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General Discussion

In-App Notifications

Hey everyone!

We just launched an awesome new feature: in-app notifications. From now on you'll receive live notifications for four initial events:

  • Someone replies to a forum post you're subscribed to
  • A new project gets added to a course you have progress in
  • A new stage gets added to a project you have progress in
  • Treehouse makes an announcement

When one of the above happens, you'll see a little red unread notification badge with a number show up on the bell icon in the top, right-hand corner of the website. Just click on the bell and you can see the notification. When you close the notification dropdown, the notifications it contains will be marked as "read" and the red badge will disappear.

Pro Tip: If you don't want to mark all of the notifications as "read" you can hit escape and the dropdown will close without marking its notifications as read. :smiley:

We're pretty excited about this new addition to Treehouse and hope you will be too!

:shipit:

95 Answers

Oh snap, this is going to be awesome :+1:

Keeps getting awesome in here !

Thank you!

Nice

Very cool! I think I have a notification waiting now! :)

Fantastic guys!

Great it's now easy to see if you have an notification from previous post. Kudo Treehouse

Nice addition, cheers guys.

Neato burrito!

:smile: Awesome work, guys!

Nice

Sweet!

Awesome! This is exactly what was needed.

Awesome work Team! :)

Great

I love you guys. Treehouse is awesome.

That is awesome. :)

Nice!

Right on! ;o)

I think this is a good way to keep people engaging with the site without having to switch between the different pages of the site, back and forth. Good addition to the toolbar.

EPIC

This is awesome!

I love Treehouse!

Cool, notifications of new courses!

Checkout what I'VE LEARNED at TeamTreehouse biotches: http://teamtreehouse.com/max

The new shout out.

Thanks TTH! max

P.S. How can I get rid of the "Newbie" badge at the top of my profile. It's seriously cramping my style yo! lol

woot!

Treehouse solves all the problems.

This is great!

That's awesome!

This is awesome, great job :)

this is good news for all, great job...

thanks

Kool! Great Job

I like it!!

nice :D

This is super awesome :D

Great idea! This will make keeping up with topics that have pending new videos/tests/challenges much easier!

Kapooya Kapooya :)

Not sure If this is a bug or even possible, but I have received 29 e-mails so far from this forum post, kind of excessive. Maybe make it so that you could opt out of receiving e-mails when someone else posts a reply. Just an idea.

Keep it up, love this site!

Dane

@Dane You can unsubscribe from the thread at the top of the post. This will stop the e-mails :)

Awesome added feature guys! Glad to be a part of this :)

win!

That's perfect! I am always checking to see if there are any new lessons, so it will be nice to have the notifications :)

Nick Pettit
STAFF
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher

Dane,

If you scroll to the top of any post (like this one), just hit the "Unsubscribe" button and you'll no longer receive emails or notifications.

Nick

I approve this message.

Much needed addition

ayo! Nice feature team.

Cool.

awesome ;)

Great!! Can't wait till u teach us how to code it in the last badge of Advanced Ruby Social app course :)

nice one

That's pretty foxy. Kudos! Any chance of adding it as a Chrome notification? #moononastick

Nice!

+1 on the Chrome Notification request, would be awesome like a iPhone APP to see all the paths to finish courses and adventures if data shows members would want that overwhelmingly...

nice

Loving it!!!

Love it!

Thank you, I love it!

coolcoocool. Keep it up Treehouse!

This is so nice... Great work guys:)

This is awesome. Will there be any tutorials on how to create something like this? That's a really cool feature.

Dope.

Thanks, that's handy as all get out. I really appreciate it.

Sounds Grate, Thanks!

Super awesome!

Nice!

I love this website.

Things keep getting more and more awesomer.

Yes they do Ken, yes they do.

That's great!!

I didn't get a notification for the new UX stage even though I've completed the first stage?

BAM!

Tommy Morgan
STAFF
Tommy Morgan
Treehouse Guest Teacher

@Joss that was because we didn't send one until just a little while ago. They should be more timely going forward :)

Tommy Morgan
STAFF
Tommy Morgan
Treehouse Guest Teacher

@Suleiman, Kevin, and anyone else who wanted Chrome/Safari desktop notifications...

I got curious last night about how hard it would be to add those, and it turns out the answer is "not very hard at all." So they're in the app now. Just go to your notifications setting page (https://teamtreehouse.com/account/notifications) and check out the section titled "Enable Desktop Notifications."

As far as I'm aware this feature will only work in Chrome and Safari currently, although support for other browsers might be forthcoming.

very cool indeed. Keep up the good work!

Like!

Really Nice! Thanks a lot!

Sweet! :)

Tight!

Wow, that's great :)

@Tommy Now that was some rapid turnaround. Cheers feller!

:D great new feature.

Thanks!

@Tommy - Pretty sweet you can turn on Desktop notifications now.

I know of course in Chrome you can go to [chrome://settings/contentExceptions#notifications](chrome://settings/contentExceptions#notifications) to turn notifications off.

Although I think it would be a good idea from a UX perspective to be able to turn off the Desktop notifications on that same settings page.

Tommy Morgan
STAFF
Tommy Morgan
Treehouse Guest Teacher

@James - notifications can only be disabled manually using your browser security settings - there's no way (right now, at least) for us to programmatically disable those notifications from our app.

One another good feature from suggestions! ;)

good job

Nice feature added, thanks!

This is absolutely awesome! Looks like I joined at the right time haha. :)

very nice!

Awesome!

This site just keeps on getting better and better (:

Like!!!

Awesome update!

Awesome!

Cool!