Questions tagged [global-inbox]
Use for the drop-down global inbox and its functionality; for the notifications themselves, include the [notifications] tag.
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Inbox is no longer immediately marking item as read when middle-clicking to open in new tab
The inbox used to 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, but requires me to click the ...
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No pong for the ping! No inbox notifications for chat pings [duplicate]
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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Long unbreakable text in notification summary causes timestamps to overflow in global inbox [duplicate]
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 stackexchange.com, the inbox message count erroneously briefly shows 0 upon page reload
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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Inbox count badge doesn't disappear when clicking on last notification
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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When there are multiple comments on my post, have the notification lead to the oldest
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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Missing some comment notifications on my answer
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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Will edited comments to one post notify the poster multiple times? [duplicate]
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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Allow users to remove notifications in their inbox
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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I have a permanent indicator of 3 unread messages in Inbox [duplicate]
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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Annoying UI: clicking on Inbox navigates away, if the page has not finished loading [duplicate]
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 the inbox, "N hours ago" is underneath the envelope icon when there's a URL in the notification
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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Inbox message cannot be removed
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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I'm clicking the same message multiple times to get it to clear, is it broken, or is something else happening?
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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How can I view unread messages?
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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