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"New Message Notification" Not Working

Ambrosia7177

Ambrosia7177

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I am no longer getting an icon showing that I have new responses to one of my threads.

That is really a problem.

Yesterday people had responded right away, and the only way I new is I had inadvertantly refreshed my browsers and I saw new posts in my thread, but still no message notification.

Hope this can be fixed!!!
 
Which icon are you talking about? The top right one?
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also make sure you didn't accidentally change anything on your preferences:


Specifically the notification preferences near the bottom
 

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arn said:
Which icon are you talking about? The top right one?
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I haven't been here for a while, so I forget, but I think either the envelope or the bell turned red when you had a reply to one of your threads...

Also, there was a notification when you got PM's - one of those two icons.
 
arn said:
I replied earlier that you might have missed. It got merged. Can you check your https://forums.macrumors.com/account/preferences
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Okay so MacRumors changed the UI somewhat.

Why were my message/post alerts not working?

And why, ironically, now that I complained about this, are things apaprently now working again?

I got a red bell when you replied above, yet haven't gotten any such notifications in the last few days....
 
arn said:
Which icon are you talking about? The top right one?
[automerge]1578333547[/automerge]
also make sure you didn't accidentally change anything on your preferences:


Specifically the notification preferences near the bottom
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I realize it isn't the same thing, but I've noticed that notifications don't seem to be working when someone responds to you after they've posted a message. Meaning if a person posts a message, then edits that message adding a response to you, it doesn't seem to trigger a notification.

I've come across threads that I hadn't gone back to in awhile only to see responses directed to me. If the response has an edited/merged notification, it didn't show up in the sidebar. It seems to be happening regularly.
 
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JayMysterio said:
I realize it isn't the same thing, but I've noticed that notifications don't seem to be working when someone responds to you after they've posted a message. Meaning if a person posts a message, then edits that message adding a response to you, it doesn't seem to trigger a notification.

I've come across threads that I hadn't gone back to in awhile only to see responses directed to me. If the response has an edited/merged notification, it didn't show up in the sidebar. It seems to be happening regularly.
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I'm answering you before I check with anyone, but I believe you're right. I seem to remember that as well. It's been like that since we went to XF, if I remember correctly.

@Weaselboy you've got a great memory about this stuff, are we right?
 
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annk said:
I'm answering you before I check with anyone, but I believe you're right. I seem to remember that as well. It's been like that since we went to XF, if I remember correctly.

@Weaselboy you've got a great memory about this stuff, are we right?
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Correct... you only get an alert if there is a new reply. An edit or merge of an existing reply does not generate an alert. It is a shortcoming of the XenForo software.
 
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