Activity Indicator - see if you participated in a Q&A at a glance

Question

About

Activity Indicator is a userscript that displays a, well, indicator and some useful stats about your interactions with a given post. Inspired by this feature request, upon opening a post, the script adds a "participation" breakdown to where one finds Q&A stats normally:

Due to the limited space, the labels are added in an abbreviated form but I hope they are intuitive enough but have full-text hints displayed on hover (since 1.2.0):

Abbreviation	Stats
A	answered the question
Q	asked the question
EA	edited* an answer
EQ	edited* the question
AC	left a comment on one of the answers
QC	left a comment on the question

* Currently limited to being the latest editor of a post but I intend to switch that to full post history analysis in the near future.

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Here is a live preview of how label hints and jumping to action look like:

License

The script is licensed under the GPL-3.0-or-later license.

Download

Install | Minified

The script doesn't need a userscript manager to work (but includes necessary headers).

Platform

Version number means "last tested on":

Chrome	Opera	Firefox	Edge	IE
✔ 93.0.4577.63	✔ 78.0.4093.184	✔ 92.0	✔ 93.0.961.38	no

Change log

Version	Description
1.2.0	Enhanced stats labels with links to latest relevant post/comment and full-text hints on hover
1.2.1	Added meta sites of the Stack Exchange network to @match headers

Contact

Author: Oleg Valter
Organization: UserScripters

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Code

Source code written in TypeScript.

Uses type definitions for Stack Exchange global objects.

Contributions are welcome, you can always submit a PR here.

Answer 1

status-planned

Just a simple recommendation (I do not particularly like the abbreviations):

could there be a table on hover, e.g:

_{* Like the Roomba Forecaster userscript.}

The table can contain long details like "Answered the question", "Edited the question", etc.

Answer 2

feature-request status-deferred

Please add a way to search through these posts¹.

Possible use cases:

• Checking your recent comments (on either questions or answers) to see whether they are still up to date.
• Checking whether or not some edits you made a while ago can be improved upon.
• If you normally comment on (or edit) posts that you've seen, you can use this to see if there are any semi-recent posts that you've missed (only useful on smaller sites)

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_{1: by this I mean both a way to look at all the posts where you have taken a specific action and a way to look at all the posts where you haven't taken that action}

Answer 3

feature-request

A couple of minor change requests:

1. If the indicators include Q and A (i.e., on self-answered questions), it's more intuitive to show Q before A. (perhaps that should also happen with EQ &EA and QC &AC?)

2. I don't think EQ should show up when I'm the OP. Similarly, there's no need to show EA if I'm the author of that specific answer. Obviously, it should still show up if I have edited another (competing) answer.

To illustrate, on a self-answered question of mine, I currently see this:

I think it should show this instead: