Notification mail icon showing red dot notification span when nothing has changed

[arraypress]

Bug Report

Expected behavior

I expect the red dot to show when an actual notification (or announcement) is available.

Actual behavior

The notification dot shows regardless of announcements (or when empty). Somewhat confusing, but maybe a clever marketing technique? :)

Information (if a specific version is affected):

PHP Version: 7.4

EDD Version (or branch): 3.1

WordPress Version: 6.1

Any other relevant information:

[cklosowski]

The notification dot shows until all messages are dismissed. Do you have messages in there that are not dismissed?

[arraypress]

Nope, no notifications at all. Empty in fact...

I had a feeling it might be caching, but I would to dig deeper into that JSON that is used to handle the notifications to see why this is showing. It's not just been on my own site though, it was on a few other client sites...

[arraypress]

What I see:

And then this:

[cklosowski]

Thanks for the screenshots and details. I'll see if we can somehow reproduce and see what that's happening. If there are no notifications (either expired, or are dismissed) then the red dot shouldn't show.