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    "...even some of our active moderators have stopped using the inbox." Yes, hi! Nice to meet you! :-) Thanks for working on this; having to manually mark items as read sounds awesome and exactly what the doctor ordered. Commented Oct 7, 2022 at 11:10
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    @SonictheAnonymousHedgehog to be a bit... negative, they'd need to have the app to test it, and its plausible it could break completely. Commented Oct 7, 2022 at 12:17
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    Well- I've no special insight or push here, but web push notifications would be the second most welcome thing I'd see from SE :D Commented Oct 7, 2022 at 12:27
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    Will we still be able to get rid of the red dot by simply clicking the inbox icon? or is this going to now require an additional step Commented Oct 7, 2022 at 14:25
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    @KevinB See the response to Tinkeringbell's answer. We discussed whether to keep the indicator on or off when messages are left as marked unread, and were split on which way to go with it: "At this moment we chose to keep it on, but the plan is to listen to the community and afterwards choose the option that fits you best." Commented Oct 7, 2022 at 15:57
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    Why not give the user the ability to decide how the red indicator is implemented with controls in the UI settings? No issue with making the right or wrong decision then, give the the choice. Commented Oct 8, 2022 at 10:38
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    Why doesn't choosing only "Unread" load 50 unread notifications (if you have that many!), rather than just showing the unread notifications out of your 50 most recent? Commented Oct 8, 2022 at 15:14
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    @LSpice - a simplification to ship the first version early (one among few). As you mentioned, we're not sure if that's really needed. If it turns out to be, it'll become an item on our list to load them. It's still possible to see all of them in the global inbox. Commented Oct 8, 2022 at 20:48
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    @Stu - good question! We want to go with the simple solution first, test it, and if needed, continue on improving it, prioritising the most important issues of the community. By implementing things we cannot confidently label as high priority early on, we lose the opportunity to react fast on possibly more important topics. If after testing we'll hear that the indicator is an important issue, we'll react! Commented Oct 8, 2022 at 20:57
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    Please include Dark Mode in your tests of the style changes. Commented Oct 10, 2022 at 19:46
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    Moreover, those stats don't even include people who just open and close their inbox without even reading their notifications, just to make the unread indicator go away. --- They are on to us, run! Commented Oct 11, 2022 at 4:17
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    Awesome to finally see this on the roadmap, after almost 10 years! stackapps.com/q/3778/4812. Commented Oct 15, 2022 at 13:35
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    I've already posted that as an answer, and its in the backlog Commented Oct 20, 2022 at 20:58
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    @Luuklag yes, as you've noticed, we've deployed the changes to the inbox, but for now they are disabled - that's why there's no announcement yet - the expected state is that for now nothing changes from the user perspective. The scope of the changes made it impossible not to touch existing code and unfortunately we introduced some regressions. We're currently working on fixing them. We're sorry for the issues you experience! Commented Oct 28, 2022 at 7:04
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    "the expected state is that for now nothing changes from the user perspective." erm, like a bunch of stuff isn't working. The expectation therefore failed. The unread messages are not highlighted, the number of notifications are not live updated (needs a page refresh to see there are any new messages), closing the notifications by clicking the button navigates away from the page, clicking the button just to open the notifications throws exceptions in the console. Commented Oct 28, 2022 at 8:00