# Reply notifictions

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-notifictions/349471>\
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**Created:** [March 22, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-notifictions/349471 "2006-03-22T19:20:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-notifictions/349471/1 "2006-03-22T19:20:00Z")

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They’re a good thing, but I get a lot of them. Just now I got 4 notifications quoting the same new post.

IMO it would be nice if you didn’t get ANY more notifications of replies to a thread until you actually visit that thread again.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply-notifictions/349471/2 "2006-03-24T14:26:42Z")

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At times of stress on the server, it does one of two things:

1. It times out on certain tasks . . . and things don’t get done. This includes email notifications. (In fact, it tends to drop email first.) That means you will miss notifications for some threads, prompting a complaint of “I’m not getting my notifications!”

2. It stutters and sends out duplicates of the same notification. And you open this thread instead and ask/complain about getting too many copies of the same dang thing.

We have no control over if/when either of these scenarios will take place, it just bees that way. Sorry about that.

TubaDiva