Notifications

Bonfire keeps you up to date with activity relevant to you—such as new followers, mentions, replies, boosts, and more.

Types of Notifications

• Follows: When someone follows one of your profiles.
• Requests: When someone requests to follow a private profile.
• Mentions: When someone mentions you in a post (such as in a reply to your post).
• Boosts: When someone boosts (shares) your post.
• Likes: When someone likes your post.
• Other: Depending on enabled extensions, you may receive notifications for events, polls, group activity, etc.

Viewing and Filtering Notifications

• Access notifications from the bell icon or the Notifications link in the navigation bar.
• Filter notifications by type (e.g. only mentions, only follows), by source (remote/local), or by time period.
• Sort notifications chronologically or by type.

Managing Notifications

• Click on a notification to view more details or interact (e.g. follow back, reply).
• Use the filter and sort options at the top to focus on what matters most.
• Mark notifications as read or clear them as needed (with the button at the top right).

Notification Preferences

• Adjust which notifications you receive (and how) in your account settings. <!--
  • You can silence notifications from specific users or circles. TODO: https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire-app/issues/717 -->

Tips

• Use filters to avoid notification overload.
• Review your notification settings to match your preferences.
• Notifications are separate for each of your profiles—switch profiles to see activity relevant to each.

• For more on managing your connections, see Finding people & Following.
• For privacy and moderation, see Blocking & Moderation Tools.