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    Honestly I would argue this is a bug because if the same user comments twice, only the most recent comment is shown, but both comments count toward the notification count bubble, and you have to click 'mark all as read' to get the bubble to go away. Commented Nov 29, 2022 at 15:47
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    It should however group those notifications together, so that it's clear there are multiple ones and all of them will be marked as read. Otherwise it'll be very confusing when following multiple active discussions. Commented Nov 30, 2022 at 0:21
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    To clarify, you are asking for "click on a notification for a single question, mark all the notifications for that question as read, but not for notifications on answers on the same page"? In this case, would there still be value to indicate on page load what were the comments that had notifications that were just marked as read? Commented Dec 1, 2022 at 21:08
  • @YaakovEllis if I've understood you correctly, yes. Commented Dec 2, 2022 at 3:31
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    the inbox makes me go insane. 3 notifications from same post. I have to click 3 times so everything is unread. Commented Dec 19, 2022 at 13:39
  • Related: Inbox auto-read - a userscript to mark inbox notifications as read automatically Commented Jan 3, 2023 at 3:03
  • I agree it feels like a bug. It doesn't make any sense that the red number of notifications will be different from the number of notifications shown to you when you expand it. And if this answer is implemented directly, it's very likely to miss the new comments or answers on the page, or waste time hunting for them, when you're opening the only one in the inbox that is shown to you. Commented Mar 5, 2023 at 15:14
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    now, when marking the newest notification as read, all related notifications are also marked as read. I hope that solves the problem! Commented Jun 29, 2023 at 9:01
  • @marrados I love it when a feature request comes together Commented Jun 29, 2023 at 9:17