**Meme:** Eeeek! 

**Originator:** [Marti](https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/153019/marti)

**First Seen:** [4 Mar. 2011 ~ Eeeek what happened to my envelope?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/82538/eeeek-what-happened-to-my-envelope) (sorry folks, 10k only). Screenshot for <10K users:

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Eeeek! What happened to my envelope?
The envelope is gone from next to my name! How am I supposed to check where those recent points came from? I don't remember the link to that page!
Edit: just to summarize the ways that the reputation graph does not make a suitable replacement for the /recent page
• The recent page has just the information I'm interested in, front and center. The graph hides the
list of recent rep changes at the bottom of the page, below a bunch of noise, and it only shows the time period I'm interested in if it feels like it and/or I beg and plead. 
    • Not to mention, if the time period I'm interested in does not happen to coincide with a UTC
calendar day, I'm SOL.
• The recent page also includes comments that are new to me. With this new setup, that's in an
entirely different place (Responses tab of profile), at least 3 clicks away from the main page. (And a bunch of scrolling followed by a click away from the rep changes, if I've finally gotten them to show.) 
• The recent page showed me only the things that were new to me, and all of the things that were new to me. On the Responses tab, I have to remember which activity I've already seen, but that's still better than the rep graph, on which it is completely impossible to see where those most recent reputation changes came from, because 1 whole day is as fine-grained as it gets. 
    • Being able to sort the rep changes by timestamp instead of grouping them would only be a
partial fix: there's still the issue of 1-UTC-calendar-day-increments, and again, I'd have to remember where I was last.
Edit 2: The MicroDashboard totally misses the point. The most useful feature of the /recent page is that it remembers where you were. Unless you tell it otherwise, it only shows the newest changes, the ones you haven't seen yet. Even the new graphless reputation page doesn't do that.
(Take the bug tag off all you want, that doesn't change the fact that something that used to work now no longer does.)][1]][1]

**Cultural Height:** Probably still to be reached, given the increase of developers working for Stack Exchange. Although see comments [here][2] for first signs of possible decline (2 weeks after first appearance).

**Definition:** Stack Overflow developers like to change things, just for the heck of it. This can be shocking for users, who find their site suddenly *different* in some way. Cherished envelopes go missing, then cherished posts complaining about cherished envelopes going missing go missing, then posts complaining about the missing posts go missing (sometimes before they're even given time to be cherished!). 

The inevitable response to this shock is a high-pitched squeal, aptly captured in the title prefix, "Eeek!" (See FAQ section for proper spelling.) 

**Origin:** Once upon a time Stack Exchange 2.0 supported a site-specific notification system to find all the things that had happened to your account since the last time you logged in to that one site. [It][3] [was][4] [supposedly][5] [horrid][6] [and][7] [lots][8] [of][9] [people][10] [hated][11] [it][12]. The SEI staff removed it so they could implement a new feature. People FREAKED OUT. I'm pretty sure that when [Vesuvius][13] [blew][14] that the people took it less hard than the users on Stack Exchange 2.0 sites freaked out over this new change.

Since then, [several other][15] [topics have][16] [been raised][17] with similar titles [and topics][18].

**FAQ**

* *[I'm wondering if the correct form of Eeeek! is four letters e or five.][19]*
 * [The number of e's in Eeeek is variable.][20] [Ideally, it should correspond][21] to the level of eeekiness of the problem. For example, a [minor CSS tweak][17] that affects only one page of one site should warrant no more than an 'Ek', while a true bug such as the meme originator or [the first signs that SO is achieving sentience][22] can take 'Eeeek'. A longer squeal should be reserved for truly earth-shattering problems; please resist the urge for eeek-inflation.


  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/NlcBN.png
  [2]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/83774/153019
  [3]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/63847/favourites-changed-notification-doesnt-work-properly
  [4]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/18396/should-recent-icon-be-changed
  [5]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26855/what-is-the-logic-behind-users-recent-xxxxx-versus-users-xxxxx-username
  [6]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/68387/the-envelope-icon-driving-me-mad-with-false-positives
  [7]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/61012/any-progress-with-the-envelope-indicator
  [8]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/67236/ux-restrictions-of-stack-overflow
  [9]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3432/please-notify-us-when-a-question-we-ask-or-answer-is-closed-or-reopened
  [10]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/82922/envelope-still-present-at-area51
  [11]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/67701/envelope-highlighted-but-no-responses
  [12]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78708/notification-envelope-deprecated
  [13]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vesuvius
  [14]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_79
  [15]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/83615/eeeek-what-happened-to-the-eeeek-what-happened-to-my-envelope-question
  [16]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/82817/eeeek-where-did-the-reputation-graph-go
  [17]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/83600/eeeek-why-is-stackoverflow-naked
  [18]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/83286/can-more-of-the-functionality-of-the-old-envelope-be-added-to-the-new-drop-down-m
  [19]: https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/693081#693081
  [20]: https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/693228#693228
  [21]: https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/695181#695181
  [22]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/83748/153019