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What do "watched tags" and "ignored tags" do?
What are watched tags and ignored tags? How do they work?
What are tag subscriptions?
What are interesting tags?
On Stack Overflow, the content of the main page question list appears to be influenced ...
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Tab for questions that are labeled with favorite tags
Why don't we have a Tab that shows only questions for our favorite tags, showing recent first? I keep having to scroll down the page to find the questions I'm interested in.
It'd be like the ...
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'Favorite Tags' is now 'Tag Watching'
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We rolled out some improvements for how you track the topics you are interested in for your favorite Q&A sites. This feature used to be called Favorite Tags. We are renaming it Tag Watching....
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Filter view to show only interested
I've noticed that do to the high volume of activity on the site it appears as though only questions that were asked or answered in the last ten minutes are appearing on the main page of the site, ...
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Ability to sort/reorder interesting/ignored tags in sidebar
I have many tags marked as "interesting" and others as "ignored". (I use Java at work, I'm a Cocoa guy by night, any anything dealing with Windows/.NET/C# simply doesn't apply to me.) When tags are ...
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The remove icon on interesting tags is easily misclicked
The safe clickable area for selecting a favorite tag (especially for one letter tags, illustrated above) is quite small compared to the size of the remove button right next to it. Considering that ...
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Can newsletters take into account a user's favorite tags on that site?
Stack Overflow is huge and varied. Wouldn't it be great if I could just subscribe to a newsletter with a list of my favorite tags? If I love dealing with android, I think it would make sense for my ...
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Double-intensity shading for questions with >1 Interesting tags
I'd like to see questions with multiple tags of interest shaded a deeper color than those with just one. They would stand out more in the regular list, and they would stand out at all in a list by ...
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Allow wildcards in ignored/interesting tags
I'd like to be able to specify an interesting or ignored tag via a wildcard. May tags which cover similar topics have common roots. For example
windows
windows7
windows-vista
windows-xp
windows-...
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option to lock "interesting tags" section so 'x' isn't hit accidentally on a tag
When I go to the front page of Stack Overflow, I normally hold down ctrl and hit each of my tags so I can pull up a different browser tab for each tag that I have in my "Interesting tags" section. ...
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Confirm dialog when an interesting (or ignored) tag is to be deleted
In the SO main page you can add/remove your own 'Interesting Tags' and 'Ignored Tags'. Well, I navigate fairly often by the 'Interesting Tags' to find questions of interest. I've arranged the '...
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View new questions marked with any of your 'interesting tags'
Is there a page that shows questions marked with any of your interesting tags?
eg if I have three related tags, say poi, poi-hssf, hwpf (on SO) how can I view the newest questions from any of these ...
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What happened to the ignore option in the mouseover on the tags?
In the old pop-up when you hovered over a tag in the question list, there was a link to add to favorites and a link to ignore the tag. In the new design of this pop-up, there's a star to add to ...
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Provide "Keep Interesting Tags" option when "Hide Ignored Tags" enabled
Currently when the "Hide Ignored Tags" option is enabled in the preferences, any question with an ignored AND an interesting tag is hidden. This keeps many "interesting" questions from being seen ...
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Rightmost tags in Favorite Tags are cut-off on the right
They're missing several pixels + the right border.
Observed in
Chrome 12.0.742.112 and 15.0.874.106 (on Windows 7)
Firefox 5? (see comments)
Opera (see this report)
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Sort Favourite Tags on the sidebar in alphabetical order
I think it would be nice to display tags in alphabetical order. Currently, tags are displayed in order of creation.
As a workaround, I remove, and then add the tags, which is a bit dumb, but I like '...
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Allow custom colorization of tags
This is just a thought I had, not sure if anyone else likes it... I think it would be useful to have the ability for each user (not global) to optionally customize the background color of tags they ...
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How to view only tags of interest? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Filter view to show only interested
Is there a way on SO of seeing all questions associated with "interesting" tags? I find I switch between the 3 or 4 tags that I find ...
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Add advanced search option to search within a user's Interesting/Favorite/Ignored Tags
I think we should be able to search with our Interesting/Favorite Tags or our Ignored Tags, something like:
myfavtags:1 "test"
or
myigntags:1 "test"
I'm open to other ways of doing this also.
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Filtering by Favorite Tag including wildcard ("*") and related tag does not filter
I have a favorite Tag including a wildcard [wpf*] in my Favorite Tags list to get all question tagged with wpf. (Currently 63,210 question)
Now when i click on a Related Tag, such as [c#] (the count ...
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Ignored and watched tags seem broken
For the longest time my ignored tags have been working but today they are not.
They work on the home page but not the /questions page. However, if you choose the "Gray out questions" option ...
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Favorited Tag Questions on the Stack Exchange Android app
It would be nice to show questions based on favorited tags on the Android App, just like the Web application. The app doesn't handle it right now and this feature would be nice to have.
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Subscribe to tags I am interested in?
How do I subscribe to the tags that I am interested in?
I like to get notified via email or so, when someone asks new questions or if someone responds to my questions.
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Highlight tags corresponding to our favorites
Each of us have our list of favorite tags. When a question has tag(s) that match one or more of ours, the background gets highlighted, drawing our attention to the question.
It would also be nice to ...
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Filter tag list to my favorites in app
Can we add a My Favorites option to the tag sort/filter list in the iOS app?
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Make Public Interesting and Ignored Tags
I've found that the Data Explorer doesn't have access to Interesting and Ignored Tags. I found this feature request to add them to the Data Dump, but the reason given for not doing so is that they ...
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No wild favorite tags seen on mobile Safari, tourists demand refund
If you have wildcards in your favorite (or ignored) tags on the site, the mobile view will not correctly highlight questions that match these wildcards. For instance, I have mass-effect* as a favorite ...
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Filtering questions based on my Favorite Tags
Is there a way to filter questions based on my Favorite Tags? (not searching)
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Reordering Favorite Tags and Ignored Tags lists?
Is it possible for me to reorder my lists of “Favorite Tags” and “Ignored Tags”?
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Delete-button makes it too easy to accidentally remove my favorite tags [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
The remove icon on interesting tags is easily misclicked
I often accidentally click on the "delete" button near my favorite tags instead of clicking on the tag, and I ...
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How does the "Favorite Tags" feature on stackoverflow work?
I'm wondering how the "Favorite Tags" feature works on stackoverflow. I found that the question list is somehow filtered by my favorite tags, but it doesn't simply list only questions that have one of ...
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Can we get a little doohickey to undelete a tag from interesting tags?
When I want to go look at a specific tag in my "interesting tags", its very easy for me to "misclick" and hit the delete "X" on accident. Its very annoying because I have no feedback as to what I ...
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Idea For Ignored Tags
This is more of a feature request than a question.
Stack Overflow is such an all-encompassing site for an extremely large quantity of technologies. Oftentimes, like myself, we choose to ignore many ...
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Where can I find the "Interesting" tab
I just logged into SO on a computer I don't normally use, and after login, the page was showing only questions with my tags, and there was a tab "Interesting" highlighted. Judging from this post and ...
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Favorite Tags buttons need more padding
If you have a single-letter favourite tag, e.g. c, then the red "X" to remove the tag is much bigger than the tag name. I often accidentally remove the tag when I only intended to click on it.
Can ...
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Favorite / Ignored tags interface not working?
Since today, the interface to ignore or add tags to favorites is no longer working for me. When I click on the star once, it adds a strange tag to my favorites - something like ...
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Questions I've asked should be (optionally) highlighted as interesting even if none of the tags are interesting
I think it'd be beneficial if there was at least the option to consider all questions I've asked to be "interesting" (highlighted as if there was an interesting tag) regardless of whether or not the ...
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Filter for Objective C only
Is there a way I can do a search, without typing "Objective C" each time, and make it my default area? I don't care about C, C++, Android, PHP, etc. (at this point in my life).
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Filter for Unanswered when clicking on Tags from the /Unanswered page?
Here's the simple version of my request:
The first thing I usually do when coming to SO is click on the Unanswered link, then scroll through the Unanswered Tags to find my favorite tags and click on ...
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Add a confirmation dialog when trying to "Remove Interesting tag"
It has happened a number of times that I accidentally remove an interesting tag. Seems I'm not the only one. I add the tag again, but it is now in a new position, and this is teasing.
Could a ...
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Eliminate the preferences tab in the user profile
The preferences tab in my user profile here looks like the following.
There is a single, actual preference in there, the option to hide ignored tags entirely, and a whole lot of whitespace. The ...
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Tag watching & ignoring is bugged in the profile page settings
On one's profile page, there is a Settings tab with preferences for Tag watching & ignoring, i.e. at /users/tag-notifications/<user id>.
For both Watched tags and Ignored tags there appear ...
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Filtering unanswered questions on Stack Overflow
By default, the Unanswered section displays tags which are not included in my "ignored tags" list. I keep adding new tags to my ignore-list all the time, but since there are so many tags, I keep ...
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Different question highlighting colors on different favorite tags
It would be nice to be able to have different highlighting based on different favorite tags.
An interesting way to do this would be to change the highlight color from the default (#FFEFC6) to ...
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Why does tag-highlighting fail for c++?
At StackOverflow I use some Interesting Tags. One of those is c++. But questions tagged c++ do not show up highlighted. Only those with another interesting tag do.
What's up?
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Sort interested/ignored tags alphabetically [duplicate]
The list of interesting tags would be more usable if it was ordered alphabetically.
Apologies if this suggestion has already been made, I couldn't find it (this is the closest, but not quite the same)...
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How can I see questions about "java" -- no, I mean really about *java*? [closed]
I like to peruse all the questions about the Java language, class libraries, JVM, etc., in part to learn about these things and in part because I have decent expertise on many of these areas to share.
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Favorite/Unfavorite tags in iOS app
Could we add Favorite / Unfavorite buttons to the Tag Info page in the iOS app?
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Move the Add Favorite / Ignored Tags boxes to the top
It seems that most people who use the ignored tags feature end up with a fairly long list of those tags.
Although one can toggle specific tags, it is sometimes necessary to add new ignored tags ...
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Can we have a page with only questions about interesting tags?
I'm new to Stack Overflow, and I'm looking for a list of questions that contains just questions about interesting tags. For example, I'm interested in Java, and have no clue about Python, but ...
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