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View chat mentions across Stack Exchange sites
Is it possible to view chat mentions across Stack Exchange sites?
Sometimes I'm doing something and I hear that sound that means somebody replied to me and it's in some tab of some window, where I ...
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Chat Ping Notifications seem to be missing from inbox [duplicate]
I was trying to get an unread notification on my spare account for some screenshots. I am logged into the network, and was on recently enough to @ autocomplete
I've tried pinging, superpinging, and ...
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What is the exact program logic so that a chat user is 'pinged' using "@joesmith" in a chatroom?
I would like a definitive program logic description that takes into account all factors below to determine whether or not a chat user is 'pinged' using if I posted a message using "@joesmith"...
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Ability to ping chat room owners
A recurring hassle in chat is to get a hold of a room owner when something needs their attention.
As a crude workaround, some rooms have separate guidelines for users with an explanation of how to ...
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The help for chat on pingability is too vague
The chat help pages say
To get another user's attention, mention them – type @ and then the first part of their name. Your mention will be highlighted on their screen – @someone. This will happen ...
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In a chat room, what are the full mechanics of being "in the room"?
In a chat room, what are all the mechanics around being listed as "in the room" or not?
The various states of being "in a room"
I know of at least three states that a chat user can ...
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Ping commenters to write answers when a question is reopened
My question was closed. While closed, it accumulated comments from people who could potentially answer, not just comment. After reopening, I wrote a very brief comment to each person, inviting them to ...
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Is it possible to get the rooms in which the user is pingable?
I know that it is possible to get the list of pingable users in a specific chatroom using 'rooms/pingable/{id}'. For example, this is what you get for Tavern on meta. (IIRC this means that the user ...
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Can we get a way to enable chat notifications from a room where we have not been active in the last 7 days?
If a user pings me in a chat room, I get a notification if I was active in that room in the last 7 days (is this really how it works? It is strange that this information does not appear in the FAQs...)...
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Pings staying undismissed in chat and not getting to the inbox
I noticed that some chat pings have lasted for hours undismissed, with the ping remaining in chat, but not getting turned into an inbox notification, and also not showing up in search results.
I have ...
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Intermittently cannot dismiss chat ping notification
I often am in chat to be reachable by users and other moderators.
Sometimes I happen to receive a ping while I am online.
For the past few months it often happens that I cannot dismiss the ...
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How to ping users with the same display name in chat and in comments?
Notion
To simplify writing, I'll simply refer "users with same profile display name (case insensitive) user" as "users" (with quotes), and an arbitrarily user picked from "users" as "user" (with ...
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If a user's avatar shows in a chat room but they don't say anything, can they be pinged? [duplicate]
I know that a user can only be pinged if they join a chatroom, but I'm not sure if that means they have to say something first or not.
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What is the maximum number of pings a message in chat can contain before people are not notified?
I've noticed that once there are a certain amount of @pings in a chat message, the users who are mentioned don't actually get notified.
For instance, we sometimes have the bot ping lots of people for ...
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Ping Notification for a user with less than 20 reputation?
Should we allow ping to a user who can't talk in chat? Recently I visited a meta.SE chatroom. Even though I don't have enough rep to talk, I could still get pinged and notified.
Since a user with less ...
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