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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Missing inbox notification for new answer to my question
Someone posted an answer to one of my questions on May 16th. Here is the timestamp of the answer:
Yet as you can see in the below screenshot of my inbox notifications, the only notification that I ...
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Where are my notifications?
In my inbox it alleges the most recent comment directed at me was posted 6 hours ago, but I noticed there are more recent comments under that and also under a different answer of mine that I was not ...
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Where is the notification in the app when a post of mine is edited?
Today in the app I was told I had three unread messages in my inbox but I only saw two:
This is because the “answer edited” message only shows up on the website:
Can this be fixed?
App ...
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Notifications with a HTML encoded entity render improperly if a truncation occurs in the middle of the entity [duplicate]
I received the below notification yesterday:
The chat message itself can be found at https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/46368649#46368649:
iunno I'm just saying that it's not out of ...
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Inbox and achievements dialogs won't load on sites other than MSE (error 500)
The achievements dialog is failing to load on several sites for me. It works fine on Meta Stack Exchange and Meta Stack Overflow, but on any other site I've tried (main or meta, including main Stack ...
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The inbox and achievement notifications show up incorrectly
In the top bar, it said that I have 1 unread inbox message and earned 7 reputation points:
But when I clicked on both buttons, I neither had an unread inbox message nor earned reputation. My last ...
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Visiting the inbox tab on the network profile is now clearing notifications (behavior change)
Until very recently, if I had pending inbox notifications I could visit the inbox tab on my network profile to get a preview. Doing so did not clear the notification in the topbar or mark anything as ...
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Chat replies ending with an apostrophe get messed up in inbox notifications [duplicate]
I noticed this morning that a chat reply, with the last character in the preview being an apostrophe, was messed up.
(; (since it's the TL, it's blacked out) ;)
I then tested it with a sock of mine:
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Inbox/reputation notifications do not work on chat server top bar
On the top bar on chat server pages, e.g. https://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/, the inbox notification icons do not work:
The dropdowns themselves do work and do show unread items, highlighted ...
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Inbox notifications link to Area 51 using HTTPS
As indicated in "Network-wide HTTPS: It's time", HTTPS support for Area 51 is currently incomplete. Certain page elements fail to load on HTTPS, such as notifications and captchas.
Despite this, ...
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Notifications by email with incorrect dates of last inbox check [duplicate]
I got a notification email that stated:
The following items were added to your inbox since you last checked it on 2015-04-19:
I know that is not true given that I have been checking it all ...
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Android app crashes after dismissing notifications from web
The SE Android app (v1.0.85 beta) crashes if I dismiss the inbox notification from web. It also fails the automatic notification dismissal on the Android.
Steps to reproduce:
Receive a notification (...
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Non-HTTPS link in notifications areas on HTTPS SE sites
I have noticed that since getting the Firefox add-on HTTPS Everywhere that all SE sites have gone HTTPS as they should, however I have also noticed that on the HTTPS versions every site link except ...
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Should the welcome message be blank in my inbox tab?
When I signed up I received a welcome message:
Is that message supposed to be blank if I look at my network profile's inbox tab?
It has a date, the site logo, "welcome", and a desolate empty ...
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After dismissing the red "messages" or green "rep" notification, they are still visible on pages opened before
I open a few pages from "hot network questions", then dismiss the inbox messages, then switch to some page.
Expected: the "1" counter disappears;
Actual: "1" counter stays until I click on it again ...
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I don't get notifications from area51 [duplicate]
What I mean by notifications are reputation changes, I don't get that at all, as for notifications of new comments and the like, I get them in my inbox but no notification about that, I mean I have to ...
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My inbox isn't working right [duplicate]
Every time I come to Stack Exchange and I have inbox items, I click on the inbox icon and all I see are repeated reminders of the long-closed community moderator elections, and I can't even scroll in ...
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Top bar inbox showing old events rather than recent post replies
Whenever I have notifications for recent posts, such as in the screenshot below, the notifications show older events that I have seen before, rather than actual recent post responses (of which there 2 ...
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Comment notification shows up under responses, but not top bar inbox
Looking under my responses tab, I see:
Looking under my inbox on the top bar, I see:
(I believe only I, and perhaps mods, can see either of these screens - sorry about that)
Note the two I circled ...
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On a slow mobile connection attempting to open the notifications before fully loaded disables the button permanently [closed]
When on a slow mobile connection (30+ second page load time) the page appears to finish loading but the load bar still has a small amount to go. If there are inbox notifications the temptation is to ...
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Deleted Comments still appear in the notification inbox [duplicate]
The bug where the Deleted Comment appear in the notification inbox has recently started occurring for me.
This is what I see now:
The circled comments links to: https://gis.meta.stackexchange.com/...
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Replies to mod messages go to normal inbox rather than mod inbox? [duplicate]
As a moderator on Anime & Manga, I mod messaged a user about a moderation issue.
Weird thing is, when the user replied, I got it in my normal inbox, rather than my mod inbox.
Attached is a ...
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When I switch to a tab that was inactive, I see inbox and achievements boxes "flashing through" the accumulated history
Steps to reproduce:
Open one tab with SE site;
Open another tab with SE site. The first tab goes hibernating as inactive;
Do something in the second tab, receive votes, answers, click on inbox or ...
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Mobile notifications unread status independent from full site inbox and achievements
Whenever you receive a (noteworthy) badge, answer notification, bounty reminder, etc. you get either a new message in your top-bar global inbox or an achievement notification. These events all used to ...
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Inbox chops messages in the middle of an HTML character reference
The messages in the inbox get chopped if they too long, and the chop can occur in the middle of an HTML character reference as can be seen in this screenshot:
The character being chopped is [ and it ...
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I do not get notified when the system adds a canned "possible duplicated" comment
This happened to me twice. Someone flags my question as duplicated and only when I visit the question I notice the comment. Before I had no proof, but today I have *evil laughter*.
This is the ...
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No notification in my inbox for comments
I'm facing a problem in the new SO display update. I'm not getting any notifications in my inbox for the Comment posted by other users for my Question
Reference Link : Creating folder in the local ...
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