# Managing Discord Notifications

By [Gavin Birch](https://paragraph.com/@birch) · 2021-12-23

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Many crypto communities are using Discord (for now). I’m in dozens of them. Have you found Discord notifications to be unmanageable? Me too. Here’s how I dealt with them.

**Mute the server right after joining.**

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/5d20c1350ea9bc981be0339be72074d87ef1918892cc03ac7a29fa15039e3467.png)

**Change notification settings** so that you only get `@notifications`. Suppress `@everyone` and `@here` and suppress all role mentions.

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/ccdb491ee31c0f2e739393a1bb2615729a884bcaebda8349e9087c97161213d1.png)

**When you hear a Discord sound, check your inbox.** It’s the icon in the top right corner of the desktop app. I can see the entire list of mentions in my inbox and make adjustments to my settings as desired, including servers that I may have neglected to mute.

![Inbox icon at top right corner](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/be2a9e5fed6e8bf595167538e25c5bc99ef66d5c925244480fc35c5fea309358.png)

Inbox icon at top right corner

In the screencap above, I’ve received an `@everyone` notification in the Threshold Network server. Now I know to suppress `@everyone` in the Threshold Network server if I don’t want those in the future.

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That’s it. Now you can **chill out AND use Discord.** Thought that those were incompatible, right? Me too. WAGMI.

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*Originally published on [Gavin Birch](https://paragraph.com/@birch/managing-discord-notifications)*