{% set uname = user.get('username') if user else 'YOUR_USERNAME' %}
# Notification settings
DevPlace notifies you when things happen that involve you: someone comments on your post, replies to
your comment, mentions you, upvotes your work, follows you, sends you a direct message, or when you
earn a badge, level up, or get an update on a bug you filed. You decide which of these reach you, and
how.
Each notification type can be delivered on two independent channels:
- **In-app** - the notification appears on DevPlace (the bell in the top navigation and the
`/notifications` page).
- **Push** - a native web push notification is sent to the devices where you enabled push.
The two channels are separate: you can keep a type in-app but silence its push, or the other way
around.
## Where to find it
Open your profile and choose the **Notifications** tab, or go straight to
`/profile/{{ uname }}?tab=notifications`. The tab is private: only you (and administrators) can see or
change your settings.
You get one row per notification type with two checkboxes, **In-app** and **Push**. Tick or untick a
box and it saves immediately - there is no separate save button.
## What each type covers
| Type | Fires when |
|------|------------|
| Comments | someone comments on your post |
| Replies | someone replies to your comment |
| Mentions | someone mentions you with `@username` |
| Upvotes | someone `++`'d your post, comment, project, or gist |
| Followers | someone starts following you |
| Direct messages | someone sends you a message |
| Badges | you earn a badge |
| Level-ups | you reach a new level |
| Bug tracker | there is an update on a bug report you filed |
## Defaults
Every type and channel is **on** until you turn it off, so notifications work out of the box. A type
you have never changed follows the platform default; once you tick or untick a box, your choice is
remembered and is no longer affected by later changes to the default.
Use **Reset to defaults** at the bottom of the tab to clear all of your choices at once and go back to
the platform defaults.
## Turning push on
Toggling **Push** for a type only has an effect once you have enabled push notifications on the
device, which you do with the bell-with-slash button in the top navigation or on the `/notifications`
page. Until then, push has nowhere to be delivered. See
[Push notifications](/docs/push.html) for the device-side setup.
## Ask Devii
You can change these settings in plain language through the Devii assistant, for example:
> Turn off push notifications for upvotes.
> Stop notifying me about new followers entirely.
Devii reads your current settings, makes the change, and can reset everything back to the defaults
(it asks you to confirm a reset first, since that clears all of your choices).
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