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It's there in the title: if you don't have a chat room, the "Set your rooom's culture" notification takes you to a 404 page. Well, that makes sense, because I assume it's trying to take me to my room, but I don't have one. But it seems like either the notification shouldn't be displayed to people who don't have a room, or it should re-direct people to some sort of landing page explaining what they're missing.

I deliberated among (since this presumably isn't an intentional outcome) and (since I'd like it to be set up not to invite users to this presumably unintended experience), as it isn't really either. Please feel free to re-tag.

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    There's a chat room you created to talk with another user, but that room was automatically deleted for inactivity. I'm guessing that has something to do with it? (I'm able to get to that chat room's edit page, but I'm not sure if that's just because I'm a mod. I don't remember how chat permissions work.) Commented Nov 10 at 19:26
  • @V2Blast, thanks! I assume the edit page for that room is <chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/147862/edit>? That's where the notification is taking me, but it displays as a 404 page. Commented Nov 10 at 19:28
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    Yes, that's what happened. We should have excluded deleted rooms from this notification. Sorry! This is a one-time notification, so it won't show up again. Commented Nov 10 at 19:32
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    @ShiyaoLi, I guess you know the etiquette better than I, but that's an answer, right? If you post it as such, then I'll be happy to accept it. Commented Nov 10 at 19:46

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Your room was deleted due to inactivity. We should have excluded deleted rooms from this notification. Sorry! This is a one-time notification, so it won't show up again.

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    I would argue that the notification shouldn't be given in the first place for chat rooms created from "continue this (comment) discussion in chat", but only for ones intentionally created for long-running discussion of a topic. Commented Nov 10 at 22:43
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    @KarlKnechtel This is a good point! I will take this feedback to my team to ensure it's considered in future decisions. Commented Nov 10 at 22:58
  • ... I seem to have gotten the message now, and I legitimately don't even know why. Unless it's for that one frozen-for-inactivity room from a couple years ago... ? Commented Nov 11 at 1:24
  • will the resulting -1 comments eventually disappear as well? i.sstatic.net/8QK6P1TK.png Commented Nov 11 at 2:21
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    @KarlKnechtel Yes. It's the same situation. Commented Nov 11 at 23:17
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    @uhoh You can clear them by clicking on "Mark all as read". The longer version of the answer is here: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/414673/… Commented Nov 11 at 23:18
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    Yay! Now my posts are free of "negative comments" (humor) Commented Nov 12 at 9:48

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