'new' tab, it shows the list of questions, and the ones with my favorite tags highlighted as usual. I then pick filter 'favorite tags' and get the following:

This seems counter-intuitive. What is the 'favorite tags' filter supposed to achieve?

I then clicked on 'need answer', and did the filter and it worked just fine. I then went back to 'new' and it no longer showed the filter. It showed a 'show' and 'sort' filter. The show filter was on 'recommended'. I then clicked on it an chose 'all', and it immediately changed the choices to 'filter', 'show' and 'sort'. I keep repeating this cycle, so it's repeatable. Here's my loop without touching the filter option (just tabs):

new: - https://stackoverflow.com/?show=all&layout=expanded,
then hit 'need answer'
need answer: - https://stackoverflow.com/?tab=needanswer&layout=expanded,
then hit 'new'
new: - https://stackoverflow.com/?layout=expanded,
then hit filter tag 'recommended' and go back to first new:

When I first get the 'new' tab, it shows the list of questions, and the ones with my favorite tags highlighted as usual. I then pick filter 'favorite tags' and get the following:

That's a miss

Sorry, that filter combination has no results.

Please try different criteria.

This seems counter-intuitive. What is the 'favorite tags' filter supposed to achieve?

I then clicked on 'need answer', and did the filter and it worked just fine. I then went back to 'new' and it no longer showed the filter. It showed a 'show' and 'sort' filter. The show filter was on 'recommended'. I then clicked on it an chose 'all', and it immediately changed the choices to 'filter', 'show' and 'sort'. I keep repeating this cycle, so it's repeatable. Here's my loop without touching the filter option (just tabs):

new: - http://stackoverflow.com/?show=all&layout=expanded, then hit 'need answer'
need answer: - http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=needanswer&layout=expanded, then hit 'new'
new: - http://stackoverflow.com/?layout=expanded,
then hit filter tag 'recommended' and go back to first new:

When I first get the 'new' tab, it shows the list of questions, and the ones with my favorite tags highlighted as usual. I then pick filter 'favorite tags' and get the following:

This seems counter-intuitive. What is the 'favorite tags' filter supposed to achieve?

I then clicked on 'need answer', and did the filter and it worked just fine. I then went back to 'new' and it no longer showed the filter. It showed a 'show' and 'sort' filter. The show filter was on 'recommended'. I then clicked on it an chose 'all', and it immediately changed the choices to 'filter', 'show' and 'sort'. I keep repeating this cycle, so it's repeatable. Here's my loop without touching the filter option (just tabs):

new: - http://stackoverflow.com/?show=all&layout=expanded,
then hit 'need answer'
need answer: - http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=needanswer&layout=expanded,
then hit 'new'
new: - http://stackoverflow.com/?layout=expanded,
then hit filter tag 'recommended' and go back to first new:

When I first get the 'new' tab, it shows the list of questions, and the ones with my favorite tags highlighted as usual. I then pick filter 'favorite tags' and get the following:

That's a miss

Sorry, that filter combination has no results.

Please try different criteria.

This seems counter-intuitive. What is the 'favorite tags' filter supposed to achieve?

I then clicked on 'need answer', and did the filter and it worked just fine. I then went back to 'new' and it no longer showed the filter. It showed a 'show' and 'sort' filter. The show filter was on 'recommended'. I then clicked on it an chose 'all', and it immediately changed the choices to 'filter', 'show' and 'sort'. I keep repeating this cycle, so it's repeatable.

When I first get the 'new' tab, it shows the list of questions, and the ones with my favorite tags highlighted as usual. I then pick filter 'favorite tags' and get the following:

That's a miss

Sorry, that filter combination has no results.

Please try different criteria.

This seems counter-intuitive. What is the 'favorite tags' filter supposed to achieve?

I then clicked on 'need answer', and did the filter and it worked just fine. I then went back to 'new' and it no longer showed the filter. It showed a 'show' and 'sort' filter. The show filter was on 'recommended'. I then clicked on it an chose 'all', and it immediately changed the choices to 'filter', 'show' and 'sort'. I keep repeating this cycle, so it's repeatable. Here's my loop without touching the filter option (just tabs):

new: - http://stackoverflow.com/?show=all&layout=expanded, then hit 'need answer'
need answer: - http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=needanswer&layout=expanded, then hit 'new'
new: - http://stackoverflow.com/?layout=expanded,
then hit filter tag 'recommended' and go back to first new: