This morning, I received a notification of a new reply to a comment I made.  But that reply was made 10 months ago, yet the inbox says it was made 5 hours ago.    The question in question is .  I'm not sure whether or not I received a notification when the reply was actually posted.
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A comment from 2009 has just shown up at the top of my inbox.  Initially it showed as one minute old, a few minutes later it's showing 4 minutes ago, so the time error appears to be dynamic not static. According to @Mat (presumably via 10k tools)  That comment was initially an answer (posted on Dec 9 '09 at 22:03). It was converted to a comment a few minutes ago (11:07Z) by a moderator (most likely following a flag and/or review actions), which explains the notification.  Since I already received notice of this information when it was first posted 5 years ago, adding it to my Inbox again is just noise.  Displaying a notice for it doesn't add any value and shouldn't occur.
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This happened to me twice. Someone flags my question as duplicated and only when I visit the question I notice the comment. Before I had no proof, but today I have *evil laughter*.  This is the notifications:        I count 4, remember this number.        Lets see... umm... 1, 2, 3... 5! HA! So, there are 5 comments and one of them (the one that flagged the question as dupe) didn't get into my inbox. So, is this by design or I really should get notified?  If this is by-design, I disagree.  Note to self: I suspect other canned comments doesn't reach the OP, like the custom close reason.
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I commonly review , sorted by newest, and just now it showed "1 question with new activity":        So as always, I clicked on that bar to show it.  showed here as "modified".         But yet, when I opened it up, it didn't show that it was modified.  It's my understanding that if you modify your question within the first minute or so, it doesn't show as a modification. The OP did in fact quickly edit their question right after asking it, after I asked them.  Shouldn't this say "asked" for instead of "modified"?  After refreshing, it shows "asked". But when I clicked on the message to show new activity, it showed "modified".
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Is there a feature on Stack Exchange that will allow me to receive an email notification when someone comments on my question or answer, or answers my question?
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I recently responded to  that appeared to post an extension to their answer in a comment, (what I thought was) kindly letting them know that comments may not last forever.  However, it ended up in this kerfuffle:    After posting the reply comment, I felt that it wasn't the best course of action to have taken, but to take it back also seemed inappropriate.  What should I have done, and does my original comment seem appropriate in the given situation?
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I think you should be notified if anything of yours is deleted or even flagged, preferably with some explanation (even if it's a simple categorisation like #rude, #irrelevant, #incorrect) and who did it.  Recently, a couple of comments of mine vanished without warning or evidence afterwards. I'm fine with deletion, but I think it should be used sparingly and be based on democratic decisions. What's the harm of letting a comment simply sit with no up-votes or responses rather than outright removal? Or allow downvoting and then negatively voted comments are hidden by default?  I get the impression that anything I post could be deleted. Very few people want to be unpopular or do the wrong thing. It takes time to understand what something is about and how best to use it (this site). Whether or not what I posted deserved to be deleted is irrelevant because I got no feedback. No-one can learn without feedback. The number of frivolous comments with many upvotes I've seen shows how inconsistently the rules are applied. A community that gives too much power to highly rated users won't grow but turn stagnant.  Sorry if this was rude, inappropriate or pathetic. I'm aware that similar discussions have occurred. In any case, I'll continue to use the site and move on...
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I am using version 1.0.66 of the Stack Exchange Android App. Yesterday I received a notification on my phone (1st gen. Moto G, running 4.4.4) about two inbox items. The inbox items in question are associated with  and  (private room), both from Feb. 16 of this year. (For anyone keeping score, that's 142 days ago.) When I tapped on the notification item, the app launched and showed my inbox with no unread messages. The oldest item there is from less than two weeks ago. (Click the images below for full resolution screenshots of the notification and the app inbox after tapping the notification.)   I did have the app installed at the time these inbox items were generated. I may or may not have been notified by the app at the time; when I am actively reading a Stack site, I view the top-bar notification promptly, which seems to keep it from being pushed to the app. I have not had any other problems (that I have noticed) receiving notifications from the app recently. Possibly related older bug reports include:   ( Nov. 2014)  ( Nov. 2013)  This reoccurred later in the same day, albeit to a smaller degree, when my phone sent me a notification for a comment that was merely 6 hours old. In this case, I confidently recall receiving the notification in my desktop browser topbar, clicking through and leaving a comment reply, 6 hours ago.
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When I get a notification on android that someone had posted an answer or comment, if I click the notification, it opens the Stack Exchange app but shows the main view with the inbox opened, not the comment or answer that was in the notification.  If there is only one notification pending, when you tap it it should show you the actual contents rather than just the inbox.
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I posted what I think is a clever answer to:    But then I noticed the question was posted a while ago on Mar 2.  I wanted to see what the chance of the user logging back in and seeing my answer, but the  says the user was seen on Feb 19.  I thought this was supposed to be the date they last logged in? How could they have asked a question on Mar 2 if they haven't logged in since February?  Thanks
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I'm wondering how SO is able to display the "New answers have been posted" message when I'm typing an answer for a question. Does my browser send an AJAX request to the SO servers, or does SO send a trigger back to my browser?
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In my notification bar at the top of the page, there's a pretty rude comment about my question, but when I try to look at it, it's already been deleted. I'd really like to be able to respond to that comment (in a polite, professional manner, of course.) Is there any way I can see comments that have been deleted?
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I realise that there is other questions out there about the  (First open one I found is ), but this is marked .  I often get the below issue where it will notify me about comments on my  (in this case what appears to be the user re-writing after deleting their comment) that no longer exist.  Also, occasionally, I see comment snippets with text that doesn't match what is on the page when I view it.  Let me know if I should be trying to edit that one to remove the tag indicating that it has been fixed, and add the above as another answer.
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It happened to me that I found a solution to an older question. This question was commented by many people with comments like "very interesting, important, ..." such that I thought that my answer has also some value. My answer was the only one. It was upvoted and accepted by the asker. However, I assume, that very few of the "commentators" saw my answer, because the system does not inform automatically about new answers.   I think it would have been helpful for me and the commentators when they would get informed. I could achieve this by adding my own comment to their comments, because this triggers a system message. My question is: would this action be considered admissible or not? Are there some other possibilities?
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It has been happening to me frequently that while I am writing an answer, I get notification that some answers have been posted already, or sometimes I don't even get notifications because of my slower internet and when I finally submit the answer and the page refreshes I see several other answers have already been posted.   What I do more often is that, I read the question (mostly on jQuery tag) go to jsfiddle and try setting up a working fiddle first. Then when I come back with a working fiddle I see some answers have already been posted. What should I do in these cases,   1) Just throw away the working fiddle and move to a new question  2) Post the answer anyway, which may trigger comments like, why are you copying answers or Is there an echo here? etc which I don't like to hear.  3) Check the already posted best answer and in comments suggest the answerer to use the fiddle in the answer if he hasn't added one already.  I also see a trend like people throws in a very short answer asap and continuously edit the answer to add more information and add working fiddle later. Is that something I should be doing too?   I have been active in SO recently, I am just trying to know best practices that the community follow.  Or when I make a working fiddle (which takes some time), and post the answer anyway, and hear things like why did you copy answers, or your are 5mins late with the same answer what should I do in those cases, delete the answer?  I would like someone to clear up these confusions I have.
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There has been some discussion about getting notified on comments to questions or answers that don't belong to you, and the long-standing wish to be able to keep track of new answers or developments in questions asked by other people.  Previous discussion in regards to subscribing to questions:                  (very similar to this one)      In regards to subscribing to comments:                    The general feeling - at least here on meta - seems to be against broadening the notification rules, out of fears of useless notifications to flood users' inboxes, turning SO into more of a discussion forum than it should be, etc.   Here's a suggestion that would keep the user 100% in control what they get notified about, not generate any notifications by default, and require only minimal modifications to the User Interface.  Each question and each comment area would get an envelope symbol.    it is inactive (=white) by default.  When those envelopes are hovered over, the tooltip says click to subscribe or something.  When clicked on, the envelope lights up in green or some other colour (but different from the actual notification envelope's orange to avoid confusion.) You are then subscribed to any updates to that question or comment thread.    For each subscription, you receive notifications in the "responses" tab, as if you were the owner of the comment or question.     To unsubscribe from a question or comment thread, you open the page, and click the green envelope. It turns back white, and the notifications disappear from your responses tab (if technically possible - otherwise, there just won't be any new ones added.)    No further functionality, like managing subscriptions or anything, is necessary IMO. If the flood of notifications from a subscribed question starts to annoy you, you just open it and unclick the envelope. Done.   It would make it possible to leave a comment to a newbie's question and make sure their answer reaches you even if they don't know they need to address you using @username You could subscribe to those "oh, I'd like to know the answer to that" questions and receive active notification, instead of them getting forgotten in your favourites list You could subscribe to discussions you are interested in the outcome of, but don't want to participate in. It would (in my opinion) sort out a number of woes aired by many users in a good way, without adding annoyances to those who like the system just fine the way it is. It would not require a change in the visible layout. As far as I can see, the space the envelope would need to be is empty everywhere.   I don't know SO under the hood of course, but technically, the system would be doing what it's doing already, notify question owners of updates - just that the circle of internal "owners" would grow.
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I am subscribed to get my unread inbox items every 3 hours. It's working well, but today I noticed something quite weird:    For sake of future search, adding the text:  The following item was added to your Stack Exchange global inbox since you last checked it on 2015-05-18  But that's just not true, I checked my inbox yesterday. Not 7 months ago. Can it be fixed, or did I miss something? Even going to my  did not &quot;fix&quot; this, got today another email with the same date as yesterday.
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Possible Duplicate:             Is there a way to get a notification (either email or via the "stack exchange" drop-down/inbox), when a new answer was added to a question (which was asked by another user)?  I found this question: , but this is related to the envelope icon which no longer exists.