# 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:** [April 23, 2024, 7:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-notification-count-persist-after-opening-avatar-menu/299882/11 "2024-04-23T07:56:19Z")

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Today I wanted to go to Settings.  
The only way to go to Settings is to click your head, I mean my head.  
Doing so zaps the blue counter.  
I am in a hurry to fix one setting, I don’t have time to even glance at my notifications. If there was an eye movement tracker it could verify that I’m telling the truth.

But still my notification count is confiscated anyway.

It’s like the bathroom is located inside the theater, so you have to buy a ticket just to use it.

I guess I’ll just have to hold it in next time.

Wait. New rule for Discourse: when reporting a bug, please add one example of

> **[Anthropomorphism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism)**
>
> Anthropomorphism is the ascribing of human personality, appearance, conduct, cognition, or other attributes to non-human entities, often including non-human animals. In fiction and folklore, it is specifically the endowing of non-human characters with human-like behaviors, speech, facial expressions, etc; common examples include intelligent talking animals, talking trees, anthropomorphized food, and sentient toys. 
> As a general human tendency, anthropomorphism is considered innate to human p...

OK, it’s a deal.  
So having my blue notification count stolen is like Pee Wee Herman needing to walk down the corridor to get to various school offices. The same corridor occupied by Mean Mark & gang, who always steal his pencil set, because he didn’t share his cafeteria tickets with them, but he wasn’t going to the cafeteria, (also down the same corridor.)

Yeah, I know. You are going to tell me to just bookmark  
[Discourse Meta - The Official Support Forum for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/my/preferences/) . But that is just a “cop out” solution, instead of facing the problem.

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