Whenever someone posts something (with a mention to me, of course) and I liked it or comment it, it really annoys me that the notification isn’t marked as read.
So it would be a huge usability improvement for me if the notification was marked as read as soon as I interacted with the post in one way or the other.
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The notification should be marked as read as soon as you open it in the single post view. (If it is not that would be a bug) When you comment on a post or like it, it might be the case that you saw a version without the most recent likes/comments and thus you would be interested in a notification telling you that there is new stuff to look at. This is why I don’t think that we should mark notifications as read as soon as you interact with the post.
When you comment on a post or like it, it might be the case that you saw a version without the most recent likes/comments and thus you would be interested in a notification telling you that there is new stuff to look at. This is why I don’t think that we should mark notifications as read as soon as you interact with the post.
The notification that ‘X has mentioned you in a post’ could safely be marked as read. Further notifications about comments on that post need not be marked as read until the post has been opened.