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Is there any way to be notified when others respond to your comments? I feel like it naturally extinguishes conversations to not have any notifications? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by ivanafterall@kbin.social to c/AskKbin@kbin.social

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I've gone back and noticed that sometimes a handful of people had responded to a previous comment and I never realized it.

As it stands, it seems you only get notifications if people actually manually mention your username. Is there any method to get post/thread reply notifications?

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[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know if this is common, and I assume it's due to the nature of federation and things taking a little while to update, but even with notifications on, it's been taking around 2 hours from when the person responds, to me being notified about it, so there's that to consider, too..

(not complaining, just pointing out another reason people might not see notifications right away)

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Just today I had a reply to one of my comments, the notification popped up while I was browsing, but when I went to read it the reply itself had a timestamp of two hours prior. It's possible that this has happened before, but it was the first one that I noticed. Maybe more usage is lagging propagation, especially if the timing seems to be roughly the same amount.

I just realized this might not be seen for a bit if that's true, lol.

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Even better, now I have a reply that I had already seen earlier that is popping up as a new one. It clears in the top bar when I go read it, but then when I refresh it's back again as new. Growing pains.

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Only 10 hours later... haha!
But it was nigh time, so I had good reason.. 😁

And yes, it seems to be 2 hours every time, which is what made me think it's not a me problem but a kbin/fed thing, even though I don't know enough about how it all works, from reading the banner you get when you browse from kbin to another instance I know that there might be some delays, so I just put it down to that.