Pings — Overview
Pings are PD's notification primitive — the platform tapping you on the shoulder. They are designed around one promise: a ping should be worth your attention. Money aimed at you always is. Things your declared taste cares about usually are. Everything else stays quiet.
This section is the complete manual: this page covers what fires and how the inbox works; Controls covers every switch you own; Artist Push covers the artists' once-a-month channel to their holders.
How: Open the connect menu — PINGS is the inbox at the top.
What earns a ping
Directed at you — always in your inbox:
| Ping | Glyph | Fires when |
|---|---|---|
| Offer | ✶ | Someone offers on your Output (rapid offers roll up into one) |
| Offer accepted / countered | ✶ | Your offer resolves, either direction |
| Sold | ✦ | Your listed Output sells |
| Transfer / gift | ✸ | An Output or sticker sheet moves to or from you |
| Trade | ⇌ | Someone sends you an Exchange trade or a counter, or yours is accepted, filled from the board, or declined |
| Wishlist hit | ✛ | An Output on your wishlist gets listed or sells |
| Follow | ⚭ | Someone follows you or your project |
| Achievement | ◍ | You unlock achievements — rolled into one row that keeps counting until you open it |
| Streak | ◈ | A streak milestone lands |
| Reminder | ❍ / ▦ | A to-do you dated comes due, or a calendar item's day arrives |
| The Sentinel | ❍ | A BUY target you set gets hit — the live ask crosses under your ◊ price, even with the app closed |
| Workflow | ☇ | An armed Workflow fires: the price you named crossed, or the artist you watch uploaded |
| Artist Push | ✺ | An artist whose work you hold sends their monthly note |
Your declared taste — the five interest toggles, each with its own glyph:
| Ping | Glyph | Fires when |
|---|---|---|
| Mutuals | ⚭ | Someone you BOTH follow-and-are-followed-by mints, lists, buys, or sells |
| Artists | ✺ | An artist you starred lists, sells, or drops |
| Projects | ⬚ | A project you starred sees mints, listings, or sales |
| Traits | ⨝ | An Output carrying a trait you starred gets listed or sold |
| Rarity | ❖ | A top-10-rarest Output moves in a project you hold Outputs in |
Your orbit — the follow feed: activity by people and projects you follow (collected ✦, listed ✹, offers ✶, transfers ✸) interleaves into the same inbox, newest first. It's ambience, and it's treated that way: it never buzzes your phone.
The inbox
The PINGS panel lives in the connect menu. The number beside PINGS is your unread count — when it reads (3), three things happened that you genuinely haven't seen. No number means you're caught up.
- Unread pings stack on top, full-strength, money first.
- Seen history sinks below, struck through, so the past stays scrollable without shouting.
- Market pings deep-link: tap an offer ping and you land on the Output with the offers panel already open — accepting is two taps from the lock screen.
Read means READ
Opening the menu marks nothing as seen. A ping is only marked read once you actually scroll the pings list and the ping passes through view — scrolling is the proof of viewing. Stop halfway down and the ones below the fold stay unread, full-strength, still counted. Come back tomorrow and they're exactly where you left them.
How far a ping reaches
Three escalating layers, all yours to set (detail in Controls):
- The inbox — always. Every ping you haven't filtered out lands here silently.
- Pingtoasts — live in-app toasts while you're browsing.
- 3D Pingtoasts — real lock-screen push notifications, opt-in, delivered by your recipient's own PriceSprite.
The respect policy
Phones are sacred. PD's push rules are fixed, platform-wide, and deliberately conservative:
- Always pushed: offers on your work, offers resolving, your sales, gifts, wishlist hits, reminders you set yourself, your Sentinel targets and Workflow fires, and Artist Pushes (hard-capped at one per artist per project per month).
- Budgeted: interest and social pings (the five taste toggles, follows, mint milestones) push at most a few times an hour — anything past the budget lands silently in the inbox instead of buzzing you. Repeats of the same thing collapse into one.
- Never pushed: achievements, streaks, and the whole follow feed. You were here when you earned it; you'll see the feed when you visit.
- Silent Mode (⏾) mutes everything, everywhere, until you flip it back — pings still record silently.
Further reading
- Controls — every toggle, and turning your phone on
- Artist Push — the artists' channel
- The Shell — installing PD as an app (required for push on iPhone)