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Use for the drop-down global inbox and its functionality; for the notifications themselves, include the [notifications] tag.

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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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