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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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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Recent achievements green count and achievements details do not match - need to show where the reputation change came from [duplicate]
The green indicator above the "Recent achievements" icon appeared very recently today showing a +1 reputation change. However, when I click on this icon to show details, I can only see a -2 ...
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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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"Question update" in Russian on Meta SE
Got this notification recently here on Meta; it should be in English instead:
question update 4 mins ago
Use "Review your question" for something useful: Encouraging accessible images
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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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Negative number of notifications [duplicate]
Something happened and I now see a negative notification counter in the top-right corner:
My best guess is that someone pinged me in a comment, and then deleted it around the time I clicked on the ...
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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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Email notifications not coming through despite being set up
I have daily email notifications turned on it profile page > Prefs but am still not getting email notifications when my questions are answered etc. They're not in junk either. Seems like a bug?
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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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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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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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A string that was already translated a long time ago doesn't show on the site
I edited the question (in the ruSO site), marked that this edit resolves the original close reason, the reopening failed and I got untranslated notification about it:
But it turned out that this ...
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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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