Resolved Notifications Unhighlights wayyyyyyyy to fast..

[Rem]

When clicking "notifications"
after a brief 1-2 seconds.
It unhighlights ALL my notifications
I know it says "Read a moment ago"..
But that requiring me reading 4 words.
It was much easier using color scheme.

This is very annoying when you have tens of notifications to go through
Is it possible to have it "unhighlight" after you close the notification or a much longer time like 10~20 seconds?

 

[Zwielicht]

When clicking "notifications"
after a brief 1-2 seconds.
It unhighlights ALL my notifications
I know it says "Read a moment ago"..
But that requiring me reading 4 words.
It was much easier using color scheme.
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This is very annoying when you have tens of notifications to go through
Is it possible to have it "unhighlight" after you close the notification or a much longer time like 10~20 seconds?

I’ll see what can be done and get back to you.

 

[Rem]

Thank you !

 

[Zwielicht]

I'm not sure if I've found it yet, but it looks like I might be able to adjust how long the automatic unhighlighting lasts if I can the line of code that changes this:

alert js-alert menu-row menu-row--separated menu-row--clickable is-unread

into this:

alert js-alert menu-row menu-row--separated menu-row--clickable is-recently-read

I'm going to guess it functions similarly to an adjustment I made on our Trading Post page, but I'll have to spend some more time looking into later.

In the meantime, if you prefer reading alerts individually, if you go to your preferences settings, there's an option called "Never mark alerts as read". If you select that, it allows you to go through your notifications individually instead of unhighlighting them automatically as soon as you click the bell.

 

[Impulse]

I've looked into this a little, @Rem. Unfortunately, I don't think we have the option to extend the timer so that it takes longer to mark them as read.

I think the best way to combat this is to set your preferences for alerts to "Never mark alerts as read" as @Zwielicht mentioned. This way your alerts will stay highlighted until you mark them as read. If you have a lot of alerts and marking them all as read individually sounds tedious, there's an option at the bottom of the alerts dropdown that says "Mark All As Read". I tweaked the phrasing to make it more clear.

I will look into other ways we can make alerts clearer, too. You mentioned that the colour for unread alerts isn't very distinguishable on the light theme, so I'll look for that and tweak it too.