Notification count changing automatically

[Daddycool101]

Notification count is changing automatically for me, like one or two notifications are getting removed before I check them. Like for example, the count was 12,084 previously but its becoming 12,082 on its own and new notifications are at the top instead of the one I've seen previously.

 

[An_absolute_disaster]

Could it have something to do with notifications merging? For example, today I posted something that got around 20 likes (#humblebrag), and at first it gave me bundled notifications ("6 people reacted with Like"), but if I checked more often I got multiple separate notifications (two notifications of "person reacted with Like"). Could that be it?

 

[Daddycool101]

Could it have something to do with notifications merging? For example, today I posted something that got around 20 likes (#humblebrag), and at first it gave me bundled notifications ("6 people reacted with Like"), but if I checked more often I got multiple separate notifications (two notifications of "person reacted with Like"). Could that be it?

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It wasn't like related notifications, some of the notifications I've seen but not read are missing from the list.

 

[An_absolute_disaster]

Ok, that's different then. Well, I'm out of ideas! Good luck, I suppose!

 

[thegodofsky]

It seems like notifications kept for too long eventually fade away. It's been happening to me for years but I'm pretty sure that's just how these sites work.

 

[heralding_bubble]

I'd guess reading whatever post that sent the notification, thus removing the notification.

 

[RomanQrr]

I'm pretty sure I caught this one, in both meanings. From what I can see, the bug goes like this:

1. Manually mark notification as "unread".
2. Get a second notification for the same thread.
3. Click on the bell. That automatically sets the new notification to "read" status (as it should be), but for some reason also sets the old one to "read" as well.

At no point do you have to open a thread for this to happen. (I sure know I didn't)

I haven't tested it fully, but my own notifications have been affected like that. Given that I started using them to bookmark the stories I am tired of, but was planning to come back to eventually, I am mildly annoyed.

The point I was trying to express with the previous paragraph (before it ran away from me in a different direction) is that I am not sure if only notifications past a certain age are affected like that or maybe there is yet another requirement for this bug to happen, as I had, in the past, threads I have notifications for update with new notifications without clearing old ones.

That said, in the past week or so this bugged behaviour became rather consistent, eating away notifications on 4 different threads. I would suspect a new forum patch to be at fault. And notification merging behaviour sounds like a good suspect, as it would explain why new notifications would affect the old ones from the same thread.

One more thing: I don't have like notifications enabled, so I am not sure how they would affect anything. I am talking only about "new chapter" notifications when OP of a particular thread posts a lot of words.