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I would like to see the review page refresh automatically if I have done some reviews and get the message that there are currently no more reviews to perform.
Refreshing the whole page is, in my opinion, a little too much overhead. The review itself seems to work with AJAX. So, a small refresh button to trigger would be nice too, if the real-time updates are too complex.
If real-time updates did end up too complex (very likely), I would be in favor of even something as simple as this:
Where clicking the link would AJAX the necessary parts of the page to check for a new review item.
review tab (below the Ask Question button) refreshes the queue without reloading everything.
Most of the review queues are short and the items for review get picked up very quickly. I'm not sure if automatic refresh would do much good as you wouldn't probably sit there and watch the page refresh.You may as well refresh the page or at least a part of it as suggested in the other answer.
For a long queue, on the other hand, any kind of refresh is not really necessary.
It could be different if there was a notification in the toolbar (especially in the new changes that were announced recently). I'm not sure how feasible it would be from the performance point of view as there's a large number of people who would receive those notifications.
