Lounge Notifications: Following categories and notification preferences

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Never miss a post by following your favorite categories and getting notifications via popup or directly to your email for new content. This has two parts:

• Following Categories: This covers getting notifications for posts and comments in entire categories.
• Notification Preferences: This covers getting notifications for new comments on posts you make, mentions, status updates on Feature Request ideas, and more.

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Following categories

1. Go to the category (or subcategory) that you want to follow.
2. Click the Bell icon at the top of its recent discussion list.
3. Click Follow Category.
   
   
   
4. Check the boxes by the notification type you want.
   
   Pop Notifications: Check the boxes under the Bell icon to get Pop Notifications in the Springshare Lounge. These notifications appear in the bottom left of the screen, and then add to the Notifications Bell icon in the top right navigation bar.
   
   Email Notifications: Check the boxes under the Inbox Tray icon to get an email alerting you to the new content.
   
   
   

We recommend following these categories: 😎

• Release Notes — from here, click into the subcategories for each Springy product to which you subscribe, to get targeted Release Notes for just those tools.
• Springy Community Announcements — this includes alerts for unexpected outages.

What if you just want to keep tabs on the posts you're participating in? Or how about managing all of your followed categories on one page? For this and other options, head to…

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Notification Preferences

See your general account Notification Preference here — https://lounge.springshare.com/profile/preferences — or you can:

1. Click the Bell icon in the top right.
2. Click the Settings icon.
   
   
   
3. Review your preferences and make changes as desired. As with following categories, check the boxes by the notification type you want:
   
   Pop Notifications: Check the boxes under the Bell icon to get Pop Notifications in the Springshare Lounge. These notifications appear in the bottom left of the screen, and then add to the Notifications Bell icon in the top right navigation bar.
   
   Email Notifications: Check the boxes under the Inbox Tray icon to get an email alerting you to the new content.
   
   
4. Click the link for Manage Followed Categories to see all of the categories you follow and manage your notifications from one page.
   
   
   
   Note: The Category notification preferences chosen here will set the default. Settings you make in individual categories will override this default, so if you aren't seeing what you expect, head to Manage Followed Categories to check your settings there, too. 🤓

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This is a lot to review and consider! 😅 The range of options and flexibility here will hopefully help you target and keep tabs on exactly what you're interested in.