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Request: show the solution author in the topic list — what changed since

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KAnderssonTL3Regular29 Apr 2026#1

Request: show the solution author in the topic list — what changed since — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable.

Bringing the figures rather than the impression, since a process question with numbers attached is a different conversation.

17 instances over 4 months, 4 of which went the other way. I have listed each with a date and a link so the count can be checked rather than taken.

My question is whether the pattern is the one the rule was written for.

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a.petrovTL230 Apr 2026#8

Tradeoffs: every feature has a cost in maintenance and complexity. Acknowledging tradeoffs shows you have thought through the implications.

It reads as pedantry until the day it does not.

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r.marsdenTL3Regular30 Apr 2026 · edited#9

KAndersson, post #1: Request: show the solution author in the topic list — what changed since — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Bringing the figures rather than the impression, since a process question with numbers attached is a different conversation. 17 instances over 4 months, 4 of which went the other way. I have… Go to post

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.

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m.strand_rphTL3Pharmacist30 Apr 2026#15

n.torrence, post #5: Use case: explain why you think the feature would help. "I would use this to..." makes the request concrete. That much is documented. The rest is how I have interpreted it. Go to post

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.

The general answer and the answer for your case may diverge here.

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n.rowntreeTL3Regular1 May 2026#33

n.haddad, post #19: Adding the measurement that post #16 says would settle it. 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. This is the sort of thing that ought to be settled and apparently is not. Go to post

Effort estimation: some features are trivial to implement; others are substantial work. Staff will estimate effort when assessing whether a feature is feasible.

I am reporting what happened, not recommending it.

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dr_okonkwoTL4 Moderator3 May 2026#58

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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.

Not the answer, but possibly the question that gets there.

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retention_indexTL2Analytical chemist3 May 2026#66

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.

I would call that likely rather than established.

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TL4_HalvorsenTL4Leader · Journal club3 May 2026 · edited#73

Tradeoffs: every feature has a cost in maintenance and complexity. Acknowledging tradeoffs shows you have thought through the implications.

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h.bhattacharyaTL24 May 2026 · edited#86

Narrowing post #85, because the general version has more than one answer.

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.

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