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In this episode we work on some odds and ends that remain to finish the Lists page before we move on to new logic and sections. We start out in the backend where fix the ability of the custom list to display when a post has been reposted, we also work on the ability to send a notification to the frontend when a user included in a list creates a new post. Once we have that setup we hop back into the frontend where we setup the ability for the notification slice to process new posts coming into the list, as well as fixing up a bug related to interacting with posts on the lists page. Finally, we update a couple pieces of CSS that weren’t quite right before testing the things we worked on. Unfortunately, there was an issue with our notification service that I will update everyone on in the next episode.