26
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Better handling of inbox notifications that have been merged together
We've addressed the issue in the topbar inbox with the notifications of the same type related to the same post not being marked as read when the newest, unread one is marked as read.
With this fix in ...
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16
votes
Inbox improvements are live
bug? feature-request? status-completed
Clicking "mark as read" on a collapsed multiple notifications item should mark all of them as read or mark the shown one as read and show a previously ...
- 926
15
votes
Inbox improvements are live
bug
My impression is that with the old design, when I was notified about an unread chat message, reading it would turn off the inbox notification for it.
Not so with the new design. It notifies me of ...
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13
votes
Inbox improvements are live
Update the cached count of notifications once the dropdown is opened
Sometimes, a stale number of unread notifications will show in the dropdown, which happens when one or more notifications received ...
12
votes
Inbox improvements are live
feature-request
Add a way to sort unread items to the top
Currently, both read and unread notifications are sorted in the order they were received — it is, of course, expected behavior (and one can ...
12
votes
Accepted
Can see code when clicking on my notifications box
I spent too much time on this, so I'll share what I found until now in the hope it helps, but beware that's a dump of technicalities:
This is caused by your DuckDuckGo Privacy extension.
What happens ...
9
votes
Inbox improvements are live
No-one's going to upvote this right at the bottom of the list, but I have to say after a week of giving this a chance…
I absolutely hate the new behaviour.
It has seemingly forgotten the entire ...
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9
votes
Inbox improvements are live
bug
Very inconsistent count for the Refresh button when toggling the state of a message.
When changing from read to unread or vice versa it some times changes the count for the "Refresh (<...
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7
votes
Inbox improvements are live
So I'm on a question that I've left a comment on and someone responds to my comment with an @. I read the comment, respond, and move on to another tab. That new tab now has a notification informing me ...
- 6,561
6
votes
Inbox improvements are live
bug status-planned
Opening a message using keyboard shortcut does not mark it as read.
Steps to reproduce:
Have one unread message. You can just toggle the top one to be unread.
Press I for Inbox -&...
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6
votes
Accepted
Error message when marking all inbox notifications as read is not pluralized
This'll ship to prod later today. Thanks Glorfindel for pointing out the awkward language and Tetsujin for the copy suggestion!
- 6,064
5
votes
Accepted
Unable to translate "Change inbox filter" tooltip
It was an oversight on our side and it affected this string in particular (it's not a global issue). It should be fixed now.
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5
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Error message when marking all inbox notifications as read is not pluralized
How about…
An error occurred while updating notification status.
Then it's a singular status, rather than singular or plural notification[s]. It also means you don't need to keep track of how many ...
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5
votes
Is there a simple API for getting the number of unread messages?
The API way, which is what the mobile apps used to use ... you can go to the API documentation, hit 'Get Token' (to make sure the site knows who you are) and then 'Run':
To make it work as an ...
GlorfindelMod
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5
votes
How can I find unread messages in the Stack Exchange inbox?
You click on the Inbox(ALL) and change it to unread.Sometimes with more than one tab, it won't autorefresh, or you'll see a (X) with a number on the side with (refresh), which means the inbox is out ...
- 170k
5
votes
Accepted
How can I view unread messages?
Ideally, the list of your unread messages would be fully shown when you select the "INBOX (UNREAD)" view at the top left of the inbox popup/dropdown. However, the inbox popup/dropdown only ...
- 23.2k
4
votes
Inbox icon indicates an unread message, but no messages are shown under "unread"
I do not have an answer as to the root cause, but there is a "solution" that worked for me. The "mark all read" link (you can see it in the dropdown in the video--it's on the top ...
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4
votes
How to make the inbox show all notifications
Scroll down a little in the drop-down and click on Go to full inbox . There you can see all your notifications, even those that would normally be grouped into a single line in your drop-down inbox.
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3
votes
Accepted
Inbox Notifications Will Not Clear
Nothing I do seems to mark my inbox notifications as read and clear them out.
As per the comment by zcoop98 click the text link "Mark all as read" at the top right of the notification popup....
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3
votes
Inbox improvements are live
bug
Sufficiently old answers show up in the count but not in the unread listing at all.
After letting a number of old answers pile up, even after trying to go back through them and catch up, the ...
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3
votes
Inbox improvements are live
My inbox notification count seems to be whacky. I'm seeing this:
Notification count shows 5.
Open inbox, the only unread notification is a comment to another answer I gave to this question (which had ...
- 7,632
3
votes
Inbox improvements are live
bug design localization
There's a possibility to get wrong location for notification time point in case of localized sites. Time is shifted down form the envelope icon. E.g. on Stack Overflow in ...
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3
votes
Inbox improvements are live
This is a yucky glitch:
Click the inbox
Scroll all the way to the bottom
(Box is blank as shown)
Click away
Click the inbox button again
(Same state as in 3 is shown)
IMHO there are two issues here:
...
- 7,632
3
votes
Inbox improvements are live
support / bug
Real-time inbox refreshing:
All Stack Exchange pages, except for the inbox that is on the chat rooms listing, Area 51 pages, and stackexchange.com, will support real time refreshing of ...
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3
votes
Clicking on the inbox button on the navigation bar before it's finished loading takes me to the 'All Items' page
Here is a kind of behavior solution to this annoying problem which doesn't require StackOverflow to make any changes.
There is way to tell directly when the Inbox icon has changed state from "...
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2
votes
Inbox improvements are live
bug status-bydesign
Items are still marked as read if you choose not to navigate away from an unfinished post
To reproduce:
have at least one unread notification in your inbox
start writing a new ...
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2
votes
Highlight unread messages on the inbox page on stackexchange.com
As of the recent inbox improvements, read notifications are now grayed-out on the inbox tab of the network profile, while unread notifications have a white background. As such, I think this is ...
- 7,418
2
votes
Accepted
Change the inbox notification text for mod messages
This has been implemented somewhere in the past; it's now like this:
moderator message
[moderator] sent [reason] (with edits) to [recipient]
(the (with edits) part is optional, that's shown when you ...
GlorfindelMod
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2
votes
Where is my inbox?
How to go to your combined inbox for all Stack Exchange sites
The short answer:
Option 1: Go here (thank you @Makyen): https://stackexchange.com/users/current?tab=inbox
Done!
Or Option 2: (thank you @...
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2
votes
Inbox improvements are live
feature-request
The Filter "INBOX (UNREAD)" and the "INBOX (ALL)" is all caps, the dropdown uses titlecase so the selection would be consistent if it was the same.
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