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Topic notifications

In Zulip, you can configure how you get notified about new messages for topics you follow.

In muted channels, topics you follow are automatically treated as unmuted, and you can configure when to automatically unmute topics.

Configure notifications for followed topics

Section titled “Configure notifications for followed topics”
  1. Go to Notifications.
  2. In the Notification triggers table, toggle the settings for Followed topics.

Automatically follow topics

Section titled “Automatically follow topics”

Follow topics you start or participate in

  1. Go to Notifications.
  2. Under Topic notifications, select the desired option from the Automatically follow topics based on my participation dropdown.

Follow topics where you are mentioned

You can automatically follow topics where you are personally mentioned. If this setting is enabled:

  • You will automatically follow topics where you are personally mentioned, but group mentions and wildcard mentions (@all, @topic, etc.) will not affect topic status.
  • You will automatically follow topics in muted channels when you are mentioned.
  • Mentions will not cause you to automatically follow topics you have explicitly muted.
  1. Go to Notifications.
  2. Under Topic notifications, toggle Automatically follow topics where I’m mentioned.

Automatically unmute topics in muted channels

Section titled “Automatically unmute topics in muted channels”
  1. Go to Notifications.
  2. Under Topic notifications, select the desired option from the Automatically unmute topics in muted channels dropdown.
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