If I recall correctly, some time ago, the blue number next to your avatar was always updated live, in both directions.
Now, this isn’t working (anymore). The number counts up when a notification is pushed, but doesn’t count down automatically in many cases.
For example, if I receive a desktop notification for a reply and click it, Chrome activates and I’m navigated to the post, but the blue 1 remains. Clicking on the avatar dismisses it.
The same happens when the notification is cleared by manually navigating to the post.
Hm. This has been haunting me for a few weeks at least. Now suddenly after reporting it, I can no longer reproduce this; neither on try nor on my self-hosted instances…
For now, let’s just assume I’ve been hallucinating and everything is fine
If I catch this again, I’ll try to find more reliable reproduction steps.
I’ve also noticed this happening on one of my self-hosted instances when opening a topic from the topic list for which I have an unread reply notification – the blue 1 should be removed, but isn’t until the notifications list is opened.
Edit: This also happened on Meta just now.
Another Edit: For some time now, I’ve neven seen this working, even here on Meta.