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I had to disable the upvote notifications though. Too many of them clutter the whole thing. In the beginning when votes are rare, upvote notifications are important I know.

sometimes yes... it is a clutter. I have to stop the notifications for my upvotes :P

Yes, I mention it above but I think it is good.
You can always use steemnow.com/dexterdev to see who just upvoted you.
Imagine the traffic on the server with all notifications plus the upvote notifications!!! They are already doing us a favor!
Thanks for dropping by Dev! ☺️

I usually use steemd to look the upvotes etc. steemnow seems to be neat. :)

Is this what you mean? https://steemdb.com/
Whatever is more convenient will do :)