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Preparing for Site Migration: Notifications [1]

['Daily Kos Staff']

Date: 2026-04-10  

The new Daily Kos will have two systems of notifications that are not integrated right now. Hopefully over time we can unify them, but in the meantime, it’s good to know what you can find, where.

Viafoura is our commenting system. The most prominent system of notifications is the Viafoura bell,

the Viafoura bell

which should show up in the top right of your screen on desktop and mobile if you are logged in. If you don’t see the bell when you’re logged in, you are probably running into an issue with your ad blocker blocking Viafoura altogether. Contact help@dailykos.com for support.

The Viafoura bell has 3 tabs within it.



The first tab is the Feed. It contains notifications about people who have “liked” your comments, people replying to your comments, new content in topics you have followed, new content from users you have followed, and notifications that someone has followed your comments. Examples:

A reply to a comment

Someone followed my comments — with a button to follow them back

Someone liked my comment

There was new content posted by a topic I follow

My sockpuppet, which follows me, got a notification that I posted a diary

The garbage can on the far right of the notification will delete it.



The second tab is the “Profile” tab, which contains all the comments YOU post.





Clicking on the Settings button in the Profile tab is where you can change your avatar for comments, and turn on/off email notifications.





The Community tab is where you can see the authors and topics you follow, who follows you, and who you have muted:





The envelope notification when you are signed in will take you to any new DMs/Kosmail messages, which shows up on your WordPress profile page, not in your Viafoura tray.





clicking here

takes you to your Kosmail inbox

All of your notifications about group activity for groups you administer (requests to join, new members, changes to group roles), and private messages, are in the Notifications tab on your WordPress profile.





There are no notifications about stories posted to groups that you are a member of, or notifications for messages posted to your group’s Activity Wall.

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