For weeks now I've had the purple alert dot next to the Community tab, telling me I have new forum replies. Clicking on it just takes me to a screen saying I haven't posted anything recently. I've tried going through the forums I posted in in the past but nothing seems to get rid of that alert dot.

is there anything that can be done to clear it, or access the post that caused it? or is it just going to be stuck there in my profile forever?

Nope, you're suck with it. Unless you're able to recode the entire forum platform.

You can clear all notifications, including the purple dot, on-demand. See the first page of the dedicated thread for the code to use in a bookmarklet, or the last page for a user script.

You can alternatively always hide the purple dot, even when you really do have unread forum replies. See the last page for a uBlock filter. You could alternatively use a user style for this, though I don't think it's been posted.

Thanks for that, I might try the solution in the first post... only I have no idea *where* to post it in the code once I've opened it with F12. Do you know where to paste it in by any chance?

It's easier to create a bookmarklet. Create a new bookmark in your browser, which you'll probably want to place somewhere handy like the Bookmarks Toolbar. For the location/address, put in javascript: at the start, followed by the code in the first post of the aforementioned thread. Simply click the bookmark to run the code.

If you want to use the developer tools instead, F12 will open that up. After that, you need to click Console in the toolbar. Paste the code on the command line (as shown in the attached screenshot) and press Enter to submit it. The last entered command can be called up by pressing the Up Arrow key, which is handy if you want to repeat the clear notifications command and it's the last thing you entered.

You're welcome.

That did the trick- thankyou. I'm curious though- has that cleared the notification from being triggered forever, or was it just a one-time clearing operation?

It's one time only. It'll pop up again. Also note it clears all notifications, so maybe don't use it if you don't want to clear the notification for wishlist items on sale for example.

Got it. Cheers :)