Questions tagged [global-inbox]
Use for the drop-down global inbox and its functionality; for the notifications themselves, include the [notifications] tag.
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I have a permanent indicator of 3 unread messages in Inbox [duplicate]
EDIT
I learned about selecting only Unread messages in my Inbox here.
When I tried it, there were no messages shown, but selecting Mark al as read removed the indicator, so the issue was solved.
After ...
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How can I view unread messages?
At one point I had up to a hundred of unread messages. I read many of them, but the notification icon says there are four I have not. Because of the sheer number of the messages, I am having ...
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Clicking on the inbox button on the navigation bar before it's finished loading takes me to the 'All Items' page
Scenario:
Log into computer, auto-pilot to Stack Overflow, take first sip of coffee, click the inbox item.
Expected:
The drop down menu opens up, and I can see my latest interactions.
Actual:
I am ...
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Annoying UI: clicking on Inbox navigates away, if the page has not finished loading [duplicate]
When loading a StackOverflow page, the user might notice that the Inbox icon shows unread messages. If the user clicks on it after the page has finished loading, they get a popup. If the page has not ...
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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 message cannot be removed
in my inbox in the top-right corner profile section I have this message:
But when I click on it, that answer has been removed.
How can I get rid of that message?
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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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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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Cheese moved, no scroll wheel to move it back [closed]
So, the new topbar has been rolled to mobile.
Which is nice, because I like the new topbar1.
However, the new inbox is a popup window2 with overflow:auto. On some phones (mine is a Samsung Galaxy Mini)...
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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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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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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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How can I find unread messages in the Stack Exchange inbox?
Usually I just scroll down and find the unread messages and click on the items. This way I am done in a minute.
Today I did that and it still says that I have 3 unread messages. I clicked the "...
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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 improvements are live
The feedback up until January 3rd, 2023 has been catalogued and handed over to the product team. Any further feedback or bug reports should be posted as a new question.
TL;DR: The inbox improvements ...
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Better handling of inbox notifications that have been merged together
I've been trying to figure out why I find the new inbox so annoying. No doubt part of the issue is just that it's different. Some of it is definitely because I prefer the previous behavior in some ...
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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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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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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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New notification system still feels counterintuitive
This has been bugging me for ages—I guess since October 2022: while it's good that the notifications were made more "sticky", I sometimes feel they are a bit too sticky. It's hard to pin ...
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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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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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Can see code when clicking on my notifications box
Why am I seeing this when I click on my notifications box please?
I use a Google Chrome dark mode hence why my screen is dark but I cannot remember the code ever appearing. I can replicate this on ...
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Is it possible to undo an accidental click on “mark all as read “ at the top of notifications?
I intended to tap on the first notification in the box, not the Mark all notifications as read button. What can I do to reverse this? I’m guessing nothing.
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Where is my inbox?
I've seen the inbox in some popup before, but I've been clicking around and I am not seeing a mail box management/mail list now. I tried to looking at my account page but had no luck. Where is it? Or ...
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Change the inbox notification text for mod messages
When another moderator sends a message to a user, the inbox notification says:
moderator message on AviD added a new message
Hello, I'm writing in reference to your IT Security - Stack Exchange ...
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How to make the inbox show all notifications
How can I make the inbox preview all my notifications?
At the moment, it will show me a red number e.g. 4, but when I click it, I only see one unread notification. The reason is because all 4 ...
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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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Notifications not being marked as read [duplicate]
I see this has been asked historically a few times over the years, but this is a new behavior for me since about the past couple of weeks or months or so.
I get comment notifications, and when I click ...
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Make the grouped inbox messages expandable
This is in response to this request: Please bring back the grouping of replies in the inbox
So it was recently ungrouped and now will be grouped back again. As I said in my comment to Geoff:
I ...
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Inbox notification for different site should log me in
I have frequently found that when I get an inbox notification for a different site in the network, it does take me to the right place, but I need to log in separately in order to e.g. respond to a ...
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Add button to watch questions/get notified on edits, comments, etc [duplicate]
I often have the situation that I read a question and leave a comment requesting an edit to provide more information by the OP.
Currently, I add the phrase that he/she should please also write a ...
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Highlight unread messages on the inbox page on stackexchange.com
The following URL is very handy in that it shows me an expanded view of my inbox, but it does not highlight unread messages. This makes it very hard to differentiate which messages I need to read or ...
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Inbox notifications - marking as read etc
Currently, when receiving notifications in the inbox, you get a number in the top bar on the inbox button. But when you open the inbox that number is gone and everything is marked as read. I don't ...
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See all unread inbox messages
Is it possible to see all the unread messages for the StackExchange network even after one of the unread messages has been viewed? I've noticed that the unread message count in the upper-right corner (...
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Viewing inbox should unmark read items rather than all items [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can we get an option to stop the global inbox from marking everything as read?
In the SE dropdown inbox list, when you view it, all unread comments/answers get toggled to '...
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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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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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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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Automatically mark notification read when I view the comment
I'm viewing a question, and someone posts a comment that notifies me.
I click on the "Show N more comments" message to show all the new comments, so I see the comment mentioned in the ...
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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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Error message when marking all inbox notifications as read is not pluralized
When using the "Mark all as read" link in your inbox, and an error occurs (e.g. if your Internet connection is spotty), regardless of the number of unread notifications, you'll get this ...
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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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Add link to full inbox to inbox dialog on stackexchange.com
The new inbox dialog has a link to your full inbox on all sites:
but not on stackexchange.com:
It shouldn't be that hard to add it - it can be a static link due to the support for the /current user.
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Is there a simple API for getting the number of unread messages?
Stack Exchange obviously has a complex API to meet the possible needs of its users, and it seems to require registering applications in order to use it.
All I'm looking for though is a simple way of ...
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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-...