Home feed, search and notifications

Signed-in members see three tabs: For you, Following and Latest. Visitors who are not signed in see For you and Latest.

For you picks items for you from what you chose to follow, the communities you joined, what you engaged with on Ur Next Door in the last 90 days, and what is popular. Many cards show a short line saying why they are there. It is the tab you land on each visit.

The newest items from the people, communities and topics you follow, newest first. It is not reordered for you. If you follow nothing it is empty and offers "Find people and topics".

Everything new on Ur Next Door, newest first. It is not picked for you. Use it to see what was just posted.

Many For you cards have a short line above them saying why, for example "Because you follow #upsc", "From Indian History, a community you joined" or "Popular this week". Tap the topic, community or person in that line to open it. A card from someone you follow has no such line, since the card already shows who posted it.

What you follow and join, what you like, save, comment on or answer here in the last 90 days, the polls and MCQs you take part in (never which choice), the posts, questions, polls and MCQs you open with Read more, and the city on your profile for jobs and services only. It never uses your messages, your searches, what you do on other sites or apps, or bought data.

No. A dislike never counts as interest in For you. To see less of something, use "Not interested in this" or mute it from the card.

Open the menu on a For you card and choose "Not interested in this". The card is hidden, with Undo in case you change your mind. Your own cards have no such menu.

Yes. On a For you card's menu, mute its author, its community or one of its topics in For you, each with Undo. Muting changes For you only, not Following or Latest.

Go to Preferences, find Feed interests and press "Show hidden and muted again".

Yes. In Preferences, under Feed interests, switch off "Use my activity to personalize For you". For you then uses only what you follow and join.

In Preferences, under Feed interests, press "Reset For you". Your activity so far stops counting; what you muted stays muted.

Open Manage interests, also linked from Preferences and the Following page. You can pick topics, communities and people, and unfollow topics you picked before.

While you follow nothing, the home page offers it: tap a topic or "Personalize your feed" to pick topics, communities and people, or "Not now" to hide it.

For you shows at most 60 cards picked for you, fewer if it runs out sooner. Then it says you are all caught up, with a See Latest button, where you can keep scrolling everything new.

Yes. Each tab has a type menu: All, Post, Question, Poll, MCQ, Service, Job, or Community (only items posted in a community).

For you mixes in services and jobs, but no more than 1 in every 5 cards. The city on your profile is used when picking them. To see only services or only jobs, use the type menu; pick another type to leave them out.

They are test series: tests of multiple-choice questions from communities. They appear in For you and Latest, at most 1 in every 8 cards, and not in Following or when you filter by type. Open one to see the test and take it.

For you mixes things up: no more than 2 cards in a row from one person or community, and something new in every 5. Following shows everything from them in time order.

On a community's own address (name.urnextdoor.com), the feed shows that community's items. The main urnextdoor.com home shows items from across Ur Next Door.

Check whether it is scheduled (it appears when it goes live), archived (only you can see it) or in an ask-to-join or private community (only members see it). New items appear in Latest first; For you is picked, so not every item shows there.

What is popular on Ur Next Door right now, the same for every visitor, plus a Latest tab. After a few cards it offers to sign up so the feed can follow your own interests.

Between cards, For you suggests communities, people and topics you might follow. On phones, where there is no side column, this is where suggestions appear.

Tags are topics made from hashtags, like #upsc. Each tag has its own page that gathers the posts, questions, polls, MCQs, answers and comments using it. You can browse them all on Tags.

On the Tags page, which lists tags by how often they are used. Open one to see everything tagged with it.

Open the tag's page and press Follow. Items with that tag then show in your Following tab, and help pick your For you feed.

On your Following page, which lists the people, communities and tags you follow. Joining a community also follows it; leaving it does not unfollow it.

Press Save on the card or item. It goes to your Favorites page. You can save posts, questions, answers, polls, MCQs and jobs.

On your Favorites page, also in the side menu. It has a tab for each kind, with the most recently saved first.

No. Saving is private. There is no public count of saves, and the author is not notified.

Press Saved on it again. On the Favorites page the card stays until you next open the page, so you can save it again if you tapped by mistake.

It was deleted or archived by its author, or it is in a community you can no longer see.

Posts, questions, polls, MCQs, test series, services, free tools, pictures, communities, people and tags. Results are split into tabs, each with its count.

All, Posts, Questions, Polls, MCQs, Tests, Services, Tools, Media, Communities, People and Tags. All mixes posts, questions, polls and MCQs. Each tab shows how many results it has.

Start with # to search tags only, for example #upsc, or with @ to search people only, for example @asha.

Yes. Choose Most recent instead of Most relevant at the top of the results. Results come 10 to a page.

Search needs at least 2 characters. Type a bit more of the word.

Yes. The Media tab shows matching pictures as a grid. Click one to see it larger and move through them.

Yes. The Tests tab finds published test series from public communities by their title or description. You can also browse them all on Test series.

Items in an ask-to-join or private community are found only by that community's members, and private communities are never listed.

As you type, the search box suggests matching posts, questions, polls, MCQs, services, tools, communities, tags and people. Choose one to open it, or press Enter or "See all results" for the full results page.

Yes. Search for something, then open the Help tab on the results page to see matching help centre answers. The search box at the top of the site also lists a few help answers as you type.

Likes, comments and replies, mentions, answers to your questions and accepted answers, poll votes and MCQ answers, new followers, connection requests and accepts, community events and profile views. Marketplace bookings, job applications and tests have their own notifications too.

It shows how many notifications you have not read. It updates live, without reloading the page. Tap the bell to see the latest ones.

On your Notifications page. Press "Mark all read" to clear the unread count.

Thirteen: Chat messages, Likes and reactions, Comments and replies, Mentions of you, Answers to your questions, Poll votes and quiz answers, New followers, Connection requests and accepts, Community activity, Marketplace and bookings, Job applications and updates, Tests and results, and Profile views.

Go to Preferences, find Notifications, untick the box for that kind in the In-app column, and press "Save preferences". You can turn each of the 13 kinds on or off separately.

In-app shows in the bell and on your notifications page. Email would send it to your email, and Push would pop up on your browser or the app even when they are closed. A column marked Soon is not available yet and cannot be ticked.

Not yet. Email for notifications is not available, so in Preferences the Email column shows Soon and cannot be ticked. Your notifications reach you in the bell and on your notifications page. Account emails, such as a password reset, are still sent.

No. Only positive or useful events notify you: a like does, a dislike does not. You are also not told about unfollows or declined requests.

No. Nothing is sent in either direction between two people when one has blocked the other.

Repeated events are grouped so you are not flooded: liking again, changing a poll vote and repeat profile views do not send another notification each time.

You are told when someone views your profile, at most once per person per day. To stop them, untick Profile views in Preferences.

No. You are never notified about your own actions.

You are told when your request to join a community is accepted, when you are invited or your invite is accepted, and when your role in a community changes. If you run a community, you may also be told when someone joins or asks to join it. Turn these off with the Community activity row in Preferences.

You can like or dislike a post, question, answer, comment, poll or MCQ, once each. Tap the same one again to take it back, or tap the other to switch. The counts update straight away.

Yes. Your profile's Activity section has a Likes tab listing what you liked, which others can open. Dislikes are not listed there. Saves are private.

Questions get answers instead of comments. You can comment on posts, polls and MCQs.

Yes, one level deep: you can reply to a comment, but not to a reply. Replies show under the comment they answer.

Yes. Your own comments and answers are edited right where they are shown, not on a separate page.

Comments are plain text, but line breaks are kept, @username becomes a mention that notifies that person, and #words can become tag links. Comments follow the same one-outside-link rule as posts.

A new comment tells the author of the item. A reply tells the writer of the comment you replied to. Anyone you newly @mention is told too.

Press Share on the card or item. On a phone your phone's own share sheet opens. On a computer you get WhatsApp, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Telegram, Reddit, Email and Copy link.

Only people who can see that community can open it. Others get a page not found.

For you also mixes in what is popular across Ur Next Door and something new in every 5 cards, so you can discover people and communities. The line above each card says why it was picked. Following shows only what you follow.

Yes. Your likes, saves, comments, answers and votes on Ur Next Door from the last 90 days count, with answers counting the most and likes and votes the least. Opening Read more on a post, question, poll or MCQ counts as lightly as a like. Following people, topics and communities counts too. You can switch the activity part off in Preferences.

No. The feed does not find people or posts by your location. The only place it uses is the city you put on your profile, and only to pick jobs and services.

Open their page and press Following, or press Following next to them on your Following page. Topics you picked can also be unfollowed in Manage interests. Leaving a community does not unfollow it by itself.

No. The main search covers posts, questions, people, communities and the rest, never your messages.

Type their name or username in search and open the People tab, or start with @, for example @asha.

They tell you when a community you belong to publishes a new test series, when results come out, and when your score changes after a re-check. Test authors also hear when someone flags a question and get a daily count of who took their test. Turn them off with the Tests and results row in Preferences.

For the marketplace: a new booking, each step of a booking, a new review and a reply to your review. For jobs: a new application to your job, and each change in your own application, such as shortlisted, interview, offer, hired or not selected.

Check that the In-app box for that kind is ticked in Preferences. Dislikes, your own actions and anything between blocked people never notify, and repeated likes or vote changes are grouped. A mention in a scheduled item is sent only when it goes live.

No. The right answer and the explanation are hidden on cards, in search and in link previews on other apps until someone answers. On the website's MCQ page they stay folded under "Show answer".