Follow a Category
At the top of each category, you should see a bell icon at the top of each Category page.
NOTE: By default, all Categories will be set to Unfollow, giving you the freedom to choose which ones you want to follow.
Following a Category adds it to the Followed Categories section of your Profile > Notifications Preferences page. From here, you can manage the notification option for each Category at any time via the Email and Popup checkboxes.
Notification options
To follow a Category, click the bell icon and select one of the four available notification options:
Follow
- Adds the Category to your Followed Categories on your preferences page, but does not check the Email or Popup boxes (i.e., no notifications are enabled, though you can manually change that later).
Discussions
- Adds the Category to your Followed Categories on your preferences page and checks the Popup box.
- By default, you'll receive popup notifications whenever new discussions are posted to the Category.
Discussions and Comments
- Adds the Category to your Followed Categories on your preferences page and checks the Popup box.
- By default, you'll receive popup notifications whenever new discussions and comments are posted to the Category.
Unfollow
- By default, all Categories are set to Unfollow until you choose to follow them. If you’re already following a Category, you can set it to Unfollow at any time to disable all notifications and remove it from your list of Followed Categories.
Notes
- Followed Categories are indicated by a solid bell icon for easy visual reference.
- If you choose to receive Email notifications for a Category, the text in the Category notification dialog will update to read Notify of all new discussions by email / Notify of all new posts by email (as shown below).
Notification Preferences page
When the Category Following feature is enabled, the Followed Categories section is added to your profile’s Notification Preferences page, making it easy to:
- See which Categories you're currently following
- Update their notification options at any time using the Email and Popup checkboxes
