If a user pings me in a chat room, I get a notification if I was active in that room in the last 7 days (is this really how it works? It is strange that this information does not appear in the FAQs...)
I am a member of a couple of chat rooms that get activity less often than that. As a result of the lack of notifications, I sometimes miss important messages related to moderation (the rooms are moderator-only and for moderation purposes. But the lack of notifications may be a problem for other kinds of low-activity rooms). I would like to be able to "follow" a specific room, so that I always get notified when someone pings me in that room. This should ideally be a private setting (such that other users do not take advantage of it to send me spam), and it should be possible to "unfollow" the room at any time.
Is there a way/workaround to enable unconditional notifications of pings from a specific chat room? If not, can we get one?
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pings., then you are pingable. If your username is not in the auto-complete list, then you're not@
pingable. In order to notify you about a new message, all the user needs to do is actually reply to an earlier message of yours. Replying to an old message will always notify you, even if the message being replied to is years old and you haven't been in the room for years.@username
: Does a direct reply to a message in chat create a notification, no matter what age the message is? (After posting this, I have noticed that this was mentioned in a comment under the answer.)