The discussion revolves around managing old badge notifications that persist in the user interface, causing frustration for some users. jidanni highlights that while a preference setting allows users to stop receiving new badge notifications, existing ones remain visible and occupy space in the notifications menu. They propose adding a dedicated cleanup button next to the existing checkbox to allow users to remove old notifications immediately. Stephen notes that the dismiss button already exists and that notifications eventually fade, while MarcP criticizes the idea of adding a delete button for each notification, arguing it’s unnecessary and could clutter the interface. jidanni counters that users are hesitant to use the dismiss button due to fear of accidentally removing important notifications, and that the delay in automatic removal can be significant. Moin clarifies that the dismiss button is not visible because there are no unread notifications in the provided screenshot. jidanni concludes that currently, users are left with no option but to wait for old notifications to disappear.
New user Nerdowitz is overwhelmed with “you’ve earned … Badge” notifications. Luckily he found the checkbox deep down in preferences to turn them off!
But the problem is they’re still sitting there occupying 85% of his notifications and it’s making him mad but there’s nothing he can do about it.
So in addition to that checkbox, there ought to be a cleanerer-up button right next to it. For cleaning up any of the previous ones still there.
Sure, I bet there’s some place he could dig around for that could actually do that. But the button ought to be right next door too.
Yes it’s wonderful the system has promised not to give him any more new ones. But what about the old ones still lying around? He might not want to ever see them again either.
Notifications are showed in the user menu popout. Is your user constantly staring at the menu?
In another topic you are complaining about the space some elements take on smaller screens, but here you want an extra button next to every notification so the user who stares at his static notifications pane, can delete them one by one?
The dismiss button does it’s job and I would be very annoyed if every notification has a small button next to it.
So there is nothing we could do about certain notifications that are sitting there staring us in the face that we don’t want to look at. Except I suppose wait around till it eventually get pushed away?
