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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I am not getting notifications on comment answers [duplicate]
Since yesterday I am not getting anymore notifications when someone replies to a comment. Before I was getting the red circle beside "inbox" tag.
Anyone knows if it's due to some reason or it's ...
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Inbox notification for different site doesn't log me in
I have frequently found that when I get an inbox notification for a different site in the network, it does take me to the right place, but I need to log in separately in order to e.g. respond to a ...
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Can we keep basic site notifications from showing up as unread notifications in our inbox?
When I log on and see a number in the upper left on my screen, I immediately think that someone has answered one of my questions or commented on something else I posted. Most of the time, it just ...
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“Unread Message in your inbox” Notification not refreshes till page refresh
I am using Google Chrome. There are multiple tabs of Stack Overflow are open.
When there is any message arrives in Inbox then it appears at top left corner of every tab.
What I did is right-clicked on ...
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Global site drop-down in the top left should be sorted alphabetically
The global site list is sorted by reputation first, and then randomly. This was to encourage discovery of new sites.
This list should be sorted by reputation first, and then alphabetically to make it ...
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Could the StackExchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™ show rep change in the site list?
Since the new footer was put into place I have started using the "all sites" dropdown pretty much exclusively to navigate through the sites. Some days, I just want to go through "my" sites looking at ...
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How can I make a question I no longer care about stop showing up in “inbox” and “notifications”?
I asked a question that I no longer care about. I cannot delete it because some users have submitted answers. How can I stop messages regarding this question from showing up in my "inbox" and ...
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Notifications / Inbox aren't working on Security.SE and Bitcoin.SE
My Security.SE and Bitcoin inbox notifications aren't working correctly. I've had a few posts have new answers( that I have asked) and never received notification of the comment or the answer.
I'm ...
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Double (unneeded) notification about an answer or comment when following a comment\answer mail notification
When I follow an email link from a Stack Exchange site:
new item in your Stack Exchange inbox
the link leads me straight to the comment/answer with a url ending with something like:
...
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2answers
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Icons not appearing in Inbox email notification [duplicate]
Overnight I received two "1 new item in your Stack Exchange inbox" emails, both of which have a blank site icon.
Math:
Computational Science:
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My inbox suddenly emptied on SO
Just finished answering a question when I saw a notification in my inbox. Upon opening it, all of my notifications were gone. Checked with browsers I don't usually use and ones that have an incognito ...
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Incorrect number of answers shown on Notification inbox [duplicate]
I'm new to this site, so please pardon if anything wrong in my question.
I'm an regular user of StackOverflow. I yesterday posted a question in StackOverflow.
For which I got 5 answers. But when I ...
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1answer
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Does global inbox have a separate url and page?
Is it possible to view my stackexchange global inbox on a separate page, not just in the "supercollider multidropdown" or whatever the notifier is TM called.
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When a user edits his mod deleted post, the moderator should be notified
When a moderator handles a flag, it is hard to find out later what flags you've handled and whether anything happened to the posts afterwards. While moderating a didn't post on this question I noticed ...
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1answer
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Two ways we could significantly improve comments and user to user interactions
Two interactions with comments over the last couple days have led me to believe that the overall user experience on SE concerning comments and just general user interaction could be improved.
The ...
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How do I access items in the StackExchange inbox
I asked a question and I can see a reply in my inbox. If I click on the message it takes me to a reply on the the question I asked, but it doesn't appear to be the same answer as the precis I can see ...
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Trying to access Mod Message of a removed user from Inbox shows the “Oops! Something Bad Happened” error message
Mods get a notification in their inbox every time a Mod message has been sent.This user was initially sent a Mod Message, and then later on removed.
Now, when I try to access the Mod message via the ...
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Wrong number of answers in notification
In accordance with Jarrod Dixon's request I'd like to file another report on the wrong messages in the notifications panel:
As one can see, there is a report of 4 answers on my question, while ...
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1answer
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Comment replies do not generate red dot on Stack Exchange button (but do show up in inbox) [closed]
I've noticed in the past few hours that comment replies are not causing the notification red dot & number to show up. However, on my account page, the red square counter on the Responses tab does ...
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Immediate inbox notifications I can get on my mobile
There's been some old discussions here and here about receiving immediate emails when your inbox has new messages, and some reasons were given why not to do this (spamming, people will stop using the ...
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1answer
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Can I get more information on an inbox notification for a comment on a deleted answer?
I have an inbox item but it looks like the person who answered the question and made response comment deleted his answer. Is there a way to see his/her id? I can see only part of the text in my inbox. ...
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Mobile chatting doesn't clear pings
I've been chatting from mobile today (with my Galaxy SIII), seems like when people ping me, it doesn't matter whether I send messages, or even specifically ping them back, the notification doesn't get ...
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Showing new/all counts in the inbox
While getting an alert that my post have been commented/ answered, I get the total count of comments/ answers in the inbox:
This seems little confusing for me - what I'm interrested in is how many ...
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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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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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Bad synchronization between Chat.SE & inbox
As I have a bad-time with my dial-up (like I get logged out of SE sometimes if I refresh the page), I don't spend much time in chat this week. But, this had happened 3 times in chat. I chat with ...
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Global inbox/supercollider on mobile should have a way to read more than four entries
On a desktop computer the notifications pane in the supercollider has a scrollbar, so I can see all of my messages/notifications by scrolling. On my (Android) phone, however, I can see the ...
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“Inbox” section of Stack Exchange icon not loading [duplicate]
After answering a couple of questions, I got the red circle in the top left corner of my screen telling me I had a comment, etc. But when I clicked on it, the "inbox" section did not display anything. ...
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Inbox not working, SE.com down
This is what my inbox looks like:
When I opened it today it had a red (3) and a blue (1). The notifications list is working, but I only see one out of three inbox entries.
And this is what I see ...
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Update moderator election post comment notification link [duplicate]
Ever since the Primary voting started, the inbox notification links for comments on nominations is broken.
Clicking on the notification used to take you directly to the candidates nomination post ...
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A message in my inbox brought me to nowhere [duplicate]
I just got a message in my inbox with this link:
http://stackoverflow.com/election/4#post-15075560
Well... that doesn't bring me to the message nor anywhere helpful.
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Moderator Election, Inbox Notifications, Display Numbers, And You
While I was replying to some comments in the 2013 Moderator election, I noticed something weird in my inbox:
So, when you look at the post which is linked there, you see only 4-5 comments:
I ...
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Get notified on answer on another persons question
First: I searched, I really did.
I wonder if there is a way to mark another persons question followed so when answer appears I am notified within Stackoverflow inbox.
I have not been notivifed on ...
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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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Inbox got nuked after datacenter shift [duplicate]
I can't see any items in my inbox aside from the stuff I got after the datacenter shift.
My notifications box is all right, though.
My inbox tab shows all my messages as well:
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Not seeing anything in my inbox [duplicate]
On all Stackexchange sites, I'm not seeing anything in my inbox. The "hot questions", "all sites", and "notifications" drop-downs are showing up normally. I know that my inbox is not empty.
I see ...
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Is there some other way to access Stack Exchange inbox?
Accessing the inbox by clicking on the Stack Exchange icon at the top of the page appears to be broken at the moment (it shows an empty inbox, even if there are updates).
Is there some other way to ...
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1answer
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StackExchange inbox disappeared
Just after the migration my Stack Exchange inbox has stopped working.
Are the messages lost? Can I recover them?
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Deleted comments are persisting in the global inbox
I realise that there is other questions out there about the below (First open one I found is Deleted comments persist in the global inbox), but this is marked status-completed.
I often get the below ...
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My inbox takes me to the wrong question when question is closed as dup and I'm not logged in on target site?
I have an incognito browser window open that is logged into Programmers, but not to StackOverflow. I have a separate browser window that is logged into all SE sites. (If you must know, my StayFocused ...
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Inbox notifications for messages to which you have replied
This morning, I responded to a message on Careers. About an hour later, I logged in to SO to find that there was a new message in my inbox - only, when I clicked it, there wasn't.
I propose that a ...
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Shouldn't edit suggestions show up in the inbox and not the notifications area?
Man, that notifications area, whenever there's something there, I'm jumping with glee. I've got a badge, whoop (okay, maybe a little excessive rejoice, but hey).
Now, today I got a notification, but ...
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Truncation vs escaping bug in the inbox preview [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Global Inbox cuts preview mid &ndas HTML &ndas entity
I believe I've spotted a bug in the output formatting logic for the inbox preview (in the top-left ...
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Moderator deletion comments on questions are fairly useless
Right now this is what happens when your post gets closed and deleted:
If the deleter also left a comment,
If the deleter is a moderator, or
If the deleter is a 10k user who used a canned message,
...
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Button to be alerted when a post is answered [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Adding Favorites to the Stack Exchange global inbox
I'm not sure if this feature exists, if it has I haven't been able to find it.
There are many times I come across a ...
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Sometimes new messages in inbox not colored
So for example I have 3 new replies in my inbox and next to my inbox a number "3" in red glows.
But sometimes all the messages in the inbox are the same color, the three newest should have a slightly ...
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StackExchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™ Inbox isn't notifying
I am not getting notified about new comments at all.
The StackExchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™ icon never turns red, and comments in the inbox tab are never highlighted.
If I manually go to ...
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Can we search the inbox or comments tab? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I search my comments using some keyword(s)?
I am trying to find some of the great answers and questions that I have seen in SO. Each time I have to go through each ...
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Delayed chat notification causes wrong inbox highlighting
The timeline:
X writes a chat message addressed to me.
Y writes a comment addressed to me.
I visit the main site and read my inbox, which contains the notification of X's comment.
I haven't visited ...
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If a user pinged me in a post that later gets deleted, is there any way to see the comment?
If a user pinged me in the answers/comments of a question (which is not mine) that later gets deleted, is there any way to see what the comment was ?
If i had posted something-technical/code/idea, to ...
