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Right now, each question in the 'Active' tab is followed by the text "Modified [n] minutes ago by [author]".
It would be nice if the "Modified [n] minutes ago..." text could be more descriptive such as:
...so we can better decide if it is worth following a link.
Good idea, but we just don't have that information there without running more queries, which I don't want to do in the listing page.
I love this idea and would add
to the list, for questions that were merely retagged.
Jeff apparently liked the idea, too, but declined it for technical reasons. Since this is already almost 2 years ago, it would be great if the idea would be reconsidered. As Cawas commented, the technical problems could be solved by adding one more data field where the necessary information can be put so that additional queries wouldn't be required.
I have updated my userscript and it now covers the active tab. (Related post)
Stack Activity: Last activity of every question on the homepage and active tab
Here's a screenshot of the active tab on Meta Stack Overflow with the userscript:
