As to marking the messages as unread deliberately, that's totally fine and also one of the use cases we were thinking of. As to keeping the indicator on or turning it off, I see what you mean, we actually had a discussion about it with some people being for keeping it on and some for showing only new messages count. At this moment we chose to keep it on, but the plan is to listen to the community and afterwards choose the option that fits you best. —
marrados 1 min ago