Consider disabling unread notification count in page title
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	Aklapper
	Jan 22 2025, 9:33 PM

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Upstream: https://we.phorge.it/T15986

This was introduced in https://we.phorge.it/rP568b0e06e7d54618c2afade1cf409912bf90add9.

Personally speaking, this prefix only makes spotting the page title in a browser tab harder when having numerous tabs opened.

Plus my workflows don't rely on web notifications.

Plus every single opened Phabricator page shows that number in the top bar anyway. Is it so important to see it also when having another browser tab opened? I understand that "sense of urgency" which other social media platforms want to imply via this feature so you keep engaged and stay on their platform and have to see more advertisements. But I don't see that for Phabricator (especially as we uninstalled the chat app Conpherence in T127640).

YMMV, of course.

(Note to myself: Opening the notifications dropdown and selecting Mark All Read reloads the entire page (but of course not any other Phabricator pages being opened).)

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Mentioned Here: T165832: Allow varying notification settings (eg: notify vs email) by tag/project
T364677: Add "Someone mentions me on a task" and "I become a task's owner" email notification options

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Aklapper created this task.Jan 22 2025, 9:33 PM

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This would be great, it's very annoying for several reasons:

indeed makes finding right tab harder
unlike some other web apps which aggressively push notifications, Phabricator does not have a web worker or something similar to update the number in other tabs, so the annoying prefix stays there in all your other tabs even after you read the notification
it would make more sense if notifications were about really urgent things that need to be checked, but they aren't (cf T364677: Add "Someone mentions me on a task" and "I become a task's owner" email notification options and T165832: Allow varying notification settings (eg: notify vs email) by tag/project which would at least provide a use case for high visibility of notifications)
- especially if you are like me and disabled all web notifications and are left with the un-disablable stuff (cf upstream T16160)
sometimes you are stuck with phantom notifications that don't go away and this makes that much more annoying

Aklapper moved this task from Reported Upstream to Patch proposed upstream on the Upstream board.Sep 3 2025, 1:25 PM

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