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Comment by mmis1000 | Hacker News Reader

I think reddit is even worse. A fake facebook notification is at least still a notification.

But official reddit app and website in other hand, generate notification badge WITHOUT NOTIFICATION. What did you even expect me to do about that? It's just dumb-ass.

In the end, I just wrote a userscript to remove notification badge of reddit web page, given how useless and distractive it is.

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Oh my issue with reddit.com is similar but different: I'll get a notification badge, tap it, see "Messages (1)", tap that, and then get "there doesn't seem to be anything here" under the Unread tab.

Once I switch to "Inbox" I can see the new message. Of course, if it's a long thread I have to find the bottom of it first.

So you're clicking around, raking up page views, looking for the message? Seems like page views is the metric that misfeature was designed to improve.

I have a high confident that the badge is fake because I already used ublock to ban[1] the update socket of reddit webpage, there is no way I can actually get a notification without reload the page.

[1] due to this issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/rj0u77/reddit_redesig...

I’ve never seen this with old reddit nor 3rd party clients (which beyond possibly costing a nominal fee, I don’t know why you wouldn’t use sans some minor features like polls).

I do use 3rd reddit client on phone.(the fake badge is literally the reason I installed it) But I still use the new reddit page on browser because reddit I visit commonly are mostly media-rich. Which is the old reddit not useful for.

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