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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), ...
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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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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 no longer immediately marking item as read when middle-clicking to open in new tab
The inbox used to 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, but requires me to click the ...
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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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In the inbox, "N hours ago" is underneath the envelope icon when there's a URL in the notification
In this image, see how both messages were posted 9 hours ago but in the first one that text is covered by the envelope icon:
It still happens when the message is read. I think it's because of the ...
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I'm clicking the same message multiple times to get it to clear, is it broken, or is something else happening?
My inbox indicates that I have a message! I click it to see what that message is. My expectation is that the message would be cleared from the inbox's active queue (the red-circle number decrements ...
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New network top-bar cuts off achievement/inbox dialogue
The new top-bar looks like this:
But when I click the inbox or achievement button, it does this:
Inbox
Achievements
I'm not super zoomed in or anything, but the box still gets cut off by the left ...
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Lots of empty space in inbox
When I scroll to the bottom of my inbox, there is a ton of empty space. It's not that I don't have a lot of notifications; my full inbox has plenty of stuff. Is it supposed to look like this? In any ...
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Switched favicons for certain sites in inbox, achievements, and community tabs
When I click on my inbox or on the achievements button, it appears that the icon for Meta.SE has been switched with the one for Stack Apps; it's basically displaying the Stack Apps favicon even for ...
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Inbox only shows one message if two replies are received close together
I've noticed this a few times now with the new "sticky" inbox. I'll get two comment reply notifications close together, which will show a 2 badge over my inbox icon in the top bar.
When I ...
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Chat inbox icon with number of unread messages should be a pixel wider
It seems that chat page inbox item is not wide enough to overlap empty inbox icon. So the odd gray pixels break through the top:
Zoomed in:
And animated version when number goes away:
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Inbox Notifications Will Not Clear
About a week ago, some of my inbox notifications are refusing to flag as read, and therefore persist indefinitely.
I've tried multiple times clicking through each notification, and nothing I do seems ...
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Should "Go to full Inbox" instead say "Go to all messages" or "Go to complete Inbox"?
The link "Go to full Inbox" is unclear.
Does it just mean go to your Inbox?
Does it mean that your Inbox is in some way "full" (is there a limit?), and it's trying to tell you you ...
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Multiple answers to the same question doesn't clear in inbox count [duplicate]
I just verified that it doesn't work.
I tried to answer a question on SO. The OP put 2 comments under my answer, which showed "2" in the "Recent inbox messages".
When I click the ...
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Long tap mark notification as read on iPadOS
I'm not sure that this behavior is intentional, but on iPadOS Chrome long tap on unread item make it read:
Unable to reproduce on Android Chrome.
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Poor alignment of popover arrow in Inbox filter popup
The inbox filter popup has poor alignment for the popover arrow/ ^-mark relative to the popup rectangle.
In Unread mode even the border line looks broken:
Zoomed in:
Compare with unread popup on ...
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Keyboard shortcuts aren't marking inbox messages as read
When you click on an unread inbox message with your mouse, it brings you to that item - be it comment, answer, chat ping, mod message reply, etc. - and marks the inbox item as read. However, that ...
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Read messages displayed in Unread inbox filter after clicking "Refresh"
Steps to reproduce:
tap on inbox icon
tap “mark all read”
select inbox (unread) // no messages in list now
tap “refresh” (tap “mark all read” if there’s no refresh link until it appears)
all READ ...
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Tapping on the message from inbox doesn’t mark it read anymore
Tapping on the message from inbox doesn’t mark it read anymore. Is it desired behavior?
As far as I remember before inbox renewal, tapping on the item led to mark that item read (simultaneously with ...
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Inbox not rendering HTML entities when they end a message-preview in the Inbox [duplicate]
My inbox decided to truncate the message preview partway through the HTML entity for a single quote in the word "doesn't". This is... odd. Can it be changed to extend the preview to go all ...
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No time for idle chat (i.e. missing timestamp for chat notification)
One of the notifications in my inbox appears without a timestamp:
It never happened before, neither with the old inbox, nor with the new inbox. This is ordinary chat reply notification, can't see ...
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Filtering unread inbox notifications only displays items that are unread in the summary list and not all unread items
I currently have 2 inbox notifications marked as unread. One is a relatively recent notification (yesterday) and the other is a relatively low priority item that has been sitting around since 2022-12-...
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Inbox item doesn't appear until one has clicked on another inbox item [duplicate]
Example of inbox item ("that doesn't seem like [...]") that doesn't appear until one has clicked on another inbox item ("it will still be the same [...]"):
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Old inbox functionality for community I'm not a member of
I have just noticed a bug with the inbox improvements
I couldn't see this previously reported on this post
When you click on your inbox in a community you aren't a part of you get the old ...
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Inbox icon indicates an unread message, but no messages are shown under "unread"
I've noticed a case where my inbox icon indicated an unread message (1 in red), but no messages were shown under "unread":
I don't know how to reproduce. Maybe it's because I was already on ...
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Expanding top bar dropdowns during page load navigates to stackexchange.com [duplicate]
On the mobile site only, when an icon in the right side of the top bar (like the inbox or reputation icons) is clicked to expand the drop down, and the page isn't completely loaded yet, then instead ...
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Unable to translate "Change inbox filter" tooltip
It seems that in new inbox somebody forget to make "Change inbox filter" tooltip translatable.
I can't find this sentence in traducir.
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Notification Center notifications do not change to "read" status [duplicate]
When I get a notification in my inbox in the last few days, I've seen that it won't clear to "read" status after, and the badge will stay on it, unless I select "mark all as read". ...
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Notifications are not reloaded until a page is reloaded
Steps to reproduce:
Open a page.
Open the notifications inbox in the top right.
Close it.
Stay on the page until you get a notification.
Open the notification inbox in the top right again.
Expected: ...
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Inbox notification updates broke the chat inbox
The recent changes to the inbox notifications have also broken the inbox in the chat top bar:
The inbox has jumped to be overlaying the topbar, instead of it being in its proper place. There is a ...
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Inbox notification counter doesn't go away anymore after clicking outside the window
I noticed (since last few hours) that whenever I get a notification now and when I click on the notification icon, the notification window opens as usual. But the unusual thing is that even when I ...
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Clicking to close the inbox redirects to the full inbox on stackexchange.com
After I open the inbox by clicking on the navbar icon, clicking on it again used to just close the inbox.
Today, the second click redirects me to my full-page inbox, https://stackexchange.com/users/&...
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New inbox notifications have broken keyboard shortcuts
As of rev 2022.10.27.42994, with the changes to inbox notifications, the keyboard shortcuts for the inbox have been slightly broken. With the old behavior, pressing i will open your inbox, and esc ...
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Inbox notifications vanish
Since earlier today, the red badge to notify me of new inbox items vanishes when reloading the page or opening another SE page in a new tab (not opening the inbox in either tab). Can this new ...
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Spoilers are not hidden in inbox notifications
Text inside spoiler blocks is not properly hidden in Inbox notifications.
User A posts a question.
User B posts an answer with a spoiler near the beginning of the post.
User A opens their inbox ...
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Nothing new in inbox despite asking and editing questions [duplicate]
I asked and edited questions since this date (Oct. 18 2021) but nothing new appeared in the inbox:
This isn't really a problem, but it might be a bug?
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Inbox count and reputation increase are not disappearing in the top bar in https://stackexchange.com [duplicate]
I logged in in https://stackexchange.com.
I clicked on the inbox (in the top bar) as I had a few notifications. After clicking somewhere else, the inbox count is still shown.
I clicked on the trophy ...
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The "1 new item in your inbox" mail links to pages that create an MSE account [duplicate]
I just got an email about my inbox in a sock account. This notified me about a comment on one of the questions I asked using that account. This email contains a link like the following
See all of your ...
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Did the emails with notifications about inbox messages stop?
Depending on the settings chosen in preferences, a user is supposed to be shown the recent notifications if they have some notifications in the inbox and they haven't checked it for some period (The ...
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Followed question comments have incorrect formatting, in the network profile Inbox page
Looking through my inbox page in the Stack Exchange network profile, I keep seeing that some of the comments I've received on a followed post aren't showing the links in them, which you can see at the ...
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URL of Meta Stack Exchange chat room transcript (which I opened from inbox) contains 2 slashes after "chat.meta.stackexchange.com". Why?
I was chatting in a chat room and I went offline after some time. When I came back online, I checked my inbox and there was a chat reply in the chat room.
The URL of the transcript (which I opened ...
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Cannot view all inbox items without creating a Meta Stack Exchange account
When I click "View all inbox items," if I hadn't joined the Meta community, it will redirect my to "Confirm new account" for Meta. For some reason, I need to have a profile on Meta ...
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No notification when somebody edits the title of your question
I didn't get an inbox notification for this edit, even though title edits are substantive and you should get an inbox notification for substantive edits by other users to your posts.
I've retested ...
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Notifications inbox was pinged a second time when a comment on a followed post was edited
A screenshot from my global inbox:
A post I follow had a comment added onto it which rightly pinged my notifications inbox. I then clicked through to the notification, bringing me to the comment. ...
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Received inbox message about election that is underway, but there is no active election on the site
Just saw this:
In words:
The Stack Overflow 2020 community moderator election is underway — nominations now being accepted.
However, when clicking the message, I was greeted with:
Or in words:
...
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Deleted comments on followed posts persist in the global inbox
I think the title says most of it, but when you follow a post you get notifications in your inbox about comments made on those posts. These notifications persist even after the comment is deleted even ...
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