Notification clearing in the App do not propagate to the Website

[ITmaze]

Describe the bug
Notifications show up in the App. Once you've seen them, they're cleared. This does not appear to propagate to the website, so you end up seeing the same notifications again.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to the Notifications tab on the App.
2. Read the latest notification.
3. Login to your instance via its web interface.
4. See notifications still pending.

Expected behavior
I expect that the notifications on both user interfaces to show the same information.

Versions

• Pachli: v2.7.1
• Android: v13
• SDK level: 33
• Mastodon: v4.2.11

Affirmation
I have checked other issues for this project (open and closed) and I cannot find one that matches the problem I am reporting.

[nikclayton]

The notifications will still be present on the website (unless you've cleared them in Pachli), but you should see that the notifications you've seen in Pachli are marked as read on the website.

Is that not the case for you?

[ITmaze]

Unfortunately that doesn't appear to be the case, unless by "clear", you mean delete, which I never do, since I often get back to a reply via the notifications in Pachli. I also do not see anything different in Pachli if I mark the notifications "read" on the web.

[nikclayton]

Just to make sure we're on the same page as to what this all means.

Mastodon notifications are weird.

When you get a notification you can dismiss it (in the web UI I think, not in Pachli). This effectively deletes it, with no way to undelete it (it's not like email where a message can be read, unread, in the bin, or really deleted).

There's also the notification "marker". This is the newest notification you've seen.

When you load notifications in Pachli and scroll up the notification marker is set to reflect the most recent notification you've seen. If you've got the "Highlight unread notifications" option turned on in the web UI you should see this.

However... IIRC the web UI doesn't periodically check to see if the notification marker has changed. So if you open notifications on the web, then open them in Pachli, and then go back to the web page the ones you've seen in Pachli will still appear to be unread (until you reload the page).

So the only thing that's guaranteed to work is to use the Pachli "Delete notifications" option. That will delete all of them.

Does that match the behaviour you're seeing?

If it doesn't, please can you provide step-by-step instructions of what you're doing in the web app and in Pachli, and what happens. Thanks