Notifications
Notifications tell a user about events on the platform: replies, reactions, new posts, followers and messages.
Overview
Notifications arrive in the bell on the site in real time and by email. All bell notifications are collected on the /{slug}/notifications page.
A user chooses notifications in Settings → Notifications (/settings/notifications) separately for two channels: "Emails" and "Bell". Bell notifications are on by default, emails are off.
Some notifications depend on a notification subscription: about new posts of an author or topic and about new comments on a post. The rest are sent to the participants of the event.
Notification types
| Event | Recipient | Bell | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reply to a comment | Comment author | Can be turned off | Can be turned on |
| Mention in a comment | The mentioned user | Can be turned off | Can be turned on |
| Reaction to a post or comment | Post or comment author | Can be turned off | Can be turned on, as an hourly summary |
| New comment on a post | Post notification subscribers | Can be turned off | Can be turned on |
| New follower | The followed user | Can be turned off | — |
| New achievement | The user who got the achievement | Can be turned off | Can be turned on |
| Blog statistics | Blog author | Can be turned off | Can be turned on |
| New post | Notification subscribers of the author or topic | Always | — |
| Post unpublished | Post author | Always | — |
| New message | Chat member | — | Can be turned on |
| Interesting of the day | User | — | Can be turned on |
A new comment notification is sent only for top-level comments; replies in threads do not create it.
A user is not notified about their own comments, replies, reactions and mentions.
Notification subscriptions
New post notifications are turned on by following an author or topic and turned off by unfollowing or hiding. When publishing a post, the author is subscribed to notifications about its comments.
A notification subscription for an author, topic or post can be turned on and off separately from following the author or topic. On the /my-topics page, all new post notifications are turned off at once.
Emails
Notification emails are sent only when email is configured. They go to users with a confirmed email, except those banned on the platform.
- Reactions: an hourly summary with the number of reactions to the user's posts and comments in the past hour
- New message: only if the recipient is offline, and no more than once an hour per chat
- Interesting of the day: daily, the 5 most popular posts of the day without the 18+ label
- Blog statistics: on Mondays, post views, reactions and new followers for 7 days; sent only if there was activity during the week
Delivery times are listed in Schedule.
Browser notifications
Bell notifications are also shown as system browser notifications when the platform tab is open but not active. A user turns them on in Settings → Notifications under "Push notifications"; the setting applies in the browser where it was turned on. Browser notifications work only over HTTPS.