I use  to get information of questions, I noticed that some comments' last_activity_date is later than the question's last_activity_date, so my question is: when will the question's last_activity_date be updated?  If a comment is submitted, will the question's last_activity_date be updated? If a question is solved, will the question's last_activity_date be updated with the timestamp when it is solved?
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The two tabs have following tooltips   Active : "Questions that have recent activity" Hot : Questions with recent interest and activity   They seem to display different questions with some common ground.  What is the exact difference between hot and active ?
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Right now there isn't a great way to monitor the questions that I am interested in following. What I seem to do now is go to my recent history for questions I have commented on, and then link to the questions from there. The problem is, if I am really interested in a question, I have to monitor it closely. Sometimes I will "favorite" a question so it is easier to access more quickly, because I do not have a lot of favorites. But favoriting is not the right thing to do. I think you should only favorite a question if you really really like it, not to make it easier to follow.  I propose that you can mark questions as "interested" or something like that. What this means, is that you will get notifications for everything associated with a question: any time a new answer is posted, the answer/question is edited, and any comments to any of the answers (or question). This would make it much easier to follow questions. Especially if someone adds a new answer or comment way down the road, after you have long forgotten about the question.  It would also be nice if such a feature allowed you to write a sentence or two to associate with the question to remind you about something. In fact, if this is done, we could just use this feature to implement  to allow an edit to notify downvoters. Instead of that specific feature, you can mark a question as interested after downvoting and add a comment, "remove downvote when fixed".  What do you all think? Do you propose a better way to manage monitoring questions of interest? (The other thing I do is keep a bunch of browser tabs open with questions I am following... and this is messy :-( ).
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If you use the mobile mode, then sort questions by newest, the usernames displayed won't be the ones of the author, they will be the one who made the last activity (just like when we sort by active in the normal mode).    I believe this is a bug, it wouldn't make much sense why it behaves different from the non-mobile mode.  Note: I didn't check with other kind of sorting, but maybe it happens with others too.
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I just noticed that the question:  doesn't appear in the "active" list.  If this list were based purely on last modified time, it would be there; so I am assuming that a question will no longer appear in the active questions list at a certain number of downvotes.  Just out of curiosity, is the exact number of downvotes that it takes to kick a question off the active list publicly available or are the details of this functionality purposefully undisclosed?  (or is there another reason that invalidates my initial assumption of it being based on downvotes?)
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I often answer questions and wait to see if it meets the OP's requirements. Sometimes, it seems people will ask a question and not check on it until the next day.  Am I wrong to expect OPs to check on their questions when they just asked it?   Mmm... I should have left the question alone for a day or so, just for the fun of it :p
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Yesterday, I voted to close a question as a duplicate. Today, I'm curious if the question is still open, but I did not keep a link to that question.  Is there some way to see a list or history of questions that I voted to close? On my activity tab, I can only find "reviews", which does not include questions that I vote on outside of reviews.
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I don't know if this is a bug. It could be, or there might be a simple explanation.   I was visiting a user's profile because they had become uncharacteristically quiet when I noticed the following. The user's last visit is recorded as being March 17         However, when I visited their answer page I saw the following        Is there an explanation for this (seemingly) odd behaviour? How is it possible to post an answer seven days later without that visit being recorded?
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When viewing posts by recently active, the last action can generally be linked to directly by clicking the "answered/modified" link. For example, the "answered 5 hours ago" text circled here:    Clicking this takes you to the link https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/312850/the-second-draft-of-our-code-of-conduct-is-available-for-feedback-and-review/?lastactivity  It seems, however, when that /?lastactivity (either answered or modified) occurs somewhere other than the first page of answers, linking directly to the post fails and, instead, links to the question itself. This makes finding the recent activity difficult, particularly when there are many pages of answers. Yes, I can sort the answers by active but not everyone realizes that's an option.  I've reproduced this on , so it's not an MSE-specific issue nor is it apparently related to the responsive layout. I've also seen this behavior on answers that were answered, edited, or deleted.    To reproduce:   Find a question on the Home or Questions/Active page with >30 answers. Click on the last activity link next to the username of the person who performed that action   Using PPCG questions with >60 answers that are newly answered is the most likely to consistently be a good choice as new answers to questions with many existing answers are unlikely to have surfaced above the latter page/s.  See that the end result is identical to loading the question link/does not take you to the answer.   I suppose that it's possible there isn't a way to fix this but, if there is, it'd be nice to have.
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On Stack Overflow the last question was asked approx 1 hour ago. It is not getting updated. Since the volume of the users are a lot, I can't believe that nobody has asked question since last 1 hour. I think there is some problem.   Please look into it.  Edit : Now it is showing lastest question as 30 mins ago. But on the other hand same kind of problem is started on meta site. The active tab is not getting refresh with current discussing question.
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Question:   Answer:   The question was closed at 11:57:57 (according to the hover-over-"x-mins-ago" bar) and the answer was posted at 12:16:35. It's a fairly lengthy answer, so it's possible that it was started to be written before it was closed but I swear I've started to answer a question then I got a banner along the top saying "this question has been closed" and the answer was no longer post-able.
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I commonly review , sorted by newest, and just now it showed "1 question with new activity":        So as always, I clicked on that bar to show it.  showed here as "modified".         But yet, when I opened it up, it didn't show that it was modified.  It's my understanding that if you modify your question within the first minute or so, it doesn't show as a modification. The OP did in fact quickly edit their question right after asking it, after I asked them.  Shouldn't this say "asked" for instead of "modified"?  After refreshing, it shows "asked". But when I clicked on the message to show new activity, it showed "modified".
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I've noticed this phenomenon a few times before: find a question that was posted 10 minutes ago, look at the questioner's profile.  Last seen 20 minutes ago.  Does updating last seen happen asynchronously with posting a question?  How long might the lag be?  I'm reluctant to , since the phenomenon is probably short lived, but I just noticed it there.  Here are screen images as of this writing...  On the question:        In the profile, clicked a second later:
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Looking at , I see "asked yesterday" (which I really hate; I'd like to see an exact time specification rather than this vague one, especially in the list of questions). But it was not asked yesterday! When I hover over it to show the exact time, it shows it was actually the day before yesterday!  This snapshot was taken at 2012-03-31 15:00 UTC (plus or minus a few minutes):    Whatever different opinions you may have on the implementation, yesterday is a word with a certain meaning. Redefining it is not a good idea. At least rephrase this as "1 day ago" or something.
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I am looking to get some rep by answering unanswered questions. I only have time to answer a few at a time. I take a look at the unanswered list and post some good answers (i think) and afterwards I see that the question was posted over a year ago. The odds of that person coming back to that question after such a long time is not good. Besides that, they probably found their answer somewhere else.  So why do these really old questions show up on the first page of the unanswered list? The person that asked that question already thinks the site sucks cause they didn't get help with their question. Why should a newer unanswered question get burried? Do you want people not to find the new question so it yields the same fate?  feature-request: sort unanswered questions by date desc
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I'm a little surprised no one asked this yet, but why isn't it possible to show your comments in descending order of "great comment" votes it has received? You can do this with upvotes on questions and answers, and since I think comments are the third major activity on SO, I'd like to view them. Even if you couldn't order them, it should at least show the number of votes on the activity#comments page of your profile...
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Usually when answer gets deleted directly (i.e. not as side effect of its parent question deleted) it says "deleted by [name here] [time stamp]". Plus, it always leave a revision.  However, I just stumbled over  on Stack Overflow:        Weird, don't you think? Looking in the , nothing strange in there and nothing strange in  as well.  Finally, the last straw... :        Another thought was maybe some automagical conversion to comment, but no such comment exists.  Can anyone shed some light over this phenomenon?
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Sometimes I can best remember a question by its comments. How can I search for a question that way?  Downloading the data dump is not viable because it may be a question posted today.