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This has been confusing me for ages. I go to StackOverflow. I see the link at the top saying that I have a new answer. I click it. It shows "nothing".

I click "this week", "last week" - they all show "nothing".

I click "this month", and the most recent answer is one that I have seen three times before.

So I have no idea what this link is telling me about. Where is this new answer? Why does this keep happening so often? It's either a bug or bad UI.

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    Yep, that's a known bug (at least it has been reported quite a few times). See meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13040/… for example
    – balpha StaffMod
    Commented Mar 26, 2010 at 15:33
  • I am positive it's neither of the two suggested answers in that link, and since I am unable to edit the other bugreport to add more details I propose to keep this one :)
    – RomanSt
    Commented Mar 26, 2010 at 15:39
  • i posted a similar mystery; see if anything looks familiar. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/42891/…
    – quack quixote
    Commented Mar 26, 2010 at 17:02

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Check the "revisions" tab on that screen: one of your questions was edited 21 hours ago, and that would trigger the notification while not showing anything on the summary page...

Yes, it would be more helpful if the notification said "n new revision(s) to your post(s)".

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  • Indeed, thanks! Hoping to see this fixed...
    – RomanSt
    Commented Mar 26, 2010 at 18:10
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    That's totally the issue - we'll look at it!
    – Jarrod Dixon
    Commented Mar 26, 2010 at 19:43
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    We split out the edits - the query included them incorrectly in the answer total. You'll now see counts for new answers, comments, and edits.
    – Jarrod Dixon
    Commented May 4, 2010 at 16:40

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