User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: December 9, 2014/@comment-452-20141209205018/@comment-5275700-20141211003415

Update on this issue, which should be some welcome news. There was some misunderstanding about the change.

Most banner notifications now have manual dismissal restored.

Notifications within modals still have auto-dismissal, and the time has changed there from 3 seconds to 10 seconds.

The main post has been updated to reflect this.

Apologies for the confusion on this. But it's nice that we got to have a mini focus group on banner notification behavior. Thanks all!