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comment by lil

Hi mk, How do I dismiss a notification. I've been tooling around the various links and can't figure it out. I've been orange a long time.





mk  ·  4109 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey lil. On the top right of your notification page (click that orange hubwheel) there is a 'dismiss all notifications' link. That should do it. Alternately you can go through and click 'dismiss' under each thread individually.

briandmyers  ·  4100 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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?

mk  ·  4100 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.

briandmyers  ·  4100 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.

mk  ·  4100 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.

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  4106 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Is it possible to not receive notifications from comments on threads I've saved that I'm not associated with?

lil  ·  4109 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So a "notification" is another method of notifying me that someone has replied to a post or comment? -- in case I don't read the email? (cool)

kin1  ·  4109 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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lil  ·  4109 days ago  ·  link  ·  

hey, immediately after I dismissed my notification, my wheel turned orange again!! ta da -- and below was a new comment.