comment by briandmyers

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briandmyers · 4344 days ago · link · · parent · post: This website is pretty new to me, mind filling me in on some features so I can get to know it a little better?

mk, what do you think of this idea? The orange hubwheel turns not-orange when you visit notifications (and not just when you dismiss them). If it turns orange again, it means there are new ones.

I always dismiss all, because that's the only way to get it to change state on a new notification; but why must it be this way?

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mk · 4343 days ago · link ·

It's a good idea. What we were thinking about implementing is under the 'dismiss all' link, there would be a 'mark all read' link. That way you could choose which behavior you wanted.

+discuss+discuss

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briandmyers · 4343 days ago · link ·

Since this is likely to lead to people leaving lots of things in their notification page, you may want to consider a rule like "notifications that have been read disappear after n days". That way, if you dismiss nothing, your notifications page shows you your last week (or month or whatever) of activity.

+discuss+discuss

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mk · 4343 days ago · link ·

Something like that already exists if I can remember correctly. I think there is a limit around something like the most recent 1000 notifications. I'd have to look. It's been a bit since I implemented it.