# What is a notification?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-a-notification/77370>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [January 6, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-a-notification/77370 "2018-01-06T13:20:21Z")\
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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:** [March 22, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-a-notification/77370/6 "2018-03-22T23:25:53Z")

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It sounds like this is your personal preference, so maybe you could change your site’s CSS so the “read” style is invisible / hidden?

Otherwise you could perhaps pick another free open source software that works more to your liking?

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