The discussion is about the missing “Mark all as Read” button for notifications. Mittineague initially suggests it might be an edge case, but codinghorror points out that it’s a known bug that sometimes causes the button to appear or disappear. jomaxro thought the button was removed by sam, but Falco and gerhard clarify that it’s only visible when there are unread notifications. sam agrees that the button’s behavior is confusing and supports making a change. codinghorror and tgxworld also support leaving the button visible.
Considering the Profile “landing” page is slated to become the Summary soon and this is somewhat edge case, probably not worth worrying about it much.
Typically, unless a Notifications link is specifically clicked I land on Profile Activity.
If I go to Profile (Activity) and click Notifications, there is a “Mark all as Read” button.
But if I go to User Card → Avatar → Profile (Activity) and click Notifications, the button is not there until I do a page reload.
On imgur they were saying it sometimes appears and sometimes does not – very likely a bug of some kind.
I thought @sam removed the Mark all as read button a while back…I can’t find that button at all here on Meta.
I could see it if I visited my notifications before visiting this topic. If I go back now it is gone…
It’s only visible when you have unread notifications.
Vanishing buttons and disabled buttons seem to consistently cause confusion for no gain, we should probably change this
I support leaving it there for notifications since this has come up a few times already.
