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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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Chat Ping Notifications seem to be missing from inbox [duplicate]
I was trying to get an unread notification on my spare account for some screenshots. I am logged into the network, and was on recently enough to @ autocomplete
I've tried pinging, superpinging, and ...
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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 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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Add link to all items in global inbox on chat servers and stackexchange.com [duplicate]
On Q&A sites (including metas), the inbox dialog has a link to all items:
On the chat servers and on https://stackexchange.com, the link is missing:
Could it be added?
FWIW, it's also missing on ...
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Please clear chat message notifications out of my inbox if the message was deleted as rude/abusive
I was pinged earlier in a chat room with an abusive message. Because I wasn't around at the time it went right to my inbox.
Chat moderation removed the message before I even knew it existed, which I'm ...
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What events trigger an inbox notification?
The global inbox was once introduced because it became hard "to keep track of all your questions, answers, and comments across every site you participated on".
The small red number tells ...
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Why do Chat notifications show who the message is from, while comment notifications do not?
When someone leaves a comment to any of my posts, or employs @Alex, I get an inbox notification showing me the comment.
When someone responds to me in Chat I also get an inbox notification showing me ...
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Do not count already viewed chat replies in the top bar inbox
If you use chat you should know that chat replies (using your username in messages in general) can lead to an increasing inbox count for the top bar inbox:
This happens if you are not currently (...
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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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Incorrect cut for chat reply in global inbox
I have a chat reply that I see in global inbox like:
You can see transcript for this message here.
@alexolut Скорее всего потому, что под словами "кнопка «проголосовать»" вы имеете в виду ...
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Reading a chat message should clean up the inbox
I recently activated the Quicker Notifications feature and also the New Mobile UI options. I often observe that I get notifications about missed messages, which is fine since I opted in, but they don'...
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How do I make notifications still flow when discussion is moved from comments to chat?
After the comments moved to chat, the discussion looks more "at home".
But global inbox notifications stop coming. So continuing the discussion a day later feels like posting to /dev/null.
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Chat reply in Inbox shows @@ID instead of a proper username
Here is the message which I've received it yesterday (ignore the content):
and I didn't open ignoring it, because I thought these numbers were some mistake or some kind of bug (in addition to 'chat ...
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Improve the checks that invoke a chat ping
According to balpha's answer:
The only time "@marc" will generate a notification for you is when we
can't find anyone else who we consider to be a better match, i.e.
someone called "Marc" who ...
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StackExchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™ inbox & New Top bar collisions on chat homepage & API
The new top bar is live everywhere, but the chat homepage, which still shows the old design and the StackExchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™ inbox.
Also, it seems like clicking on the new Recent ...
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Notification link takes me to the wrong chat room
A little while ago I recieved a message in my inbox notifying me of a reply to my post in Tavern on the Meta
It looked like this:
It should have taken me here
However when I click it, I get taken ...
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Mobile chatting doesn't clear pings
I've been chatting from mobile today (with my Galaxy SIII), seems like when people ping me, it doesn't matter whether I send messages, or even specifically ping them back, the notification doesn't get ...
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Bad synchronization between Chat.SE & inbox
As I have a bad-time with my dial-up (like I get logged out of SE sometimes if I refresh the page), I don't spend much time in chat this week. But, this had happened 3 times in chat. I chat with ...
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Delayed chat notification causes wrong inbox highlighting
The timeline:
X writes a chat message addressed to me.
Y writes a comment addressed to me.
I visit the main site and read my inbox, which contains the notification of Y's comment.
I haven't visited ...
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StackExchange.com, Area51 and Chat.SE using old Stack Exchange dropdown menu
A day or so ago I my inbox items aren't being highlighted when they're new, but only when loaded on chat.se:
Also note the new Notifications tab is completely missing. StackExchange.com has the same ...
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Received notification of reply in chat even though I never participated in chat room
I received a reply notification in my inbox (by clicking on top left corner "StackExchange" widget and clicking "Inbox" bullet) even though I have never participated in chat.
The ...
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Add "notifications" tab to global inbox in chat [closed]
It appears that the "notifications" tab has been rolled out for all sites, similar to how the regular inbox is. From the blog post announcement:
Notifications are now:
global: get a badge ...
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Clear inbox for read chat notifications
Currently, the multicollider shows notifications for chat messages(usually rolled up), even if the message has already been seen. Now, chat already has a mechanism for marking messages as "read", so ...
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Something's wrong with the inbox message escaping
Here's a sample of my StackExchange Inbox this morning:
The apostrophe ' is being improperly/unnecessarily escaped to ' in the inbox.
It's also doing it to double quotes:
As well as ...
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Chat messages removed by flags are not removed in the recipient's inbox [duplicate]
Today I woke up to a new item in my inbox, a chat reply sprayed with profanity that the community has flagged and deleted.
Could such items be removed from the recipients' inbox as well? Yeah, as a ...
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Please organize chat entries in the Global Inbox in accordance to their entry date, not their first event date
The global inbox accounts for basically two kinds of messages:
Site responses like answers and comments. These get added pretty much instantly at the time of the event.
Chat messages in recent rooms. ...
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A way to access the SE Global Inbox from Chat
Related: Feed for global inbox
I spend a lot of time in chat these days, and only pop over to a site when I have a question, or see something in the feed reader that I want to answer. This sometimes ...
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Stack Exchange chat name mention inbox confusion
I checked my Stack Exchange Inbox (drop down list) just now and it mentioned three messages for me. Two were legit - the last was this one on The Tavern which was another Mark.
