Orphaned notifications in Network

2026-03-23 15:27:19

adminsforum@hubzilla.org

Admin wrote the following post Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:27:19 +0100

Orphaned notifications in Network

Weird thing happened. I see many notifications in Network, I can see text of comments, but when I click on it, I see nothing. When I try to open in new window, it tells "item doesn't exists". I don't want to use "Mark all seen", because they are much more notifications which I want to check. 🤷‍♂️
Any idea what to do?

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2026-03-23 15:39:35

Harald Eilertsen

harald@hub.volse.no

@Hubzilla Support Forum I have seen this happen in situations where the original item was deleted or edited by the poster. For some reason the notification seems to linger.

2026-03-28 13:24:02

Alexander Goeres 𒀯

jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

finally someone managed to describe this correctly .. :-) i have this a lot, too.

2026-03-28 15:13:23

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

This also happens when the parent post/comment was filtered out and when you've Superblocked the parent poster. It's being pulled in, but as it doesn't have a parent, Hubzilla won't show it to you.

Let's suppose you've Superblocked Gargron to keep out his usual conversations that pretend there is no Fediverse outside Mastodon (not only what he posts, but also what everyone replies). Now Gargron posts something. One of your contacts boosts it to you. Superblock catches it and keeps it out of your stream. 150 people reply to Gargron, but these replies are not caught by Superblock. Then you get 150 notifications about unread messages that you can't open because Superblock has kept their parent out.

Basically, the only thing you can do is go through your unread notifications, one by one, starting at the bottom. When you can't load one, skip it. Once you're through your unread notifications, and all those that are left are those that won't load for you, click "Mark all seen".

Of course, if you have a whole lot of connections, and they're all permitted to send you all their stuff (except for whatever you filter), and you don't filter boosts out, that's difficult.