Yeah, I think so. That’s a bit odd, though, and I wonder if it might be changed?

Generally, if I get a message about a new post in my game’s community, I’ll go to the game’s community to read it, or I’ll follow the email links. To my knowledge, neither action clears the indicator that I’ve read the notification. So if I want regular notifications of new topics in my email, it looks like I have to take the additional step of accessing and clearing my notifications. Since email notifications are meant to save time, I probably won’t manually mark the notification as read, so I won’t get new email notifications, and the feature just won’t serve a purpose for me. Am I misunderstanding how it works, or missing a setting to change it? Some alternatives that might be better:

1. Offer a setting to not batch notifications. I may need to unset that if my game takes off, but in the initial stages where I’d like to respond more quickly to feedback and get back to building, getting every notification quickly is key.
2. Embed a tracking pixel in the email noting that the notification has been read, similar to what GitHub does. If this happens already, I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere I’ve looked.
3. Make the emailed link mark the notification as being read, such that clicking on the reply/post links makes notifications flow again. Although, in the case of batched notifications, the previous 2 solutions would make it more difficult to discover multiple new posts.

Thanks!