closed Bug with alerts / notifications

[MrCross]

So the issue I'm having is that when I post on a topic and someone else replies to the topic,  I don't receive any kind of notification saying like [USER] has replied to [X Minutes ago]

This does happen on other forums I've used like XenForo, etc.

The browser I'm using is Chrome 51.

[LogicalDrm]

Do you have browser notifications enabled and are you following topic? You only get direct notification from topic if you have it open in tab.

[colonel_mortis]

You're not getting notifications like this?

They can sometimes take a bit of time to appear, but they are sent. I have suggested to the devs that they increase the frequency of the checks.

[MrCross]

No @colonel_mortis

[colonel_mortis]

1 hour ago, MrCross said:

No @colonel_mortis

If you've been on the page for a while, the polling for new replies is currently very infrequent, which is probably why it looks like it's not working. There is unfortunately not anything we can do about it, but the suggestion to increase the polling rate has been marked for internal review by the devs, so hopefully they change it in a future update.

[thekeemo]

quirk I found 

opera handles notifications much better than chrome for the forum

[colonel_mortis]

1 minute ago, thekeemo said:

quirk I found 

opera handles notifications much better than chrome for the forum

In what way? They both use the same rendering and javascript engines (Blink and V8 respectively), so should perform almost exactly the same.

[thekeemo]

8 hours ago, colonel_mortis said:

In what way? They both use the same rendering and javascript engines (Blink and V8 respectively), so should perform almost exactly the same.

chrome gives me double notifications old notifications ignore notifications

opera just works the way it is supposed to

[colonel_mortis]

2 minutes ago, thekeemo said:

chrome gives me double notifications old notifications ignore notifications

opera just works the way it is supposed to

That's weird. I would say it's even weirder that it only seems to be affecting you, because nobody else has reported it, but in my experience the lack of reports doesn't actually mean very much.

[thekeemo]

8 hours ago, colonel_mortis said:

That's weird. I would say it's even weirder that it only seems to be affecting you, because nobody else has reported it, but in my experience the lack of reports doesn't actually mean very much.

its not exactly what I would call a forum breaking bug

[colonel_mortis]

1 minute ago, thekeemo said:

its not exactly what I would call a forum breaking bug

Very few of the bugs are, but that doesn't mean that they should go unfixed. You have no idea how frustrating it is to see people complaining that they don't like something, or that something doesn't work, when someone else mentions it, because if people don't report things, they can't get changed. If something is a bug (as opposed to a feature that is missing), it is usually fairly easy to fix, and if not, it can just be reported to the forum software devs, who can fix it. A lot of the bugs that they fix are fairly minor, but by fixing it they make your experience slightly better; if each of the over 9000 bugs in their bug tracker that have been marked as fixed or closed for whatever reason made even a slight difference to your experience, the combination of all the bug fixes makes the suite far better than it was on release (which is very definitely true).

Please don't use "it's too minor" as an excuse to not report a bug,

[thekeemo]

8 hours ago, colonel_mortis said:

Very few of the bugs are, but that doesn't mean that they should go unfixed. You have no idea how frustrating it is to see people complaining that they don't like something, or that something doesn't work, when someone else mentions it, because if people don't report things, they can't get changed. If something is a bug (as opposed to a feature that is missing), it is usually fairly easy to fix, and if not, it can just be reported to the forum software devs, who can fix it. A lot of the bugs that they fix are fairly minor, but by fixing it they make your experience slightly better; if each of the over 9000 bugs in their bug tracker that have been marked as fixed or closed for whatever reason made even a slight difference to your experience, the combination of all the bug fixes makes the suite far better than it was on release (which is very definitely true).

Please don't use "it's too minor" as an excuse to not report a bug,

Not saying it should go unreported I am saying that it is the reason that most of them go unreported