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Show last modified user and "friendly" timestamp at the top of a task, below the title so you can quickly see if a task is stale or not.
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currently you have to scroll all the way to the bottom to see if there is recent activity.

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Jaredzimmerman-WMF raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.
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Aklapper triaged this task as Lowest priority.Mar 12 2015, 1:26 PM
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Date of last change is already shown in the task search result list.
Not convinced there's a common need to also show it in every task itself and exposed at the top.

Last activity is not a reliable indicator of whether a task is stalled or not. People can be regularly subscribing and commenting on a task, and yet the task it self be completely stalled.

I didn't mistype the description, I meant "stale" not "stalled" there are many tasks esp. those imported from bugzilla that are very old and even after the import no one has touched, and may never touch. "As a user of phabricator I would find this very useful"

@Aklapper we don't always arrive though search results to a task.

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I believe that to really understand the state of a ticket and whether it is stale, one has to read its history.
The "last change" date (e.g. when a new subscriber was added to the CC list, or when someone added a "what's the status here?" comment) does not have sufficient relevance to consistently express whether a ticket is stale or not.

@Aklapper & @Qgil, you two are total phabricator pros, I think this would be useful to a wide array of people less skilled than yourself. perhaps you'd reconsider upstreaming this, based on designing for your users rather than yourselves?

I think this would be useful to a wide array of people

I don't share that feeling; see my previous comment.