Inconsistent Display of Unread Notifications in GitHub

[MartinDelille]

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I have observed that some GitHub notifications are not being displayed as unread, leading to missed updates. This issue has been occurring over the past few weeks.

The problem usually arises when I start a new issue, pull request or discussion. As an example, the response in the following link appeared in my notifications but was not marked as unread: cdelledonne/vim-cmake#80 (comment).

However, all other events related to this repository are displayed as unread.

I would appreciate it if someone could shed light on this issue and suggest a solution.

[jge162]

Clearing your browser cache and cookies may resolve the issue.

check your notifications settings, go to your GitHub profile, click on "Settings," then "Notifications." Make sure there is nothing changed there.

internet connection, this could cause notifications to not display as unread.

So many possibilites, even a bug. Hard to pinpoint exactly sorry. But, try the step above and see if it helps.

[MartinDelille]

Thanks for your answer! I followed your advice and keep you informed if it fix the issue!

[Leon406]

Solution from https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/43032 has solved my problem

Goto Done.
Select all
Move to inbox
Goto Inbox
Select all
Mark as read
Mark as Done

[MartinDelille]

It didn't worked indeed.

Unfortunately I have 2500 notifications. Is there a way to erase Done notifications or batch the process ?

[MartinDelille]

After trying doing the job with the api but not finding how to move a notification to inbox programatically, I ended up marking as done all the notification and saving the one I want to track. There is really a bug with unread badge.

[ahuigo]

This works. Be aware that if you have multi-pages, after selecting the first page it will show a link to select the rest.

[FrankReh]

Problem started for me yesterday. So I moved a few sets of the 25 latest Done back to the Inbox and then from the Inbox could select them all and hit Done again. That got my count back to zero. Thanks for the tip.

[Alizter]

This workaround works but I've found myself having to do it multiple times this week. @github when will you fix this?