First off, hooray for the app \o/ It is a substantial upgrade from the mobile browser . I have started using it quite a bit lately and really like the feed and other features. I find myself using it as a searching device and use it frequently for wandering through posts. Often times, I will find an interesting question that I'd like to view in another device and possibly engage in. I generally am long-winded and don't answer with one or two liners so, I am going to prefer a different device other than my phone. There are a few built in ways to navigate to this post from the app to a different device (that I'm aware of):  Favorite it. This is fine for getting to it, but it kind of abuses the Favorites because, in my opinion, favorites are questions that you want to be able to get back to at any point, not a device sharing tool. I really only use favorites for questions that I am going to access on a regular basis and I'd like to keep it that way. Share it. You have a few options here, but they all include using some third-party for getting the Post Id via copy/paste, email, etc.  There's no way to view a post's Id when viewing a post. What I'd really prefer is some way of seeing the post's Id so I can quickly navigate to it on other devices. I don't really care how noticeable it is, as I know not all users will care to have this, but I still think it'd be nice to have a way of quickly identifying a post so that I can switch to another device, navigate to the site that I was viewing and search the post Id to go directly to the question. As a suggestion, maybe adding it to the question options header so that it reads:  Question 12345 options    Edit: Another suggestion Make a question option View details or something similarly worded that show a pop-up of details about the post, which obviously will include my coveted post id as well as maybe some metadata about the question, ie created datetime, amount of edits, view count, last active date, related content, ect. Most of this suggested metadata come from the content in the sidebar of a post.
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When I want to close a question as duplicate using the app, I have to enter the question ID as usual. Problem is, as far as I can tell, the question IDs are shown nowhere! Please add the ID somewhere.
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I quite often add a question as a favourite when there is something of interest to me in it or its answers. Looking back through my favourites, I cannot remember why I added some of them as a favourite.  What I'd like to be able to do is to add a note/comment when I add a favourite as a reminder as to why I've added it. This will show on my favourites page, but nowhere else - and possibly to no one else.  In addition, it would be good to be able to favourite an answer to a question, thereby adding a favourite to both the question and a particular answer with something of note in it. This would only show as a single favourite, but when clicking its link would go to the favourited answer.  Possible? Or is there another way of doing this? I've already got too many favourites to remember why I added a lot of them.
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Lots of questions are very generic, &quot;share an experience&quot; kinds of questions. In these cases, I am quite often interested in specific answers that may not have gotten that many upvotes. These questions also tend to elicit lots of responses, so going back to find the answers I'm interested in somewhere in the middle of a sea of responses is a pain. Is there a way to favorite or bookmark these answers?
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On Friday, I joined the  on a PC in order to . The Stack Exchange app was open on my phone already at this point, and I did not exit it.  Later on, I got a notification on my phone about having received an answer. It was a good one! When I tried to upvote the answer using the Android app, though, I wasn't allowed to: it said I hadn't joined the site, apparently not having caught up with the fact I had done so a couple of hours beforehand.  I apologise for the  in these screenshots. :) I plugged it in to charge minutes later, I promise!        When I said I wanted to join, though, I couldn't, unsurprisingly, on account of already having done so:        I closed the app entirely and reopened it, and then the app was happy that I was a member of Anime &amp; Manga. But it wasn't updated whilst the app was running.  The app should probably get informed of this. (Though this may be low priority due to not occurring all that often.)  This occurred on the Android App v1.0.51 on a HTC One running Android 4.4.3.
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Sometimes I find myself start writing a question, or start answering a question, in the mobile app and there are times where I then reach my computer or find out I need to be more comfortable when writing it; I need my computer - a larger screen, keyboard.  The problem is that by opening the question in the desktop browser - my draft will not be there and so I find myself start over or need to look&amp;copy my text from the smartphone or email it, etc. Not particularly comfortable...    I think we need some sort of a syncing ability.
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My feed shows questions from all SE sites, most of which are irrelevant to me.  I'm interested in physics, math, and programming, topics I find served well by the SE model.  There are many SE communities I have no interest in and even get annoyed when I see the kinds of questions and answers posted (ie, opinion based answers that are passed off as truths).    It would be much better if I could manually add each site I'd like to see questions from.
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Most of the time when I follow a user's link, I just want to see their site, look it over, then return to answer their question (not leave SO completely and not come back). Could we make the links users post open in a new window please?  EDIT: I originally wanted this implemented because it's what some other sites did, but I now definitely prefer SO's way. If I want to open a new tab, I middle-click/control-click (or whatever); if not, I just click. I'm in control of what happens. Would never want to go back now.
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I'd like to understand the reason (pros and cons) why Stack Exchange went with a native mobile app and not a hybrid app (using WebView and some native features).   I'm not saying it's a bad thing, I just would love to read about the decision process and arguments for and against. For me intuitively a hybrid app would have made more sense for a site like this.
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Favorite questions on Stack Overflow I feel is highly unused feature of all the features provided on the site. (This again is my personal opinion)  I have favorited around 90 question till date and it gets very very very difficult if I want to search for a question which I remember I have favorited, which defeats the entire purpose of one favouriting a question, so here is my small suggestion.  Favorites by tags  Screen 1        Screen 2        Please share your opinions on this.
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The thing about the Hot questions widget is that it's a neat idea, and well executed. However, it shows questions from all around the network. And most of the time from topics I have no interest in.  I suggest another widget be added* to show questions from a specific user-defined set of sites. There could also be the choice of showing "new" questions** or "hot" questions from the chosen sites.  I envision this new widget to be useful as it will give us hot trending questions from our favorite sites to read on (less refreshing, more reading) or new questions, encouraging us to contribute more to the site. :)  Also, tapping the site icon should open the relevant list of questions at the site, not the current question. That will be a handy shortcut (can be applied to the existing widget as well).  * Or the existing widget could have added options to choose between hot network questions and the above.  ** There could be an optional filter of selecting only new questions with 0 or more nett vote score for the widget.
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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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No, not like this:    Hear me out!  As Stack Overflow grows, it becomes increasingly ridden with extremely newbie and mediocre questions. It's just natural. The team are fighting hard to keep the crap out, but there are many very basic questions that are okay on their own. They don't deserve to be kicked out* - they are just very, very, very basic and/or localized.   Too much basicness tires users who are interested in discussing more advanced topics.  As has been discussed many times over, the voting system is not suited to identify advanced questions due to what is known as the . A group of people will vote on what they understand, which puts truly expert questions at a natural disadvantage that a democratic voting system can't overcome.  Now, there is a small number of users on Stack Overflow who I, as a user, know share my basic values (like, teaching a man to fish rather than fishing for them); I also know they are experts in their fields. It is safe to assume that what these users regard an interesting question worthy of attention, is likely to be interesting to me as well.      The idea is to introduce an opt-in "follow" mechanism that allows followed users to share what they find interesting, with very little fuss and on a purely opt-in basis.   Allow every SO user to follow any other SO user with a certain minimum rep, say 3000.   To every user who is being followed (or every user), display a new link underneath every question, "Recommend".    Introduce a new filtered view somewhere, named "Recommended". The view will show me all questions that my followed users are recommending.   Whenever I browse a list of questions, highlight those questions that have been recommended by my followed users. (I haven't put much thought into how to implement this graphically - you get the drift.)      I'm not especially fond of social networking, and I think most of it doesn't have a place on SO. But I'm starting to think this specific thing could be the right way to go in order to tell apart expert content from the 10000th dreary "how do I upload a file" question.  This is an entirely opt-in feature - unless I actively follow some users, I will never notice this.   Maybe for a bit of ego-stroking, the profile page can show how many users follow you. Or even who. Everything else would simply be kept under wraps - no publication of follower data in the data dump, no follower leagues or anything like that.      * At least not under current SO rules. Maybe those rules need to be changed - but that is a different discussion.
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There are many, many old posts on meta asking for suggestions on how to better organize favorites.  ,  and , among others.  This is not meant to be an open discussion on how to improve favorites, but rather a specific feature request that I'd like feedback on.      I would love to see a feature added that would let users arbitrarily create "groups" of favorites, and drag individual favorited questions under these groups.  I have about 2 pages of favorites (I know others have much more), and finding an individual one is quite difficult, especially since the specific question title is usually forgotten.  I just added  to my favorites, since I liked Andrew Whitaker's answer, and might want to come back and look at it later; I'd love to add this to a group called, say, "Useful Code".    I've favorited other posts since they had neat tricks in them, or because there were answers written on interesting theoretical computer science topics.  Having different groups for all these areas would be immensely helpful in finding posts later.
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I often have the situation that I read a question and leave a comment requesting an edit to provide more information by the OP.   Currently, I add the phrase that he/she should please also write a comment containing "@ByteCommander" to notify me when they're done. This is not optimal as it's additional typing and often the OP does not follow it.  I know that the star/favorites feature allows me to bookmark questions and see on my user profile site how many/which questions had a recent change. But I think this is pretty complicated. I don't want to fill up my list of favorites with tons of questions and I don't really want to check that section out regularly.  My suggestion is to add a button similar to the "watch"-button on GitHub that enables notifications on edits, answers and/or comments without ping to appear in my global inbox instead of being hidden somewhere down in my profile.  Do you think this would improve the usability of the sites and increase the question solving rate? I do.
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EDIT: Summary  I think I've found the best definition of what I want thanks to the discussion with @M. Tibbits:  When I open or refresh the SO, I get a notification of new activities that are of interest to me. Today these are (hard-coded): answers to my questions and comments addressed to me. I want a bit more control over it, that's all.     Yes, I've read  and , but I think I add new (good :) ) reasons for re-asking it:  The first question was answered before this so handy "inbox" notification feature was implemented. So now using favorites for "watching" a question is wrong, IMHO, for 2 reasons:   it splits essentially the same functionality (of getting notified when there is an activity you are interested in) between 2 very different user interfaces it's cumbersome - I need to: 1) add question to favorites; 2) click on my profile dropdown; 3) click on the "favorites" line; 4) see all my favorites with recent activity; 5) select the one I watch; 6) repeat this process occasionally to get updates; and 7) possibly remove the question from favorites at the end. All this as opposed to this little red button when there are news.   Favorites are different in nature that watching. I add a question to Favorites when I find the answers useful to me in my work, so I may want to have it handy in the future. By watching an interesting question I will be able to decide whether I want it in faviorites, after I see the answers.  EDIT: I see that I was not clear enough.  I want to add a question to Favorites when:   it has some good answers the question and answers are relevant in my work I want to keep them handy as my long-term (persistent) knowledge base   I want to watch a question for short while (matter of days/weeks) when:   it is interesting / relevant I want to follow it to see what are the answers. Then I can decide whether I want it in my favorites   As you see, the main differentiators are good answers and long/short term. For short-term, automatic notification is better.  Bottom line, all I ask is "watch this question" checkbox (which may expire after say a week if there is a need to free resources)
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On the website the default list of questions displays interesting tab (which I believe has questions based on my highest scoring tabs). That's very convenient and allows me to check new questions that are relevant for me easily.   Can the same view be added to the mobile app?
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I just had that rare case of a newbie who barges in with off-topic content, it gets closed, and instead of starting to spew invective, politely asks &quot;what are the rules&quot;. Currently, his or her  is on Cooking meta. The question text mentioned a curious thing:  Admittedly I only use the app so maybe that is where I am going wrong but I can't seem to find any rules about what can be asked, what sort of answers are allowed and what format it all has to be in.  The whole network already has a problem with getting new users to accept our high-moderation and strict-rules culture, especially when their expectations are set by general discussion forums which don't restrict themselves to objective non-poll questions. I think that the rules might be even harder for the users of sites outside of the trilogy, because the interested population is not made up of geeks who automatically value the information-content-aspect of information  above the other aspects. Even for users who have easy access to the help center, there is lots of friction to get accustomed to our rules (and many leave in anger instead). So, for the people who are willing to RTFM, I think that we should make the access easy. I admit that I hadn't expected somebody who hasn't used the site to start using the app, but now we have observed it happening. So, I think that it is important to include a link to the help center in an easily accessible place in the app. Even if at the beginning, it cannot be brought into the app format and has to be a link which opens in the mobile browser, it will be useful for the poor confused new users.