1:10 AM
@MartinSleziak Sure. ... but there's no plan to implement that, either... there are a variety of issues - what we define as a "minor edit", inflating the review queue (if that specific solution is implemented), people complaining that something should have been submitted as a minor edit but wasn't, so it bumped the page, users conspiring to make major edits to posts by having three people approve the edit without it actually getting review...
and even if we're not going to look at it conspiratorially, sometimes people review stuff ... wrongly... and if they're not bumped to the active page, no one will ever catch that.
@MartinSleziak My point in responding wasn't to tell you not to ask. I've talked to the design team about it previously and, while it's something that was considered at one point, it was discarded for a few reasons... if the site name is in the top bar as it is on SO, the banner becomes pointless, which then becomes a sticking point for the sites already hurting for the loss of the site designs. We're not going to do it on some sites but not others; that defeats the purpose of the unified design...
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9:31 AM
@Catija Well, maybe it's a naive approach on my part, but until I see status-declined there, I think there's still some hope that the feature request could be taken into consideration when new feature request are decided.
After all, both you and Jon Ericson mentioned that the current redesign should help to free some workforce to look at some past feature requests.
@SándorKovács It was severely broken, in fact. Every time we added features to the network, something, somewhere ran into problems. We were under a mountain of technical debt that kept piling up, making it impossible for us to implement features so many users had been asking for for years. If we didn't make these changes, the site would remain stuck as it was. While many of our users are perfectly happy with the site as it is, many are not and have a variety of feature requests they'd love to see active on the network - and we'd love to make those happen. — Catija ♦ Dec 17 at 2:10
At the very least, looking again at the feature request about minor edits made me notice also this one (mentioned in Shog9's answer): System to enable hand-sorted moderator retagging for sizeable disambiguation jobs.
BTW the featured tag on MathOverflow updated site theme is ready for testing! expired a few days ago.
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7:31 PM
@MartinSleziak It's a complex thing... Unless it's something that we see zero benefit in or that goes against the SE structure, we tend not to decline things ... but this may give false hope to people that they will eventually happen. If we start declining stuff and then coming back a year or two later and completing it... the decline tag loses a lot of its meaning. We could decline things and then users might assume "it's only declined for now. In two years it may happen".
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