The global inbox contains information from across the entire network, including hot questions, a list of all sites, an inbox of @responses directed at you, and notifications of badges and ending bounties.

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Send suspension notices & mod messages to Global Inbox as well

I realized that Mod messages/suspension notices are not delivered to the inbox. I'm not sure why that's so. With most activity being delivered to the Inbox, something as important as Mod messages ...
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Show inbox updates in the page title

Background Recently New Feature: real time updates to questions, answers, and inbox was implemented. With this feature the amount of questions with new activity is shown in parenthesis at the ...
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Use site name instead of domain name in hot questions

In the hot questions box (top left corner thingy), it shows which site the questions are from by showing the domain name below them. I recently suggested that English Language Learners change their ...
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Do we need to teach new users about the inbox?

A few weeks ago my friend asked a question on Physics.SE. Later on, I saw him browsing the site, and noticed that he had an unread inbox notification. I pointed it out, and he said "Oh, that's an ...
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Better 'inbox' behaviour

I don't know whether this has been raised before, but I can't find a question on it so I'm raising it here. I think there should least be a configurable option to change the behavior of the Stack ...
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Inbox links break after nomination phase

Even during the primary, users can still leave comments under the nominations. However, the link just points to the elections page, but it doesn't specify the phase. For example, the link to the ...
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Eeeeek! Where's my comment notification?

I revisited one of my answers, and was surprised to see a comment left, many hours before. The thing is, I never got an inbox notification! The comment does show up in my responses list... ...
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More control over multicollider

Related: Add the ability to ignore users Today, we had a guy who had an issue with a naggy user. This sort of sparked me into coming up with a new feature-request (Can't find a dupe, surprised). ...
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Is there any timeout/expiry period implemented for Global Inbox Notifications?

As the title says, is there any timeout period or expiry period implemented for Global Inbox Notifications? For example, lets say I post this question and go away for 2weeks / 2months / 2years / ...
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See all unread inbox messages

Is it possible to see all the unread messages for the StackExchange network even after one of the unread messages has been viewed? I've noticed that the unread message count in the upper-right corner ...
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“An error occurred while loading - please try again” when opening inbox too early

I get the following error when I try to open my inbox pop-up too early, while the page is still loading: To be more precise: the page is visible and I can see a red indicator showing I have a new ...
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Get notified when the OP comments right after our comment and uses no “@”

I'm a bit hesitant to ask this question because I know there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of notifications (or pings). I've especially taken a very good look at When exactly do I get ...
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Oops! Something Bad Happened! StackExchange Inbox

I am getting the following message when in StackExchange and clicking on Inbox. I have logged out and tried several different times. Every time I get the error message: In the screenshot I am ...
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Temporarily deleted answer missing from asker's inbox

I asked a question on CS and received an answer. This answer does not appear in my inbox. I never saw a notification, and as of now the latest notification from CS is ...
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Please provide a configurable notification for tools

I would like to have a notification system for action requests — basically things that appear in the 10k tools (spread around multiple pages on each site): flags (yes, in addition to the number in ...

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