Questions tagged [notifications]
Refers to what a notification is and how they are triggered.
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What is the difference between "bookmarking" and "following" a question?
In any question on StackExchange, there are two buttons that let you remember a question: the "Bookmark" button on the left of the pane (only available for questions) and the "follow&...
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Recent badge notification spam
So starting from when I flagged a post until now every time I visit any SO site after a few minutes I get a few notifications (never more) stating that I have earned the Citizen Patrol badge, yet I ...
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I get notified of my own Suggested Edits for review
I believe the functionality behind the review notification doesn't check the Suggested Edit's User Id against the logged in User's Id to determine whether you should be reviewing your own edit. The ...
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Allow users to Follow/Subscribe to chat rooms and receive notifications on activity?
Some of the less busy chatrooms may not receive messages for a few days. To save people checking in every couple of hours, it would be nice to be able to subscribe to particular rooms, and receive a ...
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Can we remove the 'See your profile' text in notifications, or make it link to the profile page again?
When recieving notifications for earning badges, the text describing the badge still says 'See your profile', a carryover from the old Stack Exchange supercollider:
However, this text is now a part ...
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Unnecessary dot in Badge notification?
You've earned the "Popular Question" badge for How do I protect myself against cold weather on the surface?. See your profile.
The ?. is bugging me a lot. Can something be done about it?.
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How can I stop my Inbox from being flooded by spam edits?
It's getting to the point where every time I login to the site, my notification indicator lights up with several "suggested edits" that are spamifications of my questions. The edits are obviously ...
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Is there a way to ping your mobile on activity?
Is there a way to ping your mobile if there is activity on your question or answer?
I think it would require a SE app. But bottom line is everything is more and more mobile/tablet/phablet. I ...
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How do I prevent the other James from impersonating me in chat?
Every now and then, I receive notifications of replies to James's chat messages in the Bridge. Example. This seems to happen more often when I just engaged in a conversation in chat not very long ago. ...
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I am not getting notified about comments on my posts any more
For example: this comment.
I can give as many other examples as there have been comments on my posts today.
I never got an inbox notification that a comment was left on my post.
I can see them in ...
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Is it is possible to have Arqade notifications on iPhone?
Website looks great mobile but I would love to have push notifications when something happens. Is there any way to have that kind of app?
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Can I be notified if a question I've answered before offers a bounty?
This is possibly in the realm of MSO, but since it's particularly applicable to this site I'm asking here.
We get a lot of answers that go out of date, particularly in oft-updated games such as ...
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How do I read the "Recent Activity" page?
I was looking at my profile the other day, and I realized that I have no idea what most of the symbols on the Recent Activity page mean. Can someone explain them to me?
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Notification bar doesn't push down the header area of the page correctly
This is only in Gaming and meta.Gaming; I can't reproduce this on any other StackExchange site. This is on IE7.
First, the notification bar does not push the header downwards with the entire page as ...
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