# New notification level: Obnoxious

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-notification-level-obnoxious/401355
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** notifications
**Created:** [April 23, 2026, 12:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-notification-level-obnoxious/401355 "2026-04-23T12:37:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![ganncamp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ganncamp/32/106199_2.png) [@ganncamp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ganncamp)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2026, 12:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-notification-level-obnoxious/401355/1 "2026-04-23T12:37:27Z")

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We have a SaaS product and every once in a while, we’ll have an incident (Who us? No! Never!) that first crops up in the community.

So I consolidate reports into a single thread as necessary and then monitor / communicate in the thread on an ongoing basis.

My preferences are set to `Watching` as soon as I act in the thread, but I’m wishing for an even higher level of notification: **I’m wishing I could set incident threads to `Desktop Notification`.**

I’ve got an incident thread going at the moment and I’ve just asked the users for more information. I wish I didn’t have to go back to that window every few minutes to see if we had anything. I’d really like Discourse to call my attention to it more forcefully.

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### Author: ![putty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/putty/32/370902_2.png) [@putty](https://meta.discourse.org/u/putty)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2026, 1:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-notification-level-obnoxious/401355/2 "2026-04-23T13:20:28Z")

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Doesn’t this already exist, though? If you allow your browser to push notifications and grant permission to the website, it does:

 ![CleanShot 2026-04-23 at 09.19.05](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/b/1/db16980de023683b8cf2dfd3a38583cb489fd25d.png)

The one caveat is if you’re already _on the page_, it may not trigger.

I believe you may need to have this enabled as well:

 ![CleanShot 2026-04-23 at 09.22.25](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/4/d/c4df4b1052fb99b9cd8b9ef98224aab083e9f6f9.png)

It’s found in: `/my/preferences/notifications`

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### Author: ![ganncamp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ganncamp/32/106199_2.png) [@ganncamp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ganncamp)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2026, 3:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-notification-level-obnoxious/401355/3 "2026-04-23T15:32:05Z")

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To be honest, I block desktop notifications as a policy for most websites.

And, for this I would enable my Discourse forum.

But what I’m asking for is not a general desktop notification, (🤮) but to be able to choose desktop notifications _for specific threads_ and only those threads