A discussion is taking place about the notification badge for personal messages (PMs) that mention a user. Currently, these notifications appear as a blue badge instead of a green envelope, which is used for regular PMs. Moin thinks this should be changed, as it makes regular PMs appear more emphasized than mentioned PMs.
Moin also found a related post from 2019, but couldn’t find an explanation for why this behavior was changed. itsbhanusharma and crcoli7307 agree that changing the notification for mentioned PMs would be beneficial.
However, awesomerobot advises against making changes through a pull request, as a notification menu redesign is currently in progress. crcoli7307 is excited to see the upcoming changes.
Moin confirms that the issue still exists, and JammyDodger explains that this is the current intended behavior. However, JammyDodger agrees that this should be fixed and references a GitHub pull request that addresses the issue.
I just noticed that you don’t get a high priority notification badge, if you are mentioned in a personal message. You just get a normal notification badge.
At the moment you see
I think it would be better if the notification for a pm in which you are mentioned would look like the one for a pm. At the moment a pm without a mention is more emphasized, than a pm which additionally mentions you.
While searching I found this post
which says that it should be different, but I could not find a topic explainig why this was changed. It still works this way for quotes and replies.
