Notifications and your inbox

Signed in, the bell in the header shows how many notifications you have not read, and Notifications lists them all: account security, community activity and news from Sonic Weaver. Filter the list by kind, open a notification to go to what it is about (opening it marks it read), or mark everything read at once.

• Your notifications

These are about your own account and content, so they always arrive and cannot be switched off:

• Decisions about your content
• Strikes on your account
• Changes to your account standing
• Outcomes of your appeals
• Copyright notices forwarded to you

With Community switched on in your inbox preferences, you can switch each of these off on its own. The busy ones arrive grouped, such as "3 new followers".

• New followers
• Comments on your posts
• Replies to your comments
• Likes on your posts
• Saves of your posts
• Remixes of your posts
• New posts from channels you rang the bell for
• Requests to join your private channel
• People joining your channel with an invite link

These show whenever Community is on: outcomes of your reports, answers to your requests to join a channel, your scheduled posts going live, scheduled posts that could not go out, new albums from channels you rang the bell for and creator verification decisions. Switch Community off and no community notification shows in your inbox at all.

Announcements from Sonic Weaver show under Product, which has its own switch. Settings, Preferences shows whether Community activity and Product news are on, with a link to change them.

• Preferences

While the tab is open and you are using it, the bell checks for new notifications every minute. After 5 minutes with no clicks, keys, scrolling or touches it checks every 5 minutes, and while the tab is hidden it does not check at all. Coming back to the tab checks straight away.

Sonic Weaver does not send notifications by email, push or text message, so there are no email preferences to set: everything arrives in your inbox. The one exception is the message about a first strike, which can also be emailed when your account has a confirmed address (an account that signs in with Google).

A copyright notice about your content is forwarded to you, as Canadian law requires, and listed in Settings, Copyright notices. Receiving one does not mean you did anything wrong. If staff took your content down and you have the rights to it, you can send a counter-notice from there.

• Copyright notices