# Questions About The Notification System

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-the-notification-system/204245>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [September 22, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-the-notification-system/204245 "2021-09-22T20:40:25Z")\
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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:** [February 13, 2022, 3:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-the-notification-system/204245/4 "2022-02-13T03:58:17Z")

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Broadly speaking, discourse _only_ sends you a notification when _someone is speaking **directly to you** _. That is:

- they replied to your post
- they quoted your post
- they mentioned your `@username`
- they linked to your post

As far as arbitrarily being notified about specific topics or specific categories, use the 🔔 bell icon on the topic or category and set it as you prefer.

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