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This place is not exactly lively yet. That is not a surprise. But one quickly loses interest in visiting just to find nothing new day after day. Pretty soon you don't come back at all.
What would help would be a subscribe to new questions feature that would send an email when a new question is asked. That would bring people (i.e. me) back to the site when there is a new question, and might help stem loss of users through boredom.
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This is [status-completed]!
I've added a few different types of email subscriptions:
- Everything: get all the new questions. You'll get some duplicates, because this is just a reverse chronological feed.
- "Interesting": questions with a score over a certain threshold (currently 1, but configurable and probably to be increased as good posts start to get voted up more), randomly ordered so you get something new each time.
- Tag: reverse-chronology of a single tag.
- User: reverse-chronology of a single user.
This also goes some way to addressing this other feature-request: that's still on my list because it should be UI functionality as well, but the Interesting emails serve a similar purpose.
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