Features

SOX Features

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 a label on questions which are hot-network questions
• Add a link to the bottom of a post to reveal all spoilers in a post
• Add a link to the tag wiki page on the popup that appears when hovering over a tag
• Add a mod diamond to the topbar to alert you of new questions on the site's child-meta
• Add display name before gravatar in topbar
• Add highlighted tags to closed/on hold/duplicate/migrated questions on question lists
• Add Scroll To Top button
• Add the author's name to notifications in the inbox
• Add the SO logo after employee names to make them stand out
• Add timeline and revision links to the bottom of each post for quick access to them
• Align badges by their class on user profile pages
• Change highlighting for questions with favourite tags
• Color answerer's comments
• Convert timestamps to your local time
• Differentiate spoilers from empty blockquotes
• Display reviewer stats on /review/suggested-edits in table form
• Hide the 'How to ask/format/tag' yellow boxes that appear when asking a question whilst zoomed in
• Hide the 'welcome back...don't forget to vote' message when visiting a site after a while
• Improve answer visibility by listing top answers
• Make bounty box draggable
• Show meta and chat buttons on hover of a site under the site switcher button
• Show tags for the question an answer belongs to on search pages (for better context)

Comments

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

Editing

• Add a button to the editor toolbar to start side-by-side editing
• Add a find & replace feature to the markdown editor
• Add a tooltip to posts showing the last revision's comment
• Add KBD and list buttons to editor toolbar
• Inline editor regardless of reputation
• Make title edits show separately rather than merged in edit suggestions
• Pre-defined edit comment options (checkboxes)

Flags

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

Sidebar

• 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
• Hide just the 'Hot Meta Posts' sections in the Community Bulletin
• Hide the 'Love this site?' module
• Hide the Chat module
• Hide the Community Bulletin module
• Hide the Hot Network Questions module
• Hide the Looking for a Job module

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
• Disable vote buttons on your own posts and deleted posts, which you cannot vote on
• Make vote buttons next to posts sticky whilst scrolling on that post

Extras

• 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
• Add an option to filter bounties by their amount
• Add custom magic links to comments and posts
• Add how many reviews are available on Meta to the main site review page
• Always show the 'Link from the web' box when uploading an image
• Change 'share' link to format of [post-name](url)
• Display linked posts inline by clicking on an arrow
• Hide on hold, closed, or duplicate questions or deleted answers
• Open any links to the specified sites in a new tab by default
• Parse titles to links cross-SE-sites
• Remove your user ID from the 'share' link
• Replace the 'help' link with an 'on-topic' link in the site switcher dropdown
• Show question's current state in the suggested edit review queue
• Show when the post's author was last seen and whether they are registered
• Warn you when you are not logged in