Well gay, this is excellent feedback, but let me tell you a secret about how notifications work currently: In order to keep everything as fast and minimal as possible, there is no "notification" in the database. I just track the last time you looked at the replies page, then every reply that's newer than that timestamp is considered "new." I agree it's not perfect, but it sure is fast (and simple)! Hopefully I'll have some improvements soon though. There are a bunch of little things related to navigation and redirects I want to fix next that should help a bit.