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.

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

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

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.

I often recieve tag notification days after it happened.

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.

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 ed…

so tagging anyone anywhere should always generate a notification now?

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.

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… [image] thebeachcomber: so tagging anyone anywhere should al…

Tagged users in "Notes" aren't notified?

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Tagged users in "Notes" aren't notified?

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