Suggestions for improvements to the 'Stale posts' feature
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Scarlet Kingfisher
I have a few suggestions for how to improve the 'Stale posts' feature.
Suggestion #1 –– When I have no stale posts it uses a lot of screen estate on the /admin view. I would rather just see my roadmap.
Suggestion #2 –– Update 'stale posts' whenever a new comment or edit is made by an admin, not just on 'status' change. That would make a lot of our features go out of 'stale' mode when we can't change their status.
Suggestion #3 –– If suggestion #2 isn't an option, then make it possible to disable 'Stale posts'. It's not very encouraging getting emails every day that you have 3 features that are 'stale' with red text saying they're '6 weeks' old. We're often working on big features that can take more than 4 weeks to change status.
[added by @Jacques, see comment below] Suggestion #4 — View activity and number of stale posts per Category.
Jacques Reulet
From Rose Mule:
"it would be extremely useful to see activity and number of stale posts per Category. We have different people responsible for different categories and would love to create more visibility around this."
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Beneficial Bison
I especially agree with the third suggestion. It's not useful to have to scroll down past a ton of stale posts every time that I want to see the other posts.
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Rubber Vole
I totally agree with #2!!!
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Cyan Tortoise
We've been using the "Planned" tag to indicate things on our ~6 month roadmap (so our sales team knows what's coming), and have ~30 items that are currently stale. Agreed with all of Simon's comments above, and particularly #3, either the ability to disable or set your own duration.