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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Send custom flag responses to messages inbox
Long story short: since custom flag responses are messages to users like any other (answer, comment, suggested edit, chat message etc.), users should be notified about them!!
A problem I have with ...
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Comment (or answer) notifications in the global inbox should include the author's username
I would like to see who left a comment in my global inbox like this:
And also for answers:
(Except, of course, I would like the actual commentor's name, not "The Person Who Left The Comment".)
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Show inbox updates in the page title
Background
Recently New Feature: real time updates to questions, answers, and inbox was implemented. With this feature the amount of questions with new activity is shown in parenthesis at the ...
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We need a mechanism for 'purging' seen inbox messages
There are certain situations where a message is better off not being seen. Things that are upsetting, rude, or offensive for certain, or one might want to housekeep their inbox.
Dopplegreener's post ...
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Show declined flags in inbox
I propose that moderator flags which are declined should show up in the global inbox, as a way to more clearly and reliably educate the user on why their flags are declined, thus improving the quality ...
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Get notified when the OP comments right after our comment and uses no "@"
I'm a bit hesitant to ask this question because I know there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of notifications (or pings). I've especially taken a very good look at When exactly do I get ...
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Please remove comment notifications from the inbox if the comment was deleted as rude/abusive
I recently got inbox notifications of rude/abusive troll comments from a post I followed. The comments were already deleted by the time I viewed the post from the inbox notification, but they are ...
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Send suspension notices & mod messages to Global Inbox as well
I realized that Mod messages/suspension notices are not delivered to the inbox.
I'm not sure why that's so. With most activity being delivered to the Inbox, something as important as Mod messages ...
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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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Add support for OS X 10.9 Safari Push Notifications
Apple's page has a nice summary of the feature:
OS X Mavericks introduces a powerful new way to keep users engaged with your website. You can now use the Apple Push Notifications Service to send ...
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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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Temporarily deleted answer missing from asker's inbox
I asked a question on CS and received an answer. This answer does not appear in my inbox. I never saw a notification, and as of now the latest notification from CS is
{"SiteUrl":"cs.stackexchange.com"...
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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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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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Please notify users who are following a question when a bounty starts or ends
When a followed question is edited or closed, it triggers an inbox notification for those who follow it. However, I just noticed that starting a bounty does not trigger an inbox notification, nor does ...
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More control over multicollider
Related: Add the ability to ignore users
Today, we had a guy who had an issue with a naggy user. This sort of sparked me into coming up with a new feature-request (Can't find a dupe, surprised).
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Group notifications of followed topics (e.g. like comments on own posts)
When the feature was announced: The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network
I replied a year ago with some concerns, of which, the grouping of notifications. I did not get ...
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Inbox notification text should be darker
The notification font color was recently changed from black to gray (#6A737C):
At least for me, the notifications are hard to read now. I suggest changing the color back to black.
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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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My inbox suddenly emptied on SO
Just finished answering a question when I saw a notification in my inbox. Upon opening it, all of my notifications were gone. Checked with browsers I don't usually use and ones that have an incognito ...
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Replies to deleted account's answers appear in Inbox
I had my Gaming account deleted a while back (for reasons I won't go into here).
Earlier today, my inbox notified me about a comment to one of my answers on Gaming.
I assume this is a bug.
Edit: A ...
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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 links break after nomination phase
Even during the primary, users can still leave comments under the nominations.
However, the link just points to the elections page, but it doesn't specify the phase.
For example, the link to the ...
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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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Trying to access Mod Message of a removed user from Inbox shows the "Oops! Something Bad Happened" error message
Mods get a notification in their inbox every time a Mod message has been sent.This user was initially sent a Mod Message, and then later on removed.
Now, when I try to access the Mod message via the ...
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Eeeeek! Where's my comment notification?
I revisited one of my answers, and was surprised to see a comment left, many hours before.
The thing is, I never got an inbox notification!
The comment does show up in my responses list...
Just not ...
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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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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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Per-site Meta post didn't populate Moderator Inbox
Per this post I'm posting this issue. I'm a moderator over on Sci-fi & Fantasy.SE. My moderator inbox missed this question:
The Meta Question in question should show up after the moderator ...
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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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Display year in the inbox message date stamp
Here's a screenshot of my inbox:
It's obvious that Feb 8 doesn't refer to 2014, but it's not obvious to what year it actually refers to.
Adding the year explicitly to older messages would help ...
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When there are multiple comments on my post, have the notification lead to the oldest
Currently if multiple comments on one of your own posts, you get a single notification, not multiple. What happens is that all comment notifications for the same post are grouped together, only the ...
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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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With the mobile infrastructure being decommissioned, can the Inbox get a private RSS feed?
Although I stopped using the mobile apps early in the decommissioning process, one of the most useful things was push notifications to my phone about new Inbox notifications, such as comments or new ...
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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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Is there any timeout/expiry period implemented for Global Inbox Notifications?
As the title says, is there any timeout period or expiry period implemented for Global Inbox Notifications?
For example, lets say I post this question and go away for 2weeks / 2months / 2years / ...
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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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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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Under what conditions are notifications about expiring of bounties sent?
As far as I can tell, a user who offered a bounty receives several notifications of this type.
Your bounty on question "... expires in three days.
Your bounty on question "... expires in ...
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Add link to INBOX: either link reponse tab from current community or global inbox from network profile
Top bar menus: Achievements and Review Queues have useful links in top within them; e.g clicking on Achievements menu, you'll find links to privileges and badge, link to all review queues from ...
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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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Inbox Notifications Continue To Show Up
I'm having an odd and inconsistent problem where certain inbox notifications are re-appearing within my inbox every few days, even though the date/time for the notification is a week, two weeks, a ...
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Please provide a configurable notification for tools
I would like to have a notification system for action requests — basically things that appear in the 10k tools (spread around multiple pages on each site):
flags (yes, in addition to the number in ...
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Display global inbox count on tab title
Just like in Gmail, Yahoo!Mail and many other web apps. Just a number in brackets. So I can keep strolling the web while waiting for responses.
Firefox 4 mockup:
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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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Why I did not receive a notification that grace period of a bounty started?
From my past experience with bounties, you receive several notification as the bounty is closing to end: bounty expires in three days, bounty expires in one day, bounty expiring soon (this is ...
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Inbox, Achievements sections are not responding when no entry in the "reputation" tab in Area 51
When selecting the "reputation" tab, if there is no entry in it and clicking on the Inbox and Achievements section, they are not responding in the Area 51 page.
GIF for the same:
Update:
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Bounty completed notice (and grace period notification email) happen before bounty ends
The email notice that bounties have ended and are entering the grace period as well as the inbox notification seem to happen before the bounty period is actually over.
Several similar requests marked ...
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Inbox messages and achievements for a closed beta site still shown
I was active on Arabic.SE before it was closed. However, even though it was closed, I still see messages and achievements in my inbox that are related to it.
When it comes to deleted questions, they'...
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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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