[META] Inbox icon behaving unexpectedly
I just saw the letter icon under my username in orange, indicating that there should be something new in my inbox; but when I went to my inbox there was nothing there I hadn’t already read. I wonder if this could be related to the recent trouble with the PM system? I sent a PM the other day and might have gotten a response to it which triggered the colour-the-icon code but not, perchance, the actual display-in-inbox code. Can I get a volunteer to receive a PM from me, or to PM me, and test whether the response shows up in the sender’s inbox?
If you load Page A, then load your inbox, the icon will still be red on Page A. I doubt this is the cause, since I assume most people are familiar with this behavior, but it seems useful to mention just in case :)
This happens to me and has happened in the distant enough past that I don’t think it’s related to recent PM trouble. I normally attribute it to someone having replied to one of my comments and then deleted the reply before I load the inbox page, but that’s only a guess.
That didn’t occur to me, but it seems reasonable. I guess PMs just jumped to mind since there was some problem with them recently.
Just sent you one. Feel free to send me one.
Thank you; I received it and sent you both a response and a new PM.
I got them both.