# Weird notifications **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 25, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585 "2023-05-25T16:44:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585/1 "2023-05-25T16:44:22Z")
I’m getting notifications for posts in years old threads in which I’ve never even posted. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585/2 "2023-05-25T16:47:29Z")
Linking to the thread might be helpful, but try this: Go to the thread in the notification. Click the Button at the bottom of the thread labels either Tracking or Watching. Select Normal in the pull down. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585/3 "2023-05-25T16:53:20Z")
Thank you, I’ll try that. I closed SDMB and they seem to be gone now. Must’ve been a hiccough. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585/4 "2023-05-25T16:56:19Z")
I got notifications for a whole batch of stuff: notification of replies in threads that nothing had happened in for months or years, multiple notifications that threads had been moved (one of those twice for the same thread), notifications that I’d won various awards at various times going back to when I first joined the board. Most of them have since disappeared, so I can’t list them. The three still showing up are two notifications of “popular link” award and one of the “anniversary” award. One of the others, as I remember it, was of either a reply in the first section of the Russia invading Ukraine thread (which was closed quite a while ago) or a notification that that thread had been moved – I don’t now remember which. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585/5 "2023-05-25T16:59:15Z")
This sounds like more fallout from the surprise upgrade we got last night that changed the menu. Discourse does all the upgrades and this was a fairly major change without warning or instructions. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585/6 "2023-05-25T17:00:13Z")
I got this as well, and the notifications are now gone. This is one of the threads I remembered, as there was a user named Zorro on snopes, so I thought I would have remembered posting about Zorro. > [@Zorro must be pissed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zorro-must-be-pissed/960892): > > The letter “Z” is cropping up on a lot of things lately, evidently as a pro-Ukraine Invasion thing in Russia. I’ve seen two articles about it so far, reporting on its showing up everywhere (including an Olympic gymnast’s uniform), and speculating on all the things it might stand for. Stephen Colbert even mentioned it in his monologue (Colbert had played the letter “Z” for some Sesame Street thing) [[McDonald's Exits Russia As World Pummels Putin Economically | Stop Trying To Make 'Z'…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iss3IZZsXbE) ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585/7 "2023-05-25T17:04:11Z")
Ah ok so that’s why my menu is different now! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585/8 "2023-05-25T17:07:09Z")
The Menu update is covered here: > [@What's going on with the hamburger menu? {May 25, 2023}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-hamburger-menu-may-25-2023/984561): > > I just came off a 4-hour straight teaching binge. Before the binge, the hamburger menu showed what it had always shown (number of new threads, number of unread threads, number of messages, and a couple of other things. Now it’s showing two categories: Community and Messages. And the choices underneath those two categories are not all that helpful. What happened? Better question: how do I get it back to the old useful way? ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585/9 "2023-05-25T17:12:40Z")
Things I learned today: It’s called a **hamburger menu** icon! I had no idea. There is a Site Feedback forum! I had no idea. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585/10 "2023-05-25T17:22:51Z")
My notifications box still has eight old threads on top of what should be the newest. Ironically, two of the threads are “This new site sucks!” and “Anyone else seriously considering leaving?” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585/11 "2023-05-25T19:34:58Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > It’s called a **hamburger menu** icon! I had no idea. Yes, that’s the official term for it, because someone thought it looks like a patty between two buns. In recent years it has become the standard “menu” icon for all kinds of user interfaces. If anyone had asked me, I would have called it an ice cream sandwich, but nobody asked me. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585/12 "2023-05-25T21:12:53Z")
There are seven now, but the two I mentioned are no longer on the list. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585/13 "2023-05-25T21:19:14Z")
I’m not getting any weird notifications. Now I feel left out. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585/14 "2023-05-25T22:48:12Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Most of them have since disappeared, so I can’t list them. The three still showing up are two notifications of “popular link” award and one of the “anniversary” award. Those three are still there, as of 6:47 EST May 25. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585/15 "2023-05-26T01:15:44Z")
Have you clicked on them? That’s how I got rid of all the notifications from two-year-old threads. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585/16 "2023-05-26T02:58:49Z")
I thought I had. And I just did it again. And they’re still there. I noticed they seemed to be highlighted, though I don’t think I’d done that. And that there was a checkmarked “dismiss” at the bottom of the popup box. So I clicked on “dismiss” and now they’re gone; though the rest of the list - actual recent notifications – is still there. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585/17 "2023-05-26T07:21:37Z")
Are you talking about what shows up when you click on your icon? If that’s the case, just click on the “Dismiss” button at the bottom and that loses all the old threads. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585/18 "2023-05-26T14:00:20Z")
Yes, as I said above, I’ve already done that, and it worked. The “dismiss” button is now also gone. Clicking on the arrow at the bottom of the box takes me into a page in my profile, which has no clear way to dismiss anything. I seem to remember a previous discussion of this leading to the conclusion that there isn’t any way, ordinarily, to get notifications out of one’s notification box, other than to wait for them to fall off the bottom (after which they’re still in the profile, but easy to ignore.) ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585/19 "2023-05-26T16:19:24Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Yes, as I said above, I’ve already done that, and it worked. Another weirdity. When I posted that, the last post was by **ThelmaLou**. Sorry for the useless post. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585/20 "2023-05-26T16:45:46Z")
Computers are weird! No harm done. 😀 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-notifications/984585.md?page=2)