# 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: ![BlackKnob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/blackknob/32/93549_2.png) [@BlackKnob](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BlackKnob)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-a-notification/77370/7 "2018-03-22T23:38:04Z")

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@codinghorror, I love Discourse. I was just trying to explain the reason why the notifications may be a source of confusion.  
I’m used to a notification system on a Mac, which is very unobtrusive. This makes me biased towards it.

Thank you for the tip on hiding notifications with CSS.

`.notifications ul li.read {display: none;}`  
completely removes the dismissed and read notifications from the menu and resizes the list accordingly.  
You can still see the complete notification log at [your-domain]/u/[user-name]/notifications

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