Choose your notifications

Set what Gathrings tells you about and whether it arrives in the app, by email, or both — every notification type explained.

Go to Settings → Notifications. Every kind of notification has its own row, with two switches: In-App and Email.

They're independent. Turn both on for things you can't miss, In-App only for things you'll see when you next open Gathrings, both off for things you don't care about.

Membership

Notification	When it fires
Join request received	Someone asks to join a ring you organize
Join request approved	You're let in somewhere you asked to join
Join request declined	You're not
Invitation received	Someone invites you to a ring or an event
New member joined	Someone new joins a ring you organize

The first and last are organizer notifications. If you don't run anything, they'll never fire.

Events

Notification	When it fires
New event published	A ring you follow puts something on the calendar
Event details changed	Time, date or place moved
Event canceled	It's off
Event reminder	Shortly before an event you're going to

Event details changed and Event canceled are the two worth keeping on email. They're the ones where finding out late means standing outside a locked door.

RSVPs and comments

Notification	When it fires
RSVP confirmed	Your own RSVP went through
RSVP received (host)	Someone RSVPs to your event
Comment on your event	Someone comments on an event you're hosting

RSVP received can be noisy on a popular event. In-App only is a reasonable setting — you'll see the count when you look, without a message per person.

Connect

Notification	When it fires
Reminder to pick people after an event	A nudge to say who you'd like to see again
New mutual connection	You and someone else both said yes, and a chat is open

The reminder is time-sensitive — it's the prompt to act while you still remember who you met. If you want Connect to work, keep it on.

Getting the balance right

A rough starting point:

Email and In-App — cancellations, changes, invitations, new connections
In-App only — RSVPs to your events, comments, new members
Off — anything you've never once acted on

If you're being buzzed too often, turn off email first and keep In-App. You lose nothing — the notification is still waiting under the bell when you open the app.

Where notifications turn up

The bell in the top bar shows what's unread. Mark all as read clears the badge, and View all notifications opens the full history, which goes back further than the dropdown shows.

The Gathrings newsletter is separate from all of this, and lives in Settings → Preferences under Newsletter. Turning every notification off won't unsubscribe you, and unsubscribing won't stop notifications about your own events.