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    if it's a toggle, they'll just disable it in a few years because only 13k people used it Commented Nov 28, 2022 at 19:40
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    Is the one extra click now required to do this really too much? i.sstatic.net/lTQzi.png There isn't really a way for them to allow setting individual items as unread if every time you open the inbox it sets everything to read automatically. Commented Nov 29, 2022 at 15:42
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    @TylerH “Double-click” vs. “click, move mouse, click, move mouse, click” is a rather significant increase in the amount of interaction. 95% of the time when I want this, it’s because I’ve already seen the comment because I was already on the relevant page, so I just double-click. I would absolutely turn this on if available. Commented Nov 29, 2022 at 16:14
  • Would be nice if it was some form of checkbox/toggle next to the mark all as read rather than a profile settings thing Commented Nov 29, 2022 at 16:57
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    @TylerH even if everything is marked read by using the "mark all as read" button now, you can still mark individual items as unread again. So I'm not entirely getting what you mean by "There isn't really a way for them to allow setting individual items as unread if every time you open the inbox it sets everything to read automatically.", as that to me seems very much possible? I just only may need to keep something unread in like 0,05 percent of all notifications I get, so I personally much prefer extra clicks/movement to be limited to those cases and not the 99,95% of the time I don't need it Commented Nov 29, 2022 at 18:02
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    @Tinkeringbell If they made it so that opening the inbox menu marked everything as read, then even if you went and marked some items unread again, the next time you open your inbox menu, they'd be marked read. So not only would you have to keep marking them as unread each time you access the inbox, you also have to remember which ones are unread to go and mark them as unread again. Which also isn't possible after a certain point when they get pushed off the menu and into the /inbox network page. Commented Nov 29, 2022 at 18:39
  • @TylerH ah, like that. Well the post itself said that if asked, they might provide, so I assume they can somehow mark the ones that were manually marked "unread" to stay that way, and not be dismissed when opening the inbox :) But yeah, it makes sense that this is a technical thing to keep in mind when building :) Commented Nov 29, 2022 at 18:41
  • Personally I like the notion of just removing the red number/indicator when you open it, while leaving the color difference on each individual item... I'm fairly confident most people who open and close to 'mark as read' as a convenience measure are more concerned about the red indicator on their top bar rather than actually marking every item as read within the menu. I agree there's certainly some middle ground available for improvement here. Commented Nov 29, 2022 at 18:43
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    @TylerH While I realize the quote says “when the inbox is opened,” but it also says “the current behavior”—the current behavior is to mark them all as read when the inbox is closed. That eliminates the concern about previously-marked-unread items being shown as read the next time you open the inbox (it does imply that you’d have to mark them as unread over and over unless there’s logic to skip manually-marked-unread items, as Tinkeringbell suggests, but still, that’s “annoying” rather than “useless”). Commented Nov 29, 2022 at 20:40
  • @KRyan I don't see a difference between doing it when you open vs doing it when you close (and the current behavior is now "don't mark them all as read unless you click mark them all as read", which is instantaneous); the end result is still "next time I open the inbox menu, all my previously-marked-as-unread messages are now marked as read. The point here is what is unread should persist as unread until you either perform a 'mark individual item as read' action or perform a "mark all as read" action. Neither opening the inbox nor closing it count as such an action, nor should they. Commented Nov 29, 2022 at 21:14
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    I don't really care that the message stays marked as unread until i mark it, what i care about is getting rid of the red dot on my header notifying me of things i've literally already read and responded to. If it'd stop notifying me of comment replies to posts i'm literally currently looking at/reading it wouldn't be so bothersome. Commented Nov 30, 2022 at 16:36
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    @Tinkeringbell "so I assume they can somehow mark the ones that were manually marked "unread" to stay that way" - don't make that assumption. Doing this will be a much bigger change than giving an option to restore the old functionality (open the inbox, all are read). Commented Dec 1, 2022 at 21:06
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    @KevinB "If it'd stop notifying me of comment replies to posts i'm literally currently looking at/reading it wouldn't be so bothersome" - that sounds like something that would be better in it's own answer below, and not in the comments here (forgive me if it is already there). Commented Dec 1, 2022 at 21:07
  • i don't feel it's worth my effort Commented Dec 1, 2022 at 21:10
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    Please add this back! It may be opt-out feature, but having to click "mark as read" to remove the red dot is extremely annoying. Alternatively, add an option to hide that mark forever instead (less preferable for me, but still better than 3 clicks for nothing) Commented Dec 4, 2022 at 20:37