Linked Questions
19 questions linked to/from Proposed designs to update the homepage for logged-in users
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New (?) home page [duplicate]
Tonight I opened Stackoverflow and I was met by a new homepage, that
welcomed me back [unnecessary]
showed me my reputation [it's already in the top-right corner]
showed me my badge progress [not ...
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What makes a homepage useful for logged-in users
We are exploring updates to the homepage to offer logged-in users a more personalized, engaging, and informative experience. We want this new homepage to better serve users in finding content that ...
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What is that "New contributor" icon supposed to be?
I read through most of this thread but found no answers.
What is this?
Here are my best theories at the moment:
A friendly hand waving and saying hi?
A halting hand, warning old timers to be nice?
A ...
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These are not interesting posts for me
The new front page claims:
Interesting posts for you
Based on your viewing history and watched tags.
And then it shows a tonne of stuff (50+ posts) I have zero interest in, with zero matches of my ...
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It's time to admit that Discussions have failed; can we please turn it off?
Discussions has been a poorly received product almost from the outset, and it's still a bad product.
At the moment, there are less than 900 undeleted posts (even though it's been live for over a year),...
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How do I eliminate this weird "landing page"? Is it possible?
I went to https://stackoverflow.com/ and I got this marketing-type screen:
When I click to (say) https://travel.stackexchange.com, or any other Stack Exchange site, I just get the normal site landing ...
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Staggered rollout of homepage set-up prompt for registered users
Back in June 2024 we announced several sign-up experiments related to tags, including a proposal in which unregistered users who clicked the “Home” button on the left nav would be prompted to set up ...
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Is there a point to reviewing/accepting suggested edits of tags on a poorly rated duplicate?
In the suggested edits review queue, I just came across a question that was poorly written (unclear, no concrete examples, strictly speaking two problems in one question, a duplicate, and only 1 very ...
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Updated Homepage Widgets feedback
The recent design update introduced widgets on the homepage, these have just been updated. Some feedback below.
Reputation
"Congrats! You’re ranked #324 this year."
Better, but still quite ...
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New filters for the question page and some homepage odds & ends
Over the next few days, we will be rolling out some additional filter options on the Stack Overflow Questions page. This is a result of the feedback that was received on the original homepage post. ...
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Ignored tags dialog picks the wrong tag
Reproduce as follows:
I open the ignore tag dialog and type in "C++". It pops up in the combo box scroll. I click there and now it says that c++ is ignored.
I close the dialog and hit ...
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There seems to be a problem with wildcards in watched/ignored tags
First off, be careful if you try to experiment with this. Somehow I inadvertently removed all my wildcard tags from watched tags and I can't put them back.
I was trying to add a tag with a wildcard to ...
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Watched Tags is no longer accessible from the home page
The proposed design for the homepage update shows three widgets, including a Watched Tags widget.
BUG: The Watched Tags widget doesn't appear.
This may seem low priority, but other aspects of the ...
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Cannot interact with tags that are overflowing the visible Watched Tags widget on the new frontpage
The "watched tags" box on the top right of the redesigned home page previously showed a couple of tags and at least had half the clickable tag box for the next line. As of this morning, it'...
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Questions with watched tags are no longer highlighted on home page after redesign
The SO home page used to highlight a question when a question matched one of my watched tags.
Here is an example of what this used to look like:
This is the current home page behavior. Although numpy ...
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