What are guardian notifications?
Guardian notifications are an easy way to follow your favourite guardian series for example ‘the running blog’. We will email you with a notification whenever a new article is published about a subject that you are interested in so that you never have to miss out.
How do I subscribe to a notification?
Simply click the ‘follow’ button from a guardian article page, series page or author profile page. You’ll need to have a free Guardian ID to use this feature.
What is a ‘series’?
We use a series tag to combine together themes of articles published over time, so for example the ‘How to cook the perfect...’ series has been running for quite a while and has new content added to the series every week.
How do I unsubscribe from notifications?
At the moment you can easily unsubscribe from notifications at the bottom of each email that we send out. In time we plan to move an unsubscribe feature to your profile page if the features is a success.
Why is the feature in beta?
We’ve never tried these types of notifications before and we want to test out how they work before rolling them out site-wide. If you like them we plan to make them available for most if not all series content and for all guardian author pages.
Do you have any future plans for notifications?
Yes, this is just the beginning of being able to personalise your experience with the guardian. So watch this space and please let us know if there are any specific features that you would like to see.
My favourite series / author doesn’t have a follow button, why?
We are just starting out with some series and authors while we test out the feature and will keep adding to this as we go. If you have an author or series you want to follow, drop us an email.
I don’t see the follow button on the mobile site or in my iphone or android app – why?
Follow notifications are only available on the desktop website at the moment. However if they work we will consider making them available on mobile. Of course the email that gets sent out can be viewed from your mobile and you can choose to read the content as usual from the desktop or mobile websites.
What’s different about this vs following via RSS or twitter or facebook?
We know that some of our users do not follow twitter feeds or our facebook pages and would prefer an email format. Some people just prefer email and we’d like to see how this works out for them.