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I received a notification about a new answer to my question, but there are no answers

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I received a notification saying that there's a new answer to my question:

notification saying I've got a new answer in one of my questions

But when I clicked it, I saw no answers. I can think of 2 possibilities about what happened:

  1. There wasn't an answer and the notification was incorrectly sent
  2. There was an answer but it was deleted before I clicked in the notification (and I guess I can't see deleted posts due to my low rep?)

In case 1, it's a bug.

In case 2, I'm not sure. It could be considered a bug, because there's no point in notifying me for something I can't see ("hey, there's a message for you, but you can't see it"). So perhaps the notification should be deleted (or there should be some indication that the answer was deleted, which would make the notification a little less confusing).

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luap42‭ wrote over 4 years ago

Yeah. There is a deleted answer from HDE 226868. The notification system will need a bigger overhaul at some future point, but I think it's quite in the current implementation hard to hide/show a notification based on the post it links to being deleted or not.

hkotsubo‭ wrote over 4 years ago · edited over 4 years ago

@luap42 Thanks for confirming what happened. I forgot to mention that I clicked at the question history and saw the message "last activity about X hours ago by HDE 226868" - but it doesn't tell me what this activity was and I couldn't find this info anywhere.