Timeline for Some changes to the profile while we make it responsive
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| Nov 3, 2021 at 16:09 | comment | added | rydwolf | @AaronShekey Hooray! This is exactly most of us wanted, I think. Thank you!!! | |
| Nov 3, 2021 at 14:30 | history | edited | blackgreen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2021 at 14:17 | comment | added | Aaron Shekey StaffMod | We've restored a less granular version of the "Last seen". In its original granularity of seconds, "last seen" was a potential vector for abuse. When discussing with our trust & safety team, we determined that knowing someone used the site within a week is plenty of granularity and should satisfy existing use cases. Now public users can see if the user has participated this week, more than a week ago, more than a month ago, and more than x years ago. | |
| Nov 3, 2021 at 14:15 | history | edited | Aaron ShekeyStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 9, 2021 at 19:17 | comment | added | jrh | Also for "last seen", sometimes I used to like to look at a post from years ago and see if the poster is still around. There's no real purpose to it, other than curiosity over whether that particular user is a lurker 99.99999% of the time, like me. | |
| Sep 6, 2021 at 6:31 | history | bounty ended | Alex K | ||
| Aug 13, 2021 at 17:26 | comment | added | jrh | If I see a user that posted something 10 years ago and never came back I'm more likely to try a more risky suggested edit, because 'deviates from author's intent' is mostly theoretical and asking nicely probably won't work. If I see a user who is very active, maybe they will accept a safer edit after some comments back and forth and I'm not as reliant on random reviewers who might not know anything about the topic. It's not a guarantee but it's another bit of information to add to the suggested edit 'meta-game'; there probably shouldn't be a 'meta-game' but it's just part of the platform | |
| Aug 12, 2021 at 18:21 | comment | added | Gerold Broser | Re "at least the OP is likely to see the answer is an incentive to add one." – If I think of adding an answer I also think of all the potential future readers/seekers, potentially years (decades?) from now on, not just the OP. | |
| Aug 10, 2021 at 19:12 | history | edited | blackgreen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 10, 2021 at 19:10 | comment | added | blackgreen | @AaronShekey thanks, that's only half of the work though | |
| Aug 10, 2021 at 18:55 | comment | added | Aaron Shekey StaffMod | I've restored the "member since". | |
| Aug 10, 2021 at 17:05 | comment | added | Donald Duck | For "Member since" it's still easy to see when a user created their account by going to Network Profile > Reputation and looking at what date their reputation graph starts at. For "Last seen" you can go to Network Profile > Activity > All and see when they last did something. That's not as accurate, but it probably works fairly well if you just want to see if someone uses the site anymore. Note that someone earning a badge doesn't necessarily mean they're still active, so you should look for posts, comments or edits. | |
| Aug 10, 2021 at 13:59 | comment | added | gerrit | For what it's worth, the feature request to remove last seen was quite well-received. | |
| Aug 8, 2021 at 21:01 | comment | added | ZeroTheHero | The "Member since" metric is also quite useful in elections to evaluate the experience of prospective moderators. | |
| Aug 7, 2021 at 19:03 | comment | added | Zombo | The fact that this is now a "feature request", is pretty depressing. Its literally something that we had for 10 years, and now we have to beg to get it back | |
| Aug 7, 2021 at 17:55 | comment | added | BSMP | Would a good compromise be something like a status tag that says "Active" or "Lurker"? It would indicate whether someone has been on the site within the last [n] weeks/months without telling people they were last seen 3 minutes ago. It seems like that would be enough for the points in your post except the first. | |
| Aug 7, 2021 at 11:43 | comment | added | LаngLаngС | This is quite extremely important for how I interact with the site & users' posts. These infos are useful! Given the MadScientist raised implications for 'privacy' which I do appreciate and the reasons given for design/vanity (which I don't ack in the least), I wish there could be a compromise found between retaining this usefulness & the desired privacy. If those infos simply stay discarded, and I don't get a clue over 'user had a chance to read & react', then more time will be wasted & more harsh blackbox actions without interactions will be the result. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 21:51 | comment | added | Adrian Mole | I'm glad you raised the issue about curation. It's not just diamond moderators who'll miss the "member since" and "last seen" data, but also those of us who dedicate time and effort to curating the sites. Another slap in the face for us from staff who (allegedly) wish to "engage the community". | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 13:35 | comment | added | Ollie | "Calibrate engagement" - especially with moderators. It may not be my duty to do so, but I did notice some spam on a couple of beta sites where at least two mods had been inactive for two months and the third, 2 days. Because of that, the spam lasted for over 17 hours. (I got that information by looking at the "last seen" date.) | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 11:34 | history | edited | blackgreen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2021 at 11:10 | history | answered | blackgreen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |