Questions tagged [notifications]
Questions about the various user interface and email elements used to notify users of events on the site.
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All links in all emails are broken
The links from Stack Exchange's inbox and SOFT inbox notifications emails go through a https://sg-links.stackoverflow.email/ link. Currently these links are hitting an "offline for maintenance&...
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How can I get an alert in JavaScript in real time when new questions pop up on any Stack Exchange website?
It's not a duplicate of How to get an alert when new questions are posted on Stack Overflow?, because the goal is to alert() on new posts directly in the web browser. Not via email.
Ideally, the alert ...
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Should there be an automated notification when a post ban ends? [duplicate]
I never get notified when a post ban ends. I know there are ways to find out, but having to attempt to post to find if a ban exists is a bit wasteful of time.
Is there a way to know if a ban is still ...
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Is there a way to not be notified of any elections ever? [duplicate]
I have participated in a number of Stack Exchange sites (over twenty) and I'll continue to ask questions from time to time.
But I will never vote. I would like to be able to use my account on Stack ...
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How can I manage multiple work accounts with my personal Stack Exchange account?
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Recently I joined a charity organization which requires me to do some light coding.
I setup of my new account on Chrome which now has three accounts linked in it (Personal, 9-5 Work, and ...
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Do we receive notifications about new answers posted for a question on which I started bounty? [duplicate]
I started a bounty on a question. After I started the bounty, some answers were posted and I received notifications about these answers.
P.S. I didn't follow the bounty question.
Is receiving ...
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Notifications don’t disappear after clicking on them when using Chrome on iPhone [duplicate]
Notifications don’t disappear after clicking on them when using Chrome on iPhone. Example:
I use an iPhone 12 mini with iOS 15. I don't have this issue with Chrome on Windows.
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How about getting your inbox notifications on Android phone?
We know that Stack Exchange has discontinued its Android App and is not interested in making the app code open source.
One of the greatest features of the app, that I am missing most, is the instant ...
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Can't receive email notification of these sites after setting to 3 hours
For nearly several months, I can't receive any notification about these sites, but I had set it to notice me after 3 hours:
Where can I fix this problem?
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Why has my account disappeared without any notifications or warnings?
I used to have an account with id user:12361700 with more than 12,000 points on Stack Overflow. Eight hours ago, I could log in without any problem, but this morning, without any prior warning nor ...
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How can I get notified only for new answer posts for a followed question? [duplicate]
I know I can follow a question, but I was wondering if it is possible to only get notified if there is a new answer posted?
I would like to avoid notifications of comments, especially if I follow a ...
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How can I troubleshoot email notifications from Stack Exchange sites not working?
I don't get email notifications when people reply to or comment on my questions on any Stack Exchange sites. This behavior is consistent whether I have a Stack Exchange site open in one of my browser ...
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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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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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If I vote to close a question, am I notified if the OP updates the question? [duplicate]
Suppose that I have the privilege to vote to close a question on some Stack Exchange site.
Suppose further that I encounter a mediocrely-written question and vote to close it. If the OP updates the ...
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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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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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Can I get notifications on new posts on a tag? [duplicate]
I would like to subscribe to a feature to receive a notification when a person asks a question under the Python tag on Stack Overflow. How can I do it?
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Bounty expiring soon and completed simultaneously according to the inbox notification?
Is it normal according to common logic that "expiring soon" bounty "is completed"?
bounty expiring soon
Your bounty on question "Post notice should indicate a self-deletion ...
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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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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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Why are my privileges returned to me in Russian? [duplicate]
I noticed I received a new privilege. However, this was the notification I got:
You've earned the "Vote down" privilege! Узнайте больше об этом в Справке.
Why is the message in Russian?
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What is the exact program logic so that a chat user is 'pinged' using "@joesmith" in a chatroom?
I would like a definitive program logic description that takes into account all factors below to determine whether or not a chat user is 'pinged' using if I posted a message using "@joesmith"...
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I was notified of and viewed a comment, but the notification disappeared from my global inbox, and it isn't in the site's comment responses list [duplicate]
I commented on Session cookies seem to get lost and then, later while on another site, I was notified about Aaron Bertrand's comment reply. After responding several minutes later and, because I ...
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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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Make an option for auto-reading all the inbox once it's opened [duplicate]
In the past once you clicked your notification box, all the unread notifications were immediately cleared (i.e. became read).
Although this definitely was not comfortable for someone who receives ...
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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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How can I suppress notifications from non-English sites? [duplicate]
I have a "lisp" filter and I regularly get notifications from non-English SE sites (Russian, Portuguese, etc.) about Lisp-related questions.
I do not want to limit my filter to specific ...
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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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What exactly causes the reputation bubble (counter) in the top bar to reset?
Sometimes when I view my reputation changes, the reputation notification bubble in the top bar disappears and starts counting from zero again. How can I avoid this? In other words, when exactly does ...
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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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Can we remove old Jobs message notifications from the inbox?
Since Stack Overflow Jobs has been shut down, can we remove the old notifications from the inbox? Clicking on them just goes to the Jobs page saying that it has been shut down and has no other action.
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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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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 improvements: providing more control over what appears in the dropdown list
In a comment response to my answer to the question Inbox improvements: marking notifications as read/unread and a filtered inbox view, staff member marrados asked me to create a new question. Here is ...
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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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How to follow / get a notification from tag wikis edits
As of 2022, is there a way to follow / watch / subscribe to a tag wiki or to filter suggested edits to only view suggested edits for a specific case, i.e., staging-ground?
There are some old feature-...
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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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Inbox improvements: marking notifications as read/unread, and a filtered inbox view
TL;DR: We're planning to make some changes to the inbox in a few weeks. You'll be able to mark individual notifications as read or unread, and to filter the inbox dropdown to show only unread ...
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A possibly erroneous bounty auto-award message? I thought I already awarded it, but auto-award notification says it gave the full amount
Third time's a charm! Starting at +100 for my first bounty on Reference request (explaining) how optical correlators combine light from multiple telescopes to produce ultra-high resolution ...
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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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My Stack Overflow email profile is set on 3 hours, but I'm not getting any notifications
I'm not getting notified of replies to my posts.
Why? What setting on stackexchange.com am I missing?
If there's an FAQ for that site, please let me know where, since I can't find one.
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Approved edit to answer or question should generate an email notification, by default
On Ethereum Stack Exchange, I recently proposed an edit to an answer. Since I don't have enough reputation there yet, that edit needed approval. My edit was approved two days later, and I got no email ...
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Logout from all Stack Exchange sites without triggering the title bar notifications (and also without refreshing them)?
This is about a feature that lets me log out without having to open a normal SE site. All of the tabs shall stay open, I want to work on them further when I log in again. This is a logout page where ...
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