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Notifications don’t link correctly

2,234 282 July 27, 2022 at 04:22 PM
There is a bug: when you get a notification of a reply to a thread the notification link which opens to the app doesn't take you to the reply, rather to the start of whole thread. So you have to search through the discussion thread to find the reply.
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07-28-2022 at 06:36 AM.
07-28-2022 at 06:36 AM.
This occurs even when using links from inside the slickdeals app. For example go to user profile, notifications, and press a reply notification and the app takes you to first post in the thread and not your quoted reply
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07-28-2022 at 01:35 PM.
07-28-2022 at 01:35 PM.
Quote from blahbooboo2 :
There is a bug: when you get a notification of a reply to a thread the notification link which opens to the app doesn't take you to the reply, rather to the start of whole thread. So you have to search through the discussion thread to find the reply.
Thank you for reporting this issue. The devs are looking into it.
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08-15-2022 at 11:55 AM.
08-15-2022 at 11:55 AM.
This is still not working and is worse now. I got a reply notification on an iOS device, pressed the notification to go to slickdeals, and the Slickdeals app opened but now doesn't even take me to the thread let alone to the reply message in the thread.
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09-07-2022 at 05:03 PM.
09-07-2022 at 05:03 PM.
Quote from blahbooboo2 :
There is a bug: when you get a notification of a reply to a thread the notification link which opens to the app doesn't take you to the reply, rather to the start of whole thread. So you have to search through the discussion thread to find the reply.
What mobile device are you using? Which version of the app are you using? When you get a notification, is it the web based one or is it the Slickdeals mobile app based one? Screenshots would help.
Quote from blahbooboo2 :
This occurs even when using links from inside the slickdeals app. For example go to user profile, notifications, and press a reply notification and the app takes you to first post in the thread and not your quoted reply
This is from within the app, not Slickdeals website that then takes you into the app?
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This is still not working and is worse now. I got a reply notification on an iOS device, pressed the notification to go to slickdeals, and the Slickdeals app opened but now doesn't even take me to the thread let alone to the reply message in the thread.
When you get a notification, is it the web based one or is it the Slickdeals mobile app based one?
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09-07-2022 at 07:23 PM.
09-07-2022 at 07:23 PM.
Quote from SP33DFR34K :
What mobile device are you using? Which version of the app are you using? When you get a notification, is it the web based one or is it the Slickdeals mobile app based one? Screenshots would help.

This is from within the app, not Slickdeals website that then takes you into the app?

When you get a notification, is it the web based one or is it the Slickdeals mobile app based one?
  • iPhone 12 with latest iOS version installed
  • Latest version of the slickdeals app
  • Correct, this is not the web site, it is the slickdeals iPhone app that does not work correctly.
  • Occurs with notifications from the app or via emailed notifications which then open the slickdeals app on the iPHone


See next post for use case/workflow with screen shots from the iPhone slickdeals app.
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09-07-2022 at 07:40 PM.
09-07-2022 at 07:40 PM.
Here's one example use case where the linking does not work properly in the app.

1. Open Slickdeals iPhone App
2. Go to Slickdeals profile -> notifications
3. Select a "You were quoted in a thread" from the list of notifications
4. App opens the correct thread but does not take you to the quoted reply in the discussion thread.