Dismiss Admin Noise!

Customization Theme component
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:information_source: Summary Automatically dismisses various user menu notifications for admins
:hammer_and_wrench: Repository https://github.com/Lillinator/dismiss-admin-noise
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:woman_technologist:t2: Overview

A lightweight Discourse theme component that automatically dismisses (hides) specific system notifications in the user menu for admins.

This component is designed to reduce UI noise and cognitive load—especially helpful for neurodivergent admins (like me), or those who update their instances frequently and track changes via Meta (like me), or just YOLO admins who live on the edge in their development forums! (also like me) :grin:

:gear: Settings

The following notifications can be automatically dismissed in the component admin settings:

Setting Description
No new features notifications Hide notifications for new features
No invitee accepted notifications Hide notifications for invitees accepted
No membership accepted notifications Hide notifications for group membership accepted (note: does not affect consolidation of membership notifications)
No granted badge notifications Hide notifications for granted badges
No upcoming change promoted notifications Hide notifications for upcoming changes automatically promoted

:light_bulb: Notes

  • Only admin users are affected; for example non-admins will still get notified of their granted badges or accepted invites regardless of the settings enabled in this component.

  • If all of the component’s setting are enabled, one can end up with an empty other notifications tab or all notifications tab depending on how busy their forum notifications are.

  • Admin notifications for upcoming changes can now be automatically dismissed with a setting in user preferences -> notifications.

  • I am not responsible if this component somehow makes you miss an important notification!

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Turn off invite accepted notifications?