Questions tagged [subscription]
For questions about the Stack Exchange subscription system, which will email you about new questions in your filters at a set interval of time.
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Notify me only of actual incidents when subscribed to Stack Overflow status page (stackstatus.net)
I noticed this in my inbox today:
When I subscribed to the status page, I expected to get emails only for actual incidents, that also appear in the history page (e.g. this one), but alas, looks like ...
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Is there a way to subscribe to questions asked by members of a "private" Stack Overflow on the "public" Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
My company has a "private" Stack Overflow space. But my company members often have general questions that they ask on the "public" Stack Overflow, because they don't concern ...
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Subscription feed emails still doubly encode < and > characters
This is a re-post of a bug from six years ago, in the hope that it will get some love.
When I receive emails for my Stack Exchange email subscriptions, characters like < and > are doubly encoded,...
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Has Stack Exchange stopped sending out emails for digests and question subscriptions?
I just noticed that I haven't received mails for my digest and question subscriptions for quite some time (at least 30 days). Is it just me or is this a global bug?
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Can't get email updates for Favorite Tags [duplicate]
On the page https://stackexchange.com/filters/103309/favorite-tags there's a list of the questions that match my Watched Tags across all sites. I'd like to get these questions emailed to me instead of ...
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Is there a way to edit my email subscription settings across all my SE accounts?
Is there a way to do this globally rather than having to do it for each account separately?
For example, I would like to adjust settings globally regarding notifications of items in my inboxes.
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Tag subscription email not being delivered (2018–2019 edition)
I just noticed that I haven't been receiving any tag subscription/filter email — since September 4, 2018!
I've checked my tag subscriptions and they each say:
Email Updates
Subscribe to receive ...
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I get email from filter subscription once a week instead of once a day
I manage a few filter subscriptions at https://stackexchange.com/users/44871/marcel-st%C3%B6r?tab=subscriptions. All of them are set to 'every day'. Yet I only get an email about once a week listing ...
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Daily subscription email sent out 10 days after the question was posted
I just got an email with the title "New kobo questions for Nov 24 - Stack Exchange". Hooray! But when I followed the link to the question I noticed that it was asked 10 days earlier (modulo timezones) ...
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Getting two email notifications for the same post matching my filter
I have one filter on Stack Overflow that matches "javamail".
Lately I've been getting two email notifications for the same
post that matches the filter. This doesn't happen every time,
but maybe one ...
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Is there an overview of questions for my subscribed sites with all my watched tags?
Sometimes when looking to answer questions I want to be able to filter new questions by my set of watched tags. I can easily scroll through the list and watch for questions with yellow background. Is ...
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How to get notified about new questions on tags in new UI? [duplicate]
There will be a new system for watching tags, but until that's implemented, I seem to not be able to follow tags the old way. Since that's the only way that currently sends out mails, it should still ...
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How to subscribe to tags?
There used to be "subscribe" button in the popup window which appears when you hover the mouse over a tag. It then sent you a confirmation e-mail and later it was sending e-mail feeds when ...
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Cancel joining the site for newsletter subscription does nothing
You can manage newsletter subscription on the SE newsletter page. However to subscribe for a specific site you need to be a member on it, if not, than clicking on subsribe link:
will refers you ...
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Subscribe to tags via app
I could not see any easy way to subscribe to tags in a group. I tried long-pressing the tag but nothing appears.
Any ideas?
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I stopped receiving tag filter subscription notification emails
I'm not receiving tag filter subscription email notifications anymore.
I did not change configuration of my subscriptions (https://stackexchange.com/users/3089209/xmojmr?tab=subscriptions) and I did ...
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Exclude questions with ignored tag in subscribed tag email
I'm subscribed to a tag. But I also ignore a tag. The two are sometimes used together, and I don't want to get the question(s) with the tag I ignore to my mail box in that case.
Please exclude those ...
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Large subscription mysteriously disappeared?
I have a large Stackexchange subscription (~80 tags of my favorite games on Arqade) that mysteriously disappeared around the beginning of the month. It's no longer listed here, and I am no longer ...
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Subscribe to multiple specific tags [duplicate]
I need to subscribe to specific tags, for example:
If I need to subscribe to the [android] tag I just go through this tag and subscribe to it. What if I need to make it more specific, like [android][...
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Ability to merge lists for subscribed tags
I want to get notified for some related tags. It could be better if I have an option to merge the results of all related tags in one email. This could be useful to get rid of duplicated items as well.
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Not receiving email confirmation
I have subscribed to a tag but I do not get the confirmation email that is sent. It is not in my spam folder.
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Subscription Emails Still Being Sent to Old Email Address
I've updated the email address on all my accounts within Stack Exchange from a hotmail address to a gmail address but my subscriptions are still being sent to my hotmail address.
I've checked by ...
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Can I subscribe to a tag on mobile?
Is there any way to subscribe to emails for a tag from an iPhone or iPad? The option doesn't seem to available in the iOS app or mobile site?
If it isn't available, can this feature be added to the ...
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Tell me if I have any subscriptions form the new email management page
I've just gone to check my email settings based on the new feature described here: Control the types of email you receive via our new Email Settings feature
I noticed that I can manage my '...
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Make it easy to suspend all question subscriptions
As someone who uses question subscriptions a lot (I seem to have 287 of them), there come times when I want to suspend them, i.e. take a vacation from SX.
Currently this is hard - I'd have to manage ...
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Email notification for incorrect question [duplicate]
I subscribe to new questions in the roslyn tag.
I just got an email with the subject New roslyn questions for Mar 16 - Stack Exchange linking to the question How to create a Pivot Chart (Excel 2013) ...
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Subscription bug: receiving emails for questions with tags that do not match my filter
As of yesterday, I've started receiving emails for a subscription that do not match my filter.
My filter: Smalltalk Filter (shows items with tags smalltalk or pharo across all StackExchange sites)
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I can't subscribe to tag on ru.stackoverflow.com
For example, I signed up for "битрикс" tag.
I received a confirmation email:
You've chosen to receive email updates on new questions tagged "".
And my subscription was without a tag, ie all the ...
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Would it be possible to stop escaping angle brackets in email notifications? [duplicate]
Here's an email I just received for a tag I subscribe to, showing a summary of a new question asked:
Creating tree formed XML from flat XML with Xquery
I have some XML in the following format:
&...
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I got no notification emails (for my tag filters) today.
More than 24 hours ago I got the last email from my tag filters. I checked some filters and verified that I should have gotten several emails today.
Is there a problem with this feature, currently? ...
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Bug in the Newsletter Subscription form
I found a small bug in the newsletter subscription form on the Stack Exchange platform.
Steps to reproduce it:
In the "Preferences" tab, check in the "Newsletter" section "Send me the weekly ...
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Do not send me emails about questions written by me (even if they have a tag I am subscribed to)
I subscribed to the tag "ecm", so I often receive such emails:
PROBLEM: Many of these email are about questions written by me.
(I am quite active in that field, usually answering but also often ...
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Unable to change email updates period on softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
I have subscribed for email notifications for Java tag on Software Engineering.SE, and follows link from email to change email preferences.
But then when I press edit and change period (i.e. How ...
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A subscription that lists a filter that isn't in my list of filters?
I have "favorite tags". I have "filters" that reference those tags. I have "subscriptions" that reference filters.
What's strange is that one of the subscriptions I set up references a filter that ...
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Subscription email subject does not show the site name
Now it is New $tag_name questions for $date - Stack Exchange
Could you please replace 'Stack Exchange' with the site name — Stack Overflow, Server Fault etc? It's useful because some tags ...
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double-notification: once per tag
If you subscribed to several tags, and there is a new question which belongs to more than one tag at once, you'll receive as many emails as the tags, e'g you subscribed to tags A, B, C, D and the ...
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What's the URL for the tag intersection feed for tags which Have +'s?
I've just read this:
Subscribing to a feed for multiple tags
and learned that I can subscribe to
https://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/tag1+and+tag2
but what if tag1 ends with +? e.g. c++?
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Finding Number of Followers of a Tag in the Data Dump
I'm doing a research on the developers' QAs in Stack Overflow, I have checked Stack Exchange Data Explorer and data dumps but I didn't find number of followers of a tag:
There isn't any related ...
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Stack Exchange doesn't know when I last checked my global inbox?
I am subscribed to get my unread inbox items every 3 hours. It's working well, but today I noticed something quite weird:
For sake of future search, adding the text:
The following item was added to ...
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Subscription Bug: Emails including jobs that do not match defined filters
A few days ago, many users have started receiving emails from job subscriptions that contain jobs that do not match the filters defined for the subscription.
The examples below show screen-grabs from ...
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Subscription feed emails doubly encode < and > characters
When I receive emails for my Stack Exchange email subscriptions, characters like < and > are doubly encoded, i.e., they are rendered as < and > (and encoded as &lt; and &...
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Broken links in tag subscription email
I have subscribed questions of certain tags. It sends me email whenever a question is asked under the tag. But recently I am getting lot of Page Not Found. When I click link on the email, it shows ...
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Offer more options for tag subscription digests
While subscribing to tags, it shows digest mail duration set to one day. If it is weekly digest (or, for that matter, any customizable days) it will be great.
Please consider changing duration to be ...
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Got an email for a filter for a question which doesn't contain any of the tags in the filter
I received this email yesterday:
Why?
I only have 1 filter, 'My filter', which only contains the tags csh and tcsh:
As far as I can see, this question has never been tagged with either tags (at ...
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Egregious whitespace on digest emails
The format of the digest emails has changed and it seems to violate the core ideas behind SE's layout, that content takes up most space. The HTML formatted email looks like this:
where I have ...
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Can we have the old feed back (as an option)?
I've noticed that the feed format has changed. The new format seems inconvenient
to read. The layout is more modern style but the actual facts - which is the question with few words of text - is much ...
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Tag filter subscription for all English sites
I'm using a tag filter to get email updates about the wikipedia tag. Since this tag appears on several sites, I chose the All Sites option.
That worked fine for me, but now I have received an email ...
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Receive filter mail once per week
I'd like to receive filter mail only once per week.
The question asked is:
Do you want email updates when new questions arrive in this filter?
Currently there are the options 15 minutes, 3 hours ...
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Tag filter still emails me after I have deleted it
I was messing around with filters last night and set one up for JavaScript with email notifications, every 15 minutes -- silly thing to do, I know.
I woke up this morning to many emails ...
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How do you change your email settings for all sites?
Is there a way to make settings apply to all sites for my login?
For example, if I go to settings for one site and uncheck the option
Email chat event reminders, bounty expiration notices, and ...
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