Request: export my own posts — one year on — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable.
A methods question rather than a substantive one, about export.
Everyone quotes the same figure and I cannot find anyone who says how it was arrived at. That is not an accusation; it usually means the derivation is somewhere obvious and I have missed it.
Worth separating two things that post #3 runs together.
Request with the use case rather than the feature. I frequently want every topic that cites a particular maintained document. At the moment I can find the document from the topic and not the reverse.
That is my reading. Someone else read the same page differently and was reasonable.
Both of these are in the same family and staff would rather do one thing well than two things partly. If the range link exists, the citation relationship gets much easier to record, so the order matters.
Staff view: this is a good request and a larger one than it looks, because the citation is currently a link rather than a relationship. Recording it properly is the work, displaying it is trivial.
This follows post #23 rather than contradicting it.
Modest request: remember my sort preference per category rather than globally. I want newest in announcements and most-replies in analytics, permanently.
Not a conclusion. A place to stand while looking for one.
A note on how export gets discussed rather than on export itself: the confident posts get the replies and the careful ones get ignored, and the careful ones have been right more often.
Post #54 describes the usual case. This is about the unusual one.
Request with the use case rather than the feature. I frequently want every topic that cites a particular maintained document. At the moment I can find the document from the topic and not the reverse.
The uncertainty is in the assumption, not in the calculation.
Right — I had this wrong and I am glad to have read it before it mattered.
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Request declined, with reasoning — what changed since
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[2026 update] Request: show the solution author in the topic list
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Coming back to: Request: tag synonyms surfaced in search
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Request: a diff view for wiki revisions — the long version
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Request: a per-category review queue
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How to ask about something you suspect is a bad idea
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+81 | 87 | 16k | 2mo |
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An orphaned page with no inbound links
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+44 | 48 | 7.5k | 14mo |
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Aggregated purity results across four services, with caveats
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A calculator that gives a right answer to the wrong question — does this still hold?
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+23 | 27 | 62k | 8mo |
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A revision dispute resolved on the topic rather than in the history
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