--- title: "Pings — Overview" description: "PD's notification system in full: what earns a ping, the inbox and its read-by-scroll model, every glyph, and how pings reach your screen, your toasts, and your phone." category: "pings" keywords: ["pings", "notifications", "inbox", "unread", "push", "glyphs"] last_updated: "2026-10-12" --- # 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](/docs/pings/controls) covers every switch you own; [Artist Push](/docs/pings/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](/docs/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](/docs/pings/controls)): 1. **The inbox** — always. Every ping you haven't filtered out lands here silently. 2. **Pingtoasts** — live in-app toasts while you're browsing. 3. **3D Pingtoasts** — real lock-screen push notifications, opt-in, delivered by your recipient's own PriceSprite. The three reach layers of a ping: every ping lands in the inbox; pingtoasts surface them live in the app; 3D pingtoasts reach the lock screen, opt-in, budgeted. 1 · THE INBOX every ping, always, silently — scrolling is what marks it read 2 · PINGTOASTS live in-app toasts while you browse 3 · 3D PINGTOASTS the lock screen — opt-in, budgeted ## 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](/docs/pings/controls) — every toggle, and turning your phone on - [Artist Push](/docs/pings/artist-push) — the artists' channel - [The Shell](/docs/app/the-shell) — installing PD as an app (required for push on iPhone)