Notifications
How Feedjolt notifications work over email and Slack. Covers event types, subscriptions, the Weekly Jolt, the daily admin digest, vote thresholds, and email preferences.
Two delivery channels: email and Slack. (More on the way.) Both are driven by the same event types and subscriptions.
Event types
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
post.created | A new post was created on a board. |
post.merged | A post was merged into another. |
post.moderated | A draft post was approved or rejected. |
status.changed | A post's status changed. |
comment.created | A new comment was posted (public or internal). |
vote.threshold | A post crossed a configured vote count. |
changelog.published | A new changelog entry went live. |
Subscriptions
A subscription says "send me X event for Y resource via Z channel".
- Resource - a workspace, a board, or a single post.
- Channel - email (per user) or Slack (per channel mapping).
End users automatically subscribe to their own posts (status changes + comments). Members subscribe per their preferences at Dashboard -> Settings -> Notifications.
End users get an email when:
- The status of a post they authored changes.
- A new comment is posted on a post they authored, voted on, or are subscribed to.
Members get email per their personal subscriptions. Defaults are conservative - only events you explicitly subscribe to.
Every email has a one-click unsubscribe (RFC 8058 compliant). Clicking removes that specific subscription, not your account.
Weekly Jolt
Owners and admins get one AI summary email per week: up to five signals from last week's feedback, with links to the posts that support each signal.
Post links open the dashboard (/dashboard/boards/{board}/posts/{id}), not the public portal. Internal and private tickets 404 on the portal; the dashboard is the recipient's workspace.
Configure day, time, timezone, and language at Dashboard → Settings → Notifications. Archive of past Jolts is linked from that card.
Daily admin digest
One email per workspace per day, summarising new end-user posts on your boards. Owners and admins receive it. The workspace stays quiet on days with no new posts.
What goes in the digest
- End-user posts (web, widget, JWT-SSO submissions, and approved email-intake)
- Posts published in the last 24 hours
- Up to 5 posts per board, with an overflow link to see the rest
What doesn't go in
- Posts you (or other admins) created
- Imported posts (Canny, CSV)
- Drafts and posts held by moderation
- Boards with the digest toggle turned off
How to control it
- Per board: Board settings → Notifications → "Include this board in the daily admin digest." On by default.
- Per admin (personal): Email preferences page → toggle off "Daily admin digest" to opt yourself out without affecting your teammates.
- Workspace timing: the digest fires once per day. By default at 09:00 UTC; workspace-level timezone configuration is on the roadmap.
Slack
Configure channel mappings at Dashboard -> Integrations -> Slack. For each channel, pick which events to deliver. Workspace-wide or per-board.
See Slack integration for setup.
Webhooks
For programmatic integrations beyond Slack, use outgoing webhooks. Same events, signed payload, your endpoint.
See Webhooks.
Vote thresholds
vote.threshold is a special event. Subscribe with a threshold value (e.g., 50) and you'll get notified when any post in scope crosses that threshold.
Thresholds fire once per post - crossing 50 triggers, dropping below and back doesn't.
Email preferences
End users manage their email preferences at feedjolt.com/p/{slug}/email-preferences - accessible via any unsubscribe link in any email. Members manage at Dashboard -> Settings -> Notifications.
Quiet hours
Not currently supported. We've heard the request; it's on the roadmap.
Saved views
Bookmark a filter and sort combo on a Feedjolt board's posts list. Personal, per-board saved views: how to use them, what gets saved, limits and plan tiers.
Public portal
Your Feedjolt portal is the public face of your workspace: feed, boards, roadmap, changelog and widget. Visibility rules, sign-in, URLs, SEO and turning it off.