This tag is for questions about the various user interface and email elements used to notify users of events on the site.
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Please don't remove my chat notifications when I reply to one of them
I generally leave chat logged in during the day (which I can't imagine is any sort of corner case) and, if I pop off that tab for even just five minutes, I can easily accrue three or four ...
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Wouldn't be cool to have desktop notification? [duplicate]
Wouldn't be cool to have desktop notification like those used in the chats for all the notifications (like new comments or new answers) ?
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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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Can I associate my SE account to Facebook to get notifications?
I tried using the "my logins" button in the user page but it didn't do anything. Is this feature available?
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Does Stack Overflow stop using system-wide push notifications on old questions?
I noticed when somebody makes an edit or posts an answer to an older question, the push notification does not come up.
I can understand this rationale because newly, unanswered posts tend to get a ...
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Do comment style notifications to @user work in answers too? [duplicate]
I would like to notify another user in an answer, like:
My solution was actually inspired by @John's answer...
Will this work?
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1answer
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Can you notify @user who commented on another answer? [duplicate]
Will notification of @user in comment to an answer actually notify user which was commenting on another answer of the same question? The user autocompleter doesn't autocomplete the name.
I think ...
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Wrong welcome notification
Being a Stack Exchange evangelist, when my grandma had a cooking question, I signed her up for Seasoned Advice. She got the following joining notification:
Notice the "Welcome to Stack Overflow!" ...
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Can we ignore case and diacritical marks in @ comments? What else we can change and keep it work? [duplicate]
I just got notified there is a comment, but I was mentioned as '@molot' instead of '@Mołot'. Now I wonder, if it's because there is no difference between m and M, l and ł for the notification system, ...
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Not getting notifications on new badge being rewarded [duplicate]
I was recently awarded a new badge but didn't receive notification for that in inbox. I observed that in the two recent badges that I was awarded.
Is this the default behavior on Meta or something is ...
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How do I get updates on my questions?
Is there a way or an extension that I can install to get notifications on my asked questions? And does Stack Overflow have an application that I can install on my Android device to get updates on the ...
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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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Tool to get notified when there is a new question in a tag
I know you an subscribe to an RSS feed to get the questions for specific tags. I wonder if there are any tools beside email, like browser plugins to get noticed, as I'm not using any RSS reader.
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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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Can we have a notification when the answer to any of my question got edited?
If a user asked a question and got an answer which was not helpful.
After sometime the answerer edits the answer with some good content. How the OP will get to know that?
Is it necessary to add ...
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1answer
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Notify user when their comment is removed
If my comment on a post has been removed by a moderator, do I get any notification?
I've heard before of user's comments disappearing, but theres no notification to support this, or any reason as to ...
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Direct notification mechanisms?
While doing a review of Suggested Edits today on SO, I noticed that a certain low rep user was adding the text "Thanks in Advance..." to the end of every single question he edited.
In my opinion, ...
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Browse for new questions or wait for email notifications?
I'm ashamed to admit that I just discovered the "subscribe to tags and receive email notifications" mechanism. Until now I always imagined people just browse for (new) questions that they can answer, ...
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Notify users when they are mentioned (on meta)
As I have been learning the ropes here on Meta, I have been reading and sometimes participating in discussions similar to this where other users have been mentioned by name and berated or mocked for ...
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Found a bug in Stackoverflow [closed]
I've opened many Stackoverflow pages. I checked my notifications in one page,but it's not getting updated in other pages. still the notification is enabled !! :P Please resolve it team :D
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Notify OP that the bug report has viewed by site owners
I am suggesting that owner of a post should get notified when the site owners/developers/managers have viewed your post at least once, if the post contains the bug tag. The comment might look like:
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Watch or favorite answers, not just questions [duplicate]
Often I will have downvoted an answer shortly after it is posted, or commented on an answer suggesting some improvement or addition, and want to follow up later and see if my input has been acted ...
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Reopened question notification to downvoters
The new changes about closing questions are supposed to be to encourage the people to modify and fix the question instead of just closing it (that why there is the new "on-hold").
But most of times ...
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1answer
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Why aren't users notified when their questions are closed? [duplicate]
On a few occasions, I've noticed that I haven't gotten any kind of notification when my own questions was closed. For example, when this question was closed as "off-topic", I didn't see any kind of ...
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Chat transcript @-highlighting malfunction
So I was sifting through the Tavern on the Meta chat history for poke stick (it was a link somewhere; can't remember where) when on page 8 (Jan 26 '11 5:06 PM) something interesting happened:
I ...
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1answer
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Can we be notified about official posts?
From time to time we see official posts from our community managers and other SE employees here on meta like
Closing changes to on-hold
Introducing a brand new help-center
A new quick-start-guide
...
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1answer
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Notifications when somebody edits a post that you've commented on
If person A writes a post, person B makes a comment asking for a clarification, and somebody (could be person A but could be person C) edits the post, shouldn't person B be given a note that the post ...
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Can I unsubscribe from a question's notifications? [duplicate]
I answered a question on Stack Overflow and the user keeps asking for more and more help. Can I opt-out from notifications of that particular question?
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Synchronize notifications
I find that most of the time, when someone has responded to a question or answer I posted, I click on the notification from the top toolbar, and read and respond to this notification. Thus the ...
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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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1answer
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A special notification when questions get edited [duplicate]
Often times it happens, that someone answers a question in its original and specific kind. Also often times it happens, that the questioner edits the question when he realizes the given answer(s) ...
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1answer
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Notification for tag badge appears multiple times
This may be hard to reproduce, or not even a bug, but here it goes:
Recently, I passed 100 reps in the r tag, and earned the corresponding bronze badge. However, a couple hours later, my rep in this ...
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Pop-up to explain that “@[nameofanotheruser]” being stripped out on purpose (and state why). …or just don't strip it out!
In a similar vein to
System should detect new users mistakenly making repeated same (or similar) edit requests, and provide appropriate feedback
but definitely less important...
I recently tried to ...
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Edit rejection should be clearly indicated for the first few occasions, with notifications
This is related to Decision on rejected edits should be displayed as a notification to the editor
...but my feature request is hopefully less contentious.
I am a new user (I joined last year, but ...
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Notification when my answer is viewed
Is there anyway to know whether OP has viewed the answer that I have posted for his question? I feel like(pls correct me if I am wrong) answers go unnoticed, i.e without any comment, upvote/downvote.
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How do I get notified if an answer to my question changes?
There's a similar post about this here.
Recently when I was just checking this question of mine I noticed that the answer had changed. Had I not visited my question on accident I'd never know about ...
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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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1answer
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Alert user to consider changing which answer is accepted
After an answer is accepted, sometimes a much better answer comes along, maybe even showing the accepted answer wasn't such a good idea after all (example). When the new answer is published, the ...
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is there a way to opt out/disable further notifications in certain thread? [duplicate]
Sometimes you post an answer or a comment in a thread. Assuming the question has been answered but the OP keeps on posting comments with more requests to edit the code or answer to suit his needs. It ...
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Area51 notification shows blue background
I just noticed this:
When you got a notification on Area51, this happens (for me, on firefox 21.0):
The banner feeds in, totally red
After completing the fading effect, the bar turns blue - ...
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Notify another user when a question is posted [duplicate]
Ok, this is my scenario, I have a question regarding a plugin and I posted in Stack Overflow and I know a user who can answer this because he is the author of the same plugin. Is there any way I can ...
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Why didn't I get notified when I got unaccepted?
I got unaccepted for some question (I know this as I had 1360 rep yesterday night, and now I have 1345). According to Notification when my answer is unaccepted? I should've been notified, but I ...
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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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Inform user that post is already deleted when writing comments
Ok, I hit this thrice today itself.
I was trying to write a comment under a particular post. After composing I clicked on the submit button, a pop up is shown saying this post is deleted, locked or ...
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Improving the HTML of the email notifications
The HTML emails I receive from Stackexchange notifying me about a new item in my inbox have some issues:
the HTML is faulty. The W3c Validator also shows several errors, some of them trivial, some ...
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mention or tag people on mobile web pages
On the main web site page I can type @ followed by first few characters of op name to tag him to comment. Is there a similar feature for web pages which render for mobile.
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How do we know which badge is earned?
I recetly got one broze badge in stackoverflow making total of 12 but I dont know which one I earned. There should be a kind of notification for such kind of event.
Thanks
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Hide the @ (at) symbol at the beginning of a comment
One very nice feature of the StackExchange network is the ability for User A to address a comment to a previous commenter B using the @username syntax, and expect B to receive a notification. However, ...
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No notification for dba.SE elections
Similar to my last question: Primary Elections begun, and no notifications about elections, this time I received no notifications until today about the community moderator selection on Database ...
