Please test on both boost and clean theme Create a course, enrol a student, and add a forum activity and set the subscription mode to forced and read tracking to optional (under the "subscription and tracking" section). Log in as a student, make sure you've enabled web notifications for forums Go to notification preferences (notification popover > preferences cog thingo) Turn on web notifications for forums both online and offline Log back in as the admin/teacher and create a discussion in the forum Add a post to the discussion you just created run cron (from the command line php admin/cli/cron.php) Log in as the student You should now have an unread notification about the discussion in the forum Open the notification popover and click on the "View full notification" link for the notification to see the full notification in the notifications page Confirm that the notification content no longer has the giant whitespace padding as highlighted in red in