I'm not sure what happened, but for the last few days I'd had no notifications for new replies (which were coming in thick and fast), and it was absolute bliss.
Unfortunately I had a power cut and my PC rebooted, and now the notifications are back (including those that weren't showing before), so I assume it was an error on my end but still - is it possible to make this a real option?
In an ideal world it would be like on reddit where you could switch off notifications per post and even per thread, but I'll take an all or nothing option at this point.
There is a "mark all as read" button in there which can get rid of those, but it applies to everything, including DMs and whatnot.
I guess you could also just zap that element with ublock origin or something and you'd stop seeing those altogether.
This way you can technically still go there if you need to look but zap just the number.