# Feature request: Removing notifications

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-removing-notifications/410141
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** notifications
**Created:** [August 16, 2026, 3:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-removing-notifications/410141 "2026-08-16T03:21:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![twofoursixeight](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/twofoursixeight/32/574822_2.png) [@twofoursixeight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/twofoursixeight)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2026, 3:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-removing-notifications/410141/1 "2026-08-16T03:21:06Z")

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Add the ability for old notifications on Discourse to be removed.  
You may not want to see a certain notification again even if you already dismissed it.  
What it could do is: there could be a “clear all” notification to clear all notifications or a “X” button to clear the current notification.  
What this would do is permanently remove the notification or all notifications from the feed. I see this is not implemented in Discourse so this is why I am writing this suggestion.

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### Author: ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2026, 9:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-removing-notifications/410141/2 "2026-08-17T09:54:34Z")

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I’m not sure what you’re asking for exactly.

We already have a dismiss button to clear out all notifications:

 ![CleanShot 2026-08-17 at 11.53.02@2x](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/e/0/1e015f626512ce082bd2c015912d8f107156e922.png)

Or are you saying you want this list to be made _empty_ when you dismiss it?

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### Author: ![twofoursixeight](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/twofoursixeight/32/574822_2.png) [@twofoursixeight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/twofoursixeight)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2026, 9:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-removing-notifications/410141/3 "2026-08-17T21:49:42Z")

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It’s more like an option to clear dismissed notifications, making the notification list empty. It could be a way to _permanently hide_ the notification or to clean up old notifications that are no longer relevant if done in bulk. So as saying dismissing notifications already exists, but clearing notifications would give us more control over notifications in general.

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### Author: ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2026, 6:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-removing-notifications/410141/4 "2026-08-18T06:58:01Z")

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I see. I’m not sure that’s something that will be picked up soon, but you could very easily achieve something this with a one-line CSS addition:

```css
.quick-access-panel {
  li.notification.read {
    display: none;
  }
}

```

This way, any read notification would disappear.