Bonfire tells you about activity that concerns you: new followers, mentions, replies, boosts, and more. You decide what you hear about, and how.
Your notifications page
Open Notifications from the navigation. Latest shows everything; the tabs along the top narrow it down:
- Mentions: posts that mention or address you.
- Replies: replies to your posts and in discussions you started, without a mention.
- Requests: someone asking to follow one of your profiles, to join a group you moderate, or to quote your post.
- Boosts: someone boosted (shared) your post.
- Reactions: someone liked or reacted to your post.
- Follows: someone followed one of your profiles.
- Messages: direct messages sent to you.
- Other: everything else, such as replies in discussions you asked to hear about (see the bell below), and activity from extensions like events.
Moderators also see reports there.
Notifications are separate for each of your profiles: switch profiles to see each one's.
The bell
Use the bell to hear about new things, beyond what concerns you directly:
- On a person or a group, Notify me about new posts.
- On a discussion, Notify me about replies, even for a single branch of a long thread.
It stays off until you press it: following someone or joining a group doesn't turn it on. Press it again (Stop notifying me) to stop.
Choosing what you hear about, and how
Press the settings button on your notifications page to open Notify me about. For each kind of notification you can choose:
- Show in Latest: whether it appears on your main notifications page.
- Push: whether it pops up on your phone or computer.
- Email: Off, in the Digest, or Instant.
Email digest sets how often the kinds you left to the digest are emailed together: Daily, Weekly or Monthly, or Never. One digest covers all the profiles on your account, with a section for each.
To turn on push notifications, allow them in your browser or the app when asked, on each device you use.
Hide notifications and messages from lets you hide, from both: mentions and messages from people you don't follow (unless they're replying to you), or anything from people you don't follow, from people who don't follow you, or from people new to this instance. What's hidden is kept under the Hidden tab.
Unsubscribe… stops every bell at once: either the ones on people, groups, posts and comments you follow, or everything, your own posts and comments included.
Tips
- Leave the bell off for busy groups, and use their page or your feed to catch up instead.
- Send the kinds you don't need straight away to the digest.
- For more on managing your connections, see Finding people & Following.
- For privacy and moderation, see Blocking & Moderation Tools.