Questions tagged [notifications]
Questions about the various user interface and email elements used to notify users of events on the site.
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Don't send me notifications (and emails) for company update posts
Recently I got an unwanted notification and subsequent email for the company update: Chat room owners can now establish room guidelines.
Note: this is a "message" notification for the ...
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Notification about comments under question [duplicate]
As I know, there should be a notification for every comment under a question (answer by Jeff Atwood)
But for the question Inbox indicator shows negative counter, the comment from @Bergi is not in my ...
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Marking "Set your rooms' culture" notification as read gives you a negative number of notifications
Recently I was sent a notification about the ability to set room guidelines. However, while this shows in the inbox, it seems to be counted wrong. If the notification is unread, then the red number is ...
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Could we consider ways to filter the inbox?
Inspired by a now deleted post by a spammer, and another meta post, and requests to filter in/out sites....
There's a broad spectrum of usage amongst users. I for one prefer to see everything I'm sent....
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Got a notification that I earned the "vote up privilege" while I have 60k+ rep
I got a notification that I earned the "vote up privilege". I think it's a bug since I'm have 60k+ rep on that site.
More examples.
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How can I be sure to get notifications about events on my posts?
In short I answered a question and I would to know if someone replies to it or put an upvote/downvote, etc
I made an account so I should get notifications automatically right? Or I need to set on ...
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How can I be notified about new tags?
I am a highly active curator on a medium-sized site. We don't have all that many tags: 8 pages total, of which 6 are non-synonyms. Usually we don't need new tags. In general if someone creates a tag ...
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Didn't get a notification that the Stack Overflow election started
Yesterday, a Stack Overflow moderator election started, but I didn't get a notification in my inbox even though I have enough reputation to vote. I did get two other election messages at that same ...
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A per-community opt-in feature to allow users to mute notifications on specific questions
I want to be able to mute notifications from a particular question.
This feature was previously requested here: Can I mute notifications on a specific question? -
I considered voicing my approval ...
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Inbox indicator shows negative counter
I recently noticed that my inbox indicator has a negative counter:
Update: I investigated a bit and apparently this was caused by a user who commented something and then removed their comment, all ...
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Add notifications for flag respones [duplicate]
Sometimes a flag warrants a response from the person reviewing it, as in this case:
However, there is no notification when a response is given, not in the inbox nor the achievements dialogue. One has ...
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Inbox notification count does not update for chat [duplicate]
The inbox notification count does not update when I get a new unread chat ping.
For example, before:
After:
However, if I get a new notification on StackExchange sites (for example, via a comment), it ...
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No longer pinged after comments were moved to chat, despite an explicit @reply
I have been participating in a discussion of an answer on the Physics Stack Exchange. Until now, I have been receiving pings to my inbox whenever a new comment was addressed to me with an @reply. ...
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Why do some comment replies using the @username convention fail to work? [closed]
When I reply to a comment, I try to follow the @username convention. It almost always works fine. But sometimes it doesn’t work: i.e., I have to type out the username because it fails to appear in an ...
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On stackexchange.com, the inbox message count erroneously briefly shows 0 upon page reload
On the stackexchange.com homepage, the inbox message count erroneously shows 0 upon page reload. Example:
Tested with the latest version of Chrome on Windows 10.
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How can I get email updates on questions I post?
How do I subscribe to receive email updates on comments and answers to questions that I post? Preferably this would be enabled by default on any new question I post. It used to be the case, but for ...
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When there are multiple comments on my post, have the notification lead to the oldest
Currently if multiple comments on one of your own posts, you get a single notification, not multiple. What happens is that all comment notifications for the same post are grouped together, only the ...
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Will edited comments to one post notify the poster multiple times? [duplicate]
I checked the What events trigger an inbox notification? and searched for "edit" but didn't find this specific problem about "edited comments".
Since "Another user comments on ...
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iPhone push notifications
What are the current methods to get push notifications on the iPhone?
I am looking for something that would display a badge or a banner on the iPhone when someone posts an answer to my question or a ...
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Email notifications not working about question edits and changes
I asked a question in Stack Overflow and my question was closed. I hoped that I would receive email notifications about changes and when the question was closed but I didn't receive email ...
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Half of my notification about earning a new privilege is in a different language
I recently earned a the privilege to "Create tag synonyms" here on meta. However, the notification in my achievements inbox is half in English and half in what I believe is Russian.
I ...
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I'm clicking the same message multiple times to get it to clear, is it broken, or is something else happening?
My inbox indicates that I have a message! I click it to see what that message is. My expectation is that the message would be cleared from the inbox's active queue (the red-circle number decrements ...
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All links in all emails are broken
The links from Stack Exchange's inbox and SOFT inbox notifications emails go through a https://sg-links.stackoverflow.email/ link. Currently these links are hitting an "offline for maintenance&...
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Do we receive notifications about new answers posted for a question on which I started bounty? [duplicate]
I started a bounty on a question. After I started the bounty, some answers were posted and I received notifications about these answers.
P.S. I didn't follow the bounty question.
Is receiving ...
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How do I get inbox notifications on Android phone?
I know that Stack Exchange has discontinued its Android App and is not interested in making the app code open source.
Since it has been discontinued, that I am missing its one of the essential feature ...
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