Announcements

發布於 2026年10月7日更新於 2026年10月19日

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 and Body, on a tab for each language the site offers: up to 120 characters of title and 2000 characters of plain text. See Writing in several languages.
• 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.

Writing in several languages

The form has a tab for each language the site offers, named in that language, and opens on the site's default language. The languages are the ones chosen under Languages in Settings: a language the site does not offer has no tab.

• The default language's Title and Body are required. A reader browsing in a language you leave empty is shown the default language's announcement.
• Every other tab is optional. Fill in both its Title and its Body, or leave both empty.

Deliver the announcement sends the announcement once, with every language you wrote it in. A language cannot be added to an announcement after it is delivered, so write every translation before you deliver it.

The list shows each announcement's title in the default language, and the Languages column names every language it was written in.

What readers see

• On the site, the Announcements page in the header lists every announcement, newest first, and anyone can read it. Each title opens the announcement on a page of its own. 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.

A reader sees each announcement in their language: on the site, the one they browse in, and in the app, the one the app is shown in. Where you did not write it in that language, they see the default language's, with a note naming the language it is shown in.

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. On the site its link leads to the announcement's Link, or to the announcement's own page when it has none. 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.

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