Questions tagged [filtering]
If you don't want to see everything, you use a filter. This tag is for any questions about filtering in Stack Exchange sites.
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I can't manage to delete filters in the stackexchange.com/filters section [duplicate]
When I go into https://stackexchange.com/filters
and then click on one of them, for example, https://stackexchange.com/filters/453904/my-filter, I am shown:
The left-side allows me to edit the filter'...
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How to set a filter on https://stackexchange.com/filters for site recommendation questions about software applications
This is not a duplicate of How do I add a Filtered Question to search for questions containing content other than just tags. The linked question is a feature-request. I will focus this question on ...
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Add option 'exclude these sites' in a filter rule
This feature request is not a duplicate of
Add the ability to exclude sites in global searches. Please, note the URLs in the quotations below are different. That question is asking for the ability to ...
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New activity indicator (bullet/dot) in Custom Filters no longer displaying
One of my favorite and most useful features here was that, when I went to a Custom Filter (e.g. Watched Tags), I used to get an indicator (dot/bullet) next to questions with new activity. That seems ...
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Why does filtering on the tags page remove the descriptions from the tags?
I noticed today that when you filter on the tags page for any SE site, the description of the tags get removed:
Is there a reason that the descriptions get removed? I'd find it more helpful if they ...
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Can we finally get a blacklist for uninteresting networks in the hot topics section? [duplicate]
I already found the filter settings for Stack Exchange, that allows me to see various content from various sites filtered by site and tag. But this only seems to apply to the real time section or the ...
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Filtering for "[tag-a] AND [tag-b]" only offers updates for [tag-b] [duplicate]
Description
When searching for an intersection of tags [tag-a] AND [tag-b] or the equivalent [tag-a] [tag-b] the search results show questions tagged with both the tags. When the order of results is ...
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Add a feature that allows the user to divide their bookmarks into different groups [duplicate]
Whenever I find an interesting question that contains useful information I like to bookmark it. Right now I have bookmarked 567 Stack Overflow questions that cover a wide range of different subjects ...
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Don't clear current filter while changing the tab in tags and users pages
On the Tags page there is filter box and three buttons (tabs?) to sort the result. When I'm changing the tab the text in the filter box is clearing:
It would be less annoying if the filter field ...
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Using a custom filter with a lot of tags throws an error on refreshing the page [closed]
Steps to reproduce:
Setup a custom filter with a big number of tags. The ones I currently have for testing is
javascript or typescript or flowtype or node.js or functional-programming or lodash or ...
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Why can't we create a custom filter with only excluded tags?
I recently realized that there is no possibility to create customs filters with only excluded tags.
I'm wondering why there is this limitation as you can already, through the search field, search for ...
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Include a day/date feature in the filter option | GUI
There are a lot of topics and a lot of questions. Also, there is an approach to a vote up and vote down feature for research effort questions. Also have a filter option for tag and most voted ...
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What does the bounty filter box's "Has bounty" do?
Not only can't I quite make sense of showing only bountied questions without bounty, de-selecting does not seem to have any effect either…
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Pirate's eye (Feature request to disable watched/ignored-tags with a single click)
The Pirate's eye
The current design of all stack-exchange sites allow the users to Watch and Ignore tags. The purpose of this feature has been described in the following post:
What do “watched tags” ...
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Search filter UI for recent posts
It would be useful, and probably easy to implement, to have a search filter UI for questions or answers posted recently, for example:
past 24 hours
past 7 days
past 30 days
past 12 months
any time
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