# Notification for hidden topic requires me to "Mark all Notifications as Read"

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-for-hidden-topic-requires-me-to-mark-all-notifications-as-read/25358
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [18 Febbraio 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-for-hidden-topic-requires-me-to-mark-all-notifications-as-read/25358 "2015-02-18T13:46:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![anon21958287](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@anon21958287](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon21958287)
#### Post date: [18 Febbraio 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-for-hidden-topic-requires-me-to-mark-all-notifications-as-read/25358/1 "2015-02-18T13:46:48Z")

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I had set the “upgrade to beta 8” topic to watching. It’s been hidden / deleted / moved / whatever, and now the replies notification won’t go away.

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/5/b5a0774ce67fc6393a34fa798f460a97d330847f.png)

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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [18 Febbraio 2015, 1:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-for-hidden-topic-requires-me-to-mark-all-notifications-as-read/25358/2 "2015-02-18T13:52:48Z")

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Yep, welcome to why “Mark all Notifications as Read” exists when you click view older notifications.

Though I do agree that this is “sort of” a bug. As it would be nice if clicking on it cleared it anyway (even if you no longer have access to the topic)

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### Author: ![anon21958287](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@anon21958287](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon21958287)
#### Post date: [18 Febbraio 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-for-hidden-topic-requires-me-to-mark-all-notifications-as-read/25358/3 "2015-02-18T14:10:12Z")

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Ahhhh…relief. Yeah, it’s still a bug.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [19 Febbraio 2015, 1:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-for-hidden-topic-requires-me-to-mark-all-notifications-as-read/25358/4 "2015-02-19T01:43:00Z")

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Well the severe issue is fixed

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/67f404d281b7dbd5867fe5332968f7855ffa4e9c](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/67f404d281b7dbd5867fe5332968f7855ffa4e9c)

If a PM or topic is deleted its now yanked out of the notifications stream.

There is an edge case that still needs to be fixed but is harder. If a topic is moved from a category you have visibility to one you do not, we are not yanking out the items out of your notification stream.

Will leave this open till I fix that.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [22 Settembre 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-for-hidden-topic-requires-me-to-mark-all-notifications-as-read/25358/5 "2015-09-22T02:29:57Z")

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