The bell — everything in one place, never a flood

Every mention, invitation, message-you-missed, and purchase update lands in one inbox behind the bell — and repeats collapse into a single line, so a busy day reads as five items, not five hundred.

How it works

The bell count is your "new since I last looked" number. Opening the panel clears the count; the items stay until you've read them.
Every notification is kept, not fleeting — miss a toast, close a tab, switch devices: the inbox has it. History stays browsable for months.
Repeats stack. If the same thing happens 40 times — the same person mentioning you in a thread, the same system event repeating — you see one line with a counter ("×40") that floats to the top on new activity. Once you read it, the counter starts fresh next time.

Seen vs read

Seen = you opened the panel (the bell count clears).
Read = you dealt with an item (it stops counting as open, and eventually retires). "Mark all read" is always one click.

Where else notifications can reach you

The inbox is home base, but not the only doorstep — the same notifications can reach your connected messaging apps, by your rules: Notified your way.

Good habits

Don't fear leaving items unread — unread items never expire out from under you; only read ones retire (after ~90 days).

Did you know? If something ever goes genuinely haywire and produces thousands of events, the system refuses to bury you: it collapses the flood into one "storm" message with a live counter, and posts a summary when it's over. The busiest hour of the platform's life still reads as one line in your inbox.