# New Reply Notifications in Website Title **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [November 6, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-reply-notifications-in-website-title/21878 "2014-11-06T16:03:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![patrickdiscourse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f0a364/32.png) [@patrickdiscourse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickdiscourse)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-reply-notifications-in-website-title/21878/1 "2014-11-06T16:03:32Z")
I would like the title of my site to change, according to whether or not there are new replies on the current page that I have not read. So for example, if I have my browser up, I wouldn’t need to be viewing the discourse website to see if a new reply was posted. Instead I would be able to tell by the title (which displays on the tab), if there are new messages to read. Does discourse already have this feature? ---
**Author:** ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-reply-notifications-in-website-title/21878/2 "2014-11-06T16:44:07Z")
There is a user preference to: > Show incoming message notifications on favicon (experimental) ---
**Author:** ![patrickdiscourse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f0a364/32.png) [@patrickdiscourse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickdiscourse)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-reply-notifications-in-website-title/21878/3 "2014-11-06T17:06:14Z")
Awesome thanks. I will try it out. ---
**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-reply-notifications-in-website-title/21878/4 "2014-11-06T17:07:17Z")
Granted, I haven’t had any success with that working anywhere else except Meta 😕 ---
**Author:** ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-reply-notifications-in-website-title/21878/5 "2014-11-06T17:09:03Z")
Never actually used it myself either… ---
**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-reply-notifications-in-website-title/21878/6 "2014-11-06T17:15:01Z")
Just discovered it works on another Discourse instance, but not the one I’m staff at… weird… I’ve come close to writing a UserScript to provide this functionality, just haven’t done it yet. ---
**Author:** ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-reply-notifications-in-website-title/21878/7 "2014-11-06T21:21:46Z")
It’ll be due to our customisation. ---
**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 9:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-reply-notifications-in-website-title/21878/8 "2014-11-06T21:59:25Z")
Ends up it does work on our instance for some… It seems two members (including @TechnoBear now) seem to have it functioning, while I do not. And now @TechnoBear is gloating about it via PM, lol. Something about it only working for those who are “nice” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-reply-notifications-in-website-title/21878/9 "2014-11-06T22:36:52Z")
Weird… I wonder what browser she is on. ---
**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 10:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-reply-notifications-in-website-title/21878/10 "2014-11-06T22:38:50Z")
Various. The second member, uses Chrome on Mac and Linux (same as I do for Linux). She was using Firefox on Ubuntu and Chromium on Ubuntu (Chromium worked, Firefox did not). So it seems flaky for some reason 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 10:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-reply-notifications-in-website-title/21878/11 "2014-11-06T22:49:26Z")
The Admin Setting for this does say something like "notifications in tab - experimental). Experimental to me indicates that it might work, might not work, might work only sporadically. So though I sometimes see it here at meta (like the “unread” count, it seems to be tied with cache-refresh) I haven’t really analyzed it any. ---
**Author:** ![TechnoBear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/technobear/32/40546_2.png) [@TechnoBear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TechnoBear)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 9:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-reply-notifications-in-website-title/21878/12 "2014-11-07T09:58:13Z")
I’m using Firefox, which works for Meta, but not on ours. After another member confirmed it works on our site for him on Chromium, I tested that and it _does_ work for me, but as I prefer Firefox for a number of reasons, that’s not really much help. (On the other hand, my Firefox spellchecker works just fine on our instance, but not here. Go figure.) ---
**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 10:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-reply-notifications-in-website-title/21878/13 "2014-11-07T10:08:51Z")
Amending title based on new replies to a topic is not something we do yet But we will get to it shortly Works fine on the front page though ---
**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 10:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-reply-notifications-in-website-title/21878/14 "2014-11-07T10:50:21Z")
Yep, I’m fully aware it is experimental, which is why I’m not stressing about it too much (well until @TechnoBear started to give me a hard time about it 😉 – all in good fun, of course) ---
**Author:** ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 11:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-reply-notifications-in-website-title/21878/15 "2025-12-04T11:32:48Z")