Is there a way to properly disable live notifications? For some forums I don’t want popups for new posts. But still every time I go to the forum it says at the top Do you want live notifications when people reply to your posts? The answer to that question is “no”, but discourse stubbornly refuse…

Go to your preferences -> notifications and disable this ‘live notifications’ [Screenshot_20200623-095457]

Yeah that’s where I went, but there it only offers to enable notifications: [Screenshot_20200623_111140]

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Instead of dismissing the pop up, you should be able to click the ‘Enable Notifications’ button, then when your browser prompts you, click ‘Deny’ (or your browsers alternative). Discourse should register this and stop asking you. It will also change your settings to look like this: [Settings]

Thanks, that worked. I still think there is a bug here though: in order to permanently disable notifications, I had to click “enable notifications”. That is not exactly intuitive. :wink:

Actually, I have to take this back. After restarting my browser and logging in again, the request to enable notifications is back. Discourse really doesn’t take “no” for an answer…

Disable live notifications?

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ondrej 23 juni 2020 om 09:35 5

They might be on older version

Topic		Antwoorden	Weergaven
Disabling banner asking about live notifications Support	1	419	11 augustus 2022
“Do you want live notifications” banner cannot be dismissed Support	2	534	10 juni 2023
Desktop Notifications Feature	1	1434	5 januari 2021
Is live notifications feature broken? Support notifications	4	127	9 januari 2026
Browser Notifications not working Support notifications	8	191	13 juni 2025

Disable live notifications?

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