Question

Bug Report: *The Notifier Dilemma*

Hello, my current notification setting is “Notify me about mentions when: People I’ve fanned mentions me”.

Just few minutes ago I received a notification “sammy90210
replied to Use a graphing utility to approximate (to two-decimal-place accuracy) any relative minimum or maximu…”

Neither I had fanned that user nor I had commented in that thread, but still I was notified.

This is thread url: http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/4fbe914be4b0dd370c769351

**Please note: I ran some simulation using my sock puppet and noticed that this is not happening always but only in some cases.

Thanks,

Answer 1

That looks like a reply notification. You are notified about replies to questions you've participated in regardless. Only @-mentions are affected by that setting. Does that make sense?

Answer 2

>>"That looks like a reply notification. You are notified about replies to questions you've participated in regardless."

Yes in some cases when another user use @-mention (but not always).

>>"Only @-mentions are affected by that setting."

I don't understand.

Answer 3

Again:

"sammy90210 replied to identify graph transformation"

http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/4fbea8b5e4b0dd370c76a9b8

Answer 4

Oh interesting interesting. We'll have a look for sure, thanks for letting us know.

Answer 5

Glad to help :)

Answer 6

Another: http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/4fbeb4a5e4b0dd370c76b415

Answer 7

And again:

http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/4fbec9b1e4b0dd370c76c8ba

Answer 8

Yet Again: http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/4fbedb07e4b0dd370c76d8f4

Answer 9

So, er, wait. You're getting reply notifications when those users mention you... ohhhhhhhh. Hm.

Answer 10

I may or may not be an idiot.

Answer 11

Yes. I shouldn't be notified in the first place (due to my settings)

Answer 12

Yeah, I fixed a bug where people weren't getting notified often enough. My fix just worked a little, er, too well. :D

Answer 13

Heh, you did something selective? I noticed things working correctly on my sock puppets.

Answer 14

Well, essentially the code I wrote will generate a reply notification if you were mentioned but your privacy settings would have otherwise blocked it. That's obviously an error. heh.

Answer 15

A reply notification for mentions, that's awry isn't?

Answer 16

Well, not entirely. Because if you participate in a thread, and someone mentions you we still want to generate a regular reply notification for that post.

Answer 17

Okay, you created this bug you will fix it. Else I am holding you responsible for everything. :P

Answer 18

What else is new? I'm working on a fix atm.

Answer 19

Yesterday, I was facing some lagging issues like questions were not loading properly, I fixed it by clicking the groups via the group selection bar.

@Diyadiya faced this problem later.

Answer 20

Define "not loading properly"

Answer 21

It's hard to define. No questions left or right is blue. Chats were loading fine.

Answer 22

Oh, it sounds like you weren't actually being dropped in a group?

Answer 23

@farmdawgnation i think there was a post with screen shot

Answer 24

If so, then we're aware of that.

Answer 25

That's right Farm.

Answer 26

Yeah, we're going to drop some code on the server to figure out what's going on with that. Basically, next time it happens to my account after the deploy we're going to get all sorts of helpful information outputted to our log files.

Answer 27

Deploy is scheduled for tomorrow morning, so hopefully tomorrow sometime we'll have an idea of what's going on.

Answer 28

Alright, I don't think I am aware of any other bug right now.

Answer 29

That's because there are no more, of course. :P

Answer 30

Heh, hope so :)

Answer 31

I thought you fixed it farm.

http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/4fbf847ce4b0dd370c7739d0

Answer 32

The fix has not been deployed. Please watch for release notes that mention the bug.

Answer 33

Should be soon.

Answer 34

Alright, Thanks.