Bug: unread notification is stuck

[gyzerok]

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I have an unread notification being stuck even though I do not have any.

My guess is that today I was mentioned as some spam activity from fake ycombinator repo on the screenshot. Then moderation removed the repo and the mention, but it is still counted as unread in my notifications. And unfortunately I can't do anything with it.

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[Giddy-K]

Hi there @gyzerok ... just go to your email that is associated with your GitHub and find the email about Git coin or Github in general, read it then come back to your git hub account and refresh the notifications, it will be gone... Is it related to the git coin scam going on?

[Rocco-Gossmann]

Hi there @gyzerok ... just go to your email that is associated with your GitHub and find the email about Git coin or Github in general, read it then come back to your git hub account and refresh the notifications, it will be gone... Is it related to the git coin scam going on?

Does not work at all if you have email notifications turned off, like many do.

It worked for me, but I needed to tell Thunderbird, to allow external content from github.com.

Make sure to only allow Github.com. Any other external content could potentially be part of a scammers attack.

Why GitHub is tracking when I read their E-Mails is kind of dubious though.

[wduda]

Hi there @gyzerok ... just go to your email that is associated with your GitHub and find the email about Git coin or Github in general, read it then come back to your git hub account and refresh the notifications, it will be gone... Is it related to the git coin scam going on?

Does not work at all if you have email notifications turned off, like many do.

It worked for me, but I needed to tell Thunderbird, to allow external content from github.com.

Make sure to only allow Github.com. Any other external content could potentially be part of a scammers attack.

Why GitHub is tracking when I read their E-Mails is kind of dubious though.

If there is no email at all, what content will Thunderbird magically download that will help?

[XingchuanZ]

Thank you.
I found the missing notifications in my spam folder and read them there, but the blue dot still wouldn't clear.
Then I move the emails from spam to the Inbox, mark them as unread, read them again, and refresh the notifications page.
It's a bit strange, but it totally worked! 😅

[arunavo4]

So I have email configured at this worked. God its been annoying me for almost a month.

[sonu27]

Didn't work for me in gmail

[gyzerok]

@Giddy-K my notifications are configured such that I don't receive any emails, so my only option is to read it on GitHub which I can't do either :)

[DevanFischer]

same problem 🥲

[zakweb3]

Same issue here!
Working fix:
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/174310#discussioncomment-14474599
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45355066

[DevanFischer]

@zakweb3 You are a godsend! 🍕🍻🎉

Summary of Steps Taken

1. Install the gh cli-tool (https://github.com/cli/cli?tab=readme-ov-file#installation) and authenticate

   brew install gh
   gh auth login
   

2. Use gh cli-tool to get notifications, find appropriate id and delete notification.

   # get notifications, look for the ID of the spam notification
   gh api notifications
   # mark that spam notification as read
   gh api -X DELETE notifications/threads/$NOTIFICATION_ID
   

3. No more annoying stuck notification!!!

   

[jet10000]

👍

[timlg07]

On Windows you can do

winget install --id GitHub.cli

Then close and open the terminal/cmd again and continue with gh auth login

[Giddy-K]

Got it, you can then file a GitHub support issue about this and you will get a response with a pretty good workaround 💯

[gyzerok]

Oh, was thinking that this is how I report an issue. Will double check, thank you!

[Giddy-K]

You're welcome...
The way you have done above is okay, you can also use this GitHub Support
Hope you will be sorted.

[rezk2ll]

solution here
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/174310#discussioncomment-14474599

[tsampazk]

Worked like a charm, thanks!

[isHarryh]

I have this problem too. Recently I received a scamming mention from ycombinatororg who was been deleted after the notification was sent, so the unread notification still remains in my GitHub.

The scamming (email) shows below.

[jfullstackdev]

this is a known issue from years ago, and it resurfaced as I'm seeing a lot of this right now, check this workaround

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/6874?utm_source=chatgpt.com#discussioncomment-2859125

[enessmr]

This happened to me too

[Rocco-Gossmann]

Having the Exact same issue.

Mine came from a Cryto-Scammer.

I presume GitHub deleted the account and notifications.
For me this thing came in the middle of the Night.

When I woke up, in the morning, everything related to this account was already gone. Including the notification. Only the Counter and Bubble remains.

[Mor-Li]

same problem...

[tony9527167]

same problem...

[Ge0]

Same problem.

[drdaeman]

I had the same problem and found a solution in another discussion: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/174698#discussioncomment-14704249

Using GitHub CLI, gh api --method PUT /notifications cleared the stuck notifications for me. Hope this helps!