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I've been getting some weird cryptocurrency spam notifications on GitHub and they can't be cleared for some reason. Blue dot is gonna be there forever apparentl

I've been getting some weird cryptocurrency spam notifications on GitHub and they can't be cleared for some reason. Blue dot is gonna be there forever apparently. Some users made an issue out of it but nobody cared to fix it.

fastball 11mo ago
Same happened to me. You can clear it via the CLI, hilariously. ``` gh api notifications\?all=true | jq -r 'map(select(.unread) | .id)[]' | xargs -L1 sh -c 'gh api -X PATCH notifications/threads/$0' ```
- bdcravens 11mo ago
  HN doesn't support markdown, but you can "code" format it with 2+ spaces. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
dennis-tra 11mo ago
Had the same issue that the blue dot won’t disappear. I was able to clear the dot with: gh api notifications -X PUT -F last_read_at=2025-10-06T00:00:00Z Just change the date to today. I also got that line from a gh issue somewhere - maybe it was the same issue that you’re referring to.
cassidoo 11mo ago
This should have been fixed here: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-04-notifications-triggered-by-spam-accounts-are-now-correctly-hidden/ https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-04-notifications-trigg... Are you still seeing it, would you mind checking? Our team will get on it if so.
- shakna 11mo ago
  I had the same. The dot is cleared on the mobile site. It is present on the desktop site.
  - matheusmoreira 11mo ago
    Somewhat similar situation here. Cleared cache and logged back in on mobile, dot was fixed. Haven't tested on my laptop yet.
    - cassidoo 11mo ago
      Thank you all, sharing internally now to get that fixed! Super appreciate the feedback.
      - matheusmoreira 11mo ago
        Thanks for fixing it!
ashton314 11mo ago
Here’s how you can clear it: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/174310#discussioncomment-14474599 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/174310#discuss... I had the same issue too, and this was the only thing that fixed it for me.

fastball 11mo ago

Same happened to me. You can clear it via the CLI, hilariously. ``` gh api notifications\?all=true | jq -r 'map(select(.unread) | .id)[]' | xargs -L1 sh -c 'gh api -X PATCH notifications/threads/$0' ```

bdcravens 11mo ago
HN doesn't support markdown, but you can "code" format it with 2+ spaces. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

dennis-tra 11mo ago

Had the same issue that the blue dot won’t disappear. I was able to clear the dot with: gh api notifications -X PUT -F last_read_at=2025-10-06T00:00:00Z Just change the date to today. I also got that line from a gh issue somewhere - maybe it was the same issue that you’re referring to.

cassidoo 11mo ago

This should have been fixed here: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-04-notifications-triggered-by-spam-accounts-are-now-correctly-hidden/ https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-04-notifications-trigg... Are you still seeing it, would you mind checking? Our team will get on it if so.

shakna 11mo ago
I had the same. The dot is cleared on the mobile site. It is present on the desktop site.
- matheusmoreira 11mo ago
  Somewhat similar situation here. Cleared cache and logged back in on mobile, dot was fixed. Haven't tested on my laptop yet.
  - cassidoo 11mo ago
    Thank you all, sharing internally now to get that fixed! Super appreciate the feedback.
    - matheusmoreira 11mo ago
      Thanks for fixing it!

ashton314 11mo ago

Here’s how you can clear it: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/174310#discussioncomment-14474599 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/174310#discuss... I had the same issue too, and this was the only thing that fixed it for me.