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Double Notifications?

MaggieMack — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 04:04:44 GMT

In the last two days, I have been getting notifications of the same "heart" or "mentioned" in a post more than once. Is this happening to anyone else? Not really a big deal except for the times you didn't want to get "mentioned" the first time, lol!

Re: Double Notifications?

qualitygal — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 12:32:19 GMT

I have. Sometimes, one is for a heart, and one is for a mention. Some just seem to be doubled.

Came back to ask if you've ever posted more than once on a board. ?? I have.

Re: Double Notifications?

MacDUFF — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:38:54 GMT

@MaggieMack

Seems to have been corrected in the past few days...for a while, I thought I was on a roll posting the most interesting, funniest, heart-worthy posts ever LOL!

Re: Double Notifications?

NickNack — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:55:44 GMT

Today I actually got five "mentioned" notifications for the same post. This is the first time that has happened, but I often get two notifications.

Re: Double Notifications?

dooBdoo — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 18:58:19 GMT

@MaggieMack, @NickNack, @MacDUFF, @qualitygal,

This odd "feature" of the forums has been cropping up since last October (maybe earlier).

This was @Keyai's explanation in one Q Talk thread ("Notifications") on 10/06/15:

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"If someone edits a post that you were @ mentioned then you will receive multiple notifications. If your @ mention is then quoted that will also trigger additional notifications. I logged in one morning to 25 notifications from one poster who had wanted my attention, however there was only one post.

I hope my explanation makes sense."

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It seems to me one edit creates one extra notification, and then any additional edits seem to generate notifications in increasing multiples.

Re: Double Notifications?

NickNack — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:07:40 GMT

Thanks @dooBdoo. That makes sense!

Re: Double Notifications?

MaggieMack — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:09:43 GMT

@dooBdoo, I think your explanation is spot on! I wouldn't normally have noticed it, but it was one of those "you've been mentioned" notifications, and when it came in again, I rolled my eyes and thought, "Oh, great! Here we go again!" Fortunately, it wasn't new, just a reiteration from the edited original post. I just looked now and discovered that the post has been edited. You awesome little sleuth, you!

Re: Double Notifications?

dooBdoo — Sat, 16 Jan 2016 15:52:09 GMT

You're welcome, @NickNack!

Thanks, @MaggieMack! One of my favorite parts of working in IT is the detective work. I don't always find the answer, but the "sleuthing" can be intriguing.

Re: Double Notifications?

GingerPeach — Sat, 16 Jan 2016 17:38:55 GMT

For quite a while multi-notifications were happening even WITHOUT a post being edited. I can't tell whether this has truly been fixed -- perhaps it was done during the recent "fix" to the notifications feature.

Re: Double Notifications?

GingerPeach — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 05:20:49 GMT

Hi @dooBdoo

I just now got TWO notifications on the one heart you just gave me. Looks like the notification "fix" isn't quite complete.

Re: Double Notifications?

dooBdoo — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 05:24:08 GMT

@GingerPeach wrote:
Hi @dooBdoo
I just now got TWO notifications on the one heart you just gave me. Looks like the notification "fix" isn't quite complete.

Hi, @GingerPeach!

The duplicates I was referring to are those listed in the "Notification Feed."

Did you get two "pop-up" notifications (which evidently is the default for this site) or did you get two actual notifications listed in your Notification Feed?

I'm only seeing one listed in my Notification Feed for each heart.

Re: Double Notifications?

GingerPeach — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 05:25:51 GMT

I see.

I got TWO pop-ups but ONE notice in the notification feed.

@dooBdoo

Re: Double Notifications?

dooBdoo — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 05:27:05 GMT

Homegirl wrote:
I see.
I got TWO pop-ups but ONE notice in the notification feed.
@dooBdoo

Good! I'm pretty sure that's the way the site is designed.

Re: Double Notifications?

GingerPeach — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 05:31:49 GMT

There was a time when I'd get (and others did, too -- there was another thread about this before Christmas) maybe FOUR pop-ups to ONE actual notice. And way back when they first did the update, I don't remember getting more than one pop-up per notice.