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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange

This is an unofficial list/changelog of new features and various changes to Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network. It is maintained by the community, while a Stack Exchange employee changes ...
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The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network

We are happy to announce that the previously announced follow question and answer feature is now live across the Network, including Stack Overflow, all Stack Exchange sites, and all Meta sites. (...
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Send authors an inbox message if their question is closed

I think it would really help if you get notified that a question of yours was closed. Especially for the multi-site power user, usually (at least for me) a question is asked and then left alone for ...
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Stop sending me emails I didn't sign up for

In the past few days, I've had eight separate emails from Stack Overflow. I signed up for none of them, and none of them are enabled in my email settings. The Overflow #17 Charcoal Digest - Tuesday, ...
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Please notify us when a question we ask or answer is closed or reopened [duplicate]

This would go in the recent activity page.
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Notify upvoters and answerers when a question is closed [duplicate]

In an ongoing discussion about whether closed questions should be deleted unless improved, a painful corner case has emerged: what to do with bad questions that have good answers? Whatever the answer ...
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Notification for down-vote/vote to close on your posts

Sometimes users post questions or answers, and people vote down or close them without the user being notified. He should review his question and what it's unwelcome in the community giving him the ...
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Use inbox notification for close/open related activities [duplicate]

When you get a comment on your question or answer, or when a comment @-mentions you, a red notification appears on the top bar inbox. When you get an answer to your question, a red notification ...
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Add notification when your question is closed as a duplicate by a mod [duplicate]

There are already some feature-requests asking for a notification when your question gets closed, with which I wholly agree: Send authors an inbox message if their question gets closed Why did I not ...
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Why are alerts not given to the original poster when their question is closed? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Please notify us when a question we ask or answer is closed or reopened Send a Stack Exchange notification when a question gets closed Notice that I never get an alert in my ...
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Deletion notification

I just found out that one of my answers had been deleted 17 days ago. It had 18 up votes and I don't have the rep to see down votes, close votes, or whatever else would have notified me that it was ...
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Send a message when your question is closed [duplicate]

I recently added a question to the Sci-Fi site, unfortunately this question was closed because I could have looked it up quite easily. However that is not my point, normally when there is interaction ...
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Why did I not get notified that my question was closed? [duplicate]

I posed a question on meta.money.stackexchange.com and ticked the "Notify (email address) daily of any new answers" option. The question was closed by an attentive moderator less than 20 minutes ...
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Alert when a question is closed as a duplicate [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Send a Stack Exchange notification when a question gets closed I asked https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/19093/gmail-search-isunlabelled on WebApps, which was closed ...
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