Questions tagged [global-inbox]
Use for the drop-down global inbox and its functionality; for the notifications themselves, include the [notifications] tag.
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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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abrupt increase of unread inbox messages though in fact there are no new ones
Yesterday the number of my unread messages in the inbox was 24, but today is 40. Although no new messages appeared.
Why did that happen?
How to reclaim the correct number of 24?
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I did ...
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chat links in full inbox have broken links to nonexistent DNS host bonfire.stackoverflow.com
When your global inbox contains chat pings, those links are only valid from the popup. When you click on Go to full inbox it takes you to a page where all the chat links have been rewritten from ...
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Notifications are either not marked read soon or at all [closed]
I've been seeing this on Firefox Floorp & Zen Browser (all Firefox-based) for months. I just tried this: either get a new notification, mark it as unread, right > open link in new tab, then ...
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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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Two hard to count the inbox notifications from chat
A decade ago, in 2014 some guy named Jeff Tweeted1:
There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
Well, somehow this seems applicable here:...
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What exactly triggers the "new items in your Stack Exchange inbox" email?
I have the new inbox items email notification set to daily:
I check the inbox (i.e. click the inbox icon on top bar) very frequently, many times every day, and after I check the items, I mark them as ...
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Reading the full comment addressed to me on a question that got deleted quickly afterwards
I commented on a question (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4986265) over on Math.SE. When I returned a minute or two later, the question had been deleted, and I could see in my inbox that ...
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Have the inbox improvements of a couple of years ago been rolled back?
A few minutes ago I opened my inbox -- I do not remember for certain which page I was on, but it was probably a chat page -- and managed inadvertently to mark all of the unread entries as read, as if ...
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Inbox is not visually marking item as read when middle-clicking to open in new tab
The inbox used to visually mark an item as read when I use my middle mouse button to open the item in a new tab. It no longer does this. It does recognize that I clicked it and mark the notification ...
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No pong for the ping! No inbox notifications for chat pings [duplicate]
Well, I may have moved my main-site activity elsewhere, but I still talk to people in chat here, so I very much prefer receiving notifications when they ping for me. I mean, how else will I pong them?
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Long unbreakable text in notification summary causes timestamps to overflow in global inbox [duplicate]
There's an item in my inbox for which the relative timestamp (2 days) overflows the envelope icon to mark it as (un)read:
This happens in several browsers (Safari and Chrome on macOS, Edge on Windows)...
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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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Inbox count badge doesn't disappear when clicking on last notification
I'm not able to reproduce this consistently, but often when I click on the last remaining unread notification in my inbox, it goes to the question but doesn't remove the count badge. So there's a &...
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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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