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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Is there any way to get notified for new comments even when the user forgot to tag you?
I noticed some new activity on this question that I had been commenting on. I checked my notifications and saw that I hadn't been notified about the latest activity. I had only been notified about the ...
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Email notifications for remove abandoned questions?
As per Stack Exchange policy, unanswered questions older than 365 days that meet certain criteria are periodically deleted in a reversible manner.
I have no problems with this policy, but I would ...
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Are Push Notifications currently broken for the Stack Exchange iOS App?
I've just downloaded the latest build of the Stack Exchange app from the App Store, and despite both enabling notifications and logging into my account am not receiving notifications - as an example, ...
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Notifications on meta discussions of items I have written or reviewed
I would like to receive a notification when a question on meta contains a link to a question / answer I have written or a question / answer / edit I have recently reviewed. Such meta posts are often ...
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Android app notifications without Google Play services (GCM)
I'm using the Stack Exchange Android app, but it did not get any notification. The problem here is that I run Lineage OS and don't have any Google apps installed (including Play Store and the Play ...
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Should we give users a link to their question that has no activity in over a year? [duplicate]
Users occasionally forget about the questions they asked. These are questions that may require editing or review to obtain more acceptable answers. Would it be appropriate to remind OPs with a link to ...
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Notification for new activity goes to deleted account on https://unix.stackexchange.com/
For a while I had an account with the name bahamut.
I asked to delete that account, because my English was too broad for understanding. Now it is a little bit better and I made a new account on Ask&...
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Notification button not loading on the top bar
The message notification menu on the top bar seems broken.
Everything else seems ok, but not being able to read my notifications is bad.
Can we have it fixed please?
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Notify about an edit when it changes MathJax, even if not “substantive”
I think that whenever a post gets edited by someone other than the person who wrote it and when the edit changes a MathJax formula, then, no matter how small the change was technically, the author of ...
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Disable chat event reminders
I keep getting emails reminding me of chat events. I also see these notifications at the inbox in Stack Exchange.
How do I disable these notifications entirely?
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Please re-consider allowing edits to notify downvoters
This question is inspired by this excellent question. It asks to revisit a feature request that was denied by co-founder Jeff Atwood from 2010. The feature request has a positive score of 142, Jeff ...
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I received an email alert about a message in my Stack Exchange Inbox, but it was missing
I'm guessing that this message was deleted because the question I commented on was put On Hold, or because the comment was from the requester. Can someone confirm that this is known behavior, explain ...
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How can I get a notification when a new Stack Exchange dump is made available?
How can I get a notification when a new Stack Exchange dump is made available?
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No longer getting notifications
Since the website went down for maintenance, I’ve no longer been receiving notifications when someone replies to my posts.
App Version: 1.6.6.2
Device: iPhone 6
OS Version: Version 12.2 (Build 16E227)...
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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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How to “unfollow” a question that I posted an answer to?
I made a post in a sandbox question and now I get notifications about other posts.
I could not find any option to ignore notifications from that thread.
Is there no such option or did I miss it?
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Pings staying undismissed in chat and not getting to the inbox
I noticed that some chat pings have lasted for hours undismissed, with the ping remaining in chat, but not getting turned into an inbox notification, and also not showing up in search results.
I have ...
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Unsubscribe button isn't disabled when I have already unsubscribed from “tag watching” notifications
I have already unsubscribed from all the "Tag Watching" notifications, but the button for "Unsubscribe from all"(notifications) is still enabled. I think it would be better if it is disabled if a user ...
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Why do chat notifications only appear when chat is open?
I keep desktop notifications enabled for chat. However, I notice that notifications only appear if the chat — any chat, not necessarily the one from which I'm actually getting the notification — is ...
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Re-voting for reopening doesn't show notification message after second vote, but re-voting for deletion does
If you re-voting for post deletion notification message will be shown each time.
But for re-opening it works differently. Notification message shown only for first click.
Looks inconsistent.
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Not notified of all rep changes, old bug returns
This seems to be a reincarnation of Reputation notifications seem to be broken again, which was marked status-completed. So: status-uncompleted.
Today (Feb 6th) on Science Fiction and Fantasy I ...
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Let comments retain their pings when they are moved to chat
It often happens to me that someone has replied to (user @rus9384) me in comments, comments have been moved to chat, and I don't see the response (if the post is not mine, I don't see any notification ...
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Should users be notified with new comments/edits on posts that they have downvoted on? [duplicate]
Many times we've seen this scenario happen - a question was posted and currently doesn't meet the standard or is unclear. A user with voting privileges sees the content, downvotes it, and moves on ...
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Broken cross symbol for closing in notification message
After revoting on question opening or successful flag, cross symbol in the notification message is broken.
Revote for opening:
Vote for opening:
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What kind of edits of my posts by other users do not trigger an inbox notification? [duplicate]
I notice that not all edits of my posts trigger an inbox notification. I know that when the edit only contains a tag manipulation, then it doesn't trigger an inbox notification. But it seems there is ...
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Stack Exchange mobile app push notifications on ANDROID PIE 9 Nokia 6.1+
I have been a constant user of the Stack Exchange mobile app and on my previous mobile Motorolla Droid Turbo 2 it worked fine, and I used to receive the push notifications for all the selected events ...
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While reviewing wanted to edit but couldn't and no notification [duplicate]
While I was reviewing some Q/A I wanted to edit one of them but the Edit link didn't work
Also no notifications popped up nor a warning of some kind was shown
Then I tried directly outside the ...
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Maybe its time to start planning to sunset the mobile apps… Could we get Web Push Notifications?
TLDR: Mobile is sad. Can we have web push notifications?
(While the eventual intended audience will know what I'm talking about,google has a nice, though somewhat technical article on what this is. I ...
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Why don't we receive notifications about the addition of moderator-only tags to meta requests? Should we?
Note: I'm not requesting that this be changed; I'm asking a neutral question as well as starting a discussion.
I'm aware that in order for users to be notified upon their question being edited, the ...
asked Dec 3 '18 at 13:15
Sonic the Anonymous WizHog
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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 you how ...
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Getting two email notifications for the same post matching my filter
I have one filter on Stack Overflow that matches "javamail".
Lately I've been getting two email notifications for the same
post that matches the filter. This doesn't happen every time,
but maybe one ...
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What's the reason for a deleted question without any notification to delete its answer? [duplicate]
I answered a question, but after two days the question was deleted, so its answers deleted after also without any notification to me.
I found my deleted answer in Deleted Recent Answers list, then I ...
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Notifications through the web browser [duplicate]
It'd be neat if users could enable Stack Exchange notifications through Safari and Chrome.
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Not notified about rollback
I was notified that someone edited one of my questions earlier today (because it changed more than 6 characters). Then someone else rolled back that edit and I didn't get a notification so my inbox ...
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Badges I've earned aren't always showing up in the Achievements dialog [duplicate]
Recently, I used all of my daily 40 upvotes on an SE site (Android SE). However, the achievements dialog only showed one of the badges - not two.
Here's a screenshot.
In the screenshot, the Badges ...
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Notify OP after a question receives a close vote
My suggestion is to notify the OP when someone votes to close his question informing him the reason behind the vote. The reason is:
Most users don't leave a comment when voting to close, and most OP ...
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The notification for the “view close votes” privilege should specify that it's only for your own questions
The privilege awarded for reaching 250 reputation is called "View Close Votes". As explained at length on the privileges page, this means that you can view and cast votes on your own questions.
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Why does the link in this notification of a new comment not find any new comment?
This notification
seems to be informing me of a new comment, so given that it has no link on the word comment or the speech bubble, I assume the link on the question title is supposed to be a link to ...
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How to get notified about new questions on tags in new UI? [duplicate]
There will be a new system for watching tags, but until that's implemented, I seem to not be able to follow tags the old way. Since that's the only way that currently sends out mails, it should still ...
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Why are comment response notifications limited to one user name? [duplicate]
There are times where multiple users commented to a question I posted. Most had very useful information or suggestions and I wish to thank them all at once or ask them all the same question that is ...
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There are no chat flags to display but the number is shown
When a message is flagged as spam/offensive, network wide 10k users are shown a number of pending chat flags.
As shown in the above image, it is shown that there are 15 messages waiting for review. ...
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Reputation notifications seem to be broken again
Likely the same problem that happened on Are the reputation notifications broken again? (April 2017) and Reputation not appearing in Rep. Notification Queue - yet it is given silently (August 2018). ...
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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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What is the “best way” to keep selected discussions on all meta sites synchronized?
Tl;Dr
There is an announcement about the new communication processes between international communities and Stack Exchange Inc. One of the processes is to keep the relevant posts on meta sites ...
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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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notify in inbox on deleted answer
I noticed that one of my answers was deleted by a moderator (without comment) and I never got any notice of the occurrence.
How can I profile C++ code running on Linux?
If we get notifications in ...
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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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Can we get a ping when a downvoted Q/A was subsequently edited? [duplicate]
I'm one of these people who tends to leave a comment when I downvote and every now and then, the OP edits their post and pings me back they did and then I remove my downvote most of the time and even ...
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Not receiving notifications on my new phone from android app
I have app version 1.0.95 beta and android os 8.0.0. My new phone is Samsung galaxy note 8, and the stack exchange app was installed automatically when I set the phone up (it's a warranty replacement)....
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Badge notifications from other sites should not use the icons from the current site [duplicate]
Badge notification from other sites (here, meta.SE) should use their resp. badge icons (here, the default), not the ones from the site I'm currently on.
Failing that (because, do we really want to ...
