Notifications
The bell icon (top nav) is a per-user in-app inbox — /notifications/
— that fires for things that need your attention, without needing to
go check every page yourself.
For every user
- Mentions — someone typed
@yourusernamein a post, PM, or
shout. - Replies — someone replied to a thread you posted in.
- Private messages — a new PM arrived.
- Subscriptions — a new post landed in a board you've
subscribed to. - Achievement unlocks — a badge/achievement you earned.
For sysops — admin-review notifications
Every is_admin=True user additionally gets notified about five
things that need a sysop's review, so nobody has to manually check
each admin page for new work:
- MSP federation registry join requests — once a registrant
verifies their contact email (not the earlier, unverified
registration step, which isn't yet actionable). See
ANotherNetwork. - QWK node applications — a sysop applied for a QWK node number,
via the API or the terminal wizard. See QWK. - New users pending NUV approval — a new signup needs manual
sysop approval. Plain email-verification-only signups don't trigger
this — those resolve themselves with no sysop action needed. - Unknown/bad echomail areas — inbound mail arrived tagged for an
area this BBS doesn't carry. Fires once per newly-discovered area,
not once per message. See Echomail. - Network join applications — someone submitted the public
"apply to join this network" form. See ANotherNetwork.
Preferences
/notifications/settings lets you turn any kind off individually —
default is on for everything. The five admin-review kinds only show
up on this page for admin accounts; a regular user's settings page
never shows toggles for notifications they could never receive.