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I am not able to clear the notification counter. Everytime I click on the icon the counter will only reduce by a few hundreds and will not be set to zero.
WoahâŚhope someone can help!
Having this many notifications is pretty unusual. It might be intentional that it doesnât clear all your notifications, since not all 3000+ notification will appear in the dropdown when you click it. Does it get cleared down to zero when you click / refresh many times?
On the off chance you havenât found this setting, check it out in your account settings. As a very active user, Iâve found it necessary to uncheck it:
https://www.inaturalist.org/users/edit
Also just a note that the iNat staff are in the middle of redesigning the dashboard and notification system.
The only reliable way to clear mine under the speech bubble on the website is to click âview your dashboardâ at the bottom under the flyout menu for the bubble.
When click on the bubble it will display zero but a few seconds later it will show the number rediced by a few hundreds.
It is not intentional. It was due to a few âidentifiersâ who regularly confirming all the research grade ids I have done.
I have disabled the notification setting for confirming identifications.
This doesnât work. I guess I will have to manually click on the icon a few hundred times
I mean that the notification dropdown may have been intentionally designed to work this way.
not sure how useful this is if youâre not a coder, but looking at the API, i think you should be able to clear the notifications via the observation updates endpoints. i didnât realize they were there until today. so i didnât think it was possible to get those notifications via the API until now⌠i had wanted to write something to display notifications though. so maybe when i get around to that iâll include a way to mark stuff as reviewed, tooâŚ
UPDATE: i did a quick test, and i decided against trying to create something that could clear the notifications. (it looks like the endpoint that clears the notifications must be requested one observation id at a time. so it donât want to write anything that could potentially send out thousands of requests like that.)
if anyoneâs curious about how the flow would generally work, iâm attaching a couple of screenshots that i hope will explain things. if anyone would like more detail, let me know.
I think as others have noted, this is how the notifications system works, at the moment. It wasnât really designed for situations where one has thousands of unread notifications.
The eventually updated notifications system should include a âmark all as reviewedâ option.
