<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 February 2015 at 10:18, Bastien Nocera <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hadess@hadess.net" target="_blank">hadess@hadess.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":258" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">About the? It's also very low for a number of people. I can also be<br>
there to notify about the number of new podcasts episodes to read, the<br>
number of unread articles in my offline reader app, the number of unread<br>
messages in my chat application,</div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">In all of these cases (email, podcasts, RSS reader, chat), I have used applications which internally show some kind of unread/unseen count, and in all four categories, the number quickly gets higher than I have any intention of doing anything about other than clicking 'Mark all read'. I have a suspicion that this is partly what 'killed' RSS (in popular use) - feed readers were designed as if people would read every item, and then it felt like a chore to keep up with it.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'm not saying there are no possible use cases for a numeric badge, but my experience is that most of the obvious use cases for it are not great UI design.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Thomas<br></div></div>