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With Mention notifications turned on, but Flow notifications turned off, no notification sent when mentioned on a Flow page
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Someone linked to my user page on a Flow page. I didn't get a notification about it even though I do get a notification when someone does that on a normal page.

In my preferences, I have "Flow" notifications turned off, because I really do not want a notification every single time someone edits a Flow page I happen to have on my watchlist, but I do have "Mention" enabled, because I do want to know when people mention me. It seems like either the "Flow" preference is overriding the "Mention" preference, or mentions are not working properly in Flow.

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In my preferences, I have "Flow" notifications turned off, because I really do not want a notification every single time someone edits a Flow page I happen to have on my watchlist, but I do have "Mention" enabled, because I do want to know when people mention me.

That is not quite how it works. If you have e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Flow watched, you will only receive notifications when someone creates a new topic. Only if you watch the topic will you get notifications about actions on that topic (e.g. replies).

It seems like either the "Flow" preference is overriding the "Mention" preference, or mentions are not working properly in Flow.

Indeed, "flow-mention" is in the Flow category, not the Mention category. I'm not sure if there was a specific reason for this.

Mattflaschen-WMF renamed this task from No notification sent when mentioned on a Flow page to With Mention notifications turned on, but Flow notifications turned off, no notification sent when mentioned on a Flow page.Nov 10 2015, 8:25 PM
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Same problem here.

In T118270#1797318, @Mattflaschen wrote:

In my preferences, I have "Flow" notifications turned off, because I really do not want a notification every single time someone edits a Flow page I happen to have on my watchlist, but I do have "Mention" enabled, because I do want to know when people mention me.

That is not quite how it works. If you have e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Flow watched, you will only receive notifications when someone creates a new topic. Only if you watch the topic will you get notifications about actions on that topic (e.g. replies).

That would still mean too many notifications for me.