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Tagged with status-completed notifications
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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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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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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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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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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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I do not get notified when the system adds a canned "possible duplicated" comment
This happened to me twice. Someone flags my question as duplicated and only when I visit the question I notice the comment. Before I had no proof, but today I have *evil laughter*.
This is the ...
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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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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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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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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. ...
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Random pages across SE feel "dead", due to SE WebSocket misbehaving: sometimes connecting, sending heartbeat, but no data
I work with and on SmokeDetector (SD). Over the last several days (starting last Monday, 2020-05-111), we've noticed times when SmokeDetector has stopped scanning posts on Stack Exchange. After ...
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I'm not getting reputation notifications
I haven't been getting reputation notifications since recently.
(I reloaded several times, closed and reopened my browser, and restarted my computer)
New rep is still shown in the profile page ...
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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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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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Achievements indicator no longer showing number for rep change
In the last hour or two I've gotten green notifications for rep changes, but they look like badge notifications because there's no number:
I sometimes see this graphic appear for something less than ...
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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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Why has my account disappeared without any notifications or warnings?
I used to have an account with id user:12361700 with more than 12,000 points on Stack Overflow. Eight hours ago, I could log in without any problem, but this morning, without any prior warning nor ...
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There are no chat flags to display but the number is shown
When a message is flagged as spam/offensive, network wide 10k users are shown a number of pending chat flags.
As shown in the above image, it is shown that there are 15 messages waiting for review. ...
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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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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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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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Inbox notifications vanish
Since earlier today, the red badge to notify me of new inbox items vanishes when reloading the page or opening another SE page in a new tab (not opening the inbox in either tab). Can this new ...
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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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Mod message header notification is missing
I've send four mod messages earlier today (busy morning) and I've just discovered that my fellow Programmers mods didn't get the usual "Yannis released the Kraken again" header notification for any of ...
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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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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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