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Pings staying undismissed in chat and not getting to the inbox
I noticed that some chat pings have lasted for hours undismissed, with the ping remaining in chat, but not getting turned into an inbox notification, and also not showing up in search results.
I have ...
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Intermittently cannot dismiss chat ping notification
I often am in chat to be reachable by users and other moderators.
Sometimes I happen to receive a ping while I am online.
For the past few months it often happens that I cannot dismiss the ...
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Chat ping "bug"? [duplicate]
So after chatting for a while in some SO chats, we encounterd a little problem which could get very annoying in long conversations where 2 people would have similar names.
sami & sam would both ...
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Chat pings are not turning into notifications
I was mentioned in this message while I was not in the chat room. Usually, this should become a notification after 15 minutes.
However, I didn't get any notification as can be seen in this screenshot:...
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Why does @Oɹʇɥo ping @Ortho?
My understanding was that if the first three characters of a name match a username present in the chat for the previous seven days, the person will be pinged.
Out of curiosity, why does @Oɹʇ ping @...
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Notification about already answered chat reply
Steps to reproduce:
Enter a chat room in a new browser tab.
Close the browser tab.
Have someone ping you in the room at least twice. (not just once)
Open new tab, enter the room again.
Even though ...
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Pinged by a comment link in chat
The other day, someone in chat posted a link to a comment that pinged me. To clarify, the comment contained the text @DJMcMayhem, but the chat message did not. When they posted the chat message, I ...
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Ping notification in chat does not always fade properly
I've noticed recently that the chat notification of a ping does not fade properly after clicking it, nor after sending a new message on many occasions. Either it will look like this, or part of the ...
user280862
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Self-pinging behaviour inconsistent
When I attempt to ping myself in chat (@KennyLau Testing), it does not work. Also, when I hover over my comment, it does not highlight my previous comment in grey as it would for others.
However, if ...
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Simple @mentions do not notify, but direct replies to messages do
Since at least December 7, only direct replies to my messages in chat make the notification sound for me. Simple @mentions (like @El'endiaStarman) make no sound whatsoever. I've looked but haven't ...
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Is "The Stack Exchange Network" room really haunted?
I've been told that this room is haunted, but I didn't really believe it until I heard a ping (while I was in the room and another), looked everywhere, but couldn't find its origin... This happened ...
user280862
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He who must not be named? (aka Anyone can ping everyone in chat)
For some or other reason, typing @ᔕᖺᘎᕊ in a chat room pings everyone who's been in that chat room for the last 7 days...
Seems to work in all chat rooms (I only tested 2 as I don't want to upset ...
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I don't get pings from person A between unignoring person A and refreshing the page in Chat
When chatting, after I unignore somebody, but before I refresh the page, when that person mentions me or replies to me, I don't get the ping sound nor the green bubble indicating the amount of ...
user146787
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Pinging inconsistencies in chat
So today we came across an issue with the pinging system in chat; when a user has a shorter version of another user's name (i.e. "Ben" and "Benjamin" was the case we found), if the other user has a ...
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Responding to a deleted message does not notify the user?
If you respond to a message in chat, which has either previously been deleted or is deleted as you're responding, the person that you're responding to does not get a notification to state they were ...
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Wrong network icon used on chat notifications when in multiple channels?
When you're in multiple channels associated with multiple different networks, the channel notifications popup seems to just choose one of those networks and always use the icon for that network.
For ...
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Receiving chat notifications 5-10 seconds before the message that caused the notification?
So here's the situation, I'm chatting away on The Bridge, and suddenly I receive a bunch of notifications indicating somebody just @pinged me:
However, as you can see, I've received the notifications ...
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Chat not pinging when name is too short
As seen HERE, pings aren't registered when they use less than 3 characters.
His name "C X" is 3 characters, but because of the space and the way spaces are removed for pings it doesn't seem ...
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I get pinged again when the original post is edited in chat [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Don't repeat the ping when editing chat messages
Whenever I'm in chat (or out of chat), and someone "@Jae" me, of course I am alerted.
Why am I alerted again when the user ...
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