I really like the way Github handles notifications: You click on the notifications icon and get a list of notifications. However the stays until youâve read or dismissed all notifications.
In contrast, when I click on the notification count in Discourse, the / / etc. disappears at once. When I click on one of the notifications, the notification count is gone, and I might miss notifications that are buried in the âview older notificationsâŚâ screen.
What do you think? Can this behaviour be improved?
I think the idea behind removing the count of notifications is that we donât want to force you to click on EVERY notification to decrease the count all the way to zero to get it to disappear again.
You still shouldnât miss any notifications because anything pending should still be highlighted in the notification dropdown and on the âview older notificationsâŚâ page.
I think the idea behind removing the count of notifications is that we
donât want to force you to click on EVERY notification to decrease the
count all the way to zero to get it to disappear again.
I donât see the problem here. Does it annoy people to see the
notification count?
You still shouldnât miss any notifications because anything pending should still be highlighted in the notification dropdown and on the âview older notificationsâŚâ page.
They are, but: Given the situation that the whole list is highlighted
(more than X notifications). When I have gone through the whole list and
no notifications are highlighted in the dropdown anymore: Are there
still unread notifications? I donât actually know until I click the
âview older notificationsâŚâ-button. Sometimes there will be further
notifications highlighted, sometimes there wonât. Since the count is
gone, I canât tell beforehand.
I really with there was an option in the user settings to choose if the notification count should disappear or not. In my case I would like it to be persistent i.e. be displayed as long as there are any unread notifications.
I hear you, but lets hold off a bit, we are in the middle of a big notification menu refactor where we call out notifications in each section much better.
@Osama will post here once we are ready for some beta feedback.
and get a list of notifications. However the 
stays until youâve read or dismissed all notifications.
/ 
/ etc. disappears at once. When I click on one of the notifications, the notification count is gone, and I might miss notifications that are buried in the âview older notificationsâŚâ screen.