Questions tagged [preferences]
For questions about any options that are available under your user preferences in your profile page.
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Don't send me notifications (and emails) for company update posts
Recently I got an unwanted notification and subsequent email for the company update: Chat room owners can now establish room guidelines.
Note: this is a "message" notification for the ...
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Image Open in the same tab instead of a new tab
When I click on an image in the question, it opens in the same tab instead of a new tab. Is there an option in the profile settings to make images open in a new tab when clicked?
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Headers within the profile page sidebar (settings & saves tabs) should be headers, not list items
The "Settings" tab within your profile has a sidebar with links to subpages organized into sections:
However, these "headers" aren't marked up as such in the underlying HTML. ...
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Settings "When you flip this switch" language problem
There is a "Settings" page available in your profile page. Some of the setting descriptions start with "When you flip this switch". Maybe "flip" means "enable" ...
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Please give feedback that a tag does not exist when a user tries to add a non-existent tag to the watched tag list on the Settings page
When trying to add a tag to the watched tag list from the settings page, it is possible to type in a non-existent tag into the autocomplete input box and then press "Watch tag".
The non-...
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How to configure stackexchange.com so I see only hot questions from forums I've subscribed to? [duplicate]
I'd like to avoid seeing questions from forums other than those I have subscribed to when I log into stackexchange.com
The following screenshot shows what i see on login @ 13:25 6 Sept 2024:
There ...
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Add a link to the site cookie settings from the User Settings page
Apparently cookie settings are configurable via a link on the site footer. I found this out thanks to a brief mention on the Advertising Guidelines update:
Opt in or out of cookie tracking
To opt in ...
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Can I have the option to receive notification emails immediately, rather than 3 hours later? [duplicate]
Under "edit email settings", the only available frequency options are:
"off / 3 hrs / daily / weekly".
So if someone answers my question or leaves me a comment, the quickest I can ...
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Tag watching & ignoring is bugged in the profile page settings
On one's profile page, there is a Settings tab with preferences for Tag watching & ignoring, i.e. at /users/tag-notifications/<user id>.
For both Watched tags and Ignored tags there appear ...
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Settings are inconsistent on whether descriptions end in periods or not
On the user settings page (your Meta SE one is here) the smaller-font descriptions sometimes end in periods and sometimes don't. This guidance says "Don’t use periods in interface copy unless it’...
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User Preferences - Slack Integrations gives a 404 [closed]
There are several earlier posts tagged status-completed reflecting on this problem, like:
"Slack integrations" and "Microsoft Teams integrations" in Settings lead to 404
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Hiding your left sidebar leaves some left
The user profile setting to hide the left sidebar doesn't completely hide it:
Settings:
"Hide left navigation -
When you flip this switch, the left navigation will no longer be pinned to the ...
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"Delete profile" option is no longer present in one's user settings page
Not Meta. https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/deleting-account refers to
I am on the MAIN site. BUT I do not see "Delete profile"!
In case this was removed on purpose, can we:
Know the ...
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Links "Slack integrations" and "Microsoft Teams integrations" in user preferences giving error 404 [duplicate]
Links "Slack integrations" and "Microsoft Teams integrations" giving error 404 :-(
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There is an error message displayed when clicking on the Calendar icon when "Settings" menu is active
There is an error message displayed when clicking on the Calendar icon when the Settings menu is active.
But there is no error message displayed when the "Profile" and "Activity" ...
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