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    As to marking the messages as unread deliberately, that's totally fine and also one of the use cases we were thinking of. As to keeping the indicator on or turning it off, I see what you mean, we actually had a discussion about it with some people being for keeping it on and some for showing only new messages count. 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 11:49
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    This is precisely how the Windows 10 email client displays the number of unread emails in the taskbar: it resets as soon as you open it, but doesn't mark any email messages as read. I find this functionality quite useful. Commented Oct 7, 2022 at 12:15
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    This workflow appears to be highly idiosyncratic, and I would personally find it highly problematic, if I were to return to actually being able to use the inbox (which it looks like these changes may allow me to do). If there are unread messages in it, I would expect it to have a badge indicating that. I definitely don't want it to automatically clear the notification simply because I drop it down; that's the behavior it has now, and it makes it nearly unusable for me. (I periodically accidentally drop it down by pressing the "I" key, since I have keyboard shortcuts turned on.) Commented Oct 8, 2022 at 4:21
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    A more reasonable compromise seems like it would be to have a button/option for clearing the notification icon, similar to "mark all as read" or whatever. Commented Oct 8, 2022 at 4:21
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    Shrug. Seems like you're going to get things your way anyways @Cody, see the response from staff to my request. It may make things useable for you, it makes things unusable for me. I will end up indiscriminately mashing "mark all as read" and not using the functionality to leave things unread for later if having unread items from weeks ago means the indicator stays. Commented Oct 8, 2022 at 8:31
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    I also like the old behaviour, where opening the inbox marks everything as seen. One convenient property is that everything above a certain line is new, and everything below it has been seen. I find it easy to make a mental note to handle everything above that line during a session. If it takes any effort to explicitly mark a notification as seen, then I won't bother, and the indicators will stay lit and therefore useless. (An e-banking system that I use requires me to open each message to clear the mark, even though skimming the summary tells me enough of what I need to know. So annoying.) Commented Oct 12, 2022 at 6:31