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Two hard to count the inbox notifications from chat

A decade ago, in 2014 some guy named Jeff Tweeted1: There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. Well, somehow this seems applicable here:...
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No pong for the ping! No inbox notifications for chat pings [duplicate]

Well, I may have moved my main-site activity elsewhere, but I still talk to people in chat here, so I very much prefer receiving notifications when they ping for me. I mean, how else will I pong them? ...
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I'm clicking the same message multiple times to get it to clear, is it broken, or is something else happening?

My inbox indicates that I have a message! I click it to see what that message is. My expectation is that the message would be cleared from the inbox's active queue (the red-circle number decrements ...
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15 votes
1 answer
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All links in all emails are broken

The links from Stack Exchange's inbox and SOFT inbox notifications emails go through a https://sg-links.stackoverflow.email/ link. Currently these links are hitting an "offline for maintenance&...
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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1 answer
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Can't receive email notification of these sites after setting to 3 hours

For nearly several months, I can't receive any notification about these sites, but I had set it to notice me after 3 hours: Where can I fix this problem?
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1 answer
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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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27 votes
1 answer
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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 ...
John Bollinger's user avatar
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1 answer
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Unable to translate "Change inbox filter" tooltip

It seems that in new inbox somebody forget to make "Change inbox filter" tooltip translatable. I can't find this sentence in traducir.
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1 answer
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Notifications are not reloaded until a page is reloaded

Steps to reproduce: Open a page. Open the notifications inbox in the top right. Close it. Stay on the page until you get a notification. Open the notification inbox in the top right again. Expected: ...
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Inbox notification counter doesn't go away anymore after clicking outside the window

I noticed (since last few hours) that whenever I get a notification now and when I click on the notification icon, the notification window opens as usual. But the unusual thing is that even when I ...
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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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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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No notifications for followed posts

For the past several hours I have not been receiving any notifications about posts I have followed. The timestamp for the last followed post notification I received was 2021-07-06 16:23:20Z, and in ...
Eric Wofsey's user avatar
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1 answer
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Close button is no longer visible in “toast” notifications and error messages

When I've got 5 or fewer up / down votes left for the day, I get a message informing me of this. Although the dialog will disappear after a while, there has also previously been (during the many times ...
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2020-10-13 (3rd time): Random pages across SE feel “dead”, due to SE WebSocket misbehaving: sometimes connecting, sending heartbeat, but no data

From the symptoms, this is identical to the issue I reported in: Random pages across SE feel "dead", due to SE WebSocket misbehaving: sometimes connecting, sending heartbeat, but no data ...
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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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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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5 votes
1 answer
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Bounty notifications broken, in particular no notification at start of bounty grace period

About an hour ago (April 1st, 12:03), the grace period for a bounty of mine ended (without me awarding an answer). I have the following notifications in my inbox for this bounty: Mar 28 at 11:03: ...
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8 votes
1 answer
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Where are my notifications?

In my inbox it alleges the most recent comment directed at me was posted 6 hours ago, but I noticed there are more recent comments under that and also under a different answer of mine that I was not ...
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1 answer
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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 (...
Sybille Peters's user avatar
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1 answer
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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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1 answer
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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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13 votes
1 answer
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Notification button not loading on the top bar

The message notification menu on the top bar seems broken. Everything else seems ok, but not being able to read my notifications is bad. Can we have it fixed please?
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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2 answers
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No longer getting notifications

Since the website went down for maintenance, I’ve no longer been receiving notifications when someone replies to my posts. App Version: 1.6.6.2 Device: iPhone 6 OS Version: Version 12.2 (Build 16E227)...
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1 answer
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Unsubscribe button isn't disabled when I have already unsubscribed from "Tag watching" notifications

I have already unsubscribed from all the "Tag watching" notifications, but the button for "Unsubscribe from all" (notifications) is still enabled. I think it would be better if it ...
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1 answer
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Broken cross symbol for closing in notification message

After revoting on question opening or successful flag, cross symbol in the notification message is broken. Revote for opening: Vote for opening:
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28 votes
1 answer
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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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16 votes
2 answers
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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). ...
Jenayah's user avatar
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37 votes
1 answer
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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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1 answer
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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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1 answer
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The inbox and achievement notifications show up incorrectly

In the top bar, it said that I have 1 unread inbox message and earned 7 reputation points: But when I clicked on both buttons, I neither had an unread inbox message nor earned reputation. My last ...
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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 ...
Joshua Goldberg's user avatar
12 votes
1 answer
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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 ...
Diminutive Colossus's user avatar
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1 answer
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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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1 answer
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Inbox messages for comments on answers (in iOS App) aren't behaving as expected

I've noticed recently that comment notifications only link directly to the comment when that comment is on the question. Comments on answers just link to the top of the page rather than centering on ...
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7 votes
1 answer
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Plain text version of emails does not contain any links

I just signed up, a day or two ago, and I've received a notification that there's something in my inbox. Unfortunately, my email client isn't able to show me a link to my Inbox, or the message, ...
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42 votes
1 answer
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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 ...
HaemEternal's user avatar
2 votes
1 answer
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"Can't load inbox" bug

I can open my reputation and the Stack Exchange dropdown, but when I go to hover over my Inbox, it loads for a fraction of a second and then disappears. I had 3 notifications and when I clicked on ...
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1 vote
1 answer
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Android app crashes after dismissing notifications from web

The SE Android app (v1.0.85 beta) crashes if I dismiss the inbox notification from web. It also fails the automatic notification dismissal on the Android. Steps to reproduce: Receive a notification (...
Meta Andrew T.'s user avatar
9 votes
2 answers
81 views

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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5 votes
1 answer
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Tapping on notification redirects to random question

Tapping on a notification (inbox, not achievements) on my iPad's StackExchange App, sometimes redirects me to a random question. Please fix. Or am I doing something wrong? Screenshots: I tapped on ...
user avatar
25 votes
2 answers
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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 ...
Der Kommissar's user avatar
4 votes
1 answer
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Non-HTTPS link in notifications areas on HTTPS SE sites

I have noticed that since getting the Firefox add-on HTTPS Everywhere that all SE sites have gone HTTPS as they should, however I have also noticed that on the HTTPS versions every site link except ...
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18 votes
1 answer
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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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3 votes
1 answer
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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 ...
Byte Commander's user avatar
18 votes
2 answers
233 views

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 ...
Andy's user avatar
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4 votes
1 answer
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New inbox item not appearing when clicking on it

I have this inbox item: I tap it and scroll down and see no answers: nothing in the site either. maybe they deleted the answer but I don't want the tease of a possible answer if there's none....
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26 votes
1 answer
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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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3 votes
0 answers
53 views

Incorrect message when earning a badge

My profile page on Stackoverflow was tracking the gold badge for wpf with still 104 votes to go to earn it. I earned a revival badge and was greeted by "Congratulations you earned the WPF badge". The ...
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4 votes
0 answers
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Wrong title for election related notifications

I have some strange titles when I get comment notifications for my nomination on [SO] there stands something like "6|rekire" in the title. I guess that comes from the 6 in the URL https://...
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