# Preferences -\> Interface -\> Skip new user onboarding tips and badges
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/preferences-interface-skip-new-user-onboarding-tips-and-badges/233778
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [July 24, 2022, 2:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preferences-interface-skip-new-user-onboarding-tips-and-badges/233778 "2022-07-24T02:31:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@rhaksw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rhaksw)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2022, 2:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preferences-interface-skip-new-user-onboarding-tips-and-badges/233778/1 "2022-07-24T02:31:26Z")
An option to disable badge notifications was added in [version 2.6](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-2-6/151394):
- ✅ Allow users to opt out of badge notifications: [Let experienced users skip “new to Discourse” features - #36 by sam](https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-a-user-disable-badge-notifications/63137/36) @vinothkannans
I’m writing this to document to myself where that option exists, because I often can’t find it during the once-every-few-months times that I sign up for a new discourse forum, and I’m unable to update that previous post to note its location. It’s under,
Preferences → Interface → Skip new user onboarding tips and badges
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### Author:  [@rhaksw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rhaksw)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2023, 3:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preferences-interface-skip-new-user-onboarding-tips-and-badges/233778/2 "2023-01-06T03:35:16Z")
Does this option to “Skip new user onboarding tips and badges” still work?
I’ve got it checked and still seem to receive new badge notifications…
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2023, 9:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preferences-interface-skip-new-user-onboarding-tips-and-badges/233778/3 "2023-01-06T09:58:56Z")
It should still work. 👍
Looking at your screenshot it may be that at least those first two (First Quote and Welcome) were awarded before you had the setting enabled and are being surfaced now due to the change in the notification menu (ie. they were unread, and are now at the top of the list).
Using my extra-special admin eyes, it doesn’t look like you’ve received a notification for any new user badges apart from those two back in 2020?
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### Author:  [@rhaksw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rhaksw)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2023, 10:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preferences-interface-skip-new-user-onboarding-tips-and-badges/233778/4 "2023-01-06T10:18:52Z")
I see, thank you for checking! Perhaps part of my confusion was I expected opening the notification menu would mark them as “read”, similar to how that menu works on Facebook etc. Now I am aware of the button to clear notifications. Funnily enough, I myself programmed an extension to work the same way…
You could certainly be correct that these are all old notifications. Until recently I did not regularly check this forum.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2023, 10:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preferences-interface-skip-new-user-onboarding-tips-and-badges/233778/5 "2023-01-06T10:27:26Z")
Opening the notification menu will clear the top-level bubble on your avatar, but leave the ‘in-menu’ ones intact so you can visit them in your own time (or just dismiss them 🙂). The new menu also allows you to dismiss specific subsections now too, so you can clear out eg. your Likes but leave your reply notifications or bookmarks there for you to work through later on. 👍
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### Author:  [@jenmck](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jenmck)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2025, 4:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preferences-interface-skip-new-user-onboarding-tips-and-badges/233778/6 "2025-11-16T04:46:34Z")
Is there a way to decouple the badge notifications from the new user tips?
We have some users who would like to see badge notifications off by default, making them opt-in only, but I don’t want to disable them globally so that new users can still get onboarding tips.
Or is there possibly a way to disable them for anyone TL1 and above by default? Maybe that would solve the problem? (thinking out loud here)
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2025, 6:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preferences-interface-skip-new-user-onboarding-tips-and-badges/233778/7 "2025-11-16T06:15:19Z")
Which badges are the reason why your users request to disable notifications? The preference only disables notifications for a few badges.
Maybe you could simply disable those badges. Then nobody will receive them and receive a notification. That’s almost like notifications disabled by default. I think it’s unlikely that new users check their preferences first to enable these notifications.
Do new users still see tips on your forum? I am asking because a Discourse update in August disabled the `enable_user_tips` setting.