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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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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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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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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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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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Notification for reviews shows way too many
Since a recent change in notifications, I see more than I should:
I see no reason to see 134 posts are awaiting review, when there is literally nothing I can do about them. I think it is a bug, ...
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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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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 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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Clicking on a notification on Android app opens an empty feed
When I receive a message on an SE post, I get a notification like this:
If I double tap this notification, the SE application opens, but my feed is empty approximately half the time. It looks like ...
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Reputation and inbox notification shows up again after refresh
This was asked before too. link.
Currently I am facing the issue of appearance of reputation notification in above toolbar.
I can see the reputation notification, for every page refresh even after ...
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Reputation not appearing in Rep. Notification Queue - yet it is given silently
I answered a question on Super User and while on other sites I did not get a 'Reputation Notification' to explain that I was given 2 upvotes for my answer - yet if I manually check my Profile here at ...
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Getting Marc's chat notifications
Unfortunately, the first name of a popular individual here is also a prefix of my username. As a result, I get his chat notifications whenever someone refers to him by just his first name.
Is there a ...
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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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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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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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How do you want to be notified of unaccepted answers?
One feature-request we keep seeing is users want to be notified when someone un-accepts an answer, so a few questions that follow are how often should these notifications be seen, under what ...
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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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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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Prevent the 'Notification Fiesta'
This proposal is very similar to the abuse of the notification bar. Take a look at this screenshot:
Three notifications! None of these are important (*):
+100 Reputation.
Associated accounts.
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Non-English badge notification
I just got a badge on Pets.SE, which is super cool! Except, well, because I am bad with many non-English languages, I am not entirely sure which badge it is.
I am guessing that might be Portuguese. ...
user168476
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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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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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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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"You have 1 new answer. See your responses." link doesn't show any responses
This has been confusing me for ages. I go to StackOverflow. I see the link at the top saying that I have a new answer. I click it. It shows "nothing".
I click "this week", "last week" - they all show ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Not getting Rep Notification for new up votes
So just a little while ago i was flipping out because i was 2 rep away from my 10k rep goal
but then all of a sudden it was then 10,008 rep because someone upvoted me. however i didn't get any ...
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Badge Notification Repeats
Not sure if someone else has already raised this - I've got eleven notifications that I've received a Caucus badge on English Language Learners.
Perhaps one notification for each community that I'm a ...
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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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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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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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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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Are users notified when their questions are reopened?
Do users get notified when their question is reopened? I know there are no notifications on close, and that makes sense because 1) you assume the user is paying attention to their open, unanswered ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Didn't get notification for comment on my answer
"1 hour ago", someone commented on an answer I gave on meta.tex.se:
However, I didn't get a notification for that comment, the latest notification in my inbox is from "6 hours ago":
The latest ...
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Bounty notification appears multiple times
I don't know whether this is related to the new notification system or not, but I got 10 notifications and counting about the same event — the three-day notice for a bounty — about an hour apart. From ...
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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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Why are Stack Exchange profile deletion email notifications sent from Stack Overflow email address?
I deleted my AcademiaSE profile, and nearly had a heart attack ([email protected]) with a subject line of "Your profile has been deleted".
Why is this notification sent from an email ...
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Bug in HTML entities for badge notifications
Here’s a screenshot from my achievements inbox:
The rep gain on the Meta question has the “ and ” rendered correctly, but I see plain HTML entities on the badge notification.
I ...
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"You have one new answer" message
Sometime I get a "You have one new answer" message. But when I click on the envelope, there appears no new answers.
It's not that often, but every now and then I get this message.
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