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Better handling of inbox notifications that have been merged together
I've been trying to figure out why I find the new inbox so annoying. No doubt part of the issue is just that it's different. Some of it is definitely because I prefer the previous behavior in some ...
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How can I get a notification when someone else's question is reopened?
Does a feature like this exist? A question has been closed, because the user must write it in a better way.
I have already an answer for it, and it would be great to have an alert/notification when it ...
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Add a link to the notification about the "Create new tags" privilege
It might be helpful, if this notification showed some information or came with a link to more information.
I am sure, I can find the information somewhere but just being able to click might make it (...
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Don't send a notification if you cast the final vote to reopen your own question
Yesterday, my question Is Stack Exchange staff removing GoFundMe links? was reopened. As of a few weeks ago, this results in an inbox notification (see below). However, I (the author) cast the final ...
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Please don't scroll the notification bar / top banner [closed]
I'm bothered by the change in the notification bar from what I'm looking at right now on meta.stackexchange to what I see today on Stack Overflow. I don't want the top bar to follow me after I ...
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Highlight unread messages on the inbox page on stackexchange.com
The following URL is very handy in that it shows me an expanded view of my inbox, but it does not highlight unread messages. This makes it very hard to differentiate which messages I need to read or ...
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Allow opt-in subscription to a post
Let's add the ability to opt-in to a notification when a post (question or answer) is 1) Edited, 2) Closed, 3) Reopened, 4) Some combination of those things. I think that single ...
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Make the language of notifications match the language of the site they correspond to
I participate in both the English Stack Overflow site and the Russian Stack Overflow site. When I look at my notifications, the language of the notification corresponds to the language of the site I ...
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Notify users of a question they closed being edited or nominated for reopening
This is brought up by a chat discussion on Code Review.
The idea being, when you Vote to Close a question (and it subsequently get's closed), you get a notification when the first Vote to Reopen is ...
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Add button to watch questions/get notified on edits, comments, etc [duplicate]
I often have the situation that I read a question and leave a comment requesting an edit to provide more information by the OP.
Currently, I add the phrase that he/she should please also write a ...
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New navigation doesn't appear to alert of question changes when watching a tag
I am watching the python tag on Stack Overflow. My filter looks like this:
I do not receive notification of new questions. Previously I'd get notifications like this:
This notification does work ...
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SE website should notify users who committed to a site on Area51 when the site goes to private beta
Apparently, I missed the email that one of the sites I committed to went to public beta.
Why? Because Email sucks as a workflow tool! [Citation (not) needed]
Valiantly, SE sent me a followup email (...
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Touch and hold in iOS app to copy chat URLs
On iOS, I use a browser other than Chrome or Safari, and as a result I can't open notifications that link to chat.
I'd like to see the commonly-used gesture of touch & hold to get a link to the ...
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Notify room owners when a user is kicked
Currently when a user is kicked from the chatroom room owners other than the one who kicked the user do not get notified of the kick.
This is problematic since it leaves us with two options:
Notify ...
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Inbox notifications - marking as read etc
Currently, when receiving notifications in the inbox, you get a number in the top bar on the inbox button. But when you open the inbox that number is gone and everything is marked as read. I don't ...
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