After asking a question, I may be interested in quick responses and react on comments quickly. So I leave the tab open. But I always need to check back to the tab to see whether there's a "something has been added" note somewhere, either a comment to the question, or a new answer or a comment update on an answer I already read. Couldn't this also be shown in the page title so I don't need to switch tabs all the time while I'm reading something else?
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Background  Recently  was implemented. With this feature the amount of questions with new activity is shown in parenthesis at the beginning of the page title, e.g.     (2) Meta Stack Overflow   means that MSO has two questions with new activity since the user last viewed it.   this feature is unrelated to inbox updates. Here is an example to illustrate this:    Even though there are two inbox messages in this screenshot this is not reflected by the page title. The page title is currently only sensitive to questions with new activity.  Suggestion  I suggest that the page title also reflects inbox updates. For the screenshot above this would mean that the page title shows that there are two inbox updates and two questions with new activity.  I am not sure what format is best for showing this. For chat * in the page title is used to show that there are messages directed at you which is similar in meaning to inbox updates. However, * if is placed after the number in parenthesis to denote inbox updates there might be confusion as there is no connection between the number in parenthesis and * like in chat. Thus, one might prefer another format such as one of the following (all are meant to reflect the status of the screenshot above):      * (2) Meta Stack Overflow     2* (2) Meta Stack Overflow     [2] (2) Meta Stack Overflow     2i 2q  Meta Stack Overflow     (2/2)  Meta Stack Overflow     (2|2)  Meta Stack Overflow    For the alternatives without an explicit hint of which number refers to what it might be best to place the number for questions with new activity first as it will in most cases be greater. This will to a greater degree avoid combinations such as "(0/2)" which may be confused zero of two.  An advantage of the suggested feature is that if the user has a browser tab with a Stack Exchange site then they will be instantly notified of inbox updates. They do not need to focus a tab with a Stack Exchange site to know if there are inbox updates, they merely have to check the relevant page titles among their tabs.  A disadvantage of the suggested feature is that it might be experienced as verbose. I suggest that it is implemented such that it is as unobtrusive as possible while still being informative. Think of a situation where a user has   one Meta Stack Overflow tab with two inbox updates relating to Meta Stack Overflow and two questions with new activity, and one Super User tab with one inbox updates relating to Super User and three questions with new activity.   Then the sum of the inbox notification in the page titles should be local to sites and not global. The page titles for the tabs above should be something like the following pair:      2i 2q  Meta Stack Overflow     1i 3q  Super User
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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 think it would be useful to add an "Answer Later" tab that would be similar to the "Favorites" tab so you could mark questions to answer at a later time. There are so many times I see a question which I would like to answer but don't have time, then I have a hard time finding it again later. Right now I mark it as favorite, go back and answer it, then unmark it as favorite (unless I really like the question).  Do you think other people might find this useful? Do you do this some other way?
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When browsing on questions that I would like to answer or flag, I now ended up to a question that was put on hold. I had to open the question to realize it was not an eligible one and it was already put on hold. So nothing to do about, basically.  On software design one rule is to avoid clicks. If I look for questions to answer, I normally skip ones marked as green on list because these have an accepted answer already there. For put on hold questions the only indicator is maybe a flappy title, put for being sure there is no need to even flag the question, I would like to see a yellow color on status (votecount, answer count) box to tell the question is on hold. That way my moderating and answering double focus would immediatedly go for the next one. Desicion of open or not would be easier.  (You may discuss the color, light grey is ok, too.)
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There's new behavior on SO, MSO, and here on MSE that is extremely jarring: When you type a comment and press Enter, the page is scrolled so the comment is at the very top, e.g.:  I'm writing a comment:    And when I press Enter:    I've replicated it in Chrome and Firefox (both on Linux). This is new, it didn't do this yesterday.  There seem to be other scenarios where interacting with comments makes the page jump unpleasantly as well. What I've found so far *(please add to this list if you find new ones):   Posting a comment Clicking the link to show comments when they aren't showing (e.g., someone comments when you're looking at something, and you want to see it)   Could we restore the old behavior of not scrolling if not necessary, please?
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When looking at a question or answer with comments, I think it would be better to just show that one extra comment if the threshold is "Show 1 more comment".  In other words, if there are 6 comments, show all 6 comments.  If there are 7 comments, then show 5 comments and the link "Show 2 more comments".  Etc for more comments.
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Often when I edit one of my answers, it's because I want to better address the original question. The only problem is that I can't see the original question while I'm editing my answer!  I'd love to see the original question text beneath the "answer edit" form. This way I could scroll down slightly to read it if I wanted to, or just ignore it if not.  Current workaround is to click the 'return to answer' link and hope that you remember to launch it in a new tab/window, then tab back and forth.    Imported from this uservoice item:
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I've been seeing a lot of comments, on a lot of questions and answers, and most of them, seem to be related, some are asking new questions themselves, some are talking to the poster, looking for more information, but most of them seem to be more of discussion rather than comment.   But all these comments, are scattered, some are on the question itself, some are throughout all the different answers.  Would we benefit from having a separate Talk/Discussion page/tab/section that we could flesh out the details of the question, and ask more on, in one unified spot?  Also, it might be nice for questions that go unanswered, or the poster accepts a half-baked answer; so that people had a way of asking something like "hey did you ever figure this out" kind of deal and the poster still getting notifications on both sides.  I know it'd probably be difficult to get right, but maybe others have similar ideas on how to refine it, or something they'd like to see, or how to implement it?
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I'm curious how it is decided how many comments to display before the "Show more comments" link. Sometimes I see a dozen comments on a question and no "Show more comments" link, in other occasions no comments are visible at all, only the link.
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I posted a comment on an answer, and refreshed the page.  I then noticed that someone else had also posted a comment.  His comment had an earlier timestamp, but was below mine.    What happened?  (I'm using the Android app, if that matters.)
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I recently (today) asked a question that received what seems to be a clear, concise answer, but one that's beyond my ability to understand (I'm at the cut-and-paste stage with JavaScript, and the answer seems to assume more knowledge than I actually have).  Is it considered better to ask follow-up questions as comments to the answer given, or should I post "fresh" questions to Stack to help me understand the answer that's been given?
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It is possible to click on this question title above ↑, which would cause the page to refresh.  I'm wondering why the question title is a link to itself and the same page?  Why isn't it just written as solid text?  SEO perhaps?
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I'm wondering how SO is able to display the "New answers have been posted" message when I'm typing an answer for a question. Does my browser send an AJAX request to the SO servers, or does SO send a trigger back to my browser?
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While perusing a question on Stack Overflow, I was presented with the familiar "X new answer to this question, click to refresh". When I did, I was presented with the following:    This pattern continued with "4 new answers" and "5 new answers", at which point I got bored watching it and came here to report it.  FWIW, the correct number of answers was displayed when I did an F5 on it.
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How should SO handle users who don't "maintain" their questions by selecting answers, or remarking newer/better answers as the chosen one?  Many questions...   Have no answer marked correct, even when one is plainly there Are not reviewed by the poster to select a new correct answer   I don't mind taking the time to answer questions, but don't see the point when I don't get "reputation" for doing so since no one reads those questions, and reputation seems to be the point of the site.  I think the "remind to accept an answer" feature is there now, since I just saw it when coming back.  I missed it the first time though.
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Often when I vote to close, I want to go back and check the comments on the question, to see if it's been improved, to comment further, or to answer the question.  It would be helpful to add a bit of a trail so I can find those questions again. I'm suggesting adding an event to the Activity page on the user profile, because this is the logical spot for the given action.  I realize the Activity page is public, but I don't see why this content couldn't be added only for the currently logged-in user.  An alternative would be to add a new tab on the user profile page that only lists current-user content, and is not shown publicly. I'm sure there are other events, data, or statistics that could be shown here as well, so I'm certain a new tab like this wouldn't be underutilized.    One thing that could be done instead of this is to always add a comment stating why I voted to close. This works well enough, but only some of the time -- for example, if there is already a vote to close as a duplicate and a comment with a link to that duplicate, I'm not going to add a comment myself if I have nothing to add aside from a close vote.  Another way to do it would be to favourite the question. This only works well to a point since questions that get voted to close don't necessarily end up being downvoted (i.e., for my "closed favourites," I couldn't just look at the last page of my favourites).    Related: Jon Skeet  that votes to close on your own questions be shown in the Recent Activity area, which is not what I'm requesting here.
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There are links, buttons, images and much more that directs users to new pages.   In my opinion, it should always stay in the same tab unless it's a PDF or download item. But when is it acceptable to open things in a new tab?