Features

SOX Features (v2.6.0)

Below is a list of all the features that SOX comes with! Remember -- they are all optional! You can decide which ones you prefer to enable :)

Any features with corresponding Meta discussions have links to the Meta post.

Appearance

• Add the author's name to notifications in the inbox
  • If you receive a comment/answer/suggested edit notification, this feature will add the name of the author of the comment/answer/edit to the notification
• Open imgur images as larger modals on click
  • When clicking on an image that is hosted on Stack Exchange's imgur account, a modal will open showing a larger version of the image. If you still want to open the image in a new tab, there is a 'source' link in the modal.
• Show tags for the question an answer belongs to on search pages (for better context)
  • By default, any search results that are answers do not show its question's tags. This feature adds the question's tags underneath the result.
• Color answerer's comments
  • Highlight the username of a commenter if they have posted an answer on that page.
• Add display name before gravatar in topbar
• Make bounty box draggable
• Change highlighting for questions with favourite tags
  • Changes the favourite tag question highlighting to be a more subtle, coloured left-border
• Add a label on questions which are hot-network questions
  • If the question you are currently viewing is HOT, a flame icon is added next to the title
• Convert timestamps to your local time
  • Displays timestamps based on your time zone. You can also display time in 12-hour format by checking the option.
• Add the SO logo after employee names to make them stand out
• Show meta and chat buttons on hover of a site under the site switcher button
• Align badges by their class on user profile pages
• Add Scroll To Top button
  • This feature adds an up arrow at the bottom-right of your screen, that will jump to the top of the page when clicked
• Differentiate spoilers from empty blockquotes
• Add highlighted tags to closed/on hold/duplicate/migrated questions on question lists
  • Adds a coloured box at the end of a title (that replaces the standard [duplicate], etc.) in question lists to more easily tell what the state of a question is
• Display reviewer stats on /review/suggested-edits in table form
• Improve answer visibility by listing top answers
• Add a link to the bottom of a post to reveal all spoilers in a post
• Add timeline and revision links to the bottom of each post for quick access to them
• Add a link to the tag wiki page on the popup that appears when hovering over a tag
• Hide the 'welcome back...don't forget to vote' message when visiting a site after a while
• Hide the 'How to ask/format/tag' yellow boxes that appear when asking a question whilst zoomed in
• Add a mod diamond to the topbar to alert you of new questions on the site's child-meta

Comments

• View linked images (to imgur) in comments inline
  • This feature will automatically detect comments with links to imgur and will display them inline
• Add reply links to comments for quick replying (without having to type someone's username)
• Use Ctrl+I,B,K (to italicise, bolden and add code backticks) in comments
• Add a confirmation dialog when navigating away on pages whilst still typing a comment
• Copy 'show x more comments' link to the top
• Move the 'start a bounty' link to before the comments
• Show your comment and comment replies scores in your profile tabs
  • Adds a button next to comments in your profile's responses/activity tabs that when clicked, show you the score of your comment
• Add a darker border underneath comments if there are some hidden after it
• Only show the comment actions (flag/upvote) when hovering over a comment

Editing

• Add a button to the editor toolbar to start side-by-side editing
  • An 'SBS' button is added to the right of the markdown editor toolbar. Clicking it will make the markdown and the preview appear side-by-side
• Pre-defined edit comment options (checkboxes)
  • Adds checkboxes to add canned messages for edit revisions when editing. You can make your own canned responses by clicking the 'Edit Reasons' button that is added to the Help dropdown menu in the topbar
• Add a tooltip to posts showing the last revision's comment
  • When a post is edited, the editor is displayed underneath the post. This feature will show what the last revision's comment was as a tooltip when you hover over 'edited' underneath a post in 'edited [date] at [time]'
• Add a find & replace feature to the markdown editor
• Add KBD and list buttons to editor toolbar
  • Adds a kbd and bullet icon to the markdown editor toolbar that lets you surround the selected text with KBD tags or listify's the current selection
• Make title edits show separately rather than merged in edit suggestions
• Inline editor regardless of reputation
  • Enables the inline editor on all sites, even if you don't have 2k rep there yet. Note: this feature may not work on Firefox.

Flags

• Show the flag outcome time when viewing your Flag History
• Show flagging percentages for each type in the Flag Summary
• Show the total percentage of helpful flags as a coloured bar on the Flag Summary Page

Sidebar

• Hide the Community Bulletin module
• Hide just the 'Hot Meta Posts' sections in the Community Bulletin
• Hide the Looking for a Job module
• Hide the Chat module
• Hide the 'Love this site?' module
• Add an arrow to linked posts in the sidebar to show whether they are linked to or linked from
• Filter the hot network questions by their attributes
• Show HNQ tags on hover in the sidebar
  • When hovering over a question title in the Hot Network Questions sidebar, the question's tags from the originating site will be shown

Chat

• Add buttons to user profiles to change user write access directly from a chat room
• Add reply signs to your own chat messages
• Prepend 'Chat - ' to chat tabs' titles

Voting

• Add extra CSS for animation actions on voting and favourite buttons
  • Pulse effect when hovering over the upvote/downvote/favourite buttons. Currently only implemented natively on Android.SE.
• Make vote buttons next to posts sticky whilst scrolling on that post
• Disable vote buttons on your own posts and deleted posts, which you cannot vote on

Extras

• Display linked posts inline by clicking on an arrow
  • Adds a button next to links to posts on the same site that expand to show the post inline
• Add custom magic links to comments and posts
  • Allows you to create your own magic links ('[text]' auto-converts to a link of your choice). Links can use the placeholders $BASEURL, $METABASEURL, $QUESTIONID, and $ANSWERID which are auto-replaced with the respective data. You can set the reasons by clicking the 'Magic Links' button added to the 'Help' dropdown at the top-right of the page. See https://stackapps.com/q/6650 for more details.
• Show when the post's author was last seen and whether they are registered
• Remove your user ID from the 'share' link
  • When you click 'share' under a post, this displays a referral link, which incorporates your user ID. This option strips your user ID from the displayed link, preventing inadvertent privacy leaks when disseminating the link via copy-paste. The social-media sharing buttons are unaffected, since the lack of privacy is obvious.
• Change 'share' link to format of [post-name](url)
  • When you click 'share' under a post, this will convert the URL given to a markdown-friendly version, with the post name as the link text. This feature also automatically copies the converted string to your clipboard
• Add an option to filter bounties by their amount
• Warn you when you are not logged in
• Parse titles to links cross-SE-sites
  • Detects links to other questions on SE sites and converts them to their title
• Add how many reviews are available on Meta to the main site review page
• Add a button to code in posts to let you copy it
• Add a progress bar showing how many reviews you have left in the day
• Open any links to the specified sites in a new tab by default
  • You need to set the sites yourself by clicking the button next to this feature
• Show question's current state in the suggested edit review queue
• Replace the 'help' link with an 'on-topic' link in the site switcher dropdown
• Hide on hold, closed, or duplicate questions or deleted answers