Whenever something happens in your account that you should know about, a notification waits for you inside the product. You can also receive it by email and as a notification on your computer or phone. This guide explains where to read them, how to choose where they reach you and how announcements work.
The bell
The bell at the top of every page shows how many notifications you have not read yet; above nine it shows +9. It updates on its own when a new one arrives; if it does not, reload the page.
Press the bell to see up to ten notifications, unread ones first, grouped by day: Today, then how long ago. An unread one is marked with a line on its left.
- Press a notification to mark it as read and open what it is about, when it leads somewhere.
- Press Mark as Read to mark them all as read.
- Press View all notifications to open the full list.
The full list
Open it with View all notifications under the bell, or from your account: open the menu with your photo at the top, press My Profile, then Notifications in the side menu. The Notification Center shows all your notifications, twenty per page: the unread ones first, highlighted, then the rest, newest first. Each one shows the photo of who sent it, or the product's icon when nobody did, its title, its details and how long ago it arrived; rest the pointer on that time to see the full date.
Opening a notification from this list does not mark it as read: use Mark as Read under the bell for that. Notifications cannot be deleted.
Receive them by email
- Open the menu with your photo, press My Profile and find the Notifications card.
- Turn Email notification on or off.
- Press Save. The message Notifications updated correctly confirms it.
With it on, each notification also reaches your inbox, with a button to open what it is about when it leads somewhere. With it off, you stop receiving those emails, and nothing else changes: every notification still waits under the bell. Emails you need to get into your account, such as the one to reset your password, arrive whatever this switch says.
Receive them on this device
When the product offers push notifications, the Notifications card also shows Push notification. It works per browser: turning it on in your computer's browser does not turn it on in your phone's.
- Open My Profile in the browser where you want to receive them.
- Turn Push notification on. It takes effect at once, without pressing Save.
- When your browser asks whether to allow notifications from this site, allow them.
From then on, every notification also appears on that device, even when the product is not open. Press it to open what it is about. Turn the switch off to stop receiving them in that browser; your other devices keep theirs.
Under the switch, a line says how it stands in this browser:
| What it says | What to do |
|---|---|
| Push notifications are enabled in this browser | Nothing: they are on. |
| Push notifications are disabled in this browser | Turn the switch on to receive them. |
| Notifications are blocked in this browser | You blocked notifications from this site. Allow them in your browser's site settings, then reload the page and turn the switch on. |
| This browser does not support push notifications | Use another browser, or another device. |
| Open this site with HTTPS to enable push notifications | The site was opened through an address that is not secure. Open it through its usual address. |
| Could not update push notifications for this browser | Something failed while turning it on or off. Reload the page and try again. |
Test that they arrive
Once push notifications are on in a browser, a Test button appears next to the switch. Press it and the message Test notification sent confirms it was sent: within a few seconds, a notification titled Notifications are working appears on every device where you turned them on. If it does not appear, check that your device's notifications are not silenced for that browser.
If the message says Enable push notifications in this browser before sending a test, turn on Push notification first.
Announcements
When the product publishes announcements, a megaphone sits next to the bell, and Announcements appears in the side menu of your account. Announcements are news for everyone, such as a new feature or a planned change, and they are kept apart from your notifications.
- The megaphone shows how many announcements came out since you last read them. Press it to see the latest ten; press Mark as Read to mark them all as read, or press one to read it.
- View all announcements, under the megaphone, or Announcements in the side menu, lists them all, newest first, with their date. Press Read more to read one whole, and Back to announcements to return.
- Opening an announcement marks every announcement published until then as read.
An announcement can also reach you by email, when the team chose to send it that way and your Email notification switch is on, and on your devices, when push notifications are on. The email carries the whole announcement and a Read announcement button.