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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Poll in background for StackExchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™ inbox events and update the titlebar accordingly à la Facebook
I understand a few similar questions have been asked, but this is hopefully completely separate functionality.
Say you have Facebook open in Tab 1 of your favorite browser (mine is Chrome). When ...
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Suddenly being awarded enlightened badges?
I seem to have gotten 4 enlighted badges in the last hour, without that many upvotes/accepts on my answers.
I expect these to be awarded closer to when the conditions are met (first answer accepted ...
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Badge notification targeted wrong post for Enlightened Badge
Following on the heels of other badges that have been linked to the wrong post in the notification...
I recently got a badge notification that I earned an Enlightened badge for this post, when in ...
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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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Now that we have a global inbox, do we still need the Top Bar notifications?
Now that we have the global inbox I feel that we get far too many notifications on the family of sites.
I had 1 new comment today, and I got a Global Inbox notification, the envelope lit up, an I had ...
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Why isn't my StackExchange Inbox notification disappearing after I view the responses it is referring to? [closed]
The notification below doesn't go away unless I click on it, even if I've already seen the responses it's referring to.
This is especially annoying when I know I've looked at the responses already, ...
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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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Where can I find that I need this much up vote for this badge?
Where can I find that I need this much up vote for this badge?
This question is for Stack Overflow.
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feature request: on accounts bound to your SO login, show on SO what activity (answers, comments) you had on the other SO-based sites
I primarily use StackOverflow, but also ask questions on SuperUser, ServerFault, etc.
All my accounts are linked to the same login, but since I don't get email notifications (because of this SAV ...
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"Your bounty will expire, uh, yesterday" notifications, despite visiting every day - is this really by-design?
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I've offered a bounty on this question on SO, but I only received the orange notification bars this morning, several days after the bounty has expired (visited SO every day, didn't get ...
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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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Improve the speed of message/comment notifications?
Hard to know for sure, but I've been noticing that I'm not getting notifications for new messages, comments in a timely manner (15+ hours?)
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Could we have a global notifications area for stackexchange sites? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Create one page on SE to show my notifications for all SE, etc sites
This might have been discussed elsewhere, but I couldn't think of the most appropriate phrasing when I was ...
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Allow us an exit hatch to dismiss the system message notification bar [closed]
Please add the functionality to dismiss or kill the site-wide announcement bars. Not the standard notification bars that come with phrases such as:
You've earned "Iconoclast" and 1 other badges. ...
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Are editors notified of @comment-replies? [duplicate]
According to this bug, they should be but it's buggy.
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Notify when a comment has been flagged
A flagging on a comment could mean "This comment mentioned a minor error in the post that has now been fixed" and is now only noise (especially if upvoted before). So it would be nice to be notified ...
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Using the notification inbox as an... actual inbox?
I think it would be nice if, for our notification inbox, we could delete notifications after we've read them. Just for organizational purposes. (And if that gets added, perhaps the filter by date ...
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Be notified on new comments
Hi, is there a way to be notfied about new comments in subscribed threads, like with the actual notification system that works for answers?
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Notify about dupes of a favorite question when it has answers
If a post (A) is closed as a duplicate of another one (B), and post A has answers, people who have favorited post B should be notified because those answers may also be useful.
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Notification when someone else's answer is accepted
I would like to know when someone else's answer is accepted on a question that I have also provided an answer for. I'd like to know how someone else better solved a problem so that I can evaluate ...
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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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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.
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Favorites Change junk
I keep getting notifications about favorites changing, but I've pored through all my stuff and don't see anything to tell me WHAT changed. Searched here, I do see others with this same quandary, many ...
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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.
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How are the "New Answer" notifications implemented in stackoverflow.com?
Somebody knows if the "There are new answers" notifications appearing at the top of the page while answering a question are retrieved using periodic polling or making use of some kind of comet/long-...
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Show Meta notifications on parent site [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
More closely link the “meta-xyz” sites with the xyz sites.
With all these wonderful new StackExchange sites, I find I'm not as vigilant about participating in Meta as I was ...
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Notification bar doesn't disappear on clicking the question
Whenever I earn a new badge a notification bar is displayed, which says something like "You earned a badge for question/answer. See your profile". But on clicking the question/answer link to navigate ...
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Allow following during private beta [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
The evolution of a Proposal seems designed to drive people away
I recently wanted to ask a question about photography. I looked on the Area51 and saw that the Photography ...
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Update Notification for Questions and Answers Closed-for-Dup
I would like to encourage users to look for dup questions before posting questions, and users to look for duplicates rather than throwing in new answers or copying answers from the dup and pasting ...
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Displaying number of notifications in the Title for every Stack Exchange site
We all love notifications, either is for a new reply to your comment or you have a new answer or you just received couple of new badges. But it's really hard to follow them with all these new Stack ...
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Can we get notification in the tab (change of title)?
I'm usually running many different StackExchange sites in Firefox using tabs (using ReloadEvery to update every 5 minutes). Right now to check for activity, I have to manually click on the tab to see ...
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2 lines in notification bar breaks layout [closed]
So I got the Tumbleweed badge for having an old topic (not entirely sure why thats a badge...) but since the topic name is quite long, it first covers up the user bar and (in Firefox) puts 0 spacing ...
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New Badge Notification targets wrong post for Peer Pressure Badge
I recently deleted an answer I provided to a question. About 5 minutes later I received a notification that I was awarded the Peer Pressure badge for a completely different answer.
Two issues:
The ...
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Notify close voters when a closed question gets edited
As mentioned in this discussion, a question closed because it was not well-phrased is currently very unlikely to be reopened after an edit clarifying the issues. Those who voted to close should at ...
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Style of notifications on SE2-Metas
I find the dark gray text on the black background very hard to read. Is it just me or could the style be modified a bit?
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Bounty expiry notification message need to improve
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It's not my question, so it should be "the" or something else, instead of "your"
I have already awarded the bounty last month (June), so "...
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Start separate blog for maintenance info and new trilogy features
Merging blog.stackexchange.com and blog.stackoverflow.com was certainly a good idea. However, this has had the side effect that a lot of content is added at a faster rate. Much of that content is very ...
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Create "Recent Changes" link in the site footer
The most recent trend on Meta Stackoverflow has been to complain about the new features.
Jeff has stated repeatedly that he will not ever implement any sort of global notification system. (I can't ...
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Should there be a "check the blog" link above/below the "How to Ask" box on the Meta "Ask Question" page?
The stream of questions about the recent change to the bounty system has raised the idea of notifying users of changes - which Jeff is against.
So how about adding a "Check the blog" link to the Meta ...
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Allow multiple e-mail notification preferences on Area 51
It looks like e-mail notification on Area 51 is an all-or-nothing option. I'd rather have multiple notification preferences.
For example, when a proposal is in commitment phase I don't care about the ...
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Area 51: Provide a "please vote on questions" type notice
I'm seeing one of the biggest problems with getting proposals off the ground is that almost nobody actually proposes questions or votes on existing ones; perhaps there should be a notification dialog ...
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Abuse of the notification bar [closed]
Nowadays every single time I visit a trilogy website or area51 I'm shown that stupid notification bar that most of the time notifies me about something I don't really care about, and it won't go away ...
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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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Would you rather get more or fewer emails from Stackoverflow? [closed]
Would you rather get more or fewer emails from Stackoverflow?
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Tag creation in SO [closed]
In the past, users with more than 300 or so reputation points (I don't remember the exact number) had the ability to create new tags. Those tags made it easier to search for similar questions and to ...
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Is it possible to be notified of new questions with particular tags? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to get a real time notification of Questions posted in SO for a particular tag
I'm interested in answering questions on the few topics that I know something about, but ...
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Subscribing to receive notifications at a fine-grained level
This old request is now [status-completed], but it was not implemented in the way proposed, with the ability to subscribe to specific answers and comment threads. I'm proposing to move it back into ...
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"You have 1 favorite change. See your favorites."
I received this notification:
"You have 1 favorite change. See your favorites."
I don't understand it. I don't remember all of my favorites, so why should I see my favorites? How have they ...
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Multiple notification sub-tabs are highlighted at the same time [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“this month” highlighted with “today”
When either "Today" or "This Month" is selected, both sub-tabs are highlighted.
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What happened to the top bar messages for reputation milestones?
I remember clearly that when I had hit a few early milestones (like the Leave Comments one) an orange bar appeared at the top of the screen announcing the feature I had just unlocked.
When I reached ...
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