Questions tagged [notifications]
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Cannot "Mark all as read" under very specific circumstances
This might deserve to be closed; it seems to be a bug, but a very, very minor one. The conditions under which I observed it were rather specific. I'm not sure which of the conditions were important, ...
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About the follow button
One can push the "follow" button below a question in order to get advised of new developments.
Can it happen that one gets news from the "recent inbox message" about some questions that one has ...
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Try "question feed"
From another meta question here, I guess this is a little-known feature.
Look at a question page on MO. On the right, below BLOG, HOT META POSTS, Related etc., ...
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How to follow a question?
Basically, is it possible to follow a question by another user? Meaning whenever there are new answers or comments on it, I get a notification in my inbox, the same way the original poster of the ...
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Migrated question and email notification
It seems that a migrated question does not appear in the email notifications of its tags.
Question: Should it appear?
By migrated question I mean a question migrated on mathoverflow, and by e-mail ...
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On Notification Mechanisms in MathOverflow
Inbox is where a typical user receives most notifications in Mathoverflow. One also receives moderators' private messages through mail. My question is:
What other notification mechanisms are ...
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How are inbox items counted?
Sometimes my inbox icon lights up with a red number, say "3", but when I click on it I see only 2 items highlighted. Sometimes when I follow the link I find that what seemed to be just 1 item is in ...
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Notification doesn't go away
I have a notification of a reply to a comment of mine which doesn't disappear from the notification icon on the top of the page. I click on it and it clears but, when I refresh the page or go to ...
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Is there an option to know when somebody (especially author of the post) does something after my comment?
Yes I do realize that the comments are primarily meant to introduce improvements in the post being commented on. And also that if any subsequent commenters want my feedback, they will @ me explicitly. ...
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Is it good practice to write "@someone" in a question?
On SE and on the old MO have seen @someone in a question.
Probably this notifies someone in his inbox and draws
his attention (which is the goal).
Does it really ...
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Should I be able to notify multiple people with the same comment?
One of the many things I was excited about in our move from MO 1.0 to 2.0 was the chance to leave responses to previous comments that automatically notify those people. Occasionally, a conversation ...