Ah, you mean, for example, if you view a post BEFORE you check your notifications? We could do that for a few things (like messages and posts) but not all.

@Admin Yes, and I think I just figured out why it keeps happening. There seems to be quite a lag from when a post or a reply goes up until the alert appears. That's at least part of why it keeps happening...For example, I'll see a new group post listed on the main page, read it, and then the notification for that post shows up later.

@cmadler Ok, just wrote some code to not send any alerts about a new post if you've already opened the post page. This only affects "New Post!" alerts.

@Admin A related issue (from a UI perspective, though probably not from a programming perspective) is that when someone likes and replies to a comment, two notifications are generated, and clicking through one to the thread leaves the other notification "unread". I think the same thing happens when there are multiple "like" notifications on a single comment. Ideally these would be aggregated ("You have N new likes on comment X." or "USER liked and replied to comment X." ) but short of that, logic that marks a notification as "read" if a user has viewed the linked content after the notification was generated would also address this.

I'm not a programmer, and I have no idea how easy or difficult any of this is, I'm just suggesting what I think would be a more user-friendly approach to notifications. Thanks for all your work on this site!

@cmadler For code, would be easier to make it send EITHER the "like" or "commented on" alert. I have to think more about it.

include ther "g:" reference? I don't understand.

@Admin g: reference as in g: +17 is "Traditional and Folkmusic". So that when you look at the list of groups (and IMO being able to sort the list into alphabetical order would be nice) you can note the g: reference to pass on in posts and messages to other people.
Eg. You are asking about traditional music, there is a group at "Traditional and Folkmusic" (g:+17) dedicated to folk music. There is another group for World Music at g: but I can't be bothered looking through 267 entries and then opening it up to scroll through all of its postings to get to the bottom of the page where the g: reference is located type of response.

@FrayedBear You can put the thing reference in the description of a group. We don't parse it when we list the groups as it messes up the links.

@Admin I think FrayedBear means actually printing the group shortcut (next to the name) for all the groups in the list of groups.

@bingst thanks for correctly interpreting what I'm trying to say. I do not see why it can be reproduced at the foot of the group page but not in the list even if described as "Traditional and Folkmusic" g#17.

Yes, seems like we need to put it on all the content.

Apart from 2 level and below replies. Already noted by @cmadler above.