Inbox

Everything that's addressed to you, in one place.

The inbox collects what needs your attention: tasks you were given, comments that mention you, deadlines, updates on work you follow, important announcements and messages. You don't have to check every task or page yourself; DevHub brings it to you here.

Items about the same thing are grouped: one card per task, playtest, announcement or conversation. The card says what happened ("Jules assigned you · 2 new comments"), and N updates unfolds the details. The number next to Inbox in the sidebar is everything you haven't read yet.

The tabs

Tab	What you'll find
All	Everything below, unread first.
Assigned	Tasks someone put your name on (or you did yourself).
Discussion	Comments on tasks: when someone @mentions you, and new comments on tasks you're assigned to.
Updates	Progress on work you care about, in three groups: Ready to start: something your task was waiting on is done. Finished: a task you follow was completed. Playtest feedback: a tester sent or changed their feedback (for points of contact).
Deadlines	Reminders for your own tasks: Due soon (due today, tomorrow or the day after) and Overdue (the deadline has passed).
Messages	Direct messages between you and one other person.
Announcements	Announcements the admins marked as important.

The Updates tab, grouped into Ready to start, Finished and Playtest feedback — The Updates tab.

When and why you get each of these is explained under Projects → Who gets notified.

Discussion versus Messages

Discussion happens on a task, in its comments. Everyone working on the task can read it, it stays with the task, and it's the right place to talk about the work.

Messages are private one-to-one chats. They're mainly there for playtesting: testers can reach the team, and the team can follow up on feedback or a bug report.

Don't use Messages for important communication

A chat is only seen by two people and is easy to miss. Put decisions and questions about work in the task's discussion, or bring them up in a meeting.

Start a chat with New message. Team members can message anyone; externals and playtesters can message the team, and a playtester can always reach the points of contact of their playtest.

A chat between a team member and a playtester

Read and unread

Opening a task, or a chat, marks its items as read. So does Mark as read on the card.
Mark as unread puts a card back on your list as a reminder.
Mark all read clears everything at once.

Read items stay visible under Earlier for 30 days.