# 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:** ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 8:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/receiving-multiple-notifications-about-the-same-reply/393486/3 "2026-01-15T08:42:33Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> I guess the small fix is a step forward?

I’m not sure. Isn’t that a reply notification in my video? And yet, there is still a notification about the quote and the link afterward. So, extending that for other notification types might not help here. But maybe it covers other edge cases.  
I wonder if the problem in my repro is the “2 replies” notification. Does that break the check for existing notifications by that reply when the reply is edited?

In general, I would expect no additional notification because of an edit if all the triggers had already been in the post when I read it before. Fixing a typo unrelated to mention/link/quote shouldn’t result in a new notification.  
I think, in case a trigger is replaced, I would rather like the existing, unread notification to be changed (or replaced) than receiving a second one. Removing the @mention in a user’s post to avoid noise shouldn’t result in a second notification about the quote. I would expect the notification about the @mention to disappear.  
I think the only case where I’d want a new notification is if an edit adds a more important notification type. So when someone linked my post and later adds an edit which @mentions me, it makes sense to tell me because they seem to be talking no longer about something I wrote but directly to me. Since an edit no longer bumps the topic, @mentions might be a helpful way to alert users about edits.

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