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.

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cassidoo 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

This should have been fixed here: 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.

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shakna 2 days ago | parent [-]

I had the same. The dot is cleared on the mobile site. It is present on the desktop site.

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matheusmoreira 2 days ago | parent [-]

Somewhat similar situation here. Cleared cache and logged back in on mobile, dot was fixed. Haven't tested on my laptop yet.

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cassidoo 2 days ago | parent [-]

Thank you all, sharing internally now to get that fixed! Super appreciate the feedback.

	▲	matheusmoreira 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks for fixing it!

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dennis-tra 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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fastball 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		HN doesn't support markdown, but you can "code" format it with 2+ spaces. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

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ashton314 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Here’s how you can clear it:

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.