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Notify users of possible reviews on toolbar [duplicate]

I am under the impression that increased participation in the review queue is, on the whole a good thing. It encourages people to feel an ownership in the community and partially responsible for the ...
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Any setting we can have to get notified when there's "something we have to review"? [duplicate]

I love to review posts! But I am really tired of keep coming back to my browser and refreshing that again and again to see if I have some posts to review? This sounds more annoying when I take some of ...
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Red bullet indicator appears but (I think) I am not banned [duplicate]

I see a red bullet in one of my review queues (see attached screenshot). Reading from other posts on this site, I understand that this might mean that I'm (or, more properly, I was) banned from the ...
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Why the first post review tab is red? [duplicate]

This happened to me on the ELU stack exchange, though I figure perhaps this could happen on the other sites. The review tab has a red dot on the left of the first post review tab, however it's ...
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Review queue workflows - Final release

All good things must come to an end and so must the review queues project. This project would not have been successful without the community. Thank you all for the hours of reviewing, testing, and ...
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New top bar is live

UPDATE: TeamDAG has reviewed all of the feedback below and updated with status. We are actively working on fixes as time allows. Thanks to everyone who contributed constructive feedback. We released ...
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New top bar is coming to the Stack Exchange network

Update: See: New top bar next steps and response to feedback I'm the new product manager for the DAG team. I’m excited to announce that the top bar design that has been on Stack Overflow ...
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Our Design Vision for Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network

For those who don’t know me, I’m the Director of Design at Stack Overflow. I’m responsible for the team of designers who work on the public sites. The visuals of Stack Overflow and the network sites ...
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What criteria should we use to determine which review queue indicator a site will have?

A few weeks ago, we tested a modified review queue indicator for small sites. In essence, the top bar icon will get a red dot whenever there's any task and not just when the count reaches a discrete ...
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Lock questions in the review queue while being reviewed

More and more frequently in the review queues, I am spending time either fixing a post or considering whether an edit is valid, etc, only to make changes and have them denied/not count because someone ...
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2017 TeamDAG project updates

Who is TeamDAG? What is the TeamDAG working on? Why are you working on that and not [insert favorite feature request here]. These are some of the questions that we hear regularly on meta.so and ...
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Experiment: Review-needed indicator logic for sites that sometimes have empty queues

One of the more common bits of feedback when we changed the review queue indicator was that some sites would prefer to have an indication when there are any outstanding reviews available. So we are ...
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Review Count - Fix It or Lose It

Another meta question identified a bug that was marked as designed. To summarize the bug, the little number that appears next the Review link in the header shows an incorrect value most of the time. ...
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Hide "not an answer" and "very low quality" flags in the moderator flag queue

At present, when something is flagged as "not an answer" or "very low quality", that flagged post appears alongside all other flags that moderators have to handle. However, a little while ago these ...
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Red indicator light falsely positive most of the time

Over at Arts & Crafts SE, the “Review Queue” notification light has been mostly false lately, correctly indicating there is a vote to be made only about 10% of the time. Others at Arts & ...
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Notification for reviews shows way too many

Since a recent change in notifications, I see more than I should: I see no reason to see 134 posts are awaiting review, when there is literally nothing I can do about them. I think it is a bug, ...
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Modulate the review notification's color to reflect changes, or make it dismissible

Following another feature request that was completed yesterday (Notify users of possible reviews on toolbar), users of several sites have noticed a persistent notification in the top bar for flags ...
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Can / Should the review count indicator be changed to be colour-coded status instead of numerical?

We just had a question posted on UX Meta asking why the review counter displays a misleading and rarely accurate numeric value, so I got my thinking cap on and thought: "Instead of just complaining ...
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Why is the review-needed indicator red for an empty queue on ELL?

I just noticed that the Close Votes review-needed indicator is red for me on ELL: When I click on it, however, it shows that the queue has been cleared: I've read the explanation about how the ...
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Review queues aren't being populated

It looks like there's a bug in the review queues, which causes them not be filled. It's most visible in the First Posts review queue on Stack Overflow – (screenshot for <10k); all items younger ...
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How can I find out if close votes and reviews are aging out due to low usership of the review queues?

Recently, with the changes to the top bar, the review queue got new functionality. Instead of displaying numbers when there were tasks, the queues were given trigger points and a red indicator would ...
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Review Queue Bat Signal - How can we make it more useful?

There's been a lot of discussion about the review queue in the top bar. Yes, a lot of it focuses on the icon - that's not what this is. I want to talk about getting eyeballs in review and doing that ...
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Algorithm for review icon highlighting

New top bar (for all Stack Overflow sites) contains a review icon: In which situations the review icon is highlighted? Related question on ruSO.Meta: Подсветка иконки очереди проверок
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What is the threshold for the review-needed indicator (the red circle) in the First Questions and First Answers?

In the dropdown for review, we sometimes have an indicator (red circle) showing that there are many reviews - and that this particular review queue needs attention. The thresholds are mentioned in ...
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Notification for new review queue items in top bar

Change the color of the icon in the top bar to green when a new review comes up.
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Why is there sometimes a dot on the review tab when there's nothing in the queues? [duplicate]

I oftentimes have a dot on the review queues tab, normally indicating that there's stuff to review in the queues, yet nothing is available for reviewing, in both main and meta sites. What does it ...
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Curse of the red blob (more than usual)

On the biology stack I comparatively recently started performing basic reviews, the last two days (this being the third) the first-post review queue has contained a notification red-blob, and during ...
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Review queue full with no posts [duplicate]

For many months the Review Queue list at the Portuguese Language SE had been showing me the "Low Quality Posts" as very busy (with the red dot), but when I visit the queue, the list is empty. It's ...
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I'm not seeing review queue notifications (red dot) or +5's or +10's for reputation in Space SE - how to further investigate?

For background see Is the SXSE review queue (and new reputation indicator) now broken?. In short, with the new navigation bar in Space SE, I'm not seeing the red dot when there are items in the ...
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Review-needed indicator is trigger happy [duplicate]

Since I recently gained 2K, and quickly thereafter 3k reputation here on MSE the review queues became accessible to me. Every now and then I check on them to see if there is something that needs ...
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Receiving review notifications for posts I've already taken action on

Lately I noticed that I after I vote to close/reopen a question (or just place a flag on any kind of post) and my vote is the first, I see something like this: (Excuse the fact that this may look a ...
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Can we change the design of the reviews' indicator in the top bar?

In the old days, we used to have a number when there were reviews that need to be done. I understand why that had to go. I'm not asking to bring it back. But one issue that I've noticed with myself, ...
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Show number of posts to be reviewed in the review indicator instead of the circular dots

I believe the area of grey circular dots could be better occupied by the numerical count of the number posts up for reviewing in that subsection. When there are no posts for reviewing in that ...
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Can the review-needed indicator be based on votes about to age away, rather than total tasks?

As a moderator, I generally ignore the close votes queue for the reasons outlined here, on the (apparently false) assumption that if a review queue requires attention, then it will turn red. However, ...
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