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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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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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Add a link to the notification about the "Create new tags" privilege
It might be helpful, if this notification showed some information or came with a link to more information.
I am sure, I can find the information somewhere but just being able to click might make it (...
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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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Please don't scroll the notification bar / top banner [closed]
I'm bothered by the change in the notification bar from what I'm looking at right now on meta.stackexchange to what I see today on Stack Overflow. I don't want the top bar to follow me after I ...
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Highlight unread messages on the inbox page on stackexchange.com
The following URL is very handy in that it shows me an expanded view of my inbox, but it does not highlight unread messages. This makes it very hard to differentiate which messages I need to read or ...
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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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Make the language of notifications match the language of the site they correspond to
I participate in both the English Stack Overflow site and the Russian Stack Overflow site. When I look at my notifications, the language of the notification corresponds to the language of the site I ...
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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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Add button to watch questions/get notified on edits, comments, etc [duplicate]
I often have the situation that I read a question and leave a comment requesting an edit to provide more information by the OP.
Currently, I add the phrase that he/she should please also write a ...
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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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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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answer
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Touch and hold in iOS app to copy chat URLs
On iOS, I use a browser other than Chrome or Safari, and as a result I can't open notifications that link to chat.
I'd like to see the commonly-used gesture of touch & hold to get a link to the ...
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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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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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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 ...
user215040
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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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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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Let me choose a different notification sound specific to the app
I love having different notification sounds for various apps on my phone so that when I get a notification I know exactly what app it came from, and thus exactly what kind of notification it is. It ...
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"See your profile" link doesn't go to profile
In my "achievements" menu on the top bar, I was told that I earned a badge for a question, and to see my profile.
Anyway, the link took me to the post in question, not to my profile. Maybe we should ...
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Allow me to automatically silence notifications during night time
The android app now has the ability to remove vibration and noises from push notifications but to get what I want out of it I still have to manually disable those at night then re-enable them when I ...
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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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Which are the new notifications in Android app?
Clicking on notification counter icon, it lists out all the notification messages but there is no clear indication which are the new/unread messages among all the notifications?
All the new/unread ...
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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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Reading notification on website should clear native Android notification
I think it would be nice if you read an inbox notification on the desktop version of the site, it should dismiss the native Android notification in the system tray. It seems kind of weird when I come ...
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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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Immediate inbox notifications I can get on my mobile
There's been some old discussions here and here about receiving immediate emails when your inbox has new messages, and some reasons were given why not to do this (spamming, people will stop using the ...
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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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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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Add "Your post was edited" to answers in First Post? [closed]
A thought occurred to me recently. Currently, new users have no way of knowing if their first answer was edited. The review process allows users to clean up answers, but future posts will likely ...
user206222
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Notifications of edits to questions
Questions often get edited after you answer them. Some edits are insignificant, but there are edits that change the question significantly enough to warrant a change of the answer.
It would be nice ...
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Change the inbox notification text for mod messages
When another moderator sends a message to a user, the inbox notification says:
moderator message on AviD added a new message
Hello, I'm writing in reference to your IT Security - Stack Exchange ...
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Reputation changes also to inbox
I would like to see my reputation changes in the StackExchange inbox as notifications. I have several accounts on different StackExchange sub-portals and it annous me to watch time by time if the ...
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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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Notify upvoters and answerers when a question is closed [duplicate]
In an ongoing discussion about whether closed questions should be deleted unless improved, a painful corner case has emerged: what to do with bad questions that have good answers?
Whatever the answer ...
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Notifications are missing from global inbox on StackExchange.com
I don't know if the new Notifications haven't yet been pushed out to stackexchange.com but they should be IMHO.
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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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The new auto-updater for vote counts is really annoying
It's been confusing me for too long already. Things I've noticed:
When there are multiple votes being cast on the same post in succession of each other, it constantly keeps flashing back and forth ...
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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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Add notification when your question is closed as a duplicate by a mod [duplicate]
There are already some feature-requests asking for a notification when your question gets closed, with which I wholly agree:
Send authors an inbox message if their question gets closed
Why did I not ...
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Notfication if bounty expires on another site
Recently I set a bounty on a superuser question. Unfortunately I was very very busy for the next week and only logged in once or twice on SO. Now the problem is, the bounty on superuser expired ...
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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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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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Let us continue this discussion in chat using redundant @name
In my answer to a question, Danpe has moved the discussion to chat (automatically I assume).
Although I'm the OP of the answer, and the only other commenter, the automatic message, "@GeorgeDuckett ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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