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Mark Griffin
6,674 PointsWhy are Treehouse notifications so persistent?
Seeing red numbers all over the favicon and the top of my page bothers me a little bit, so I like to clear notifications when they come up. I would figure just surfing to the notifications page and scrolling through would mark them as "seen", or maybe hit a "clear all notifications" button, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Today I had to click through more than 8 links to clear all my 8 notifications, because that seems to be the only way to get the red numbers to go away, and there is no indicator to show which notification I had or hadn't clicked through, and apparently no way to delete items from my notifications list.
Am I missing something? Because it seems like there should be a better way.
4 Answers
Shawn Flanigan
Courses Plus Student 15,815 PointsIn a desktop browser, if you click on the bell to show your notifications, then click on the bell again, the numbers will disappear and it'll stop bothering you. Still haven't figured out how to do it on mobile, though.
Jim Withington
12,025 Points+1 to this!
Stephanie Youstra
18,513 PointsUnfortunately ..... middle-clicking doesn't exist on a laptop touchpad. :-(
Abhay Verma
8,368 Points2017, and this still persists. Somehow it bothers me that such a well designed website has such silly flaws.
Mark Griffin
6,674 PointsMark Griffin
6,674 PointsHm, I'm using Chrome on Windows, and that didn't work for me. Even after clicking through to this post, I'm still looking at the notification "1" from your response as I type this...
*Edit: Ok, wow, I stumbled across middle-clicking (pressing the scroll wheel on my mouse) the bell icon when the browser is in full-screen displays a drop down menu, which when I clicked through on that menu, did clear the number. However, when my browser is set to half-horizontal space (my preference, and easily reachable through snap hot-keys on Windows), the 3 horizontal line icon that pops out the navigation sidebar, middle-clicking just opens a tab, which is the normal binding for that, and is what I was trying to do when I discovered this alternate middle-click functionality in the first place.
As a Windows user, it seems very strange to override middle-click functionality in only this one spot on the website, both because it breaks what I expect, and I had no clue that it was possible to do that until I stumbled onto it.
Dear Treehouse, can we have a more consistent, intuitive interface for this?