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# Notification settings
DevPlace notifies you when something involves you: a comment on your post, a reply to your comment, a
mention, an upvote on your work, a new follower, a direct message, a badge, a level-up, or an update
on an issue you filed. You decide which reach you, and how.
Each notification type is delivered on two independent channels:
- **In-app** - the notification appears on DevPlace (the bell in the top navigation and the
`/notifications` page). While you have DevPlace open, an enabled in-app notification also raises a
live, click-through toast in real time, and the unread bell and message badges update instantly,
so you see it without reloading.
- **Push** - a native web push notification is sent to the devices where you enabled push.
The channels are independent: you can keep a type in-app but silence its push, or the reverse. The
live toast rides the in-app channel: silence a type's in-app box and it neither lands in your bell nor
pops a toast.
## 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.
Each notification type is one row with two checkboxes, **In-app** and **Push**. Ticking or unticking a
box 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 |
| Issue tracker | there is an update on an issue report you filed |
| Reminders | a reminder or scheduled task you asked Devii to run fires |
## 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 no longer follows later changes to the default.
Use **Reset to defaults** at the bottom of the tab to clear all of your choices and return to the
platform defaults.
## Turning push on
Toggling **Push** for a type only takes effect once you have enabled push notifications on the device
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:
> 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 to the defaults (it asks
you to confirm a reset first, since that clears all of your choices).
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