This is a known bug with a workaround: click in the white area below the number/text instead of directly on the icons. It's aggravating and we have a fix in process.

I didn't close this as a duplicate because of the part at the end. We don't have another way to see all notifications, and having a page for that seems like it would be handy. (Somewhere Else, I would sometimes load that page and then use control-F to find something in it, which doesn't work so well in a dropdown widget.)

If you scroll down in your notifications in the drop down panel you will eventually get to the bottom, where it links to a dedicated notifications page. I found this useful recently for finding something that I knew I'd been notified about a long time ago, but couldn't remember which Codidact community it was in.

So a notifications page exists, but this conversation demonstrates that it is difficult to find. Would it be helpful to have a link at the top of the list of notifications as well as at the bottom? Having it at the bottom is useful for people who have looked through all the recent notifications and now realise they need to open the notifications page to see further back into history, but for someone who already knows they need the dedicated notifications page it is tedious to scroll all the way down just to find the link (try it - it's a long way to scroll).

Monica, is this also relevant to the GitHub issue you opened recently? I don't know if the existence of https://meta.codidact.com/users/me/notifications affects your decision on whether that issue is important?

In addition to an extra link at the top of the notifications drop down panel, would it also be useful to have a link from the user profile? That's where Olin looked for them, and I'd find it a natural place to look too.

As there is already a list of sections along the top of the profile page, it seems a logical place to have a notifications section.

Would it be better to edit this question to be about adding additional links to the notifications page, or to ask that as a separate question so that the bulk of this one can be closed as a duplicate?

Huh -- I never noticed that trichoplax‭! Or if I did, it was a long time ago and I then forgot about it. Thanks for pointing it out. Since the page already exists, I think we should find ways to make it more prominent. Making it another section on the profile, for yourself only (like preferences, editing, etc), makes sense to me. I closed that GH issue after I realized it wasn't just one URL that was different; maybe we should look at the URLs or maybe it's fine, but either way, let's look at adding a tab or link (with the current URL) to the profile itself.

Note that this is a global inbox, which might be why it wasn't put under the profile in the first place. (It probably predates network preferences.) It should be part of the network profile when that exists; I don't know whether it should be a tab on each community (could be confusing?) or just a link, but we can figure something out.