Replace useless notifications view and hide count

[fregante]

I don't know about yours, but my Notifications view looks like this:

Do you see anything that I should be notified about? I don't. It's become a duplicate Newsfeed.

Today I had "7 notifications" and none of them actually mentioned me or was in any way related to me.

How about redirecting "Notifications" to "Mentions" (which is the old notifications minus "Person liked/retweeted/followed you") and dropping the useless notifications count from the tab.

[sindresorhus]

I like the idea, but I think it's going to be quite controversial. Let's hear what the other maintainers think. // @filipekiss @jorgegonzalez

[filipekiss]

I don't mind the redirect to the "Mentions" tab, but dropping the notifications count from the tab might be a problem, because I don't think there's a way to alert the user when he was mentioned and we could impact people in a negative way ("I missed a mention because I don't have the notifications indicator anymore").

Maybe we can do the redirect and add an opt-out if the user doesn't want to hide the notification count?

[jorgegonzalez]

I like this but I would rather not miss a mention because of the missing notification indicator. Redirecting to twitter.com/mentions while also showing an indicator for only mentions would be ideal, if at all possible.

[filipekiss]

Exactly my point. I often peek at the tweet tab only to check if there's messages or notifications, otherwise I won't bother. I've tweaked my settings to show me only notifications I'm interested about, so things like "Recent Tweets from John Doe" don't even appear.

[fregante]

Alternatively, it could target and hide the useless events directly:

for (const button of document.querySelectorAll('.ActivityItem-dismissOption')) {
	button.click()
	button.closest('.stream-item').remove()
}

[ianstormtaylor]

Just saw this, only ever showing notification badges for true mentions, and redirecting directly to the Mentions tab would be an amazing feature I think. Gets rid of tons of noise, and reduces the Instagram-like ego impulses of having your tweets be liked.

[fregante]

I'm not seeing this anymore