Thanks for the info. So is there no way via plugin or option to have the dropdown box (which is the main way I and a lot of my users interact with the site) just show a list of UNREAD notifications?
I think a lot of my regular users use the program that way - they want to go to a single place and find a list of the threads and messages they need to click over to and read, and then they want that list to dwindle down to nothing as they make decisions on whether to read them or not, and dismiss the notification.
Any way to do that?