# Delivered and read notifications?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/delivered-and-read-notifications/117931>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [May 16, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delivered-and-read-notifications/117931 "2019-05-16T14:55:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 1:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delivered-and-read-notifications/117931/12 "2019-07-08T01:53:17Z")

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Discourse isn’t email (and email doesn’t really do this, anyway), and it isn’t a chat or instant messaging system. So the request generally doesn’t fit what the software is designed to do.

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