Questions tagged [ping]
A method for one user to notify another user present in a chat channel. For 'pinging' other users in comments, use the [comment-replies] tag.
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He who must not be named? (aka Anyone can ping everyone in chat)
For some or other reason, typing @ᔕᖺᘎᕊ in a chat room pings everyone who's been in that chat room for the last 7 days...
Seems to work in all chat rooms (I only tested 2 as I don't want to upset ...
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RFC: Better chat @mentions – A prototype
Status: 75% - We have a prototype to play with the UI
Previous RFC: RFC: Better chat @mentions
Problem Statement & Background
Please see the previous RFC.
Proposed solution
The feedback to the ...
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RFC: Better chat @mentions [duplicate]
EDIT: A prototype is available: RFC: Better chat @mentions – A prototype
Status: 50% - Solution is proposed, nothing's implemented yet.
Problem Statement
Pinging (@mentioning) users in chat is ...
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Disable three-letter pings from chat to save Oliver, Olivier and Olive from Oli's pings
So apparently there's a feature (undocumented or otherwise) that allows you to ping people based on the first three letters of their name. I guess I can sort of see what went through its developer's ...
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How do I ping the right bob?
We have two bobs at the moment. Bob (with the fox avatar) is a long time user, and bob, with the green avatar.
I'd like to ping Bob, without bothering bob with my pings. I see two ways to do this - ...
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Ignore chat pings found in links
This chat message:
Hi, http://example.com/a/very/long/url/@Doorknob
renders as this:
but it also pings me, due to the @Doorknob at the end of the URL.
This message:
Here is another sample message....
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Add pingable groups to chat
My proposal is to add the ability for Room Owners to create pingable groups within a chat room that people can register themselves against. This would allow the easy pinging/sharing of knowledge to ...
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Avoid pinging multiple users in chat
Several chat room users are becoming annoyed by a certain feature of the chat room notification system. When there are two people in a chat room, say John and JohnSmith, and someone pings @John, ...
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Notify me when someone forgets a chat ping
TL;DR: Chat should ping like comments do. If someone forgets to @mention me and we're the only two people with access to the room, I'd like to receive a notification.
As a moderator, I increasingly ...
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Remove shortened name chat pinging [duplicate]
This is a not duplicate; I am asking that this "feature" be removed.
This Q now has more votes than the previous request, thus making this one more valuable.
Pinging the name @nick, in chat, also ...
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Please repeat a ping at most once when a message is edited
Please repeat a ping only once when a message is edited
If a message containing a ping is edited, only re-ping the user after the edit time limit has expired.
Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, ...
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We need a way for moderators to ping a group of people in chat
It has come up several times in chat that it would be useful to be able to ping a group of people in one go without having to find the id of each individual person.
It would be particularly useful in ...
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Chat not pinging when name is too short
As seen HERE, pings aren't registered when they use less than 3 characters.
His name "C X" is 3 characters, but because of the space and the way spaces are removed for pings it doesn't seem ...
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Ability to ping chat room owners
A recurring hassle in chat is to get a hold of a room owner when something needs their attention.
As a crude workaround, some rooms have separate guidelines for users with an explanation of how to ...
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Please can I disable pings from rooms I'm no longer in?
I've read this question, so I know why I'm getting pings from the Maths room: I went there.
I was there for a few minutes and then I left, and now I'm getting a bunch of pings because someone else ...
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How to make sure I'll be pingable in chat for a few days?
Let's say I want people to be able to ping me in a certain chat room for a few days.
Do I have to actually say something there, or is it enough to simply join the room? And do I remain pingable even ...
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Create warning in chat when @pinging someone who is not generally active at that time
If you click on someone in chat, you get a window like this:
This shows when a user is generally active in chat.
Chat is fickle* and will often make you look like you were active. And then ...
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Why does @Oɹʇɥo ping @Ortho?
My understanding was that if the first three characters of a name match a username present in the chat for the previous seven days, the person will be pinged.
Out of curiosity, why does @Oɹʇ ping @...
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Addressing users with non-standard first letter in chat
Not too long ago, there was a nice new feature implemented for comment replies to users whose username starts with a non-alphanumeric character; namely, that typing @ is sufficient to bring up the ...
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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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Random User-Pinging in Chat
So I'm a chat regular, and today somebody came into chat and asked a question. When he didn't get an answer, he started pinging random people in the room (which I would find very annoying if somebody ...
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Wrong network icon used on chat notifications when in multiple channels?
When you're in multiple channels associated with multiple different networks, the channel notifications popup seems to just choose one of those networks and always use the icon for that network.
For ...
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Did the chat *PING* get louder?
The sound when someone pings me seems to have gotten louder and almost blasted my ears off (I have headphones on)
Is there any way to change the volume of it?
I still want it on but at a MUCH lower ...
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Make user unpingable in chat
In our chat room, there is a regular (and RO) named Tom. Recently, another user named Tom came into the room. He didn't say much; not much was said to him; and now he's gone. The problem is that he ...
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The help for chat on pingability is too vague
The chat help pages say
To get another user's attention, mention them – type @ and then the first part of their name. Your mention will be highlighted on their screen – @someone. This will happen ...
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Ping commenters to write answers when a question is reopened
My question was closed. While closed, it accumulated comments from people who could potentially answer, not just comment. After reopening, I wrote a very brief comment to each person, inviting them to ...
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O 4 other users, who art ye?
When starting to ping someone in chat there appears some user boxes that you can click on or tab key to select that user to ping. When there are many n number of users that match your ping search it ...
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Can we get a way to enable chat notifications from a room where we have not been active in the last 7 days?
If a user pings me in a chat room, I get a notification if I was active in that room in the last 7 days (is this really how it works? It is strange that this information does not appear in the FAQs...)...
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Show replies in the transcript on mobile
I primarily use the mobile site for chatting. If someone pings me while I'm away, I'll get a notification about it later. This is really convenient, save for one problem: I have absolutely no way of ...
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Show the rest of the users you can ping in chat when there are too many to display at one time
I have recently noticed that when there are more than a certain amount of people with a similar name you get this
However it is not very clear at all who the other people not listed are... So I think ...
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Ping Notification for a user with less than 20 reputation?
Should we allow ping to a user who can't talk in chat? Recently I visited a meta.SE chatroom. Even though I don't have enough rep to talk, I could still get pinged and notified.
Since a user with less ...
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Chat pings are not turning into notifications
I was mentioned in this message while I was not in the chat room. Usually, this should become a notification after 15 minutes.
However, I didn't get any notification as can be seen in this screenshot:...
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In a chat room, what are the full mechanics of being "in the room"?
In a chat room, what are all the mechanics around being listed as "in the room" or not?
The various states of being "in a room"
I know of at least three states that a chat user can ...
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Extra support for characters when pinging in chat
Currently, the rule is that if there's a single character of punctuation after a username in a mention, that user will be pinged. So for example: @Second, @Second! @Second. would all ping me, while @...
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Does ping work in chat with no autocompletion?
I know that if an user has been recently in chat, you can ping him (autocompletion will appear when you start to type @user).
Does this hold if autocompletion doesn't appear?
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Can we have a feature to ignore specific user's pings? [duplicate]
This was asked 7 year ago
Add the ability to ignore users
The sites have changed considerably over 7 years. What's on topic has changed, the nature of the internet has changed and there's sites in ...
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What is the maximum number of pings a message in chat can contain before people are not notified?
I've noticed that once there are a certain amount of @pings in a chat message, the users who are mentioned don't actually get notified.
For instance, we sometimes have the bot ping lots of people for ...
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Does a direct reply to a message in chat create a notification, no matter what age the message is?
I know about these two possibilities when user is notified about the message in chat:
One is using @username syntax.
The other one is direct reply to the message. This can be chosen after clicking on ...
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Is the OP notified of all chat messages after comments are moved to chat?
The comments on a question are moved to chat. The discussion continues in chat. Will the OP be pinged for every single message in chat, just like OP would have been on normal comments on the question? ...
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Is it possible to get the rooms in which the user is pingable?
I know that it is possible to get the list of pingable users in a specific chatroom using 'rooms/pingable/{id}'. For example, this is what you get for Tavern on meta. (IIRC this means that the user ...
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Receiving chat notifications 5-10 seconds before the message that caused the notification?
So here's the situation, I'm chatting away on The Bridge, and suddenly I receive a bunch of notifications indicating somebody just @pinged me:
However, as you can see, I've received the notifications ...
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Simple @mentions do not notify, but direct replies to messages do
Since at least December 7, only direct replies to my messages in chat make the notification sound for me. Simple @mentions (like @El'endiaStarman) make no sound whatsoever. I've looked but haven't ...
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How can I ping a user for chat? [duplicate]
Say I'm in a chat room, and the person I am trying to reach isn't there. I want to ping him/her and sort of invite him/her to the conversation. So essentially whenever that person gets logged into the ...
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How to ping users with the same display name in chat and in comments?
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To simplify writing, I'll simply refer "users with same profile display name (case insensitive) user" as "users" (with quotes), and an arbitrarily user picked from "users" as "user" (with ...
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Chat ping "bug"? [duplicate]
So after chatting for a while in some SO chats, we encounterd a little problem which could get very annoying in long conversations where 2 people would have similar names.
sami & sam would both ...
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Can you ping someone in chat who has never been there before? [duplicate]
I has a discussion over here over whether if you @ping someone from the main site in chat if they would ever get a notification.
I was under the impression that they would not.
Is this true?
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Responding to a deleted message does not notify the user?
If you respond to a message in chat, which has either previously been deleted or is deleted as you're responding, the person that you're responding to does not get a notification to state they were ...
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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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If a user's avatar shows in a chat room but they don't say anything, can they be pinged? [duplicate]
I know that a user can only be pinged if they join a chatroom, but I'm not sure if that means they have to say something first or not.
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Notification about already answered chat reply
Steps to reproduce:
Enter a chat room in a new browser tab.
Close the browser tab.
Have someone ping you in the room at least twice. (not just once)
Open new tab, enter the room again.
Even though ...
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