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egg
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Notification, but no New File

Post by egg »

I received a notification for INNOCENCE, but when I went to the anime, I didn't see any new file icons. It has been less than 24 hours since the last time I had logged in, so if there was a new file, I should have seen the icon. I went to the Notification History, and this anime does not appear in the list.

My guess is that someone put in a bogus file that was deleted. If I am right, the history probably didn't show the file because it failed to load the file data. My question is, can the pop-up window do whatever the history page is doing and filter out the anime in this case?
PetriW
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Post by PetriW »

I suspect that'd be quite heavy though, you'd also have to include the same thing on all pages so you don't get a "1 notify!" and then click the popup there's nothing there.
egg
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Post by egg »

PetriW wrote:I suspect that'd be quite heavy though, you'd also have to include the same thing on all pages so you don't get a "1 notify!" and then click the popup there's nothing there.
I thought exp might say that, but I was waiting to see...

There are two other ways of handling it:
1) Have it show up in the history as file deleted.
2) Have the delete file do some cleanup and delete notifications for that file.
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Post by exp »

well,

as you already guessed this was most likely caused by a file which was deleted right after it was added.
that doesn't happen very often though and I don't think those few cases are important enough to make any workaround worthwhile.
it would just mean more work for the server and for me :P

BYe!
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