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Add 'sequential activity of thread' convenience [duplicate]

At the moment, if I want to look at the activity of a thread I've already read (new Answers, new Comments, new Answer/Question edits), I have to go through a tedious process. Luckily, we got a ...
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange

This is an unofficial list/changelog of new features and various changes to Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network. It is maintained by the community, while a Stack Exchange employee changes ...
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Add a link to the timeline of a post

For the past year I have been quite active on SO and a bit on meta, but I had never heard of the timeline of a post until today in a comment on meta. There was an announcement by Jeff Atwood two ...
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Make viewing deleted posts and vote counts more widely available on Meta SE

Meta SE is where a lot of discussion about things that affect the entire network take place. While most privileges should be locked behind the usual rep progression, there are some that shouldn't be. ...
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7 answers
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What happened to the "Return to answer" link?

Maybe I'm having a premature senior moment, but I'm sure that when editing an answer there used to be a link to the existing answer - which I used to use to bring up the original question in a ...
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Is my Chrome extension unethically circumventing SE privileges?

I built a Google Chrome extension that queries the SE API for the up/down vote count for a question or answer and then plugs that information into the appropriate vote score. Really, it looks and ...
Charles Sprayberry's user avatar
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2 answers
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New timeline view only shows *last* accept vote, no un-accepts

Sometimes an OP changes their mind and awards the accepted answer mark to another post. Sometimes they don't know you can only mark one answer as accepted, and click the big checkmark next to each ...
Martijn Pieters's user avatar
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2 answers
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Is there a way to determine how/why when one of my posts on a network site suddenly starts getting unusual traction?

So one of my answers on a network site has suddenly attracted a few upvotes within a short span of time (within hours). This is an answer that I posted over a year ago, where it received most of its ...
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Add bounty events to revision history

Could timestamps of bounty activity be added to a question's revision history? Or something that would show the bounty events for a question anyway? Obviously the revision entries would need to be ...
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Full timeline of a question

Is it possible to see the full chronological timeline of a question including when comments were added or edits were made. As best I can tell, at the moment you can only see the edit history of a ...
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3 answers
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Votes breakdown in meta

There is a votes breakdown on stackoverflow but doesn't appear to be on meta. How come this hasn't been implemented for meta? I was wondering if there was a specific reason or if it was in the ...
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What is this clock icon near the voting buttons?

On the image from Nick Craver’s tweet where the screenshot of my post is displayed I noticed a clock icon on the left hand side of the post below the favorite star icon. What’s the purpose of ...
αλεχολυτ's user avatar
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2 answers
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Is there any way to see upvote and downvote history on my question page in Meta Stackoverflow

I just came from outside and saw my question has +3 points , when I opened the question page it has no upvotes and downvotes does not able to know how those points earned. Later I went to my home ...
Imran Rizvi's user avatar
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3 answers
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Is there a way to see who reopened a question and who had previously closed it?

When a question gets closed, it shows who closed it; if a question gets reopened, it no longer shows who closed it, nor does it show who reopened it. Is there any way to see who reopened it and/or ...
Isaac's user avatar
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Feedback Request: Newer Timeline Question View [closed]

Back in January I asked for feedback on a new, experimental "timeline" question view. We have finally come back to improve this view. We tried to incorporate most of the feedback from the previous ...
Jeff Atwood's user avatar
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5 answers
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Sorting answers by activity

I've noticed when a question is re-pushed to the top of the question stack (and thereby making it onto the home page of Stack Overflow) it can be tricky to figure out exactly what about that question (...
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How can I see whether a question has been previously closed?

How can I see whether a question has been previously closed? It used to be visible in the question edit history, before the New Post Notices rollout on Stack Overflow took place. I don't see any '...
Franck Dernoncourt's user avatar
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2 answers
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Improve the accuracy of time strings

Something's been bugging me about SO for a while now, that is the inaccuracy of "length of time" strings. The best example I can give at the moment is CMS's user profile. If you look at the length ...
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2 answers
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Question RSS feed should only give new changes

When subscribing to an RSS feed of a question (via the question feed link) you've typically read all the existing answers/comments on that question and want to be notified of any changes. What happens ...
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Best way to keep track of comments in questions

I have been reading some past answers from as far back as 2011. But I wanted to see if anything new has changed. When you see a question that you need clarification from you usually post a comment. ...
code_fodder's user avatar
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1 answer
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Shouldn't I be getting an "Enlightened" badge for my answer?

I know this has been asked before but can someone explain to me what specific criteria I failed to meet for being awarded the Enlightened Badge? Enlightened silver; awarded multiple times ...
BiscuitBoy's user avatar
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3 answers
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Where can I give feedback on a new SO feature?

After using SO, for sometimes, I realize that I got some problems. Zen masters fighting each other on one of my question. Every side have their own arguments and everybody seem right. Frankly, this ...
justjoe's user avatar
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Accept rate bug? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Question about Accept Rate How comes this user has an accept rate of 0% despite having accepted at least one answer out of 6?
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Is there a viewable history for edited questions?

How can I determine if a question is off-topic or if through editing by a third-party was made off-topic? Unless, there is some way to see what the edits were, this seems problematic.
user136460's user avatar
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1 answer
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Recent Activity tab on each question

Sometimes, I want to check what's happened in the past day on a question I'm interested in. It would be nice to have a "recent activity" tab on each question next to the "oldest", "newest", and "votes"...
Anton Geraschenko's user avatar
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1 answer
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In the 'Active' Tab Listing, Link to Each Posts' Actual Activity [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Add link to most recent activity of a question. The 'Active' tab includes a list of questions that have new or edited answers. It would be really nice if the text ("Modified ...
Robert Cartaino's user avatar
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1 answer
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Does Orange Bar also bump me for revision changes in answers on the question I've favorited?

I've favorited this code-golf question for a while, and few minutes ago I got alert about 1 favorite changes in Orange Bar, but when I clicked that there is no new items in my /user/recent/ID?tab=...
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1 answer
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View questions from all interesting tags into one timeline

It would be handy if someone could essentially create a custom questions time line. Ideally it would allow questions from more then one tag to be displayed at once. For example, if someone's ...
John Conde's user avatar
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3 votes
1 answer
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How can I check for the last activities on a given questions?

I'm interested in answering a question. But my answer still isn't ready. I added the question to my favourites. I also got some messages (mostly answers to my comments? ...I'm not sure...) However, I ...
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Question deletions and undeletions are not showing in the timeline

Investigating this question about a user who deletes his own questions improperly, I opened the timeline for the example question. But, as you can see, it doesn't show any deletions or undeletions! (...
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