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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The new top bar is out on meta. Consider it a beta
EDIT Dec 4 - We're doing it live! Please post bugs or concerns as questions tagged [top-bar]
We have rolled out our 95% completed top bar for feedback.
Note:
We are still adding a few final ...
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Send authors an inbox message if their question is closed
I think it would really help if you get notified that a question of yours was closed.
Especially for the multi-site power user, usually (at least for me) a question is asked and then left alone for ...
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Inbox improvements are live
The feedback up until January 3rd, 2023 has been catalogued and handed over to the product team. Any further feedback or bug reports should be posted as a new question.
TL;DR: The inbox improvements ...
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Adding Favorites to the Stack Exchange global inbox
We're considering adding favorite notifications to the global inbox, and are looking for feedback on the idea (as we're not completely sold on it).
But first, some history.
Favorites are kind of ...
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What events trigger an inbox notification?
The global inbox was once introduced because it became hard "to keep track of all your questions, answers, and comments across every site you participated on".
The small red number tells you ...
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Feedback request: New top bar and MultiCollider redesign
UPDATE 3
This is out on meta! New feedback post is here.
UPDATE 2
We're going to try putting the hot network questions on the homepage - replacing recent tags and recent badges.
Something like this (...
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No notification was received for an edit to a post
Normally, when a user edits one of my posts, I receive a notification like on the following depending on the case
User has editing privilege (click to visit revision)
Users' edit is submitted to ...
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Can we get an option to stop the global inbox from marking everything as read? [duplicate]
Sometimes I'll come back to SO after a few hours (gotta sleep sometime), and I'll have a bunch of comments waiting for me. A lot of my answers lately have spawned mini discussions as I help solve new ...
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Deleted comments persist in the global inbox
A comment directed to popular demand, posted and deleted in my question about high rep users is still in my and popular demands' global inbox.
Additionally, edits do not affect the global inbox.
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Inbox improvements: marking notifications as read/unread, and a filtered inbox view
TL;DR: We're planning to make some changes to the inbox in a few weeks. You'll be able to mark individual notifications as read or unread, and to filter the inbox dropdown to show only unread ...
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Add desktop notifications for Chrome or Firefox
I noticed that chat supports desktop notifications to notify you when someone pings you, which made me think that maybe the main site has this functionality as well, and I'd really like to use it in ...
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More control over multicollider
Related: Add the ability to ignore users
Today, we had a guy who had an issue with a naggy user. This sort of sparked me into coming up with a new feature-request (Can't find a dupe, surprised).
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Show inbox updates in the page title
Background
Recently New Feature: real time updates to questions, answers, and inbox was implemented. With this feature the amount of questions with new activity is shown in parenthesis at the ...
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Poll in background for StackExchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™ inbox events and update the titlebar accordingly à la Facebook
I understand a few similar questions have been asked, but this is hopefully completely separate functionality.
Say you have Facebook open in Tab 1 of your favorite browser (mine is Chrome). When ...
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Clicking on the StackExchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™ links to StackExchange.com before page is loaded
The behavior of the StackExchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™ is different before and after the page fully loads.
While page is loading: Links to StackExchange.com
After page load: StackExchange™ ...
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