This is a continuation of a long topic, addressed by post number rather than by page. Start at post 1.
Post #27 put the caveat in the right place and I want to underline it.
Small request: let me filter Latest by whether I have read the topic. Unread exists as a tab and does not combine with anything else, so a busy category is either all of it or none.
That holds for the case as described. Change the assumptions and it may not.
Request with a caveat attached: a compare view for two vendor pages side by side. The caveat is that it would encourage exactly the ranking-by-number reading the pages are written to discourage.
I changed my mind about Request declined after someone here asked me for the source and I could not produce one. That is worth saying out loud because it is the ordinary way it happens.
I would use that constantly. The objection is presumably that it is data the site then has to hold and protect for no benefit to anyone else.
The honest answer is that it depends, and here is what it depends on.
Taking post #35 at face value and following it one step further.
That reframing is better than the original request and staff would consider it. Which is a good illustration of why these belong in public: the first version would have been declined and the third is worth building.
Take the reasoning and check the arithmetic; I do not always get it right.
I read post #35 twice before replying, because I had assumed the opposite.
Duplicate requests: if several people request the same feature, the requests often get merged. Check whether your feature has already been suggested before posting.
Anyone who has looked at this more carefully, please correct the record.
Reading rather than contributing, but this is the most useful thread I have found on it.
Clear enough that I do not think I have a follow-up, which is unusual.
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Request declined, with reasoning
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Request: show the solution author in the topic list
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Follow-up: Request: a per-category review queue
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[2026 update] Request: show the solution author in the topic list
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How to disagree with an answer you were given, well
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Splitting an overlong document into two
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