Clicking the masterbar notification icon in the Reader Notifications page does nothing

[taipeicoder]

Description

See pbxlJb-6dR-p2, 06:15

The notification icon on the masterbar seems selected, and is unresponsive when clicked.

[mrfoxtalbot]

I can replicate this. Once you are in https://wordpress.com/read/notifications, clicking on the "bell" icon in the Admin bar has no effect.

[mrfoxtalbot]

@taipeicoder, I have added this to the Logica Flows board. Please lñet me know if this is not correct.

[taipeicoder]

@mrfoxtalbot as I understand it, new Fit and Finish issues from walkthroughs will be triaged on The One Board while the tasks on the Logical Flow board will eventually move there as well. So I'd say having them on The One Board should be enough, no need to add them to the Logical Flows one as well.

[javierarce]

Since the notifications feature is accessible at all times from the masterbar, why don't we remove the item from the sidebar?

This would solve the current issue and we'd get rid of the awkwardness in appearance and position of this column when opened from the reader's sidebar.

[davemart-in]

We can't remove the notifications section in the reader sidebar. It's the fallback for when 3rd party cookies fail.

[davemart-in]

@taipeicoder @mrfoxtalbot can you please clarify what you expect to happen?

[javierarce]

We can't remove the notifications section in the reader sidebar. It's the fallback for when 3rd party cookies fail.

But in that case, why can we show the notifications on the Reader? 🤔 Sorry, I don't understand the relationship between the cookies and the masterbar 😅

[davemart-in]

This is an issue because of custom domains. When a site has a custom domain and they click to see notifications, depending on their browser security settings, it might error out.

Put another way, the notifications panel that slides in may not work for sites with custom domains, depending on the security settings that you have set in your browser.

We try and recognize when this happens and instead redirect you to https://wordpress.com/read/notifications (instead of showing you a notifications panel with zero notifications).

https://wordpress.com/read/notifications works across all browsers because it uses our domain (not a custom domain).

Does that help add clarity?

[javierarce]

Yes, thanks a lot for the explanation, @davemart-in.

[davemart-in]

I'm going to close this issue out. From my perspective, I don't think we should trigger the notifications panel to open, when you're already on the dedicated notifications screen within reader. My guess is that something would blow up. :-)