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ao3 notifications

If you’ve never posted a fic on AO3, you might be curious about what notifications an author gets – and which ones they don’t get.

There are 2 things that AO3 will notify authors about:

1. kudos
2. comments

Once per day, AO3 sends out an email listing all of the kudos an author has received in the last 24 hours. It’s in the format:

username, username, username, and 5 guests left kudos on fic

Any logged in user who left kudos on the fic will be named in the list. Anyone who isn’t logged in when they leave kudos will be added to the total number of guests. All of the kudos on all of that authors fics are listed out in the same email.

For comments, the author receives an email notification each time a comment is left. The email contains the text of your comment as well as a link to the fic, a link to reply to your comment, and a think to the thread your comment belongs to. Every comment gets its own email.

Authors do not get notifications about:

• bookmarks
• subscriptions
• downloads
• anything that isn’t a kudos or a comment

Some authors choose to turn off comment and/or kudos email notifications, and then they don’t receive those emails. Comments still appear in the author’s AO3 inbox, and kudos are still listed out at the bottom of each individual fic.