# Global notification, like Disqus

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-notification-like-disqus/18702
**Category:** Site feedback
**Tags:** discourse-hub
**Created:** [8월 10, 2014, 4:24오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-notification-like-disqus/18702 "2014-08-10T16:24:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![cregox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cregox/32/115904_2.png) [@cregox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cregox)
#### Post date: [8월 10, 2014, 4:24오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-notification-like-disqus/18702/1 "2014-08-10T16:24:04Z")

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You probably thought of this already, I trust there is even a topic created. But I couldn’t find it.

Now, I now Disqus ain’t exactly open source, but I think Wordpress do offer a global login. If it’s all opt-in, for the site owner and for the user, it should be fine, shouldn’t it?

I’m talking about the notification balloon up top, something like we have on StackExchange network, where we get notified for every site we belong. Makes sense?

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [8월 10, 2014, 4:41오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-notification-like-disqus/18702/2 "2014-08-10T16:41:07Z")

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Maybe in a few years, sure, but no plans for this in the immediate future. You should browse the latest topics in the Discourse Hub category.

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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [1월 8, 2016, 11:42오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-notification-like-disqus/18702/3 "2016-01-08T11:42:12Z")

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Continued here:

> [@Revitalizing the Discourse Hub](https://meta.discourse.org/t/revitalizing-the-discourse-hub/15029):
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> The original basic idea of the Discourse Hub have a reserved @username across all Discourse instances, so when someone sees @username on any Discourse forum, they’ll know it is (probably) you! … seems like kind of a bad idea in retrospect. Why? Well, if you run your own Discourse, and your name is @david, you probably want to be called @david, even if some other David reserved the name in Feburary 2013 here on meta. It is your community, after all, who are we to tell you that you can’t use y…