Windows 10 and Discord notifications

I keep having a recurring problem regarding Windows 10 and Discord notifications. Everything works fine for a period of time after a fresh reboot of my Windows 10 PC. However, after an indeterminate amount of time without a reboot, Windows 10 will suddenly start to suppress my Discord notifications.

So long as the Discord desktop client is running on my Windows 10 PC, I will not receive any mobile push notifications on any of my android devices (I have no iOS devices, so cannot confirm that this affects both platforms) If I close the Windows 10 application from the taskbar (without inadvertently clearing any unread messages), I immediately receive all pending mobile notifications.

This does not affect or afflict my older Windows 7 PC. It will continue to display desktop notifications and it does not block mobile notifications after any length of time.

I am not sure if this affects other applications as I gave up Skype shortly after Discord became feature rich enough to justify switching. My current bandaid fix is to reboot Windows 10 whenever I lose my mobile notifications, but it does not always happen at a convenient time to do so promptly.

Dan_Dan84

October 03, 2020 17:05

I seem to be having the exact same problems. I used to get notifications on my mobile and Windows 10 PC whenever I got @ed or someone posted in my server. But now... Nothing. I'm not sure rebooting Windows 10 fixes that for me. It's a very annoying problem.

Jondor

October 16, 2020 07:45

So, I think I've narrowed it down a little bit. It seems like Win 10 starts eating notifications when it has an update pending. I started having the same issue of Win 10 blocking all Discord notifications even after a restart for several days until a critical Win 10 update came through and demanded a restart to install itself. When I brought up the action center, it turned out there was a non-critical update also ready to install for several days that had not automatically installed on restart.

Installed both updates and suddenly my Discord notifications returned. I still couldn't tell you whether Win 10 is actively suppressing the notifications somehow or if it is simply not going into an idle state with no user input or not telling Discord that the system has gone into an idle state and thus Discord itself is not sending the notifications because it doesn't think it's idle. But one of the latter two seems more likely to me.

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