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Mark recent notifications as unread - Net - Mar 22, 2024
Would it be possible to mark recent notifications as unread? For example, if I click notifications while I am on my phone but decide to deal with that later when I will be on my PC and there would be a ''mark recent as unread'' so I know exactly what notifications to focus on. Would that be possible?
Just woke up, so my English is all over the place.
RE: Mark recent notifications as unread - Nostre - Mar 22, 2024
I normally avoid clicking on notifications when browsing HF on my phone for that reason. Once I'm off my PC, I try to remove myself from the internet in general or else I'll be distracted and find myself in an endless loop of rotating social media platforms and watching clips.
So I don't think it's too big of a deal since you can always go back to view them. Just don't forget to do so. Either way, I think it would be a nice little modification but it's not "needed".
RE: Mark recent notifications as unread - Hackers - Mar 22, 2024
(Mar 22, 2024 06:10 AM)Genuine Wrote: So I don't think it's too big of a deal since you can always go back to view them. Just don't forget to do so. Either way, I think it would be a nice little modification but it's not "needed".
Yeah... I miss notifications a lot, but that's on me for checking the notifs at times when I know I don't have the time to reply and forgetting to come back later. I can't find any cookies that track notifications, so if read/unread status is hooked into the database then having per-notif read/unread functionality could spike read/writes on the DB a lot. I'm assuming that there's probably a general setting for "last notif read time" that covers all (past) notifications being read, and swapping to per-notif status could be problematic on a large site.
RE: Mark recent notifications as unread - Vеrt - Mar 22, 2024
I also miss notifications a good bit because of this. I'll check HF throughout the day, then have something that I need to deal with on my desktop but don't have the resources to do it outside.
I like this suggestion. Unmark notis would be real nice.
RE: Mark recent notifications as unread - Omniscient - Mar 23, 2024
You can still view the last 48 hours notifications even if read.
RE: Mark recent notifications as unread - Cooligan - Mar 23, 2024
Even as someone like me who mainly browses HF on PC (almost always), I would still love to have this as a feature.
There's plenty of times where I could be busy with something but notice I have a few unread notifications and want to go check them just in case it has to do with business, etc.. However I won't want to click it until I'm ready to actually read the random quotes, or other notifications that aren't necessarily vital to get back to at that moment. And I know once I click it that little red indicator will disappear, often leaving me with a tab open with my notifications menu dropped down because I went to check them, wound up getting busy with work for example, and just end up opening a new tab for HF so I don't lose the ones past the previous 20 that it displays.
+1 for this for sure