Help talk:Notifications

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Unsubscribed from a notification. How do I delete previous notifications from that talk page?

I contributed to a talk page that had a huge amount of responses to a proposal in one section of that talk page. Then I subscribed. Then I started receiving dozens of notifications about that section of that page, so I unsubscribed from the notification.

I'm still left with about 30 notifications that I received during the time I subscribed. It's a lot of clutter that I don't need or want. Please advise. Thanks in advance. Ajk1962f (talk) 04:36, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please update documentation

We just had an incident on enwiki where a user account did a minor edit to 600 user talk pages using AWB (automated editing). I think this issue could have been avoided if the documentation on this page mentioned that any edit by a non-bot to a user talk page truggers a notification. At the moment Help:Notifications#Messages_on_your_talk_page isn't clear to me. Commander Keane (talk) 08:41, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Design problem and possible bug

Firstly, I had a quick look on Phabricator and didn't see anything and I won't be reporting anything on Phabricator. Getting a grip on the notification system is really difficult as you can't reproduce notifications, and I don't get that many to test for bugs/usability. Two issues I think I have found:

Submenu disappears: when I get a new alert from commons while reading enwiki I get the red bell, but when I click on it I have to open the submenu "for other projects" to view the alert. If I accidentally dismiss the alert from commons, the submenu disappears and is iretrievable while on enwiki. In other words the submenu should always be visible at the top of the notifications list on every wiki. If I miss the initial alert, the only workaround is to visit every wiki and check for notifications.
Notices on mobile don't show: when I get a mention the red bell alerts me right away. The only way I can see thanks is by switching to desktop mode. Seems to be broken.

I would like to add that the notification system is the best thing since sliced bread, it could just use some tweaks. Commander Keane (talk) 04:30, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding (1), if I see the "More notices from another wiki" box, I note down which wiki that is. Assume that it's Commons. I then switch to another tab, navigate to Commons, and click the notification icon there and deal with those messages that are specific to Commons - any "More notices from another wiki" boxes are left alone. Repeat for each different wiki. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:55, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I am glad someone reads this page! Your technique is good, I just got into trouble by clearing the cross-wiki notice (which is rather easy to do by accident, on a phone at least) before noting it down. I would like to see the "More notices from another wiki" box a permanent addition to the drop down (just shouting/summarising for developers, not aimed at you Redrose64). To be honest, for my use case, I would prefer a sequential listing of notices regardless of which wiki they came from (like the global watchlist). But I can appreciate others get more notices than me. I do wonder how many people miss cross-wiki notices because of this issue. Commander Keane (talk) 23:13, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

all in a single paragraph

Why does the documentation not mention that a "mention" fails if you link to the user in one paragraph (like this one)...

... but sign your post in a different paragraph (like this one). Regards, CapnZapp (talk) 13:13, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm asking because, to the best of my knowledge, using the {{Paragraph break}} template is a way to write nicely formatted talk messages that overcome this limitation. That is, I can mention the user in one paragraph...

and sign in another and still have the notification delivered. CapnZapp (talk) 13:17, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@CapnZapp: My understanding is that the number of paragraphs doesn't matter...

...as long as they are added...

...in a single edit...

...with a four-tildes signature included. So here's a test. -- John of Reading (talk) 13:26, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Did you get this, User:John of Reading?

Curious, CapnZapp (talk) 13:58, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I got a notification. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:23, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]