I've been getting some weird cryptocurrency spam notifications on GitHub and the...

cassidoo · 2025-12-11T18:43:12 1765478592

Are you still seeing it, would you mind checking? Our team will get on it if so.

shakna · 2025-12-11T19:51:25 1765482685

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

matheusmoreira · 2025-12-11T20:22:06 1765484526

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

cassidoo · 2025-12-11T20:45:43 1765485943

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

matheusmoreira · 2025-12-11T20:47:46 1765486066

Thanks for fixing it!

dennis-tra · 2025-12-11T18:33:28 1765478008

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.

fastball · 2025-12-11T18:31:28 1765477888

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 · 2025-12-11T18:39:58 1765478398

HN doesn't support markdown, but you can "code" format it with 2+ spaces.

ashton314 · 2025-12-11T19:26:28 1765481188

Here’s how you can clear it:

I had the same issue too, and this was the only thing that fixed it for me.