Ghost notification

[pawamoy]

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I can't get rid of this invisible notification:

Looks like someone mentioned me in a repository that was then deleted. The user was deleted too.

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[pawamoy]

Repo in question was probably a fork of https://github.com/mahmoud/awesome-python-applications, which contains this commit mentioning me mahmoud/awesome-python-applications@b93f916.

[pawamoy]

If some DB admin / ninja could quicly delete this ghost notification I'd be really grateful 😎 The blue dot is always there on the notification icon. It's disturbing, but I'll live. I just worry this goes unnoticed forever if I don't ping from time to time 🙈

[pawamoy]

I was able to delete it through the API:

# Get the notification ID by looking at the output of the following command:
gh api notifications

# Mark it as done.
gh api notifications/threads/14588514146 --method delete

[NubeBuster]

Note to users the id is in a url ending in /notidications/id
its not one of the int values in the json object.

[spencercap]

@pawamoy very helpful! i was able to identify the ghost notification's id. it is a private repo invitation that i let lapse past the 1 week window and now that user doesnt exist and i cannot delete the thread as i dont have any permissions on the repo. any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated, screenshots below

[spencercap]

hey future devs, i solved this with thanks to customer support:

You can mark all notifications as read using our Activity API. To do so, please run the following command, replacing $TOKEN with your personal access token. Note that the token needs to have notifications scope checked.

curl -X PUT -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" -H "Authorization: token $TOKEN" https://api.github.com/notifications

[pawamoy]

Shoudn't be closed btw, lots of users having this issue lately with the spams.

[ElijahLynn]

re: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/174228

[NubeBuster]

Not solved