Notifications

Choose how you hear about activity — in-app is always on; email and push are optional.

fellos has three ways it can reach you: in-app (inside fellos), email, and push. The page says it plainly at the top: "In-app notifications are always on. Choose whether to also receive email and push notifications." Email and push are delivery channels you can opt into, and they're only available if your site admin has configured them for your organization.

There are two cards on the page. Delivery channels covers where notifications get sent. Digest & update emails covers four kinds of periodic email that are separate from notifications.

The Delivery channels card on the notification settings page — The **Delivery channels** card — the **Digest & update emails** card sits below it.

Opening the Page

Click your name in the top bar, then Notifications in the menu that opens. The page is labeled ACCOUNT above its title, and has six switches across two cards:

Delivery channels — Email notifications, Push notifications.
Digest & update emails — Getting started, Digests, Milestones, Re-engagement.

Each of the six is a plain on/off switch, on a row with its name and a one-line description of what it does.

In-App Notifications

In-app notifications are always on and can't be turned off. They're the primary way you see what's going on — new posts in your groups, replies to your comments, changes to requests you're involved in, and so on.

You read them from the bell in the top bar, which carries a count of the ones you haven't read yet.

Email Notifications

Turn on Email notifications to have notifications emailed to you. The row says where they go: "Sent to your account email address." Useful when you're not actively in fellos.

Your site has one more switch above yours: an admin can turn automated email off for the whole site, and while it's off no member receives email for notifications, digests, milestones or activation prompts, whatever their own setting says. Invitation and password-reset email is always delivered either way. So if you've turned email on and nothing arrives, that site-wide setting is the thing to ask your admin about.

Push Notifications

Turn on Push notifications to have alerts delivered to your phone or desktop as system notifications.

Push has to be set up for your site before you can use it. Until it is, the row reads "Push delivery is not configured for this site," and the switch is greyed out — clicking it does nothing, so there's nothing you can do from your side but ask your admin. You may also need to grant your browser permission to show notifications the first time push works for you.

Digest & Update Emails

The second card holds four switches. These are periodic emails about your account and your club rather than notifications about a specific thing that happened, and each one can be turned off on its own:

Getting started — "Tips for setting up and getting the most out of your account."
Digests — "Periodic summaries of activity in your club."
Milestones — "Anniversaries and celebratory milestones."
Re-engagement — "Occasional nudges when you have been away."

What these four are not

They are categories of digest and update email — not a way to choose which notifications you get. There's no switch here for "email me about new posts but not about milestones". Which notification types exist for you is decided by your site admin per member type, and some types are marked as always sent, so you can't opt out of those at all. What you control on this page is the delivery channel (email, push) and these four digest categories.

If You Accidentally Blocked Push in the Browser

If your browser asks for notification permission and you click "Block," push won't work until you re-allow it in your browser's site settings. The exact steps depend on your browser — look for Notifications under site permissions for your fellos URL and switch it back to Allow.