# Receiving multiple notifications about the same reply

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/receiving-multiple-notifications-about-the-same-reply/393486
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** notifications
**Created:** [January 14, 2026, 11:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/receiving-multiple-notifications-about-the-same-reply/393486 "2026-01-14T23:41:55Z")
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### 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: [January 15, 2026, 4:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/receiving-multiple-notifications-about-the-same-reply/393486/2 "2026-01-15T04:32:27Z")

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In post\_alerter.rb

```plaintext
Change lines 589-599 from:
 # linked, quoted, mentioned, chat_quoted may be suppressed if you already have a reply notification
 if [
      Notification.types[:quoted],
      Notification.types[:linked],
      Notification.types[:mentioned],
      Notification.types[:chat_quoted],
    ].include?(type)
   if existing_notifications.find { |n| n.notification_type == Notification.types[:replied] }
     return
   end
 end

 To:
 # linked, quoted, mentioned, chat_quoted may be suppressed if you already have any notification about this 
 post
 if [
      Notification.types[:quoted],
      Notification.types[:linked],
      Notification.types[:mentioned],
      Notification.types[:chat_quoted],
    ].include?(type)
   return if existing_notifications.any?
 end

```

This will work but I do worry a bit cause there are other notifications that can slip through here. (plugins notifications for example that are ones we may want to suppress)

@lindsey there is a bit of a product question here, when should we suppress a notification?

I guess the small fix is a step forward?

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/37132](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/37132)

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