Tagged users in "Notes" aren't notified?

Bug Reports
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Tagging a user in the “Notes” section of an observation doesn’t seem to send any notification to the tagged user. Intended or no?

See this observation for an example.

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seems like it might be inconsistent behaviour, because I’ve been tagged in notes before and received a notification

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I can corroborate this

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Some days ago this happened to me as well.
I was tagged in the notes, and by chance found the observation myself few hours later - I definitely did not receive a notification.

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I often recieve tag notification days after it happened.

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I mentioned someone in the Notes once, with no response. When I checked on it later, it looked like a profile link without the little oval around it that appears when you mention someone in a comment.

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I have happened to stumble across quite a few observations where I was tagged in the Notes but never received a notification for them. I can’t seem to remember ever getting a notification from being tagged in the Notes, only in the comments.

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I did some testing around this this morning:

  • If I upload an observation in a browser and tag someone in the notes before submitting, no notification is generated.

  • If I then edit that observation in a browser, change nothing in the notes, and click Save, no notification is generated.

  • If I edit that observation in a browser and add new text to notes and save changes, a notification is generated.

  • If I take an existing observation and add a new tag to it, a notification is generated.

  • If I upload an observation in the iOS app and tag someone before uploading, a notification is generated.

  • If I edit an observation in the iOS app and tag someone, a notification is generated.

  • If I look for my android device to use it for testing this, I can’t find it.

I wrote up a bug report for the web uploader.

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OK, this has been fixed. It’s working for me.

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15

so tagging anyone anywhere should always generate a notification now?

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Hmm OK I guess it doesn’t work if you edit an existing observation and tag someone in the Notes, this is different than a mention in a new observation’s notes doesn’t generate a notification. I’ll make a bug report for that.

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Note to self: make sure when testing this that the account you’re mentioning isn’t muting you.

As far as I can tell, mentioning users in the Notes section should generate a notification, as long as they’re not muting or blocking you…

I can’t promise that, this bug report is just for mentions in the Notes section of observations. Off the top of my head, mentions in moderation notes don’t generate notifications.