# Make the notifications count persistent, like on Github

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-the-notifications-count-persistent-like-on-github/63053>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [May 20, 2017, 9:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-the-notifications-count-persistent-like-on-github/63053 "2017-05-20T09:06:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stefan\_Fairphone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stefan_fairphone/32/119580_2.png) [@Stefan\_Fairphone](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stefan_Fairphone)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 2:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-the-notifications-count-persistent-like-on-github/63053/3 "2017-05-20T14:35:33Z")

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> I think the idea behind removing the count of notifications is that we  
> don’t 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 don’t see the problem here. Does it annoy people to see the  
notification count?

> You still shouldn’t miss any notifications because anything pending should still be highlighted in the notification dropdown and on the “view older notifications…” 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 don’t actually know until I click the  
“view older notifications…”-button. Sometimes there will be further  
notifications highlighted, sometimes there won’t. Since the count is  
gone, I can’t tell beforehand.

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