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It means there is 1 review waiting for me that is related to "suggested edits".
This example shows what is shown when I clicked the orange 1:
Down the image there is a compare between old and new (not included) with the name of the editor. The buttons to the right let me aprove or reject it or I can improve it or skip it.
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It looks like the system is working in its intended and slightly confusing way.
You only get comment notifications when the system thinks the message is for you
You made a comment that the OP replied to without @'ing you. If you had been the only user apart from the author who commented on that post, you would have been notified (this explains why you've ...
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The only Hot Questions feed I can find is the central SE feed. This obviously contains every hot question for every site and every tag. But each item in the feed has enough information to work out what tags apply and what site which means you can process it down.
You could do this with any of a number of tools, but here's a nice simple Yahoo Pipes version:
...
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Emails are not sent as soon as someone posts an answer or comments.
Emails in Stack Exchange websites are more like digests.
The way they work is, if you don't check your notification messages (The ones in the top left, where it says `StackExchange) for a certain amount of time (depending on your preferences), you get an email saying:
1 new item in your ...
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You can simply leave a comment like
@user I've updated my post with more details
Eventually these will be removed or hidden by moderators or the system as comments are treated a lot like second class citizens, in that they don't matter as much as the Question and Answers.
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There are 41 comments on that entire page. People are obviously talking past each other.
We have 9,786 unanswered questions.
I'm having a hard time understand how continuing that discussion is useful for anybody outside the few people having it when we clearly have more important issues to deal with.
Use the chat perhaps?
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You are not directly notified of any edits to the question, though you will be notified of future comments. To receive notifications about changes to the question I recommend you favorite the question.
What is the purpose of favoriting
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In the meantime(as a workaround) you can hit the "Favorite Star"
Which is here:
This will update you on changes of a question in your profile page.
To see the changes:
Click "Favorites" notice the "1" which tells me one of my favorites has changed, then click on "Activity" and the highlighted questions will be the ones that have recently changed.
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It appears they are still around under certain circumstances. I ran into one myself while editing a question. Not exactly the same thing you had but similar.
I wonder if this has to do with some of the changes that have happened recently:
Stack Exchange Inc has recently moved their data centers to another location in NYC. (There was a blog post ...
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I would hesitate a guess that you were temporarily awarded an accept vote and that knocked you up to 51 rep. I believe the notifications are a simple queue so that's when the notification was pushed to your queue.
When the accepted status was withdrawn, you fell back to 36 rep.
Either that or somebody voted for two answers, or four questions (or a ...
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It's in UTC time, the time on which all of SE ticks. It's not local time and no there is no "fix".
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It is the number of available Suggested Edits to review. But keep in mind that it doesn't refresh automatically.
It reloads when you refresh or you go another page.
So if there was a 1 next to the review button and you had the page open for a while, once you click the 1, there is a chance that there won't be anything to review.
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You're not notified of close or delete votes in the drop down inbox.
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I am now receiving notifications. I realized that I had created an account on Ask Ubuntu without creating one for Stack Exchange itself. It seems that, after creating a Stack Exchange account, I was able to get notifications. As dumb as it is that I didn't do it before, I hope this helps others.
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You could probably just forward your own e-mails.
Set it up so you get e-mail reminders for all the things.
In Users → Preferences → Emails
In the account you have setup for e-mail, just have all mail forwarded to your main e-mail address, or a e-mail you have set up to send you mobile reminders.
Also under each question is this:
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See https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/268957/topbar-notifications-dont-go-away - this should now be resolved.
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How is this a "bug"? Both messages were sent to you and were valid at the appropriate time.
If you want them collapsed, that's a feature request. And not a really big deal, is it?
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A better idea might be to use a browser extension or applet built with the Stack Exchange API. For example, here's one for Chrome, and another one for Firefox, Chrome and Opera, that does exactly what you want, and more. Find more of these apps on Stack Apps.
You can also try following the Ask Ubuntu twitter feed or the RSS feed. In short, there are so many ...
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