# Small element of Notifications - “I’ve read it” functionality

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/small-element-of-notifications-i-ve-read-it-functionality/1179>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Tags:** notifications\
**Created:** [November 17, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/small-element-of-notifications-i-ve-read-it-functionality/1179 "2020-11-17T14:56:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 5:11am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/small-element-of-notifications-i-ve-read-it-functionality/1179/3 "2020-11-18T05:11:17Z")

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Great stuff here, great detail. Real Product Manager thinking in play!

So with this point:

> [@Oshyan](#):
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> I think that would be good in the simplest implementation as that is pretty much the standard I was looking for.
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> With this:
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> > [@Oshyan](#):
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> > Or should it be some kind of (optional?) “@mentioned user has seen this” detector and accompanying notification to the mentioner
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> Should it be a manual thing where you have to click e.g. thumbs up?

That’s almost like an feature that “watches” to see if something has been read. That would be very cool, too, but I assume a lot of work to build.

To this point:

> [@Oshyan](#):
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> Also, what scope do you see these messages coming from that would indicate to the author they had been read? In other words is it _just_ for @mentions?

I do like it if you are able to “heart” ANY comment, and not just if you are @mentioned. This would work well with [Watchers](https://community.fibery.io/t/watcher-of-an-entity-use-the-assignment-extension/563) as you could get the comment in your Inbox as a Watcher, and then “heart” it, but not necessarily be @mentioned. So the commenter can just write an update generally about the watched entity, that may be of interest to all watchers. Otherwise, they have to artificially @mention each and every watcher - that’s awkward. This I think is a pretty standard way a lot of other apps approach this.

Thanks again!

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