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My inbox shows negative one (-1) notifications. Not sure how I got there, somewhere around clicking on the notification for the Chat room owners can now establish room guidelines post. Refreshing didn'...
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Recently I was sent a notification about the ability to set room guidelines. However, while this shows in the inbox, it seems to be counted wrong. If the notification is unread, then the red number is ...
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There's an election upcoming on Arduino.SE for which I would have enough reputation to nominate myself. It started today, and by now I have received no less than three inbox notifications informing me ...
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Inspired by a now deleted post by a spammer, and another meta post, and requests to filter in/out sites.... There's a broad spectrum of usage amongst users. I for one prefer to see everything I'm sent....
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Clicking the "Recent inbox messages" button at the top of SE sites doesn't mark all messages as read. That's good because this allows me to decide which messages are unread so I can return ...
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I have an inbox icon which tells me that there are 11 items unread. It had more, but I individually marked them as read using their envelope icons. It drop down list only goes back so far, so I need ...
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I recently noticed that my inbox indicator has a negative counter: Update: I investigated a bit and apparently this was caused by a user who commented something and then removed their comment, all ...
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Yesterday the number of my unread messages in the inbox was 24, but today is 40. Although no new messages appeared. Why did that happen? How to reclaim the correct number of 24? Update: I did ...
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When your global inbox contains chat pings, those links are only valid from the popup. When you click on Go to full inbox it takes you to a page where all the chat links have been rewritten from ...
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I've been seeing this on Firefox Floorp & Zen Browser (all Firefox-based) for months. I just tried this: either get a new notification, mark it as unread, right > open link in new tab, then ...
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The inbox notification count does not update when I get a new unread chat ping. For example, before: After: However, if I get a new notification on StackExchange sites (for example, via a comment), it ...
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A decade ago, in 2014 some guy named Jeff Tweeted1: There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. Well, somehow this seems applicable here:...
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I have the new inbox items email notification set to daily: I check the inbox (i.e. click the inbox icon on top bar) very frequently, many times every day, and after I check the items, I mark them as ...
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I commented on a question (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4986265) over on Math.SE. When I returned a minute or two later, the question had been deleted, and I could see in my inbox that ...
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A few minutes ago I opened my inbox -- I do not remember for certain which page I was on, but it was probably a chat page -- and managed inadvertently to mark all of the unread entries as read, as if ...
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The inbox used to visually mark an item as read when I use my middle mouse button to open the item in a new tab. It no longer does this. It does recognize that I clicked it and mark the notification ...
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Well, I may have moved my main-site activity elsewhere, but I still talk to people in chat here, so I very much prefer receiving notifications when they ping for me. I mean, how else will I pong them? ...
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There's an item in my inbox for which the relative timestamp (2 days) overflows the envelope icon to mark it as (un)read: This happens in several browsers (Safari and Chrome on macOS, Edge on Windows)...
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On the stackexchange.com homepage, the inbox message count erroneously shows 0 upon page reload. Example: Tested with the latest version of Chrome on Windows 10.
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I'm not able to reproduce this consistently, but often when I click on the last remaining unread notification in my inbox, it goes to the question but doesn't remove the count badge. So there's a &...
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Currently if multiple comments on one of your own posts, you get a single notification, not multiple. What happens is that all comment notifications for the same post are grouped together, only the ...
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I followed What would you like to change about the moderator election process? for a while, but the notifications blew up my inbox, so I unfollowed it. I can't find the exact time I unfollowed it, but ...
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I checked the What events trigger an inbox notification? and searched for "edit" but didn't find this specific problem about "edited comments". Since "Another user comments on ...
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Deleted comments on followed posts persist in the global inbox is marked as status-bydesign - if you have already seen a notification, then it is never removed from the inbox. That includes if the ...
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EDIT I learned about selecting only Unread messages in my Inbox here. When I tried it, there were no messages shown, but selecting Mark all as read removed the indicator, so the issue was resolved. I ...
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When loading a StackOverflow page, the user might notice that the Inbox icon shows unread messages. If the user clicks on it after the page has finished loading, they get a popup. If the page has not ...
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In this image, see how both messages were posted 9 hours ago but in the first one that text is covered by the envelope icon: It still happens when the message is read. I think it's because of the ...
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in my inbox in the top-right corner profile section I have this message: But when I click on it, that answer has been removed. How can I get rid of that message?
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My inbox indicates that I have a message! I click it to see what that message is. My expectation is that the message would be cleared from the inbox's active queue (the red-circle number decrements ...
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At one point I had up to a hundred of unread messages. I read many of them, but the notification icon says there are four I have not. Because of the sheer number of the messages, I am having ...
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The new top-bar looks like this: But when I click the inbox or achievement button, it does this: Inbox Achievements I'm not super zoomed in or anything, but the box still gets cut off by the left side ...
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When I scroll to the bottom of my inbox, there is a ton of empty space. It's not that I don't have a lot of notifications; my full inbox has plenty of stuff. Is it supposed to look like this? In any ...
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I was trying to get an unread notification on my spare account for some screenshots. I am logged into the network, and was on recently enough to @ autocomplete I've tried pinging, superpinging, and ...
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Usually I just scroll down and find the unread messages and click on the items. This way I am done in a minute. Today I did that and it still says that I have 3 unread messages. I clicked the "...
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When I click on my inbox or on the achievements button, it appears that the icon for Meta.SE has been switched with the one for Stack Apps; it's basically displaying the Stack Apps favicon even for ...
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I've noticed this a few times now with the new "sticky" inbox. I'll get two comment reply notifications close together, which will show a 2 badge over my inbox icon in the top bar. When I ...
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It seems that chat page inbox item is not wide enough to overlap empty inbox icon. So the odd gray pixels break through the top: Zoomed in: And animated version when number goes away:
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This has been bugging me for ages—I guess since October 2022: while it's good that the notifications were made more "sticky", I sometimes feel they are a bit too sticky. It's hard to pin ...
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About a week ago, some of my inbox notifications are refusing to flag as read, and therefore persist indefinitely. I've tried multiple times clicking through each notification, and nothing I do seems ...
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The link "Go to full Inbox" is unclear. Does it just mean go to your Inbox? Does it mean that your Inbox is in some way "full" (is there a limit?), and it's trying to tell you you ...
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Why am I seeing this when I click on my notifications box please? I use a Google Chrome dark mode hence why my screen is dark but I cannot remember the code ever appearing. I can replicate this on ...
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I intended to tap on the first notification in the box, not the Mark all notifications as read button. What can I do to reverse this? I’m guessing nothing.
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How can I make the inbox preview all my notifications? At the moment, it will show me a red number e.g. 4, but when I click it, I only see one unread notification. The reason is because all 4 ...
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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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I see this has been asked historically a few times over the years, but this is a new behavior for me since about the past couple of weeks or months or so. I get comment notifications, and when I click ...
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I just verified that it doesn't work. I tried to answer a question on SO. The OP put 2 comments under my answer, which showed "2" in the "Recent inbox messages". When I click the ...
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I'm not sure that this behavior is intentional, but on iPadOS Chrome long tap on unread item make it read: Unable to reproduce on Android Chrome.
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The inbox filter popup has poor alignment for the popover arrow/ ^-mark relative to the popup rectangle. In Unread mode even the border line looks broken: Zoomed in: Compare with unread popup on ruSO:
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I'm viewing a question, and someone posts a comment that notifies me. I click on the "Show N more comments" message to show all the new comments, so I see the comment mentioned in the ...
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When using the "Mark all as read" link in your inbox, and an error occurs (e.g. if your Internet connection is spotty), regardless of the number of unread notifications, you'll get this ...
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