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i can find them when using a client like Boost for Lemmy, but i can't find them when I'm on hexbear.
On desktop I have a bell to the left of my username. Maybe you zapped it with ublock or something? Try changing the resolution.
so if I tap that area of the screen, it brings me into notifications, but there are none of the notifications that are there in boost. it's blank
Here is how it looks for me when I have no unread notifications. If you click "All" (indicated with arrow) it shows the read notifications
this is the URL https://hexbear.net/inbox
that was it. i am missing an icon, but there's still a little number where the bell should be when i have unread ones
thanks all
Try clearing cookies and site data by clicking on the lock icon in the address bar.
i agree OP has some sort of funny business going on in its browser. I notice lack of "eye" icons left of "posts | comments". no upvote icons. He has to post more info about how it's accessing the site etc. Sounds like mobile of some sort. Browser? ios/android? blocking/vpn?
Dunno about desktop view but on mobile there's a bell in the top right
You might have disabled SVG on your browser.
so i figured it out but what's SVG?
Its a image format where it describes how to draw lines and curves instead of transmitting the image itself.
I didn't know you could disable it and I'm not sure why one would do so?
Scalable vector graphics. In short it is an image format (2D vector graphics) based on xml which offers benefits which offers benefits with some risks(if users are allowed to upload svgs at least) for developers but can also execute code so it can be a potential security risk so I assumed you might have turned it off like some people do. Cloudflare article about the potential security risk.
Here is how the notification and menu icons look with Scalable vector graphics turned off.
and this is what it looks with it turned on
