Community Suggestion: Notify Followers at the World Level (Not Just Articles)
Notify Followers at the World Level (Not Just Articles)
New Feature Addition · World management · Created by kaixabu
accepted
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
At the moment, world owners can notify followers of updates only when tied to specific articles. This is helpful for content revisions, but it doesn’t cover broader world-related updates—such as structural changes, feature additions, event announcements, or community notes—that fall outside of an article edit. There is no way to send a simple, world-level broadcast to followers for non-article updates.How does this feature request address the current situation?
Adding a world-level broadcast tool would allow creators to send notifications directly to followers (and optionally to linked Discord channels) without requiring an article edit as the trigger. It aligns with the existing notification system’s workflow but expands its usefulness to general world management and communication.What are other uses for this feature request?
A world-level broadcast could also support things like downtime notices (WIP masss changes), theme or layout changes, milestone announcements, collaboration calls, and general community engagement—any update important enough to share but not tied to a specific article.Follow up
I may be wrong here but the current notification options I know of are (depending on subscription): 1) Article Specific to World Followers, Discord or Recent Articles 2) Timelines to World Followers 3) Community Post (Global - More than just followers) 4) Journal Post (Author's Profile or Global/Community Followers, not World) I see some work arounds, but nothing that says.. "Hey I added a new Global Menu" or "Theme updates", etc.
The Team's Response
Thanks for the suggestion! We're accepting this under investigation; we need to have a wider internal conversation about notification and community features and this will be part of that.
Current score
13/300 Votes · +3000 points
Votes Cast
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+300
by 339X
on 2025-11-22 23:04 -
+300
by A Goodhearted Mlem
on 2025-11-22 16:10 -
+300
by Gregorian
on 2025-11-22 08:43 -
+300
by Nulcheck
on 2025-11-19 16:48 -
+300
by amelianite
on 2025-11-17 00:47 -
+300
by ss2020
on 2025-11-15 01:58 -
+100
by JoellaKay
on 2025-11-14 21:54 -
+300
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+100
by Alikzander_Wulfe
on 2025-11-14 16:35 -
+1
by DMFW
on 2025-11-13 18:59I'm not against this idea but I should say I personally think it is a better solution to maintain your own "What's New / Announcements" type page where you can write whatever you like in whatever depth you desire (with suitable links) and notify your followers of an update to that page. This has a further advantage that later newcomers to your world, or those that miss an announcement for any reason can always go to that page to see as much of the history of your creative creation as you want to share. I should say it is also interesting for your own benefit to see this history. It doesn't take long just to jot down a brief summary and since I've started doing this I value the change log I'm building.
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+300
by Ratha
on 2025-11-13 17:12 -
+100
by Those2Nerds
on 2025-11-13 17:08Timelines got their own notification options, so I suspect other features will once they get overhauled. I'm not sure if homepages are included in that, but it would be a great add. Our current options are community posts, which don't notify World followers (only author followers), and writing a meta article explaining the changes and notifying on that. Something more direct would be very helpful.
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-1
by A Beloved Goblin
on 2025-11-13 15:18The Post / Journal entry feature on our user profile page already does this, if I'm understanding you correctly. When I make a post, I know my followers see it, and you can spend coins to push it to the global community board if you want.
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+300
by kaixabu
on 2025-11-13 14:28
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