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Feature request: Don't show the validation messages "Body is missing", "Title is missing." and "Please enter at least one tag" until one tries to submit the question in the new Ask page.

Rationale: it's rather obvious it needs to be non-empty. No need to bombard the user with red messages until they try to submit the question (visual distraction + takes a bit of vertical space).

For comparison, here's SE's new Ask page on the left, and the old one on the right (or below on small screens), after clicking on each of the 3 fields (title/body/tag):

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The one on the left (new Ask page) is cluttered with red messages.

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    Would it be possible to write a script to remove the messages user-side rather than ask SE devs to make a change like that? Commented Aug 17 at 0:05

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Thanks for the feedback. We've updated the behavior of the form field validation in the new Ask flow.

We're now performing most of the field validations once the user clicks the 'Review your question' button. This should remove the visual distraction of too many error messages.

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