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Comments on Don't add duplicate notifications if an unread notification for the same event type and parent post already exists

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Don't add duplicate notifications if an unread notification for the same event type and parent post already exists

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I was away from Codidact for a few hours and, coming back, saw that I had ⑨ unread notifications.

Practically as I was watching it, the number grew to ⑩.

This wouldn't be so bad, but it turned out that they really were for just three comment threads.

Getting one notification for each comment being added, before you have even had a chance to react to the notifications already in your notification inbox, can get rather overwhelming.

Hence, I propose that: if there is an existing unread notification, for the same type of event and relating to the same parent post (new answers to the same question, edits to the same post, comments within the same comment thread, new comment thread on the same post, etc.) then no further notification should be added to the inbox.

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I'm curious what the downvotes mean (3 comments)
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I thought we did this already, so I had a look. Turns out we were using the wrong link to check for duplicates, which I've updated. You should find you only get one notification per comment thread when there are any number of new comments now.

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Seems to be wrong the other way around now (2 comments)
Seems to be wrong the other way around now
Canina‭ wrote over 2 years ago

This sounded promising, but when I was pinged in https://software.codidact.com/comments/thread/3801 after this answer was posted, I didn't receive any inbox notification at all. (My most recent inbox notification is currently listed as 11 hours ago, I marked that as read previously, and I was pinged in a comment timestamped 9 hours ago in a comment I hadn't seen.) So now it seems to be buggy in the opposite direction.

Canina‭ wrote over 2 years ago

Okay, at a glance, it appears to be working as intended now.