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Todd Trimble comments on "not seeing notifications of new answers" (16293)

Todd Trimble — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:24:36 -0700

Thanks, Scott and Andreas. It seems that I have an indirect answer: that this notification must be some sort of irregular feature (bug?), one that isn't understood well. But maybe Anton or Scott Morrison would know better.

Andreas Blass comments on "not seeing notifications of new answers" (16290)

Andreas Blass — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:57:19 -0700

Just to confirm that Todd isn't hallucinating: I've gotten such "new answer" notifications while composing an answer in MO.

Scott Carnahan comments on "not seeing notifications of new answers" (16289)

Scott Carnahan — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:12:32 -0700

I get the new answer notifications when typing answers in MathOverflow, and I think they result from some kind of occasional hits on the server. My wild guess is that this can happen when rendering MathJax.

Todd Trimble comments on "not seeing notifications of new answers" (16288)

Todd Trimble — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:38:35 -0700

But I don't use StackExchange. I've gotten messages here at MO which say (approximately) "a new answer has been posted" followed by a clickable option to load the answer. I am virtually 100% certain of this. Maybe I'm not making myself clear?

Qiaochu Yuan comments on "not seeing notifications of new answers" (16287)

Qiaochu Yuan — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:28:01 -0700

I think Andrew's right; pretty sure this is an SE 2.0 feature.

Andrew Stacey comments on "not seeing notifications of new answers" (16285)

Andrew Stacey — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:08:24 -0700

Isn't this a StackExchange 2.0 feature? I don't remember seeing this on MathOverflow. (Though I may well be wrong.)

Todd Trimble comments on "not seeing notifications of new answers" (16283)

Todd Trimble — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:55:43 -0700

This might be a dumb question, but I've noticed on several occasions recently that while I am composing an answer, and expecting to be notified of answers which appear while I am composing, the notification system is failing for me. This is awkward if I discover my answer was already (partly) given. Any idea why it's not working for me? My browser is Mozilla Firefox 7.0, running on Windows XP version 5.1.