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I keep getting a notification on a comment from last month when nothing new has happened. It seems to block current commentary notices or always loop back to this one notice after checking one which is more current. It is maddening.

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    Michael AndersonMichael Anderson shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Anonymous shared a merged idea: Please fix this idiotic "bell" service! I click on the little bell when it says I have new replies, and it shows "you have no new replies".  ·   · 
    Anonymous shared a merged idea: Notifications  ·   · 
    MikeMike shared a merged idea: Note -- my notification  ·   · 
    JoeJoe shared a merged idea: On my news feeds I can read some comments but on others I am blocked.  ·   · 
    Fred MurhammerFred Murhammer shared a merged idea: Yahoo Notifications Bug  ·   · 
    HenryHenry shared a merged idea: Notification Problem  ·   · 
    Anonymous shared a merged idea: Again today - yahoo sends notices about comments, but the comments don't show up when we follow the links.  ·   · 
    Anonymous shared a merged idea: Notifications still take me back to the same comment over and over  ·   · 
    Jeff HarrisJeff Harris shared a merged idea: Will you please fix the notifications, it's regurgitating the same stuff over and over. Clearing you cache doesn't work. It just started.  ·   · 
    Anonymous shared a merged idea: Well, notifications worked for maybe a week - now they're back to being dysfunctional again.  ·   · 
    Gene GoldringGene Goldring shared a merged idea: Please fix your notification script. I keep getting notification of 3 past comments I made with no updates being made to the comment area.  ·   · 

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      • IQ 183IQ 183 commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        mine have 12 errors and not one notification comes through.

      • wuh-evawuh-eva commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I am getting errors in my notifications with the bell icon. Please fix this for me- it has started recently

      • GrumpyGrumpy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Yahoo! Mail and comment notifications have completely failed for me on any browser on every OS. Your engineering team has had 9 business days to work on this issue. Either get competent engineers, or just admit that you borked it up on your end and don't know how to fix it and that we as your customers can just forget about it. For being ranked #8 of the top 20 places to work for, you don't have skilled employees yahoo. This is why google is squashing you like a bug in every facet of the online world.

      • Mary CrooneMary Croone commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I am getting an alert notification error on the bell. Please fix it. Thank you.

      • Fed-up UserFed-up User commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        All of the below comments apply to me also.... Notifications are screwed up entirely

      • Canes VenaticiCanes Venatici commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I havren't had any notifications in a week. Usually I get at least a dozen. I have noticed that the
        notifications have been acting rather oddly in the first part of December.

      • B FaganB Fagan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I'm getting the same thing. IE9 (up to date) and/or Chrome Version 23.0.1271.64 m (depending on computer or which browser is default on which computer)

        I've got a comment on "Congratulations! You've received 1 thumbs-up to your post on Rubio makes first postelection trip to Iowa in Yahoo! News."

        The notification will not go away. If I click "View More" when that's the only notification, it just keeps adding more iterations of that notification. When there are other notifications, I can view and clear them, until I'm back to Rubio. I'm tired of Rubio.
        Thanks.

      • BillBill commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Thanks for your feedback. We are now aware of this issue and are looking into this as a priority. Apologies for causing any inconvenience.

        Please posting your suggestions here!

        Thanks,
        Yahoo! Product Support
        and when are you going to actually fix the problem!!!

      • BillBill commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        still not working my comments show up under some other post

      • BillBill commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        come on, I leave a comment on a post, then the comment shows up under a completely different original post, in some cases from 7 hours earlier!

      • BillBill commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        what is this, my comment to a post, shows up under something entirely different:

        example, my comment - 'exactly, good point M.A.D. lives on, now for over 50 years' shows up under this - 'Why didn't Mitt's son's serve in the Military?' from 4 hours earlier, where is the original post I commented to?

      • BillBill commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        what is this, my comment to a post, shows up under something entirely different:

        example, my comment - 'exactly, good point M.A.D. lives on, now for over 50 years' shows up under this - 'Why didn't Mitt's son's serve in the Military?' from 4 hours earlier, where is the original post I commented to?

        .

      • RedmoonRedmoon commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I have this problem in IE8 and IE9 but not in Google Chrome.

      • Gene GoldringGene Goldring commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Still happening.
        I now have 4 Notifications that pop up but yet there has been no activity on the thread of comments or even a thumbs up or down on my post.

        If I click on one of the notification items I go to the comment I left. I scroll back up and click on the Notification button again and the same notification along with the other 3 are still there. I have tried clicking on one of the other notifications at random but it is hit and miss the next time I click on the notifications button on whether the offending notifications come up or the valid, more recent list come up as it should. If the proper notifications do pop up, the next notifications I receive may be the old inactive comment list. Some times I get a run of the recent list and I just hope it is all over with as trying to get rid of the offending list takes a lot of time.

        Cheers!

      • PariPari commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Notifications are always 99. Even if click on that red bell a million times it stands at 99

      • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Same problem here. Started up a couple days ago.

        I constantly get notified of the same two updates-- and the timestamp on them keeps changing to a more recent time. Only occasionally do the real notifications get to me. I'm running MacOS10.6, and see the behavior in all four browsers I've tried: latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari.

        This is very disruptive to the back & forth typical of commenting on articles. Just let me turn off this "feature" (ie, bug) if it's not going to get fixed. Actually, just give me an option to turn off notifications, period. The feature adds nothing that I can't do myself.

      • RebeccaRebecca commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        This happens to me as well, it's so annoying. I even tried to remoe my comments from those stories, but the notifications still come up.

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