103
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The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network
feature-request
status-completed: Whether or not the popup is dismissed is saved on the local site account for performance reasons. Saving it on the network account provides an unacceptable ...
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The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network
feature-request
status-completed: The "follow" button is now located after "share" and "edit".
Could you move this button to the right?
We are used to the share button on the left, and the "...
46
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Upcoming Feature: Follow Questions
Few comments on Follow feature from curator perspective.
All data about followers should be kept private.
Following poor posts that need further attention will be common use case. Experience tells ...
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42
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The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network
bug status-completed
Can we not get follow notifications for comments which reply to us (as that reply already creates it's own notification)?
At the moment if I comment on a question and then ...
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38
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The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network
feature-request
The search operators should be updated:
Add operators for following. Maybe following:y/following:n status-declined
Add inbookmarks:mine as a synonym for infavorites:mine status-...
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33
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What's the difference between "bookmarking" and "following" a post?
Bookmarking
Only works on questions, not on answers
Is publicly visible (including in SEDE)
Generates badges: Favorite Question and Stellar Question
A list of your bookmarked questions across the ...
27
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The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network
feature-request status-declined
When one follows a post, change the following wording to unfollow, to better convey that this is a toggle button, and keep the logic consistent with a verb/verb pair ...
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26
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The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network
bug status-completed
Strange behavior when trying to follow deleted answer.
Follow deleted message.
Text changed to following. And it's not clickable anymore.
After refreshing the page the text ...
23
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The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network
bug status-completed
There is a popup and a tooltip on the following button and together they read kind of strange:
the popup says "follow this answer to receive notifications"... But if it's in ...
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22
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Upcoming Feature: Follow Questions
Will the new "Bookmarks" (now "Favorite") feature have a "set private" option so only I (and maybe moderators) can see my favorite list??
17
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Accepted
Error message “User has already voted this way. Undo the vote, or change the vote to continue” when undoing certain actions
Ouch. This one's a big one, huh?
I woke up this morning and saw a round of bug reports around retracting votes. I could track the issue down to a faulty change we had pushed out to production last ...
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16
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The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network
bugmoderator-tools status-completed
Members still receive notifications, even though the post was deleted and it can't be seen 'cause of low reputation.
Follow the post.
Author deletes the post.
...
15
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Accepted
No notifications for followed posts
Apologies, a bad "fix" made its way out to production that itself caused another issue... And the tests passed because they had a bug that made it impossible to reproduce that issue because ...
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14
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The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network
discussion status-completed
Inconsistent use of English contractions:
You are no longer following this question
You’re following this question
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14
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The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network
feature-request global-inbox status-completed
The links are now working (see below), but IMHO the 'followed question – answer' takes up too much vertical space, and there's a lot of unused whitespace ...
GlorfindelMod
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14
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How do I unfollow my own question?
You can't unfollow your own questions. After all if you're not interested in their answers or responding to comments asking you to clarify the question, why did you ask it in the first place?
Once a ...
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13
votes
Accepted
Implicitly start following by downvote
I'd take this as an extension of the consensus that the SE network doesn't force you to explain downvotes. Today, if you encounter a poor question, you can downvote it and move on. To align with this ...
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12
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The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network
feature-request status-deferred
Have the follow link as a icon button to the left of the post (Question & Answer) Similar to Timeline and the Favorites (soon to be Bookmark)
It would keep the ...
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12
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Accepted
Expand LQ review comment for "me too" non-answers with advice about "follow post" feature
This string has been updated with details about the Follow feature. Thanks for the suggestion! The fix will be merged in today or tomorrow.
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Upcoming Feature: Follow Questions
If a user follows a question, they will receive inbox messages related to any event for which the post owner would have received notifications:
...
New comments on the question that are not @pinged ...
GlorfindelMod
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11
votes
Accepted
Cannot unfollow locked post from Following tab
This was fixed at the end of last week. You should be able to follow or unfollow locked posts both from the post itself and from your user profile.
Thanks for the report!
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10
votes
Accepted
How do I unfollow a deleted question?
Turned out that the "follow" link showing up on deleted answers was an accident, but... let's call it a happy accident because now we're also showing it on deleted questions. :)
Going ...
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10
votes
Accepted
Unable to follow while in Review Queue
This seems to work now after today's update to the post menu:
(this answer previously contained a userscript to fix this bug)
GlorfindelMod
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10
votes
Accepted
Can't unfollow deleted post
A user’s Activity > Following tab will now display posts that the user followed which were subsequently deleted (deleted status shown through row background color and a text label).
Note: deleted ...
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10
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How can I unfollow all answers to a question at once?
If you’re asking how to unfollow all answers of a specific question at once, there’s no built-in way to do this, currently.
However, it is still theoretically possible, using this dirty hack:
No ...
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10
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Add the ability to automatically follow a question on which I've added an answer or comment
I would love to have such an option! I also forget to follow posts I commented/answered, but I would like to follow them because:
if I answer a post, I would like to get notified if other answers get ...
10
votes
Accepted
Can a moderator suppress notifications being sent to "followers" when an edit is made?
"Trivial" edits, those that are under 6 characters (2 if it's code), don't notify the OP when done by another user. Similarly, followers don't get notifications for others' trivial edits ...
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9
votes
Accepted
Notifications inbox was pinged a second time when a comment on a followed post was edited
(I'm a diamond moderator on the site where that happened which how I can see these what happened)
There's actually two different comments. The comment was posted, edited, and then deleted, and ...
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9
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Automatic following of answers to your question
The below answer was originally written in response to this first revision that provided no reason to implement this whatsoever. There has since been a reason added.
In response to that, I have to add ...
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8
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The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network
feature-request status-deferred
Please standardise the use of pop-ups. This is a view of the "default" pop-up:
This is a view of the follow pop-up:
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