Welcome to Codidact! Could you clarify what you mean by (blah blah blah)?

If this were an actual comment I would go into more detail here, but as it is, I'm just typing some stuff to fill up a little more of the textbox, and also trying some

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to see what happens.

When I clicked on this thread it told me "This is just a preview; you can see the whole thread." But I was, at the time, looking at the entire thread; it was just that one comment and it was complete. We might want to save the "preview" language for cases where there really is more to see. (The link to the whole thread, even if you've already seen everything, should remain, for consistency and so it's easy for people to get a permalink.)

How many comments can you post before the preview cuts off?

At least three. How about four?

Saw all four; let's try five. I'm going to guess that the magic number is actually six, which I think is the cutoff for collapsing on the main branch.

Here's comment number 6.

That was it; I saw everything through the "saw all four" comment, but not "comment number 6" until I clicked through.

Hey User C‭ I am pinging myself even though I never participated in the thread. Let's see what happens.

I got a notification for my own self-ping. That might be fine; if you're going to ping yourself you probably had a reason, and "use a notification as a reminder" might be it. Shrug.

This is a link to comment number 6 (or should be).

Yes, that worked.

Apparently posting a comment auto-follows the thread; I just got several pings from User C‭. Let's consider one of those dismissible "FYI" notices the first time this happens to someone, pointing out the "unfollow" link.

Also, could we collapse notifications from a single thread into one notification instead of one per comment? We could check to see if there's a pending notification from the thread already and, if so, not add another. (Read notifications don't count, though; want new ones.)

UserA‭ ping 1 - how many notifications did you get?

I left a long comment here about how posting that previous comment got me a 500, but I failed to save it and this time I got the 500 but no comment.

UserA‭ ping 2 - how many notifications?

Two notifications (plus one for following the thread for a total of three).

Monica‭ here's a ping (1 of 2).

Monica‭ here's a ping (2 of 2).

Got two inbox notifications.