When I am idle on Stack Overflow, I see an update of x recent questions were added.   After clicking, the questions load properly, but they do not reflect:   If any of them were already answered.  If any of the existing questions were answered in the idle time.    --  Also, as per Richards comment -  It often happens that one lands in "has been deleted" page off an idle page that has loaded up new questions. Only after a full page reload, all the questions are updated with correct number of answers, votes and views.  --  I would like it if the page refreshes on clicking the load recent questions link so that the questions which were already answered will get highlighted with correct information.
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First, you see the banner:    Then you click it and the 5 new questions appear:    But all of them have 0 votes, 0 answers and 1 view. You have to refresh to see the real numbers:
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When I am viewing a question while not logged in, it shows, under the question:     add comment (requires  with )   However, the link to  is dead.      Here's a screenshot to the result 404 page:    Same 404 page on   Chrome (Normal Mode / Incognito Mode) Opera 12.16 (Private Browsing Mode) IE 10 (Normal Mode / InPrivate Mode)
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It has been happening to me frequently that while I am writing an answer, I get notification that some answers have been posted already, or sometimes I don't even get notifications because of my slower internet and when I finally submit the answer and the page refreshes I see several other answers have already been posted.   What I do more often is that, I read the question (mostly on jQuery tag) go to jsfiddle and try setting up a working fiddle first. Then when I come back with a working fiddle I see some answers have already been posted. What should I do in these cases,   1) Just throw away the working fiddle and move to a new question  2) Post the answer anyway, which may trigger comments like, why are you copying answers or Is there an echo here? etc which I don't like to hear.  3) Check the already posted best answer and in comments suggest the answerer to use the fiddle in the answer if he hasn't added one already.  I also see a trend like people throws in a very short answer asap and continuously edit the answer to add more information and add working fiddle later. Is that something I should be doing too?   I have been active in SO recently, I am just trying to know best practices that the community follow.  Or when I make a working fiddle (which takes some time), and post the answer anyway, and hear things like why did you copy answers, or your are 5mins late with the same answer what should I do in those cases, delete the answer?  I would like someone to clear up these confusions I have.
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I would like to see the review page refresh automatically if I have done some reviews and get the message that there are currently no more reviews to perform.  Refreshing the whole page is, in my opinion, a little too much overhead. The review itself seems to work with AJAX. So, a small refresh button to trigger would be nice too, if the real-time updates are too complex.
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I have just been looking through the questions to answer those that I can and as I go to the next page (using the Next button at the bottom) I am presented with the same questions.  I imagine this is not a flaw and in fact questions are coming in fast filling up a page pushing my current page to the next one.  An idea to solve would be to set a variable for starting id when I start paging and only clicking an update button will reset the starting id.
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What can cause a question to be "bumped" to the first page in the Active tab of a Stack Exchange site? (Changing the "Last Active" date.)  .
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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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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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When I'm looking down the front page on , I often wish I could tell at a glance what happened to the question to bump it there. Sometimes it is obvious from looking at the number of answers, other times you have to follow a link to find out if it has been edited or if an answer has been added or updated.  I'm guessing this is just as applicable on other SE sites - this is the kind of thing I'm suggesting:    A couple of suggestions from the comments that might be good:   To reduce clutter the word 'ago' could be removed at the same time. The new text could be visible only to established users - ie users who are likely to be reviewing/editing and would benefit from seeing at a glance what kind of change has occurred.
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When the OP posted , the contents looked like "AAAA AAAA AAAAAAAAA". Obviously, no-one was going to understand this, so we downvoted and voted to close. After closure, I immediately voted to delete the question. A few seconds later, the OP updated the question. I voted to re-open, and a few minutes later, the question was re-opened.  I've just reviewed the Q&amp;A, and it's garbage:   The question is unclear (the fiddle doesn't match the question's code). The only answer was was invalidated after the question was updated again (it pointed to a typo). The invalid answer was accepted with the  "My problem was somewhere else but I did learn that JSFiddle needs the tag table. thanks" (note: has nothing to do with the question).   For these reasons, I decided to cast a close vote, which summoned the following screen:   As you can see, there are no pending close votes, but the screen still shows that I have already cast a close vote. This looks like a bug (possibly caused by my previous delete vote?).
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I think this should be added to the faq and/or on the /ask page:  Advice to stick around for about 15 minutes after posting. Often this is the time when the fate of a question (or answer) is decided (at least on SO). Close votes are cast, obviously missing information is asked for and improvements are suggested. It's quite an annoyance to look at a 1 minute old question, spend 2 minutes reading it and finding out that a trivial detail is missing for me to be able to provide an answer, commenting about it and then receiving an answer in 2 days when I completely forgot what was the question about.  I think that newbies simply don't expect SO to react so quickly to their questions and don't refresh the page after a couple of minutes. It might be a good idea to suggest doing so.
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After logging into one Stack Exchange site, when I visit another SE site, it says to me, welcome back - user - click here to refresh - web page.   Isn't it possible to refresh the page using code &amp; without the user's interaction?
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I noticed this issue as I tend to view Stack Overflow via the mobile site frequently:   The mobile version does not show possible duplicate questions while you're typing the question/description, while in "full site mode" the suggestions come up just fine.  In my mind, getting the suggestions to show up on the mobile version of the site should not be a hard thing to implement  While I admit it makes me lazy asking for this feature when there is a work around, the full site doesn't display nearly as well as the mobile one so it would make life a lot easier to have this simple change.  Also, what good programmer isn't lazy? :)
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Steps to reproduce:   Click on StackOverflow icon   Click on popular tab   Click to sort by votes   Click to show all time     I could manually reproduce that every time I tried.  The following is a print screen of the message shown after going through the steps:    And if I subsequently do a F5 refresh, it works.  And considering the fact that I clicked on all time option, it makes me think that what happened, actually, was a timeout.  If my guess is right, I think that . So, while resolving the performance issue (therefore,  avoiding the timeout), a proper timeout message and a link to refresh the page would be a perfect fallback.  Note that it might not related to timeout - it was just a guess on the issue - it could, for example, be some weird caching problem due to current . Anyway, it still seems to be a bug.
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Is there a way to view the list of questions I have recently viewed?  When just browsing the site, I will often look at new questions that I can't answer but am interesting in knowing what the answer is. If there isn't an good answer yet, I'll then browse on to other questions. The problem I run into is that sometimes it is hard to go back and find question after a few minutes or hours. I can also think of other use-cases where I would find this useful.  I know I can tag questions as favorites and locate them in my profile. At the risk of sounding  lazy, I find this to be too much work unless it is a question that I am really, really interested in.  It would be really handy if there was a way quickly see a list of last X (maybe 10) questions that I have viewed. For ease of access, it would be nice if this list was displayed in the side bar.   I don't see this functionality available, so I'm tagging this a feature request. If it already exists, I could use a nudge in the right direction on how to find it.
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In short, if the last action on the post is someone posting an answer, it shows "answered [x] minutes ago PosterName". However, deleting and undeleting a different answer (posted earlier) causes it to switch to "modified [x] minutes ago PosterName", even though post deletion and undeletion do not cause bumping. The last action on the post was answering, so it should continue to show as "answered".  For example, I tested this out in the sandbox:  Answer is posted:        30 seconds later, another answer is deleted (and optionally undeleted; or vice versa probably), changing the label but not bumping it:        The behavior that it should be is:    Find the last active post   If the last active post is deleted it should say "modified" If the last active post is not deleted and not edited it should say "answered" If the last active post was edited, it should say "modified". No duh.      Here's my original bug report, which you can probably just skip unless you need another example:  I just posted an answer to a question, then left the page without doing anything else. But it says the last action on the page is me modifying something, with the  (which shows the last activity) redirecting to , as shown below on the  (it's at the top of the list):    (The , under Questions, also shows this problem.)  I didn't modify the answer after posting (not even during the grace period) nor did I do something else that would cause a "modified" bump (protection, close/reopen votes, add bounty, messing with deletion). There were no deleted answers when this happened. I'm not sure if the problem is related to the question having a bounty on it (by the OP, who is deleted).  None of the other activity on the active page shows this problem. (The "modified 10 minutes ago" on the second question is an edit to an answer.)    Since I first posted this question, another user (named ) posted an answer to the exact same question. For some time the listing read "answered X minutes ago", but now it says "modified X minutes ago" even though it points to the same, unedited answer. However, I noticed that there is now a deleted answer which was last edited before 1006a's answer was posted, but was deleted after it was posted. Now I'm wondering if it has anything to do with deletion.
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On Ask Ubuntu, when I try to view my Low Quality Posts review history and click on the action taken on questions, I can only see the actions taken and no preview of the question.   :    The question still exists on the site:   It seems question review history page is missing this HTML class:  &lt;div class="reviewable-post reviewable-post-post_id"&gt;   On the other hand, everything is working fine for answers.