How do notifications work?
If someone posts on your profile you will get a notification indication in the navigation on the top of the page and in your https://fetlife.com/notifications page.
You will be notified there when someone:
- comments, loves, or superloves any of your status updates, pictures, videos or writings
- comments on someone else's post you turned on comment notifications for
- mentions you
- follows you
- accepts your friend request
- changes their relationship status with you
Additionally, you'll also receive FetLife Support related notifications.
Finding the notifications you want
- Use the All, Friends, Comments, and Mentions tabs at the top of the page to filter your notifications. See How do I filter my notifications?
- When one member loves several of your posts, or several members love the same post, we group those loves into one notification. See Why are some love notifications grouped together?
- On the All tab, a "previously seen" line separates new notifications from ones you've already seen. See What does the "previously seen" line in my notifications mean?
- You can scroll back through your most recent 3,000 notifications. Older ones drop off as new ones come in.
Getting notified about comments on other posts
You can turn on comment notifications for another member's post from its "..." menu. See How do I get notified about new comments on someone else's post?
Push and email notifications
You can also get push notifications on your device and emails for many notification types, including superloves. See How do I choose which notifications I get by push or email?
Mentions
So why do people type @yourname in the first place? It just makes the conversation easier to follow if there are a bunch of people. For example:
@person1 I agree with you totally
@person2 You're dead wrong!
Mentioning someone in a thread makes it clear who you are talking to, and they'll see it in their notifications. Whether they also get a push notification or email depends on their Notification Settings.