Discord showing unread dot even though I changed notifications settings

Sebas
My problem is, I'm getting the unread white dot in channels where I changed the notification settings to "Mentions Only" and it's driving me crazy because it baits me every time I'm doing something full screen "movie, video game" and tab out, I see the unread dot on a server and think it's from a channel I set the notification settings to "All messages", but at the end it's from the ones I set to "Mention only". The thing is, I want to get notified with sound if I'm being mentioned, but I don't want to see every time the unread dot for every other message, because that forces me to mute that channel and, if that happens and I get mentioned when I'm doing something in full screen like I explained above, the odds I will be seeing that message on the next 30 minutes are none, to the point I may even be too late to reply.
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  • Barni

    I second that. There are many servers that I'm a part of but wouldn't like to be bothered about unless they are specifically talking/mentioning me. With the below notification settings I'm still seeing the white dot next to the server icon and thinking that they are mentioning me. If this incorrect behavior continues, it'll just condition me to ignore everything about that server, includeing when they are actually trying to reach out to me personally. Please please Discord Team, fix this for us! 🙏🏻

    Notification settings for server:
    - Mute <Server Name> - OFF
    - All Messages - OFF
    - Only @mentions - ON
    - Nothing - OFF
    - Suppress @everyone - ON
    - Suppress All Role @mentions - ON
    - Mobile Push Notifications - OFF
    - No channel overrides

    Expected behavior:
    Never see white dot next to server icon unless in one of the channels the mentioned @me. Only channels highlighted and having white dot on left are the ones where they mentioned @me. 

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  • el duderino

    Having the same problem. There is no reason I should be getting a notification from a message on a server configured this way... "Only @mentions" + "suppress @everyone and @here" are set, yet I got a notification when someone typed a message not @ anyone. Or maybe it was a welcome message. Point being I don't want ANY notification unless someone is typing @ me.

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  • pants

    Same problem as el duderino. I changed all my notifications for every channel to "Only @mentions" and now the tray icon shows a red unread messages dot any time anyone types into a channel, and sometimes it shows an unread marker when there are absolutely no new messages anywhere.

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  • Creepytom
    • Edited

    Same thing here.  All servers are set to @mentions only, and yet I'm getting red dot for every meme posted anywhere.  I'd rather not nuke notifications off for Discord but I'm close to just nuking the whole program.

     

    Edit oh nevermind Notifications for discord is set to off already, and this issue seems to be months on going for others so screw us I guess... Well I guess everyone I game with has Skype anyway means M$ forces that on us.

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  • velw

    This is causing me issues too. It's really undesirable behaviour. I have the channels set to only notify on mentions but all the time I'm being told there are unreads there that I should read. It makes the platform unusable.

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  • Jerrk

    really annoying this is still not fixed.

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  • el duderino

    Hey all, I got so annoyed I finally got the answer on this. For whatever reason - do not ask me - Discord considers the "notification on the taskbar for unread messages" (their words), to not be a "notification", but rather considers it an "unread message badge" which has a completely separate way to turn off:  User Settings > Notifications > Enable Unread Message Badge, and make sure that it's disabled. This notification "badge" (in spite of all reason) has nothing to do with the server-specific notifications settings. 

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  • pants

    Nice one, thanks duderino!

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  • Nitwoo

    el duderino

    That didn't work for me, still have the white dot on server icon for any message, despite having my preferences set to only mentions. Annoying AF.

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