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I had just noticed on Friday that I could set times to be notified of Spiceworks community notifications. So I modified my settings to the following:
`https://community.spiceworks.com/u/clutka/preferences/notifications

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Well, I logged into work this morning and I found that the schedule was ignored for this morning (Monday, July 14, 2025) since I had received many notifications after midnight. I know this is most likely a Discourse issue. I can wait until next week to determine if this is repeatable but I do think this should be addressed by Spiceworks/Discourse at some point.

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As another note, I did not get my next batch of notification emails until 8:03 AM, well within my set schedule.

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Thanks for the heads up! I haven’t played with this feature myself yet, but I’ll do some digging.

Please let us know if you see this again, though!

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@clutka were the notifications that you received outside that schedule in-app or via email? I suspect email from your screenshot but I do want to double check. If it was email, did you also get the corresponding in-app notifications?

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The notifications were emails sent to my corporate email address associated with my Spiceworks account. Your hunch about “email” is/was correct; the image was taken from “New” Outlook. To be open, forthright, and honest, I had seen some in-app notifications during the weekend because I logged on using my browser on my mobile device. I do believe I did get the in-app notifications for the matching email notifications. I don’t ever expect full synchronization – I had learned previously that Discourse will queue and send the emailed notifications regardless of the read status within the site. For example, if I’m browsing a thread to which I get notified about new posts, I will see the in-app notification, and several minutes may go by and I will get an email stating the same. I have learned to live with that and don’t fault Spiceworks or Discourse.

I wanted to make sure that there isn’t a bug since, after midnight on a day that I’m to get email notifications released, I received a batch of messages which was outside the notification period. I have no qualms about the contents.

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There is definitely a delay before emails are sent, it’s configured for 10 minutes. Emails contain the content of the post so the delay is there to account for any immediate edits.

I’ve updated my settings so I’ll see what happens to my notifications, but we’ll probably need to discuss this with Discourse.

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Yup, got the messages again during my quiet hours. (Honestly, I really don’t care if this is resolved because it’s not affecting my life. If I’m the only one who is using this feature, I can ignore it. My phone is on DND between 10 PM and 6 AM so I wouldn’t hear any notification alerts anyway. I care only because there’s a coding problem and I don’t like to see the effects of bugs.)

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I’m going to try this:

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We’ll see if I get any emails just after midnight on Wednesday.

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My notifications are ignoring the schedule too. This is a Discourse problem so I’ll raise it with them tomorrow and see what they say.

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And with Wednesday set to None, I did not receive any emailed notifications from Spiceworks/Discourse at midnight as expected. I then set my Wednesday schedule back to 8:00 to 4:30 and I received my outstanding notifications via email within three minutes.

So it does look like Discourse is accidentally sending notifications at midnight of the day of which there is a schedule.

Do the bug badges extend to the community? :beetle: + :man_raising_hand: :speech_balloon::woman_technologist: + :hammer_and_wrench: = :man_raising_hand::sports_medal::partying_face:

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They can! Badge awarded :slight_smile:

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I logged this with Discourse today, when I have more information I’ll update this thread.

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I’m glad to see this feature exists, even if buggy ATM. I may enable it to keep my inbox from flooding over the weekends. So it sounds like, if working properly, the notifications are simply queued up outside your set hours, and then they all get delivered once the active hours start. Is that correct?

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Yes, that is what I had experienced.

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While I have initially given this response as the best answer, I do reserve the right to change it to your response stating that Discourse has updated their code.

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Discourse may have fixed something already. I did not receive any emails just after midnight despite there being active site notifications queued before midnight. I don’t know if it’s related to me adjusting the schedule yesterday (from “none” back to 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM) so I will leave it another day to see if the issue returns. Progress!

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For two days in a row, I have not had any emails released at midnight on the day I had notifications scheduled to be emailed (well, it would have been only two notifications but I was really close to my 100-emails-a-day limit so…). This either was fixed by Discourse, I did hit my email notification limit, or resolved itself, probably with a service/daemon restart because, well, IT problems.

I will cease updating the thread unless the issue reappears.

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I hope it is fully resolved, but thank you for keeping us up-to-date either way! :slight_smile:

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Still ongoing. :frowning:

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The two Saturday messages came in at 12:04 AM. The system is still buggy.
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Yup, last week’s notifications absence was a fluke because I’m still receiving a few emails overnight.

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My notification schedule is still:

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Okay, now that I’ve established (again) that this is ongoing, I’ll wait for Lois’ response from Discourse. Or I go through my special channel. I know one of the network admins and one of the accounting admins there. They were good and kept things private but definitely did know about Spiceworks’ move to Discourse. They said they had stories. What did you guys do?

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