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Decision on rejected edits should be displayed as a notification to the editor
Update, April 2014: I fully support Shog9's proposal of adding the message where it belongs—in the actual editing form. This is less intrusive than displaying it as a notification, but it serves the ...
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Send authors an inbox message if their question is closed
I think it would really help if you get notified that a question of yours was closed.
Especially for the multi-site power user, usually (at least for me) a question is asked and then left alone for ...
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"You have gained power. Here's how to use it." kind of message
Right now, crossing one of the magical rep borders happens more or less unnoticed. People just gain the particular powers. Now, of course they have eagerly been awaiting this moment, and want to start ...
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Subscribing to questions and comments that don't belong to you
There has been some discussion about getting notified on comments to questions or answers that don't belong to you, and the long-standing wish to be able to keep track of new answers or developments ...
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Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don't own them)
I'd like the recent activity and responses pages to show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don't own them). If I leave a comment somewhere, I am implicitly engaging in ...
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Notify us when the question has been edited after posting an answer
Consider this situation. I post a legitimate and correct answer to a question and receive a few upvotes. Then the OP realizes that's not what they wanted to ask, and significantly rewrites the ...
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Notify us when one of our posts is edited
Your summary page shows "N Edits to your posts" for the selected time period but you really have to be looking for it.
Could we add edits to the notification feed? You could put the reason for the ...
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Alert only people that have been in the room recently for chat events
Chat pops up a notification anytime a scheduled event in a room you're interested in is about to start. Unfortunately, it defines "room you're interested in" as "room you've been in, ever", and there ...
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Notify question OP (and those who marked it a favourite) if an answer has been modified
Seriously, I had not noticed e.g. Jeff's edit here had he not also retagged my question.
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Notify Author when Question is migrated
I have accounts on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User. Today I asked a question on Super User that was migrated to Server Fault.
I was never notified that my question had been migrated.
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Notify room owners when a user is kicked
Currently when a user is kicked from the chatroom room owners other than the one who kicked the user do not get notified of the kick.
This is problematic since it leaves us with two options:
Notify ...
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Indicate the color (bronze/silver/gold) in tag badge notifications
Right now there is no difference in the names of bronze, silver and gold tag badges - they're just named after the respective tags themselves. This not only makes the following notification rather ...
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Can more of the functionality of the old envelope be added to the new drop-down menu?
Buried deep in the now deleted Eeeek post, I had a well-hidden feature-request. Grace Note encouraged me to make it a real feature-request, so here it is. The new drop-down menu is nice, but some ...
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Notify user when their name is mentioned in comment [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don’t own them)
Quite often on SO, there are extended ...
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Could new users see a notification in the space where the add comment button would be, like "you need a minimum of X reputation to comment"?
I just went to comment on this answer, saying something like "hey thanks that solution worked for me; You know anything about extending it to provide this feature too?"
I was confused why I couldn't ...
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Notify me of updates on questions I put a bounty on
So far, from what I have seen, I don't get notified of new answers on a question on which I put a bounty. Normal in the existing system, because this is not my question, so the only way for now is to ...
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Notify users about edit suggestion on their own posts
At the moment normal users do not get notified if someone suggests an edit on their own question or answer. I'm not even sure if they can see these suggestions if the do not have the corresponding ...
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Use inbox notification for close/open related activities [duplicate]
When you get a comment on your question or answer, or when a comment @-mentions you, a red notification appears on the top bar inbox. When you get an answer to your question, a red notification ...
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Give better explanations when accounts are blocked
Over the past week or so, I've seen many questions from users who don't understand why their accounts have been locked.
They have even made the effort to come here and ask why, so at least they know ...
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Prevent (or at least notify about) display names shorter than 3 chars
Until yesterday my display name was 2 characters. This ended when I started wondering about some issues with comments and notifications, went to meta, and found out that
there is an important ...
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Use a banner to announce when new SO blog articles on SO operations are posted
The SO blog is a critical resource for information about the operation of the SO family of sites. In the past I've suggested moving the blog link from the bottom of the page to the top so it gets ...
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Please show us when one of our posts gets deleted
Now that we are notified when we lose an accepted answer, can we go a step further and be notified when one of our posts (question or answer) gets deleted by someone other than ourselves?
This will ...
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Is it possible to get an Edit notification on questions that I Vote-to-close?
When a user votes to close a question (for whatever reason), it would helpful to receive a notification (in the inbox) when the question is edited (either the text, tags, if it closes then is re-...
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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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Change notification settings for Android App
Minor gripe, but... can we please be allowed to change the notification settings on the Android app?
I personally don't need my phone to vibrate and ring. And I don't want the sound to be the ...
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Could checkboxes such as "Notify" get an HTML label tag?
I tend to hate checkboxes without any <label>. Because basically that means that you have to click a 20×20 px² area to hit the checkbox. Making the texts "Notify" and "daily of any new answers" ...
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SE website should notify users who committed to a site on Area51 when the site goes to private beta
Apparently, I missed the email that one of the sites I committed to went to public beta.
Why? Because Email sucks as a workflow tool! [Citation (not) needed]
Valiantly, SE sent me a followup email (...
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Notify users of a question they closed being edited or nominated for reopening
This is brought up by a chat discussion on Code Review.
The idea being, when you Vote to Close a question (and it subsequently get's closed), you get a notification when the first Vote to Reopen is ...
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How about displaying a banner on top, that the reputation was recalculated?
I don't know, if this would be possible (at least for next time)? I mean, probably a lot of people don't read the blog (or even meta). These banners are displayed for so many things, so - why not?
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Can the notification emails please use plain text?
Email is a good working medium since many years using plain text. As some prefer to send emails with some formattings as HTML, they also provide a plain-text-part containing the same content. But the ...
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Is it possible to turn off the notification bars?
It would be a nice feature to allow people to select for which events they want a notification in the notification bar. There is quite some frustration about that notification bar, and for me it also ...
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Please notify us when a question we ask or answer is closed or reopened [duplicate]
This would go in the recent activity page.
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Create one page on SE to show my notifications for all SE, etc sites
Rather than visit every SOFU, SE, and meta site every day to see if anyone has answered/replied/voted on my posts, I would like to have one page that consolidates all of these notifications.
user27414
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Moderator message notifications should be red in the global inbox for those involved
From the blog post announcing the new notifications tab:
Since notifications aren’t as important as inbox notices, whenever you have unread inbox messages we’ll display the red inbox indicator rather ...
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Please stop sending me emails when my bounty is going to expire soon
I never read them, and they only serve to aggravate me. I know I have a bounty out there, and I want to let it run the full 7 days.
This is especially true on sites with a lot of bounties, such as ...
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Notifications when users edit answers
A few weeks ago I posted a question: Most Creative way to display 42. I received dozens of great answers. I loved reading them except I noticed one issue. People were editing their answers with new ...
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Please make it more obvious when a post is migrated
In response to this question, I think we need to make it more obvious when a post has been migrated.
Here's an idea:
Just ignore the part where balpha cleared this one up.
user27414
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How can I get a notification when someone else's question is reopened?
Does a feature like this exist? A question has been closed, because the user must write it in a better way.
I have already an answer for it, and it would be great to have an alert/notification when it ...
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Reputation notification of deselected answer?
This was never an issue before, but now I notice it now that I have many answers accepted as the "accepted answer". We receive +15 rep for an acceptance. We receive notification in our reputation ...
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Please enable cross site notifications
I noticed when I was using SO and meta today that I was hoping back and forth between the two to see if I had any notifications on the other. It would be cool/nice to see notifications pop-ups for ...
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New navigation doesn't appear to alert of question changes when watching a tag
I am watching the python tag on Stack Overflow. My filter looks like this:
I do not receive notification of new questions. Previously I'd get notifications like this:
This notification does work ...
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Notification that question has been edited or re-tagged while answering
Related to Notify us when the question has been edited after posting an answer
I believe a notification that a question has been edited or re-tagged would be very useful. If I am in the middle of ...
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Allow opt-in subscription to a post
Let's add the ability to opt-in to a notification when a post (question or answer) is 1) Edited, 2) Closed, 3) Reopened, 4) Some combination of those things. I think that single ...
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Native desktop notifications
Although it’s still a working draft, Web Notifications have been somewhat stable for quite a while now. In fact, they are stable enough that they exist unprefixed in current versions of Firefox, ...
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Don't send a notification if you cast the final vote to reopen your own question
Yesterday, my question Is Stack Exchange staff removing GoFundMe links? was reopened. As of a few weeks ago, this results in an inbox notification (see below). However, I (the author) cast the final ...
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Bring back the suggested edits notifications to the top bar . . . again
When the new top bar rolled out, the suggested edit indicator disappeared. A short while later, they came back, but with the understanding that they'd eventually be replaced by an indicator for all ...
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Could users receive notifications for further edits/rollbacks on their edits?
Users whose own posts are edited are already notified. However, I would like to propose that, where I edit someone else's post, I can choose to be notified of subsequent edits. Or, perhaps these could ...
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Add "notifications" tab to the mobile global inbox
With the removal of the Big Orange Slidy™ notification bar for badges and privileges, it appears that there is no notification for these at all on the mobile site. (Or at least my last two badges didn'...
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Notifications for edits by others of my own questions and answers?
I'd like to be more aware of when other SOpedians edit my own questions and answers, which is sure to happen because my innate spelling and grammar skills are overloaded by my vocabulary and ...
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Notify author of a posts migration in the inbox, audit trail for migrated posts
At the moment you get a top bar notification (like the "you got a new badge" notification) when a question of yours is migrated to another site. This was done as a response to: Notify Author when ...
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