# Make notification count persist after opening avatar menu

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-notification-count-persist-after-opening-avatar-menu/299882>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** notifications\
**Created:** [March 18, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-notification-count-persist-after-opening-avatar-menu/299882 "2024-03-18T22:16:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![jidanni](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jidanni/32/291938_2.png) [@jidanni](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jidanni)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-notification-count-persist-after-opening-avatar-menu/299882/1 "2024-03-18T22:16:44Z")

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I was looking at my head just the other day, and got curious and clicked it.

Lo and behold there turned out to be plenty of notifications etc. there!

 ![Screenshot 2024-03-19 06.08.58](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/0/d/70dff190e59a2f8a636b7656c193bb2891d21938.png)

So it seems odd that there was no little red number or dot near my head.

Sure I know there are plenty of other notification methods.  
I’m just saying that staring at my screen, if this were Facebook, and there were no red dots or anything, that would mean we were all caught up. But on Discourse it is harder to tell.

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