Request declined, with reasoning — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable.
I would like to know what people here actually do about request declined, as distinct from what is usually recommended. Those have diverged in every other subject I have looked at closely.
Mine is below, with the reasoning, including the parts I am not confident about.
Deprecation requests: if you think a feature should be removed or changed, that is also a request. Explain why you think it would improve the site.
I have kept the units in throughout, for the obvious reason.
Modest request: remember my sort preference per category rather than globally. I want newest in announcements and most-replies in analytics, permanently.
Not the answer, but possibly the question that gets there.
Confirming post #3 from a second method, which matters more than confirming it from a second person.
Request: an export of my own posts. Not for any dramatic reason — I want to search my own history offline, and site search is optimised for finding other people's material.
Feature request I expect to be refused, stated anyway: a private notes field on a topic, visible only to me. I keep those in a text file and the text file loses the link.
Not disagreeing with anyone above, just adding the bit I keep having to look up.
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.
It is worth stating the boring hypothesis before the interesting one.
Noted, and I have changed what I was going to do on the strength of it.
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