Notifications are a great way for you to find out if you have new followers, post comments, or new messages. For any new activity on your blog you’ll see a notification badge above the activity icon (lightning) in the top bar of your dashboard. Clicking on the activity icon will open your blog activity displaying the latest activity on your blog.
You can select which blog’s activity to view by clicking on the blog name and selecting a different blog from the drop-down menu. Clicking “See everything” at the bottom of this pop-up will take you to your blog’s full activity dashboard.
On web, to get to your notification settings:
- Click the “Settings” menu item on the left.
- Click “Notifications” in the right sidebar.
You will see a list of your blogs. Clicking the pencil icon besides each blog let’s you change the setting for that blog.
Here, you can change your email notification settings (see section below) as well as choose to only receive a new notification badge from only some users:
- From nobody
- From people you follow
- From everyone
If you choose to hide notifications from some groups via the above setting you’ll still be able to see their activity on your blog in your blog activity but you won’t be alerted to new activity from these users via a badge notification over the activity icon.
For push notifications, please see our articles on push notifications for Android and iOS.
If you’ve received a notification from a terminated, deleted, or spam account, you might see a notification appear next to the Activity tab, even though the notification isn’t visible. This issue can also cause the number of notifications to be mismatched with the actual number of visible notifications.
You can choose to receive email notifications about the following activities: New followers, new comments, new submissions, mentions, new asks and answered asks.
To enable email notifications:
- Visit your notification settings.
- Click the pencil icon next to any blog you’d like to update, and turn the toggles on for the types of emails you’d like to receive.
- Choose who you’d like to receive those notifications from in the “Notifications” drop-down.
- Click “Save.”
Tips:
- To keep from flooding your inbox or tripping your spam filter, we’ll only send you the first few dozen notifications per day.
- If you’re not receiving email notifications that you expect to receive, check out our article on Email troubleshooting.
One of your posts broke containment and now your notifications and activity are being flooded! What can you do? You can mute notifications and activity (likes, reblogs, comments, etc.) about any of your posts, either temporarily or permanently.
To mute notifications on a specific post:
- Navigate to the post on your blog in bluespace (e.g. https://tumblr.com/blog/username or https://tumblr.com/username)
- Click the meatballs in the top right corner of the post
- Select “Mute notifications”
- Choose for how long you want to mute notifications. You can choose between:
- 8 hours
- Til tomorrow
- Til next week
- Forever
Activity and push notifications for that post are muted for the time period selected starting from when you selected to mute notifications. During that time, activity won’t be created, and push notifications won’t be sent for that post.
Muting notifications on a post does not remove previous activity or push notifications that were received before the post’s notifications were muted.
While notifications on a post are muted, activity for that post will not be recorded in your blog’s activity. All activity will still be visible in the notes on the post which you can view by clicking the notes in the post’s footer.
You can subscribe to a blog you follow to get notifications whenever it’s updated with a fresh post. You would get a blue dot on the ‘Home’ left menu on web if you have the ‘Following’ tab as default, and a push notification on your app.
- Tap on the person-shaped icon in the upper right corner of a blog you follow (or on the web), click on the blog in your dashboard and the meatballs menu (●●●).
- Next, tap or click “Get notifications.”
- You can also subscribe by visiting their URL and clicking the “Get Notifications” button that appears in the top right corner of the screen. If you’ve subscribed to a blog, you’ll see a small lightning bolt next to the person-shaped icon when you view that blog.
To stop notifications, tap or click the person-shaped icon again and tap “Stop notifications.” If you unfollow a blog, you will no longer be subscribed and notifications will stop.
