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Stack overflow PM here. The hot/active/week/month tabs were only removed for anonymous users. If you're logged in at all, you will still see them. I think my m

by jeremyt 13y ago

Stack overflow PM here. The hot/active/week/month tabs were only removed for anonymous users. If you're logged in at all, you will still see them. I think my meta-post covers the reasons behind this (mostly simplification for drive-by users). Also, we have put a lot of effort into simplifying our accounts management over the last year. We're about halfway there, but at the moment we aggregate site accounts under a global account. You'll have to take an affirmative action to "join" another site, but it's not the whole registration process - no separate username/email/password. Bottom line is registration requires an email and password, and that gets you the key to all of our sites. You just have to "use" the key on the site when you interact the first time. Also, I'll add that you could just go here: http://stackexchange.com/questions?tab=hot http://stackexchange.com/questions?tab=hot

dmunoz 13y ago
Thanks for the reply. I think I covered some of those points in my post, but thanks for clarifying. I get the justification for removing the tabs. I admitted in my post that the justification for the removal was fair enough. I, along with the other people commenting in the meta post, just don't like that the behaviour is also unavailable manually with e.g. ?tab=(active|hot|week|month). As for having to login once but join every site, it's just a pain I was unwilling to go through for the behaviour I wanted. As I admitted, this is my loss and not any loss to stackexchange.
- jeremyt 13y ago
  Well, it is a loss for us, but unfortunately it's just not technically feasible to have a global seamless login experience yet. We're working in that direction.
  - dmunoz 13y ago
    The reason I keep mentioning it as not being a loss to stackexchange is because in the justification you say > users who browse but never vote or post just aren't really that valuable, relatively speaking – except to encourage cross site discovery which we intend to incentivize in other ways. and for the behaviour I desire I fit exactly the mould of a user who isn't looking to vote or post. Okay, I might vote on the excellent responses, but on the sites that I just want ?tab=week or ?tab=month behaviour from, I don't want to ask questions.

by jeremyt 13y ago

dmunoz 13y ago

Thanks for the reply. I think I covered some of those points in my post, but thanks for clarifying. I get the justification for removing the tabs. I admitted in my post that the justification for the removal was fair enough. I, along with the other people commenting in the meta post, just don't like that the behaviour is also unavailable manually with e.g. ?tab=(active|hot|week|month). As for having to login once but join every site, it's just a pain I was unwilling to go through for the behaviour I wanted. As I admitted, this is my loss and not any loss to stackexchange.

jeremyt 13y ago
Well, it is a loss for us, but unfortunately it's just not technically feasible to have a global seamless login experience yet. We're working in that direction.
- dmunoz 13y ago
  The reason I keep mentioning it as not being a loss to stackexchange is because in the justification you say > users who browse but never vote or post just aren't really that valuable, relatively speaking – except to encourage cross site discovery which we intend to incentivize in other ways. and for the behaviour I desire I fit exactly the mould of a user who isn't looking to vote or post. Okay, I might vote on the excellent responses, but on the sites that I just want ?tab=week or ?tab=month behaviour from, I don't want to ask questions.