Announcements

2026年10月7日公開2026年10月9日更新

Announcements, under Site, is how the publisher tells every reader something at once: a new series, a change to the terms, a maintenance window. Each announcement is listed on the site's Announcements page and delivered to every reader's notifications. One of them at a time can also be shown as a banner above every page of the site and the app.

A Tenant admin and an Editor can create announcements and take banners down. An Auditor sees the list only.

Creating an announcement

Choose Create an announcement and fill in:

Title: up to 120 characters.
Body: up to 2000 characters of plain text.
Link (optional): where the announcement takes a reader who opens it. Start it with / for a page of this site, such as /series/SERIES001 or /legal/terms, or with https:// or http:// for another site.
Show as a site banner: also shows the announcement above every page. See The site banner.

Deliver the announcement delivers it at once. An announcement has no draft and cannot be scheduled, edited, or deleted afterwards, so read it over before you deliver it.

The Create an announcement form: Title, Body, Link, Show as a site banner, and Deliver the announcement.

What readers see

On the site, the Announcements page in the header lists every announcement, newest first, and anyone can read it. A signed-in reader sees which ones they have not read yet.
In their notifications, every reader with an account gets "A new announcement", which leads to it. Announcements are not sent by email or as push notifications.
In the app, the Announcements screen lists the same announcements, with the same read marks.

The site banner

An announcement created with Show as a site banner is shown above the header of every page of the site, to every visitor, signed in or not, and at the top of the app's catalog screen. A visitor can close it, and it then stays closed in that browser.

Only one banner is shown at a time: the newest announcement whose banner is still up. Creating a new banner therefore hides the previous one until the new one comes down.

A banner stays up until you take it down, unless you give it an end:

Stop showing at, under the banner checkbox, takes it down at that time, in the tenant's time zone. It must be in the future.
Stop showing, in the Banner column of the list, takes it down at once.

The Announcements list: Create an announcement at the top, and three announcements, the newest of them still shown as the site banner with Stop showing in its Banner column.

Either way the announcement stays on the Announcements page and in readers' notifications. Only the banner goes.